UPDATE (OCT 5, 8 pm): The same federal judge that ruled in favor of the state's temporary restraining order to block Trump's attempts to send Oregon National Guard members to Portland, has also blocked the administration from deploying troops from California to the city. Read more here.

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After a federal judge on Saturday batted down the Trump administration's attempt to deploy 200 Oregon National Guard members to Portland, this morning (Sunday, October 5) California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a press release saying that the president had ordered 300 California Guard members into Portland immediately. 

"In response to a federal court order that blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard," Newsom wrote in the statement, "President Trump is deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now." Newsom went on to chastise the administration's actions as "a breathtaking abuse of law and power," adding that Trump is "ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the President himself, as political opponents."

According to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek via a press release, "101 federalized California National Guard members arrived in Oregon last night via plane," and more are expected to arrive later. The governor added that the "action appears to [be] intentional to circumvent yesterday’s ruling by a federal judge," and that the state, under direction from Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, will be taking legal action against this order as well. 

Yesterday's decision from U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut granted the state its requested emergency restraining order, temporarily stopping the federal government from deploying Oregon Guard members into Portland. Disputing the president's objectively false declaration on social media that the city is "war ravaged" and under vicious attack by “Antifa and other domestic terrorists,” Immergut noted that Trump's words were "untethered to the facts,” adding that "this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law."

The decision, particularly coming from a Trump-appointed judge, has further inflamed the president and his administration. White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller posted on social media platform X—where he regularly spreads falsehoods using inflammatory language—that the judge's decision is "an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself."

According to reports, Trump has also ordered 300 National Guard troops to Chicago, following a meeting last week with military generals calling for troops to use American cities as “training grounds,” to quell dissent against his more unpopular policies, and battle “a war from within.” 

For weeks, the Trump administration has been trying to wrongly convince Americans that Portland's ICE facility has been under near constant attack by groups of protesters. However, according to practically every news organization, other than those with right-wing affiliations who have been given special access to the facility and federal troops, the protests have been overwhelming peaceful and small. On an average night for the past few months, the number of protesters has rarely exceeded more than 30 people, and federal officers have been witnessed instigating some of the violence. 

On the few occasions when the crowd has grown larger—as it did last night, Saturday, October 4—it has coincided with Trump's announcements to threaten the city with military deployment. This has been a major point among local officials as well as the attorneys pushing for the emergency restraining order, who said that it has been the president's actions—not those of protesters exercising their First Amendment rights—that have been escalating the situation at the ICE facility.

The Saturday ruling from Judge Immergut has seemingly inspired the administration to call for a tougher and more violent response to protesters. During a protest last night at the ICE facility, where roughly 400 demonstrators were in attendance, federal officers arrested at least six people and reportedly forced protesters down the street, firing gas, flash-bang grenades, and pepper balls at the crowd without any noticeable provocation.

No one at the demonstration was arrested by Portland Police, who have been standing by at the ICE facility, but not getting involved—even when non-violent protesters have been under attack by federal agents—except under certain circumstances, such as fights breaking out between demonstrators and right-wing agitators who have recently started attending the protests. 

This story will be updated.