He instructs “Minister of War Pete Hegseth to provide all the necessary troops to protect Portland destroyed by the war and all of our ICE facilities,” said Trump in his online service Truth Social in reference to the immigration authority ICE. The arrangement takes place at the request of Minister of Homeland Protection Minister Kristi Noem. “I also approved the application of full violence if necessary,” said Trump. He did not carry out what could mean.
In Portland, as in other US cities, numerous demonstrations had taken place in front of local ICE facilities in the past few months. There were also violent confrontations with the police. The city on the northwest coast of the USA is also one of the “Sanctuary Cities”, that is, those cities that protect immigrants from deportation without papers.
The governor of Oregon, the democrat Tina Kotek, said that she had not been informed about the military operation and is trying out of the White House. At the same time, she emphasized in online service X: “There are no threats to national security in Portland. Our communities are safe and quiet.” She appealed to the residents to “stay calm and enjoy a nice autumn day”.
The mayor of Portland, Keith Wilson, also belonging to the Democratic Party, said: “The number of soldiers required is zero, in Portland as in all other American cities.” Trump will “find neither anarchy nor violence in Portland, unless he wants to commit it himself”.
The democratic US senator from Oregon, Ron Wyden, accused Trump of wanting to launch an “authoritarian takeover” of Portland and to trigger a “conflict” in the city. Wyden appealed to the inhabitants of Oregon to oppose Trump’s attempt to “stimulate violence in a city as pulsating and peacefully known”.
Trump’s announcement was made a few days after a fatal firearm attack on an ICE deportation center in Dallas in the US state of Texas, in which a prisoner was killed and two more injured. According to official information, the assassin had targeted ICE employees.
However, Dallas has a Republican mayor. Trump blamed the Democrats for the crime after the attack on the ICE facility. “This violence is the result of the fact that the radical left-wing democrats constantly demonize the law enforcement authorities, demand the abolition of ICE and compare ICE officials with ‘Nazis’,” he said.
The president had previously explained to the ultra-right podcaster and activist Charlie Kirk on September 10 that he ranks the left Antifa movement as a “domestic terrorist organization”. The vice chief of staff in the White House, Stephen Miller, wrote on Friday on X, against the “terrorist rejection” against the US government “all necessary resources”.
Since the term “Antifa” is wide and vague, there is a fear among Trump opponents that the classification could be used as “terroristically” to take massive and undifferentiated against government critics.
Trump justifies the use of the military and national guard within its own country with supposedly sophisticated crime and an excessive demand from the local authorities. Critics accuse the right -wing populist Republican to overdo the extent of crime in order to justify an increasingly authoritarian style of government.
Trump sent the National Guard and Marine Fantry into the California metropolis of Los Angeles in June. In August he ordered national guards to the capital Washington and assumed the local police for the federal control. In mid -September, he then ordered the posting of the National Guard to the city of Memphis in the state of Tennessee.
In addition, the president threatened the commitment of the National Guard in strongholds of the Democratic Party such as Chicago, New York and New Orleans in recent weeks.
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