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The National Guard could be deployed to Portland, Oregon in response to ongoing protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in the city.
During a press conference in the Oval Office on Friday, President Trump referred to agitators involved in the anti-ICE demonstrations as “terrorists,” saying they would stand no chance against the National Guard.
Antifa protests outside the facility, located on Macadam Avenue, began on 7 June, when an “occupation” was declared.
“We will be able to stop that very easily. These are paid terrorists… And they are very dangerous for our country,” said President Trump.
“And when we go there, if we go to Portland, we’re going to wipe them out. They’re going to be gone. They won’t even stand the fight. They will not stay there. They’ve ruined that city. What they’ve done to that place it’s like living in hell.”
There have been nightly clashes between protesters and ICE personnel.
On Monday, protesters brought a guillotine to the facility.
Federal agents responded to the demonstration with force. Video footage shows protesters dodging munitions with makeshift shields, while others retreated from federal agents who deployed tear gas.
Since the occupation began, more than 20 protesters have been criminally charged for offenses including assault on federal officers causing bodily injury, depredation of government property and arson.
President Trump has made the use federal forces, including the National Guard and Marines, a central part of his law-and-order agenda, which has mainly targeted Democrat-run cities, including Washington DC.
Last month, President Trump deployed National Guard troops to the streets of the capital “to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.”
Thousands of troops from multiple states have now been committed to the effort.
Soldiers from West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio have joined members of the DC National Guard, as well as around 3,000 police officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and 500 federal law enforcement personnel.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump hailed the effects of his intervention in the capital.
“Carjacking in DC is down 87%,” he posted.
“ALL other categories of crime are likewise down massively since I got involved. DC will soon be a CRIME FREE ZONE, in only 14 days, far faster than scheduled. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
On Friday night, President Trump said New Orleans will be the next deployment for the National Guard as part of President Trump’s federal crime crackdown.
“We’re going to come into New Orleans, and we’re going to make that place so safe,” the President said on Friday night at an event held in the White House’s newly redesigned Rose Garden.
“It’s got a little problem right now, a couple of headaches, like murders, a lot of little murders going on, and we’re not going to stand for it. And we’re going to come in, we’re going to clean it up.”
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