"The threat to invoke the Insurrection Act comes amid protests in Portland and legal challenges against his anti-immigration crackdown. President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, the federal law dating back to 1807, if courts or state officials delay his plans to deploy soldiers to US cities in support of his anti-immigration crackdown. The threat came as his efforts to deploy the National Guard in Portland, Oregon, were temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Monday, and the Democratic governor of Illinois dubbed troop deployment to the state capital, Chicago, an invasion."
"On Monday, Trump claimed that an insurrection is taking place in Portland, without evidence. I really think that's really criminal insurrection, he said in the White House. Democratic Oregon Governor Tina Kotek rejected the claim. There is no insurrection in Portland. No threat to national security, she said. An insurrection is when people violently revolt against the government or those in power. But events in Portland do not support Trump's claim."
President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law from 1807, to deploy soldiers to US cities if courts or state officials delay his anti-immigration enforcement. Efforts to federalize forces in Portland were temporarily blocked by a federal judge while the Illinois governor condemned proposed troop deployments to Chicago as an invasion. The administration has already deployed troops to Washington, DC, and California citing rising crime and harbouring of undocumented immigrants. Trump labeled protests in Portland an insurrection without evidence, prompting rejection from Oregon Governor Tina Kotek. Protests near an ICE building involved clashes with DHS and Customs and Border Protection and led to at least two arrests.
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