Here are the facts on Trump’s order to send troops to Portland and Chicago

The battle on the sending of the National Guard to American cities has intensified during the weekend and is now playing in the American courts, while the governors of Oregon and Illinois try to prevent the administration of the American president Donald Trump from deploying troops.

Trump characterized Portland like “The Rava War“And” under siege of the Antifa attack, and other national terrorists. “Last week, he ordered the national guard troops at Oregon City. This was immediately challenged before the court by the governor, and during the weekend, a judge put an end to military deployment, at least for the moment.

Still on weekends, Trump ordered up to 300 members of the Illinois National Guard (and 400 of Texas) in Chicago for the objections of Democratic Governor JB Pritzker.

Governors, mayors and citizens of the two cities said there was no anarchy and said that they are war areas was absurd. Here is an overview of the legal struggle and the situation in these cities.

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Why does Trump continue to call Portland a war zone?

Donald Trump’s plan to send the National Guard “to protect Portland ravaged by war” was faced with the perplexity of many people who live there. For the National, Ashley Fraser of CBC tries to go to the bottom of the American president’s fixation to the city of Oregon.

Have the troops already arrived in Portland?

No. Trump said Wednesday That the National Guard was “in place” but it was not true. In fact, since his order to send them, hundreds of soldiers had been moved to training facilities to prepare. At the end of last week, the National Guard said it would not be coming before this week at the earliest.

The state of Oregon continued the Trump administration, claiming that the American constitution only authorizes the interior military deployment in extreme circumstances which include a foreign invasion or insurrection.

US District Judge Karin Immergut accepted and made a decision on Saturday temporarily blocking deployment, claiming that relatively low demonstrations in the city did not justify the use of federalized forces.

The administration responded by commanding the national guard troops rather to another state, in California, in Portland.

IMMERGUT seemed incredulous during this decision and issued a new decision on Sunday, blocking the troops of all state of Oregon for 14 days.

And now Chicago?

Also on Saturday, Trump ordered the hundreds of soldiers from Chicago, because of the White House spokesman Abigail Jackson, called “violent riots and an anarchy” that local leaders have not repressed.

Pritzker, the governor, said in a statement that the move was “absolutely scandalous and non -American”. And Monday, Illinois filed a complaint, arguing that Trump deployed the troops only because he does not like the governor and the mayor.

“The American people, no matter where they live, should not live under the threat of the occupation by the American army,” said the trial.

The situation on the ground now

In Chicago during the weekend, immigration agents and customs application (ICE) stormed a complex of helicopter apartments while families were sleeping, deployed chemical agents near a public school and met a member of the Chicago municipal council in a hospital.

There have also been ongoing demonstrations in the establishment of the ICE just outside the city while civil rights activists accuse federal agents of carrying out a campaign of violence against peaceful demonstrators and journalists.

Pritzker echoes allegation, saying that any chaos that takes place in American cities is caused by federal ice agents, not local citizens.

There have also been clashes when installing Portland ICE on Saturday evening. The police pulled pepper balls and chemical irritants in the crowd to disperse them.

What prompted all that

Small but persistent demonstrations began to install Portland Ice during the summer. One in mid-June, hundreds of demonstrators gathered, some using a makeshift ram to shoot the door. Federal officers deployed tear gas and flash grenades to break the crowd.

Until July, there have been more demonstrations, which led to dozens of arrests by federal agents and accusations of offenses, including assault and damage to federal goods.

The local police, however, did not arrest and had a different impression of the situation. A sergeant described a group of around thirty demonstrators as “low energy and sitting quietly”.

Another demonstration on September 1 may have been Trump’s final straw, when more than 100 people walked towards the ice building, some drawing a makeshift guillotine.

Four days later, Trump said for the first time that he was considering federal intervention, saying that demonstrators had ruined the city.

Oregon officials knew what it meant. Governor Tina Kotek said that “the threats to deploy national guard troops in Portland” were “absurd, illegal and non -American”.

Portland Citizens also retaliated.

“It is really difficult for me to see Portland supervised in a way which is fundamentally false,” said Nate Hellman, pastor. He made a video questioning the characterization of the “ravaged war”. He rolled up, seeing calm streets and people normally walking through the city center. He said that the only hellish landscape in the city is bad traffic.

What’s going on now?

The order prohibits Oregon troops is currently only for two weeks. Oregon and California officials say they will try to extend it.

But there is no indication so far that Trump will return from this fight. His press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said today that the administration will appeal the decision. “We expect an audience fairly quickly and we are very confident in the president’s legal authority to do so,” she said.