Donald Trump ordered this Saturday, September 27, the deployment of the army in a fourth city on Saturday, September 27, Portland, and authorized “the use of force if necessary”, as part of its fight against crime in democratic metropolis.
“I ordered the Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth, to display all the necessary troops to protect Portland devastated by war, and our ICE facilities (immigration police, editor’s note) besieged by Antifa and other interior terrorists,” he wrote on his social social platform.
“I also authorize the use of maximum force if necessary,” he added, without specifying what he heard there.
Several months of manifestations against ice
While Portland has been experiencing demonstrations against the immigration police for several months, the Republican had threatened in early September to send the National Guard to this city in the northwest of the United States, the largest in the state of Oregon, a Democrat like.
Two weeks ago, Donald Trump had signed a decree to deploy the National Guard Army to Memphis, Tennessee, which justifies his decision for a “crime” that continues in this southern city, according to him.
Métropole à Noire Noir, Memphis is directed by a Democratic mayor, in a state in the hands of a Republican governor.
Threats of interventions in other cities
And after Los Angeles in June, the national guards had been deployed in mid -August in Washington, the Federal Capital.
Donald Trump also threatened to send federal police and soldiers to Chicago, New York or Baltimore.
On Monday, the US president also signed a decree that classified the “Antifa” movement, which brings together groups that claim to be anti -fascism, as “terrorist organization.”
Source: BFM TV
