Donald Trump signed a decree on Saturday, October 4 for the shipment of 300 national guards to Chicago, when a federal judge blocked the one who ordered in Portland, two democratic cities attacked by the US president.
“President Trump authorized 300 national guards to protect federal agents” in Chicago, Illinois, announced his spokesman Abigail Jackson, added that the republican leader “will not move away from the state of illegality that affects US cities.”
This announcement was strongly criticized by Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who considered him completely unjustified and considered that “the president did not seek to combat the crime, but to spread fear.”
The megalopolis of the north of the country is the fifth democratic city where President Trump ordered the deployment of the National Guard, a very exceptional measure.
The national guards have already been deployed in recent months in Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis, in spite of the opposition of local officials who estimated that such a measure was not justified.
There is no “danger of rebellion”
However, a deployment similar to Portland was temporarily blocked by a federal judge. Donald Trump said that the city of Oregon, where the demonstrations against the immigration police have been carried out for months, is “devastated by war.”
But in a 33 -page document, Judge Karin J. Immergut emphasizes that these protest movements have no “danger of rebellion” and can be handled by the “regular police.” Therefore, federal officials have “temporarily prohibited” deploying the National Guard, he ruled. This decision expired on October 18.
Donald Trump’s Cabinet Deputy Director Stephen Miller advanced on X that this decision was a judicial “insurrection” and accused Oregon leaders of leading a “terrorist attack organized against the Federal Government.”
Donald Trump has made the fight against illegal immigration an absolute priority of his second term from his return to the White House in January. He said that the United States is victims of an “invasion” of “abroad criminals” and communicates abundantly by expulsions.
Manifestations against ice
Recently there were several demonstrations and actions against the Immigration Police (ICE) in the country, especially in the “sanctuaries” cities called Portland or Chicago, where migrants in an irregular situation and threatened with evictions are protected.
“There is no insurrection, there is no threat to national security, and there is no need for military troops in our big city,” said Oregon governor Tina Kotek, before calling the public to “not bite the hook” by participating in violence or degradations.
By greeting the legal decision, Oregon Ron Wyden Democratic Senator believes that she comes to confirm “what the Oregon inhabitants already know: we do not want Donald Trump to cause violence by deploying federal troops in our state.”
Democrats have a united front against such deployments. National guards, army reservists, are trained to intervene in natural disasters, but can also fight abroad.
Donald Trump threatens to also send soldiers to New York or Baltimore, other important democratic cities. In Chicago, the forces of the Department of Internal Security (DHS) said on Saturday that they had been forced to open fire against a “armed” motorist who had embraced his truck, hurting her.
Source: BFM TV
