Trump Deploys National Guard Troops to Portland

“President Trump and Secretary Noem are taking action to restore law and order following weeks of violent riots at ICE facilities, assaults on law enforcement, and the terrorist attack at our ICE facility in Dallas,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Washington Examiner. “We are not going to allow domestic terrorists to attack our law enforcement. DHS has already arrested dozens of Antifa-aligned left-wing violent extremists who have attacked law enforcement, murdered innocent civilians, and launched a wave of violent riots throughout the Unites States. We will not allow Antifa domestic terrorists to deter us in our mission to make America safe, and those who try will be held accountable.”

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell told the Washington Examiner, “We stand ready to mobilize U.S. military personnel in support of DHS operations in Portland at the President’s direction. The Department will provide information and updates as they become available.”

“People don’t write anti-ICE messages on ammunition and open fire on law enforcement facilities because they like ICE. This violence is directly fueled by hateful rhetoric. It must end now,” she wrote on X earlier this week.

“We’re going to get out there and we’re going to do a pretty big number on those people in Portland,” he said. The president describing some of them as “professional agitators and anarchists.”

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson warned against additional ICE agents coming to the city on Friday.

“Like other mayors across the country, I have not asked for — and do not need — federal intervention,” he said.