President Donald Trump suffered a massive court defeat on Friday, when a judge ruled that the deployment of National Guard personnel in Portland, Oregon, was unconstitutional.
For months, the president has taken swift action to carry out mass deportations across the country and reduce crime.
Given that a bulk of illegal immigrants reside in cities run by Democrats, Trump has sent the National Guard to aid ICE in its operations.
The National Guard has been sent to these crime-ridden cities to restore order.
However, the Trump administration has faced significant difficulties in deploying the National Guard, with courts consistently blocking the president’s efforts to do so.
The latest example occurred in Portland.
U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut temporarily extended an order that prohibits the Trump administration from deploying troops in Portland, as the New York Post reported.
Specifically, Immergut blocked War Department Secretary Pete Hegseth from deploying the troops.
The ruling comes after Portland officials filed a lawsuit against the federal government for deploying the National Guard in the Rose City in September.
Trump has faced challenges in other leftist-run cities over the National Guard deployment.
Such cities include Memphis and Chicago.
On June 7, 2025, as liberals across the country began to trash ICE agents carrying out deportations, Trump took decisive action.
The White House announced then that the National Guard would be deployed in cities to protect ICE from protesters and ensure that the agency carries out its duties.
“Numerous incidents of violence and disorder have recently occurred and threaten to continue in response to the enforcement of Federal law by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions and supporting the faithful execution of Federal immigration laws,” the White House said in a memorandum at the time.
“In addition, violent protests threaten the security of and significant damage to Federal immigration detention facilities and other Federal property. To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States,” it added.
“In light of these incidents and credible threats of continued violence, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard under 10 U.S.C. 12406 to temporarily protect ICE and other United States Government personnel who are performing Federal functions, including the enforcement of Federal law, and to protect Federal property, at locations where protests against these functions are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations,” the memorandum continued.
