{"id":185618,"date":"2025-09-27T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185618\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:56:12","slug":"trump-orders-us-troops-to-portland-ice-facilities-to-handle-domestic-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/185618\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders US troops to Portland, ICE facilities to handle \u2018domestic terrorists\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would send troops to Portland, Oregon, \u201cauthorising Full Force, if necessary\u201d to handle \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d as he expanded his controversial deployments to more American cities.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He made the announcement on social media, writing that he was directing the Department of Defence to \u201cprovide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said the decision was necessary to protect US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he described as \u201cunder siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1cecda9d-7f2d-4bf7-862d-4fb5bd37d195_3d2fa0d3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">08:08<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">Widespread anti-immigrant operations spark fear in Asian communities across the US<\/p>\n<p>Widespread anti-immigrant operations spark fear in Asian communities across the US<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The White House did not immediately respond to a request for details on Trump\u2019s announcement, such as a timeline for the deployment or what troops would be involved. He previously threatened to send the National Guard into Chicago without following through.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A deployment in Memphis, Tennessee, is expected to include only about 150 troops, far fewer than were sent to the District of Columbia for Trump\u2019s crackdown or in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pentagon officials did not immediately respond to requests for information.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the Republican president has escalated his efforts to confront what he calls the \u201cradical left\u201d, which he blames for the country\u2019s problems with political violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would send troops to Portland, Oregon, \u201cauthorising Full Force, if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,109138,9097,49204,157,84189,36525,3505,12,88263,109137,3031,13840,45744,3,2232,18223,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-185618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-antifa","tag-baltimore","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-chicago","tag-department-of-defence","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-ice-facility","tag-keith-wilson","tag-los-angeles","tag-memphis","tag-national-guard","tag-news","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}