President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is sending soldiers to Portland, Oregon, claiming the move is “to protect [the] war-ravaged” city. He said troops will be used to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities “under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists.”

Trump said he is authorizing the military to use “full force, if necessary.”

The order comes days after two people were killed and one wounded at an ICE facility in Dallas. Authorities said the alleged shooter wrote “anti-ICE” on an unspent shell casing. It also follows Trump’s signing of an order declaring Antifa a “terrorist organization,” despite its lack of a centralized structure.

Antifa is an anti-fascist political movement that the Trump administration has blamed for violent protests

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