PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- Hours ahead of credible reports of increased federal agents in Portland and before President Trump announced he was sending in federal troops to the city, one Oregon congresswoman introduced a bill to prevent the National Guard from being “used as a political tool for the White House.”

On Friday, Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-Ore.) introduced the National Guard Proper Use Act, legislation which would restrict the ability for the president to deploy the National Guard for the purposes of immigration and domestic law enforcement.

Although the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 already prevents the use of the military as a national police force, the new act would amend the United States Code to reinforce that the National Guard may not be ordered to support the enforcement of fed

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