Memphis (CNN) — As federal authorities rack up arrests in Tennessee’s second-most populous city, local leaders in Oregon are pushing back on a White House effort to federalize 200 members of that state’s National Guard over the president’s claims of rampant crime in Portland.

The moves mark the latest bid by President Donald Trump to surge federal officers or troops to Democratic-run cities, which he suggested this week could be used as a “training ground” for the nation’s military. The list already includes Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Chicago.

In Memphis, “219 officers were special deputized and our Joint Operations Center is up and running,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday. By the next morning, the “Memphis Safe Task Force ha(d) made 53 arrests and seized 20

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