People demonstrated outside Portland's immigration detention facility Friday after the Trump administration announced it would send federal agents to the city to crackdown on protests.

A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard, ruling Saturday in a lawsuit brought by the state and city.

Months of demonstrations outside Portland's ICE building have escalated since U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he was sending federal troops to the city, which he described as “war ravaged.”

State and city officials sued to stop the deployment after the Trump administration announced that 200 Oregon National Guard troops would be federalized to protect federal buildings.

Oregon officials said that characterization was ludicrous.

The Portland protests have been limited to a one-block area in a city that covers about 145 square miles (375 square km) and has about 636,000 residents.

They grew somewhat following the Sept. 28 announcement of the guard deployment.

Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles over the summer and as part of his law enforcement takeover in Washington, D.C.