A US federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying National Guard troops from Texas and California to Portland, Oregon.

The decision was announced late on Sunday after the same court rejected Trump’s attempt to deploy Oregon’s National Guard members to Portland.

Portland is the latest Democratic-led city that has been targeted by Trump’s administration to curb “out-of-control crime".

According to BBC, the ruling on Sunday from US District Judge Karin Immergut came shortly after the Pentagon confirmed 200 members of the California National Guard had been reassigned to Portland to “support US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal personnel performing official duties".

California and Oregon had sought a temporary restraining o

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