PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland has become the center of a tense back-and-forth between Oregon state leadership and President Donald Trump over the attempted deployment of National Guard troops into the city.

Since June, the Trump administration has been federalizing and deploying National Guard troops in Democrat-led cities such as Los Angeles, California and Chicago, Illinois. Initially, Trump planned to send 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland in response to protests around the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.

That plan was blocked by a Trump-appointed U.S. District Court judge who found that the protests weren't nearly as inflammatory as Trump claimed . In response, Trump attempted to send troops from California and Texas to Portland. The judge

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