PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Trump administration has admitted that some of the numbers they used in previous arguments about deploying National Guard troops to Portland were wrong, according to a new letter filed as a federal trial approaches Wednesday.

Previously, Trump’s lawyers said that 115 federal officers had to be deployed to Portland to protect the ICE facility. They said it was nearly a quarter of the entire force.

But now they are walking it back, saying only 65 inspectors had been deployed, and not all at once. They say that is only 13% of the force.

Lawyers for Oregon and Portland said in their own briefings that this represented factual errors on statistics that were central to the appellate court’s initial finding.

All 29 judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals are vo

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