Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of the national guard to Portland, Oregon, authorizing \u201cfull force, if necessary\u201d, ignoring calls from local and state officials who say the president has been misinformed about the scale of a protest outside a federal immigration office.<\/p>\n
The president says that he has directed all necessary troops to be deployed to protect \u201cwar ravaged Portland\u201d, claiming that immigration facilities were \u201cunder siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n
Officials in Portland have pushed back against the decision and rejected the president\u2019s characterization.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security and there is no need for military troops in our major city,\u201d said Oregon\u2019s Democratic governor, Tina Kotek.<\/p>\n
Here are the key stories at a glance.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon<\/p>\n
Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, where he claimed that the deployment was necessary \u201cto protect war ravaged Portland<\/a>,\u201d and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facilities he said were \u201cunder siege by antifascists and other domestic terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n Oregon\u2019s governor, Tina Kotek, rejected the president\u2019s characterization. \u201cIn my conversations directly with President Trump and secretary [of homeland security, Kristi] Noem, I have been abundantly clear that Portland and the state of Oregon<\/a> believe in the rule of law and can manage our own local public safety needs,\u201d Kotek said at a news conference in Portland on Saturday.<\/p>\n Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n Portland residents scoff at Trump threat to send military: \u2018This is not a war zone\u2019<\/p>\n A visit to downtown Portland on Saturday, hours after Donald Trump falsely declared the city \u201cwar ravaged\u201d to justify the deployment of federal troops, made it plain the US president\u2019s impression of the city, apparently shaped by misleading conservative media reports<\/a>, is entirely divorced from reality.<\/p>\n There were just four protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in an outlying residential neighborhood that the president had claimed was \u201cunder siege\u201d by antifascists and \u201cother domestic terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids<\/p>\n Donald Trump fired a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she warned immigration agents they could not indiscriminately detain people in her district, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n Michele Beckwith, who became the acting US attorney in Sacramento in January, received an email at 4.31pm on 15 July notifying her that the president had ordered her termination.<\/p>\n Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018Hell on earth\u2019: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help<\/p>\n Immigrants locked up in California\u2019s newest federal detention center have described the facility as a \u201ca torture chamber\u201d, \u201ca zoo\u201d and \u201chell on earth\u201d, saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help.<\/p>\n Six people detained at the California City detention center, which opened in late August and is now the state\u2019s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center, shared accounts with the Guardian of poor conditions and alleged mistreatment by staff.<\/p>\n Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n FBI arrest man who allegedly threatened to shoot people at Texas Pride parade<\/p>\n Federal authorities in Texas have arrested a man for allegedly threatening to shoot people at a pro-LGBTQ+ parade, to avenge the murder of Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to court documents viewed by the Guardian, on 18 September, the FBI\u2019s field office in Dallas was notified by Abilene, Texas<\/a>, police about online threats from a local resident.<\/p>\n Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n What else happened today:<\/p>\n