{"id":498933,"date":"2026-01-07T12:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498933\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:56:19","slug":"hundreds-of-federalized-national-guard-members-demobilized-in-oregon-illinois-and-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498933\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of federalized National Guard members demobilized in Oregon, Illinois and California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some 500 National Guard troops are being returned from federal service to their respective states, U.S. Northern Command announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"FILE<\/p>\n

FILE – Members of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines guard a federal building on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Damian Dovarganes \/ AP<\/p>\n

The troops spread across Oregon, southern California and Illinois<\/a> were called into federal service to support the agencies carrying out President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown. The guard members were federalized over the objections of all three governors.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Title 10 troops in Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago are conducting demobilizing activities,\u201d U.S. Northern Command stated. \u201cThey will return to their home units once their demobilization is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

That process requires troops to travel to Fort Bliss, Texas, before returning home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile I am relieved that all our troops will finally return home, it does not make up for the personal sacrifices of more than 100 days, including holidays, spent in limbo,\u201d Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"Camp<\/p>\n

Camp Withycombe on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. The camp serves as headquarters for several Oregon Army National Guard military units.<\/p>\n

Saskia Hatvany \/ OPB<\/p>\n

This latest development comes after months of legal back and forth over the guard deployment. After a three-day trial in late October, U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut issued a permanent injunction<\/a>, saying the Trump administration \u201cdid not have a lawful basis to federalize the National Guard.\u201d<\/p>\n

That ruling was appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. At the time, that court said it would wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a case out of Illinois, challenging the deployment there, before taking up Oregon\u2019s.<\/p>\n

In November, the Trump administration demobilized some of the Oregon National Guard members<\/a> under federal control, but retained 100 while the legal case continued to play out.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 23, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration in the Illinois case. The high court declined to overturn a ruling from a district court judge, who blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago. <\/p>\n

That decision put Oregon\u2019s case \u201cin a very favorable position because the federal government was relying on the same statute in both places to try and federalize the guard,\u201d said Dustin Buehler, special counsel to Oregon\u2019s Attorney General, who helped oversee the National Guard litigation. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen in the Illinois case the Supreme Court says \u2018you didn\u2019t do it right, in that case\u2019 it almost certainly means they didn\u2019t do it right here either.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days later, Trump then announced on social media<\/a> that he would pause his effort to deploy the National Guard in Oregon, Illinois, and California for now, but said he could change his mind in the future. That same day, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Trump administration to return control of federalized California National Guard members<\/a> back to the state. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again \u2014 Only a question of time!\u201d the president wrote on social media.<\/p>\n

He echoed the same sentiment Sunday. While speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump specifically called out crime in Portland. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe got it down to almost no crime,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we pulled it out. We had a Supreme Court decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the president asserted that they would return to the city \u201cat the appropriate time\u201d and that crime would \u201csoon start cause now they know that we\u2019re out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most powerful thing we have, we haven\u2019t used: the Insurrection Act,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI\u2019ve always considered it, but we haven\u2019t needed it anywhere.\u201d <\/p>\n

Despite these developments, Oregon\u2019s case remains before the 9th Circuit. The U.S. Department of Justice is still challenging Judge Immergut\u2019s ruling that blocked the troop deployment in Portland. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the course of normal litigation, litigation can go for months and years,\u201d Buehler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 500 National Guard troops are being returned from federal service to their respective states, U.S. Northern Command…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":498934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,224095,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-498933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-national-politics-portland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115853930427884540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}