CRIME & LAW

Judge Probes Guard Deployment After Portland Order

The Trump administration briefly sent Oregon National Guard soldiers to Portland just hours after a federal judge barred such deployments, government lawyers disclosed as a trial opened on whether to keep or lift the restraining order. Judge Karin Immergut said the move could amount to contempt. Records indicate a nine-member advance team worked at the ICE facility between Oct. 4–5 despite the order. Separately, the Justice Department corrected claims about federal reinforcements, lowering figures for deployed agents. Oregon and Portland allege disorganized, excessive force; federal attorneys say local leaders failed to clear demonstrators.

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