Once again, a liberal blue state is using the courts to try to stop President Donald Trump from carrying out his mission of ridding the country of illegal alien criminals.
Trump over the weekend ordered 200 Oregon National Guard troops to be activated to protect federal immigration facilities in Portland against "domestic terrorists" and that he was authorizing them to use "full force, if necessary,” BBC reported.
The National Guard in Washington, D.C. (above) was credited with helping lower crime.
John Cardillo is a GOP strategist and recent guest on American Family Radio.
"I think it's ridiculous. It's exactly under the purview of the president of the United States. And this is just as laughable as Brandon Johnson and J.B. Pritzker in Chicago when, over the last holiday weekend, they were saying, ‘we don't need the National Guard. This is the safest city in America.’ And the headline next to that was 55 shot, seven dead over that weekend."
The lawsuit, filed on Sunday by Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, called the move "provocative and arbitrary", and said it "threatens to undermine public safety by inciting a public outcry,” according to BBC.
The deployment marks a further expansion of troop deployments in US cities, amid a wider crackdown by the Trump administration on illegal immigration.
Trump claimed it would help protect "any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists", characterizing the city as "War ravaged" in a Truth Social post.
Cardillo says Trump's deployment strategy has worked very well.
"Crime absolutely fell off a cliff. And so sure, you can cherry pick a judge, but I just don't see these things being upheld on appeal. He's the commander in chief. He can declare an emergency. He can declare a crisis, and he can
