PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The 200 members of the California National Guard sent to Portland will return home, ABC News reports.
The ABC report cites two US officials who also said the 200 members of the Texas National Guard sent to Chicago will also go back to their home state. The federalized troops were sent to Portland and Chicago in early October, but were not ever deployed as the Trump administration kept losing court challenges about the deployment.
The Trump administration pushed back against US District Court Judge Karin Immergut’s order that permanently extended a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from deploying the National Guard into Oregon.
Trump appeals Oregon judge’s permanent block on deploying troops from other states
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