Trump Orders Troops to Portland to Protect ICE Facilities Amid Protests

by Emmitt Barry, with reporting from Washington D.C. Bureau Staff(Worthy News) – President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he is directing the Pentagon to send troops to Portland, Oregon, to protect federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities, escalating his controversial use of the military within U.S. cities.Posting on Truth Social, Trump said he had ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to mobilize troops “to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facili