# President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities have prompted a series of legal showdowns. The president has said the deployments are aimed at fighting lawlessness and to aid immigration agents carrying out his immigration enforcement agenda. A federal judge did not block deployments to Illinois and Chicago for now, but gave the administration until the end of the day to explain why it shouldn’t happen. The White House also asked an appeals court to pause an order from a judge in Oregon that halts deployment to Portland.
Legal battles escalate over Trump’s push to deploy National Guard to Democratic cities