PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Keith Wilson is one of many Oregon elected leaders who have spoken out this week in opposition to President Donald Trump's decision to federalize 200 Oregon National Guard members for a planned deployment to Portland, and the mayor shared his thoughts in greater detail on Thursday in an article published in TIME .

Portland is the latest city targeted in a highly controversial series of National Guard deployments aimed at what Trump has vaguely — and inaccurately — described as overwhelming crime rates. In Portland's case, Trump has focused on protests at the ICE building on Macadam Avenue, at various times describing the city as besieged by "radical left anarchists" and "antifa and other domestic terrorists."

Wilson opens his article by directly

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