The Trump administration’s deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to Portland is “tailored to the threat” at the ICE building in the city, where “cruel activists” have used “vicious tactics” to damage the office and harass officers, Justice Department lawyers wrote Thursday in their opposition to the state’s challenge.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement building closed for three weeks from June 13 through July 7 after people protesting President Trump’s immigration crackdown broke windows and security cameras, blocked the driveway, spray-painted violent threats on the property, tailed government vehicles leaving the building to homes or hotels, doxed ICE officers and menaced them at their residences, the lawyers argued.

Federal Protective Services, the regular security

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