A man holds an American flag as law enforcement officers guard the enterance to ICE headquarters in south Portland, Oregon on Friday. Carlos Barria/Reuters

The Trump administration is pointing to renewed unrest in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to justify an imminent deployment of federal troops to the two Democrat-led cities, seizing on new rounds of protests and the recent arrest of a conservative influencer .

“We’re sending in the Department of War … I put a request in today for them to come to Chicago,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson Friday during a visit to Illinois, where another round of protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility led to more than a dozen arrests.

Federal troops would also be “rolling in” to

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