A protester stands in the haze from a smoke grenade outside of a downtown US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon, Saturday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The ongoing battle between the Trump administration and Democrat-led cities intensified this weekend, with a federal judge in Oregon hitting pause on the president’s plan to deploy federal troops in Portland , and the White House announcing authorization for hundreds of National Guard members to be sent to Chicago .

Those developments came against the backdrop of continuing protests in Chicago and Portland against federal law enforcement, who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration enforcement agenda.

Trump and his administration have framed demonstrations in the two cities a

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