President Donald Trump has said multiple times this week that he may invoke the Insurrection Act to send federal troops — beyond the National Guard — to cities across the country.

Trump has claimed he is deploying National Guard troops to cities like Portland and Chicago to crack down on crime or assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — despite crime rates decreasing in both cities over the past years. In reality, experts have noted, Trump is likely seeking to deploy troops to Democratic-led cities as a way to advance his authoritarian and anti-immigrant agenda .

Portland and the state of Oregon have sued the Trump administration , and a federal judge has blocked the National Guard from being deployed to the city, including from other states. Chicago and Illinois

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