The city of Portland, Ore., said Wednesday that President Trump’s bid to send in the National Guard was spurred by a “manufactured crisis” as a trial over Trump's efforts to deploy the military on U.S. soil gets underway.

Caroline Turco, a lawyer representing Portland, said during opening arguments that the evidence would show that the city does not need the National Guard.

The judge must decide if the administration has been so impeded in its efforts to enforce immigration law that Trump should be allowed to “breach separation of powers to address the manufactured crisis,” she said.

“Are the protests in Portland so violent that the deployment of the National Guard is justified?” Turco asked. “The plaintiffs would submit to you, no.”

State and city officials are seeking to block the pr

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