Overview
- U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut issued a preliminary injunction barring deployment of National Guard troops from any state to Oregon until Friday.
- She found no credible evidence that protests at Portland’s ICE facility constituted a rebellion or that regular law enforcement could not enforce federal law.
- Guard members already federalized may remain under federal control but cannot be deployed until the court issues its final opinion.
- The decision followed a three-day trial with more than 750 exhibits and testimony from FPS, ICE, and Portland police offering sharply different assessments of on-the-ground conditions.
- The case proceeds alongside Ninth Circuit en banc review and related litigation in other cities, signaling further appeals regardless of Friday’s final ruling.