The Trump Administration is reportedly sending more federal agents to Portland
show the U.S. Marshals Service decided last week to send 100 deputy U.S. Marshals to Portland, who, according to the report, began arriving last Thursday.
Senior administration officials involved in the federal response also said the Department of Homeland Security is considering the deployment of 50 additional U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel to the city. These additional deployments follow weeks of controversy and tension over the presence of over 100 federal agents in the city, who arrived early July .
With local officials accusing the federal forces of stoking tensions, nightly protests outside the federal courthouse have become increasingly violent, seeingnon-life-threatening gunshot wounds, two people were arrested and police say they retrieved a bag of rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails amid the chaos.
Trump has also announced plans to send troops to other cities seeing rising violence and crime, including Chicago, which the the mayors of six cities protested on Monday,Spokespeople from the Marshals Service and DHS didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets of Portland for 60 days since the death of George Floyd.
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