The deployment is being made over the objections of state leaders and is similar to one last summer in Los Angeles, where protesters demonstrated against deportation operations, but is on a much smaller scale. President Donald Trump had announced on Saturday that he would send troops to Portland. Dan Rayfield, the state attorney general, said he was filing a federal lawsuit arguing that Trump was overstepping his authority. Unlike in Los Angeles, it does not appear that Trump or Hegseth are currently directing the deployment of active-duty troops to the state. The Trump administration deployed about 700 active-duty Marines to Los Angeles though they were withdrawn just over a month later.