Courts are set to hear more arguments on National Guard deployments as Trump’s immigration crackdown rolls on

Plans for a surge in federal deployment have been called off for the San Francisco Bay Area, Mayor Barbara Lee of Oakland, California, confirmed Friday.

“I spoke with Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez, who confirmed through her communications with ICE that Border Patrol operations are cancelled for the greater Bay Area – which includes Oakland – at this time,” Lee said in a statement to CNN.

The Trump administration had originally planned to send federal agents, including Customs and Border Protection officers to the San Francisco area to address crime and enforce immigration operations.

Context: President Donald Trump announced Thursday he’s no longer planning to “surge” resources to San Francisco after conversations with “friends of mine who live in the area,” and with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie. However, questions lingered about his plans for the greater Bay Area.

CNN has reached out to Border Patrol and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office for comment.

Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino attends an event at the Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 20.

Senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino was ordered to appear in court Tuesday, days after he was accused of violating a judge’s order restricting aggressive crowd control tactics at Chicago anti-ICE protests.

A Thursday court filing against the Department of Homeland Security alleged Bovino threw at least one tear gas canister into a crowd of protesters in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.

The notice of alleged violation was filed by a combination of media groups, individual protesters and Chicago-area clergy members who earlier this month obtained a temporary restraining order from US District Judge Sara Ellis after suing DHS and Trump officials over federal agents’ tactics against protesters.

DHS has said Bovino and other agents acted “properly” at the protest.

Bovino deployed “riot control measures” on a crowd of protesters that was growing “more hostile and violent” and “began throwing rocks and other objects at agents, including one that struck Chief Greg Bovino in the head,” the agency said in a statement today.

Genesis Ozuna cried Friday as she described how her life has changed since her mother was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago while she was selling food at her stand.

“I’m only 19 years old. I’m still a kid who has so much to learn, and yet I feel like in the last four weeks I’ve grown up fast taking all of my mom’s responsibilities – as fast as she was taken away from us,” Ozuna testified before a Democrat-led “shadow hearing” on the impacts of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in the Windy City.

The teen told lawmakers her sister, who has a disability, has struggled the most with her mother’s absence and has even begun refusing food.

“Every time my sister realizes my mother is gone, it’s like she’s reliving the trauma from her absence,” she said.

Her mother, Laura Murillo, was detained last month when she was selling tamales on a Home Depot parking lot, according to the office of Democratic Rep. Robin Kelly, who represents the Illinois district where the family lives.

At a press conference following the Friday hearing, Kelly said Murillo “has every reason” to be worried if she’s deported.

“We don’t know why she was detained, but if Laura is deported to her home country she has every reason to fear that she will be killed,” Kelly said at a press conference following the hearing Friday. “Her son and her son’s father were killed after being deported.”

CNN has reached out to ICE for comment on Murillo’s detention.

The Department of Homeland Security said today that it arrested six US citizens in the Chicago area on Wednesday for allegedly impeding federal immigration operations and three people the agency says were in the country illegally.

The six citizens were arrested for “impeding and threatening to kill agents,” the department alleges. The three others are accused of being “illegal aliens who were breaking our nation’s immigration laws” and were placed into removal proceedings.

One of those arrested Wednesday was a driver in Cicero who allegedly attempted to hit federal agents’ vehicle, CNN previously reported. When both vehicles reached a red light at an intersection, the driver allegedly accelerated, disregarding the red light and colliding with a third car, the Cicero Police Department told CNN Wednesday. There were no injuries from the crash.

National Guard soldiers patrol the the 14th street entertainment and restaurant area on August 23 in Washington, DC.

A Trump administration attorney on Friday told DC Judge Jia Cobb that the National Guardsmen deployed to the city have been working hand-in-hand to improve conditions, arguing that the lawsuit should be dismissed.

Last month, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the administration on behalf of the city, arguing that Trump has no authority to deploy or command National Guard troops in the city for law enforcement reasons because the city has the right to govern its own streets, and the mayor never requested federal troops.

Controlling out-of-state National Guard units without local permission violates federal law, the Constitution, and longstanding agreements, DC argues in its lawsuit.

Mitchell Reich, who is representing the city, argued on Friday that the Trump administration had no authority to deploy what he calls “out of state troops” onto the streets of DC. Doing so, he said, has made locals afraid to call 911 and brewed distrust toward local police.

“The essential point of our argument is that they can’t send troops without our consent,” Reich said.

The lawyer for the Trump administration, however, told Cobb that “crime in DC has been out of control” and that the law allows the president or the defense secretary, now the secretary of war, to deploy the guard for training or “other activity.”

“The first ten weeks have been a success,” he said, adding that local police and the National Guard have been “working together to make DC safer.”

The Justice Department lawyer said that the deployment had the support of Mayor Muriel Bowser.

In September, Bowser signed an executive order requiring ongoing coordination between the city and federal law enforcement. Since then, she had publicly criticized the National Guard presence in the city, but when Schwalb filed the lawsuit she didn’t offer support.

A federal judge says her closely watched decision on whether to allow National Guard troops to be deployed in Portland, Oregon, will come no later than Monday.

“I am working as fast as I can to get a decision that honors the Ninth Circuit panel decision but also take into account some of the new arguments and new information that’s been provided,” US District Court Judge Karin Immergut said near the end of a 90-minute hearing Friday.

The Trump administration says a decision this week by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals compels the judge to end her restraining order that prevents federalized National Guard troops from being deployed in Oregon. President Trump has cited long-running protests outside an ICE facility as showing the need for heightened security.

The state of Oregon argued that Immergut — a Trump appointee — has more discretion to keep her restraining order in place while appeals court decides whether to reconsider the case.

Although Trump ordered a total of 800 guardsmen from Oregon, California and Texas to be on standby for deployment to Portland, the administration’s attorney said in Friday’s hearing it doesn’t plan to deploy more than 200.

“I think that the Oregon people are ready to deploy … as soon as the court addresses the (restraining order),” attorney Jacob Moshe Roth added.

Members of the National Guard patrol near the Capitol on October 1 in Washington, DC.

Mitchell Reich, an attorney representing the District of Columbia in a lawsuit against the Trump administration, argued Friday that National Guard troops are unlawfully deployed in the city and have damaged the relationship between city residents and local police.

District residents are afraid to attend religious services, especially Black residents, and are worried that if they call 911 for police response it will bring armed military troops to their door, Reich said.

“I think it’s clear they’re having this intimidating, fear-inducing effect,” he said, adding that the evidence shows that their presence will damage the ability for local police to serve residents.

“Our police officers get weeks and weeks of training,” Reich told Judge Jia Cobb, adding that National Guard troops aren’t trained for the kind of policing needed on DC streets. “These are troops that are trained with, in the words of the now Secretary of War, “maximum lethality,” Reich said.

Demonstrators are seen outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Friday.

Demonstrators rallied outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis to protest the arrival of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to the state.

“When Kristi Noem comes knocking at our door, when ICE comes to our neighborhood, when they try to intimidate and attack our neighborhoods, they should know these are our streets; our homes; our community,” a speaker representing the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee told the crowd.

“Our leaders, our neighbors – our country – has chosen to say silent and be complicit in the attacks against our immigrant brothers and sisters – but not us,” they added.

“We stand here so they know there is resistance.”

Context: Noem is expected to hold a news conference this afternoon to discuss Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities. Last month, the Justice Department sued Minneapolis and neighboring St. Paul over its sanctuary city policies.

During Friday’s hearing about her second restraining order against a federal deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, US District Court Judge Karin Immergut questioned whether it would be premature to make a ruling ahead of the en banc review of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on her first restraining order.

The majority of a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the first order from Immergut, saying she was in error to stop President Trump from federalizing Oregon guardsmen. The administration argues that decision should also apply to her second, broader restraining order against any federal deployment in Oregon of National Guard troops from any state.

“I don’t think it’s premature,” Department of Justice attorney Jacob Moshe Roth said. “I thought this (ruling) would come on Monday, right after we got the Ninth Circuit’s order. I thought it was clear enough that it would happen very quickly, and we’re now quite a number of days later.”

Roth argued that the appeals court majority was clear enough that they didn’t approve of either of Immergut’s restraining orders, and that she should have already dissolved them.

“I’m not sure how much more clear the (appeals) court could be about the fact that we had met our burden to show that we were entitled to stay of the order,” Roth added.

Despite an appeals court ruling this week favorable to the Trump administration, an attorney for the state of Oregon told a federal judge during a hearing Friday that she should maintain her restraining order against a federal National Guard deployment in the state.

Oregon senior assistant attorney general Scott Kennedy said there are too many issues still at play in an appeals court for US District Court Judge Karin Immergut to make a ruling now.

“The absence of a mandate … and other issues all make the finality of that motions panel decision highly uncertain,” Kennedy said.

The majority of a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a separate order from Immergut that stopped President Trump from federalizing Oregon guardsmen, saying her legal reasoning was in error. The administration argues that appellate decision should also apply to her broader restraining order — the order at issue in Friday’s hearing — against any federal deployment in Oregon of National Guard troops from any state.

The Ninth Circuit is currently deciding whether a panel with more judges should reconsider that ruling, and the state claims the Trump administration gave the court faulty figures that may have misled them in their decision.

The Trump administration attorney says the judge should decide now, even if there is still uncertainty about the future of the appeal.

“The stay order is the law right now,” Department of Justice attorney Jacob Moshe Roth said. “It is precedent right now. It is the law of the case right now.”

Despite her previous experience as an immigration lawyer, it took Rep. Rashida Tlaib more than a week to find a Michigan mother who had been detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.

Speaking at a “shadow hearing” in Chicago Friday on the impacts of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, the Democratic lawmaker said 12 days passed before she could find where the mother of three children was detained.

“They had her sleeping in a cot, like on the floor. And I didn’t know where she was!” she said. “I just couldn’t find her – and I’m a former immigration lawyer!”

Tlaib said she and her fellow Democrats have had similar experiences and it has led them to question the administration’s tactics and actions.

“Enough! When we say disappeared and kidnapped, we’re meaning disappeared and kidnapped,” she said. “We can’t find them.”

Members of the 49th Military Police Brigade from California, part of the Army National Guard military police brigade, walk across the ground at the Oregon Army National Guard's Camp Withycombe in Happy Valley, Oregon, on Wednesday.

An attorney for the Trump administration told a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, Friday that they don’t intend to use all of the National Guard troops who have been called up for a potential deployment to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“As of yesterday, our determination remained that 200 (troops) is the right number and the appropriate number,” Department of Justice attorney Jacob Moshe Roth said in a court hearing over whether Judge Karin Immergut must drop her restraining order preventing President Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Oregon.

After first having their effort to federalize 200 Oregon National Guard troops in Portland blocked by Immergut, the administration then moved in 200 guardsmen from California and up to 400 from Texas to prepare for a deployment. The judge expressed concern that a total of 800 guardsmen was a substantial escalation.

Roth said they never intended to use more than 200 troops on the ground.

“They were not supposed to be supplemental; they were supposed to be instead of (the Oregon troops who were initially blocked),” he said.

The DOJ attorney reiterated what the administration said in a Thursday filing, that the administration might be satisfied for now if the judge allows only the 200 Oregon guardsmen to be deployed while continuing to sideline the troops from California and Oregon.

A hearing over whether a federal judge must drop her restraining order preventing President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in the state of Oregon is getting underway in Portland.

An appeals court this week issued a stay of a different order from Judge Karin Immergut preventing the president from federalizing the Oregon National Guard.

The Trump administration says that Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling should also force the broader order blocking deployments to be dissolved, but attorneys for Oregon and the city of Portland say they are separate issues, and Immergut should not make a decision until the appeals court decides whether to reconsider the case.

An independent journalist alleges the Department of Homeland Security used video footage he recorded in Illinois without permission and mislabeled it as an example of clashes in Portland, Oregon.

Ford Fischer said a clip of his footage was used in a 3-minute video posted on X on Sunday in which Micah Bock, a DHS deputy assistant secretary, talks about federal law enforcement officers saying they are “defending our cities under siege.”

“Footage of mine is used to say ‘In Portland, Oregon, Antifa terrorists have surged against our federal facilities,’” Fischer said in a post on X. “While labelled as Portland, this footage was shot by me in Broadview, Illinois.”

Fischer, who has been documenting anti-ICE protests in multiple cities, said he did not give DHS permission to use or license his video. When asked about Fischer’s allegations, a DHS spokesperson did not directly address them in a statement to CNN.

“Violence and rioting against law enforcement is unacceptable regardless of where it occurs,” the spokesperson said. In both Portland Oregon and Chicago Illinois violent Antifa terrorists have assaulted and brutally attacked our officers and agents. We will not stop until every single one of these anarchists are brought to justice.”

Fischer told CNN he was surprised to find his footage in the publication, noting that in recent months he observed federal agents using high-end camera gear to make their own, highly stylized videos.

“When I replayed it (…) I realized that indeed, a version of my Broadview, Illinois footage with the watermark cropped out was labelled ‘Portland, Oregon,’” Fischer told CNN.

CNN has geolocated the video clip and confirmed it was taken outside the ICE facility in Broadview on September 19, 2025.

The four American citizens who were among those arrested by federal agents during a chaotic Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on Chinatown’s Canal Street in Manhattan this week have been released, the Department of Homeland Security said today.

The popular and highly trafficked area is well-known for its street vendors who sell counterfeit designer goods.

In video obtained by CNN, people could be seen protesting the arrest of the street vendors, and trying to intervene by stopping traffic.

The four US citizens were arrested for assaulting law enforcement, DHS said.

“Secretary Noem has been clear if you lay a hand on law enforcement, you will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” the DHS statement added.

Democratic US Rep. Dan Goldman had criticized the arrests, saying “there was no basis. ICE is not allowed to arrest American citizens. They spent the night in 26 Federal Plaza in detention, immigration detention. American citizens. For nothing.”

Members of the National Guard walk past the Department of Agriculture headquarters building on October 7 in Washington, DC.

A federal judge will hear arguments Friday in a lawsuit filed by Washington, DC, officials over the Trump administration’s decision to send National Guard troops to the district this August.

In the suit filed last month, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb accuses the president and his administration of violating the Constitution and federal law by sending thousands of troops to the district without consent from local leaders.

“Deploying the National Guard to engage in law enforcement is not only unnecessary and unwanted, but it is also dangerous and harmful to the District and its residents,” Schwalb said in a statement last month. “It’s DC today but could be any other city tomorrow.”

More than 2,000 National Guard members were assigned to the DC mission and ordered to carry weapons as part of President Donald Trump’s anti-crime agenda in the nation’s capital, which also included a surge of federal officers from other agencies. Many of the National Guard troops were deployed from Republican-led states.

The White House has maintained the president has the authority to deploy the Guard to protect federal property and assist law enforcement.

Friday’s hearing comes as judges across the country are weighing similar lawsuits over the administration’s deployment of the Guard in Oregon and Illinois.

Police officers examine a U-Haul truck involved in a shooting at the entrance to Coast Guard Base Alameda, on Friday in Alameda, California.

The driver of a U-Haul truck that backed toward law enforcement outside the Coast Guard base in Alameda, California, leading them to fire “defensive” shots was wounded and is in being held for a mental health evaluation, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The truck driver was wounded in the stomach while a bystander was struck “by a fragment,” and has been released from the hospital, the agency said in a Friday statement. No Coast Guard personnel were injured druing the incident.

The Coast Guard security personnel “issued multiple verbal commands to stop the vehicle” when they witnessed the truck driving erratically and “attempting to weaponize the vehicle to ram” into the base, DHS said.

But the driver didn’t stop and then “put the vehicle in reverse — suddenly accelerating backwards at a high rate of speed directly toward them,” DHS said.

“When the vehicle’s actions posed a direct threat to the safety of Coast Guard and security personnel, law enforcement officers discharged several rounds of defensive live fire,” a DHS spokesperson said.

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The Border Patrol chief accused of throwing a tear gas canister and other agents acted “properly” at an anti-ICE protest in Chicago Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement today.

Senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino deployed “riot control measures” on a crowd of protesters that was growing “more hostile and violent” and “began throwing rocks and other objects at agents, including one that struck Chief Greg Bovino in the head,” the agency said.

A court filing against the Department of Homeland Security alleged Bovino “apparently threw tear gas into a crowd without justification” during the protest in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.

“Riot control measures were deployed, including by Chief Bovino, and arrests were made. Agents properly used their training,” DHS said. “The use of chemical munitions was conducted in full accordance with CBP policy and was necessary to ensure the safety of both law enforcement and the public.”

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Protestors gather near the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday.

Protesters have again gathered Friday near the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, where over the past weeks, clashes between protesters and federal agents have repeatedly taken place.

So far, the demonstration remains peaceful, with the crowd standing just inside concrete barriers of the designated protest area. They are holding signs and singing.

Context: The federal response to the demonstrations has drawn widespread outcry, notably when an area pastor was seen on video being shot in the head with pepper balls when he was outside the facility.

A federal judge will hear arguments today on whether she should drop the restraining order that currently prevents a National Guard deployment in Portland, Oregon – or keep it in place. But the Trump administration is suggesting she has more than two choices.

Judge Karin Immergut blocked President Trump’s deployment of about 600 National Guard troops from Oregon, California and Texas to help protect a Portland ICE facility that has been the site of protests since mid-summer.

The Department of Justice said a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should force Immergut to end her temporary restraining order that prevents any federalized Guard deployment within the state of Oregon. The state argued the appeals court decision did not directly address that order, and the judge should wait until the Ninth Circuit decides whether to rehear the case with more judges.

In a court filing earlier this week, the Trump administration suggested another alternative, saying even if Immergut decides against overturning her full order, she could instead allow deployment only of 200 Oregon National Guard troops, keeping the ones from Texas and California on the sidelines.

“Even if this Court distinguishes the federalized Guardsmen from Oregon from those coming from California and Texas, there is no question that the (order blocking deployments) must be dissolved or stayed insofar as it prohibits deployment of federalized Oregon Guardsmen,” the court filing said.

Immergut – a Trump appointee – has not said when she will make a decision on the government’s request. Her restraining order is scheduled to expire on November 2.