P resident Donald Trump announced that he ordered federal troops to Portland, Oregon, due to what he alleged were threats from domestic terrorists. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, however, chastized the president and stressed that city leaders did not make any request to Washington.

Within hours of receiving notice that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered 200 Oregon National Guard troops to be deployed under federal authority, the state of Oregon moved to block it. Democratic Oregon Gov. Gina Kotek called the move “unnecessary and an abuse of power by the Trump administration.”

In a news conference on Friday evening, Portland and Oregon leaders urged the community to remain peaceful after an increase in activity by federal agents.

The move comes after several people involved in anti-ICE protests outside an immigration facility in Chicago were reportedly charged with assaulting officers

Neither one of them seemed overly concerned by the nightly protesters outside the ICE building — but they were concerned about the actions from the federal agents.