- Mayors in major cities are pushing back on the federal government's efforts to send in federal troops.
- Federal troops were deployed in Portland, and reports last week said that agents in unmarked cars were seizing protesters.
- President Donald Trump has defended their actions and called the unrest "worse than Afghanistan," The Washington Post.
- Mayors in Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia said they don't welcome the move to have agents in their cities.
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Mayors in major cities like Chicago and Detroit are pushing back against efforts by President Donald Trump administration to deploy federal agents, like those in Portland, to more cities.
Trump threatened to send forces to cities experiencing unrest, The Washington Post reported. Two sources told Politico that the Department of Homeland Security officials is considering sending field forces to different cities across the county to protect federal property.
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