US authorities may send more federal agents to Portland

Racial Injustice Portland

The mayors of six US cities have appealed to Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to deploy militarised federal agents to cities that do not want them, even as the Trump administration is considering sending more of them to Portland, Oregon.

“This administration’s egregious use of federal force on cities over the objections of local authorities should never happen,” the mayors of Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Kansas City, Albuquerque and Washington DC wrote to leaders of the US House and Senate.