Oregon leaders say Trump deploying 200 National Guard troops within state

The state’s governor said she had objected to the deployment in a conversation with the president (Jenny Kane/AP)

Two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard are being placed under federal control and deployed to protect immigration enforcement officers and government facilities, according to a defence department memo.

The deployment is being made over the objections of state leaders – who received the memo on Sunday – and is similar to one last summer in Los Angeles, where protesters demonstrated against deportation operations, but is on a much smaller scale.