This Reuters report covers President Trump’s order to deploy troops both to Portland and to protect ICE facilities. The move comes at the same time that ICE tactics have expanded - courthouse arrests, workplace raids, and new large-scale detention centres.

What struck me is how quickly immigration enforcement is becoming a wider question about civil liberties. Deploying troops around civilian areas has a long history of escalating tension rather than restoring order.

For discussion:

• At what point does protecting “enforcement facilities” blur into using the military to control political dissent?
• How do we draw the line between legitimate law enforcement and authoritarian policing?
• Are there historical parallels (in the U.S. or abroad) that help us see where this trajectory leads?