"We're sending law enforcement," Trump told reporters at the White House. State and local leaders in Oregon, as well as members of Congress, meanwhile, have called for Trump to remove Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers from Portland. We are not escalating, we are protecting," Chad Wolf, acting secretary of Homeland Security, told Fox News. The Trump administration has deployed federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on the protests. (Noah Berger/The Associated Press)Wolf said federal law enforcement was doing its job.

Source: CBC News July 20, 2020 14:37 UTC