The Guard has been federally mobilized around the country at least 10 times since World War II, with presidents using it to respond to civil unrest.

As Oregon awaits more clarity from a federal appeals court on the Trump administration’s attempts to deploy National Guard troops from multiple states to Portland, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Tuesday.

More than 300 members of the West Virginia National Guard already have been in Washington, D.C., more than a month.

President Donald Trump's use of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., has sparked a political debate over crime reduction versus federal overreach.