Add Portland and Memphis to a list that already includes cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston and individuals like Mahmoud Khalil, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and Rümeysa Öztürk.

It’s hard to rank what Trump’s worst acts are—so many are so horrible. But the scariest part of Trump’s presidency is the rapid creation of a mini police state, with the administration regularly deploying National Guard troops or a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or both in major cities, usually against the will of local officials. We are now a country where nonviolent people are regularly arrested and detained with little explanation and where the threat of armed troops coming to your city is constant. And this militarization keeps accelerating. America is certainly not a police state, but this is the most like a police state we have been in my lifetime, including in the months after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The administration is deploying around 200 National Guard troops to Portland this week to crack down on anti-ICE protests there, over the objections of Oregon’s governor. Around 150 troops are coming to Memphis under the pretext of addressing the city’s fairly high murder rate. But they are really........

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