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The US President has authorised the deployment of three hundred Guard personnel to the city of Chicago to combat what he characterises as rampant crime.

The decision followed just after enforcement officials announced they faced off with protesters in the liberal city and fired upon an weapon-carrying woman when she and protesters crashed their cars into police vehicles.

State and local leaders have for weeks censured Trump's deployment plans and called it an overreach. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker remarked Trump was "trying to create a situation".

The statement arrived as a federal judge in Portland, Oregon – one more liberal city – stopped for now the Trump administration from deploying two hundred troops there.

The judge called Trump's remarks about situations in Portland "divorced from the reality," and stated the action breached the law of the land.

She stated the employment of the troops to control disturbances without the Oregon state agreeing risks the sovereignty of that region and others. The judge found that the administration's justifications for the deployment "risk confusing the line between public and defense federal power – to the disadvantage of this country".

It is expected that a court case will additionally be submitted over the sending in Chicago. It is unclear whether a single troops have so far been assigned in the liberal city.

In the midst of ongoing riots and disorder, that regional authorities like Governor Pritzker have refused to act to quell, the President has authorized three hundred national guardsmen to safeguard government agents and assets.

The city is the latest – many of them run by liberals – to be targeted for a disputed sending of forces, including Washington, LA, Memphis, Tennessee and Oregon's Portland.

The city has witnessed an rise in demonstrations over federal immigration actions in the urban area, many of them happening outside immigration agency facilities.

On the weekend – shortly before Trump authorised troops there – federal border agents officers wounded a woman after a group of people crashed vehicles into immigration enforcement vehicles, the Department of Homeland Security said in a release. The woman was armed, the release confirmed.

The woman's wounds were unknown. Homeland Security reported she went to a local hospital.

• Trump has frequently pointed to urban crime as an instance of growing urban violence.
• Government personnel have before been assigned to multiple locations amid demonstrations.
• Court challenges are likely in Illinois resembling those in Oregon.