The Trump administration sent hundreds of federalized personnel from the California National Guard to Portland, Oregon, Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said and the White House confirmed Sunday, Axios reports.

The move, which Newsom says he'll sue over, comes the day after a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration's deployment of troops to Oregon, saying the government had failed to prove immigration-related protests in the area couldn't be handled by local law enforcement.

While Newsom said 300 California National Guard members would be deployed, chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell told Axios Sunday evening that about 200 troops would be sent from the state to Portland.

They're "being reassigned from duty in the greater Los Angeles area" to the city to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "and other federal personnel performing official duties, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property," Parnell said.

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield (D) said the state is "preparing to take legal action" over the move.

State and local officials have slammed Trump's directive to send federal troops into the city as unnecessary and dangerous.

The amended complaint, which concerns California and names Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and the Department of the Interior, seeks a new temporary injunction that could block the deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon.