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The government has defended ending the subsidy which it says will save $1.1bn a year that can be distributed to small-scale farmers and people in the transport sector.

"Portland has a right to defend itself and its neighbours," he said.

Gonzalez says she believes plaintiffs attorneys have taken advantage of her legislation and is looking for someone in Sacramento to pass a new bill that will make it easier for jurisdictions to defend themselves.

She defended the administration’s deployment of federal troops to Washington, D.C., and Chicago, where she said troops had been sent on Tuesday.

Mark Bromley, defending, told magistrates that there had been a "huge degree of cooperation with education and welfare" by the parents.