PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained an asylum seeker from Mexico as she left a hearing in a Portland courtroom on Monday, according to her attorneys. It appears to be the first known ICE courthouse arrest in Portland amid a nationwide wave of such arrests that have been widely reported by outlets like CNN , USA Today and The Seattle Times .

Across the country, ICE under the Trump administration has launched a broad crackdown on immigration, terminating prior guidelines for acceptable arrest locations and catching up asylum seekers , foreign students , lawful permanent residents and undocumented workers in the dragnet.

The asylum seeker allegedly arrested in Portland, a 24-year-old transgender woman from Mexico, is represented by

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