ICE MAKES FIRST PORTLAND COURTHOUSE ARREST: President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants arrived in Portland this week with the first confirmed arrest outside an immigration courtroom. In a federal legal filing, lawyers said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a woman from Mexico outside her asylum hearing June 2 in a downtown Portland federal building. The lawyers say the woman, who is transgender, was seeking asylum in the U.S. several years after being abducted and raped by members of the Knights Templar drug cartel in Michoacán state. She was living in Vancouver, Wash., at the time of her arrest. The local office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to a request for comment from WW . The woman’s attorney, Stephen Manning of Immigrant Law Gro
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