Portland Mayor Keith Wilson warned of a “sudden influx” of federal agents in Portland on Friday evening, a day after President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric promising federal intervention in the city.

“We did not ask for them to come,” Wilson added.

Wilson was joined by other local leaders who said they wanted to sound the alarm about the apparent increased federal presence at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility south of downtown Portland.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, who visited the ICE facility with other Democratic lawmakers Thursday, said Trump wants to “induce a violent incident” in Portland.

”Let us not grant him that,” he said, urging Portlanders “not to take the bait.”

U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter said Portlanders would rise above the Trump administration’s actio

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