Federal officers have arrested more than two dozen people outside Portland’s ICE building since June, with the majority in the first month that demonstrators started to gather to protest President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
The pattern of arrests appears to reflect what Gov. Tina Kotek, Mayor Keith Wilson and Police Chief Bob Day repeatedly said Saturday as Trump authorized sending federal troops to the city:
Relatively low-key demonstrations by a small group of people have continued at the building with law enforcement oversight throughout.
People have been accused in federal court of vandalizing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, disrupting the electronic key card reader operating the building’s gated entrance, blocking federal vehicles from leaving the