(NewsNation) — U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in Portland on Tuesday, where she visited an ICE facility and met with the Oregon governor, Portland mayor and local law enforcement.

Protests have been ramping up outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in recent months. After meeting with the mayor, Noem told Fox News that if security measures around the ICE facility in Portland do not intensify, "We’ll send four times the number of federal officers here so the people of Portland can finally have some safety and security.”

The Trump administration is targeting Portland and other Democratic run cities in part due to protests outside of ICE facilities, which Trump has described as “under siege from attack by antifa, and other domestic terror

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