Overview

• Hundreds to more than 1,000 cyclists left the Oregon Convention Center and reached Portland’s ICE facility on Sunday in a hastily organized, clothing-optional protest.
• Authorities at the site warned demonstrators to stay on sidewalks, and federal officers used pepper balls and tear gas at times and detained some protesters.
• U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut has twice blocked the Trump administration’s National Guard deployments to Portland, and the administration’s appeal is pending before the Ninth Circuit.
• Organizers framed the event as opposition to the city’s militarization and to immigration enforcement, and they highlighted prior arrests of protest leaders, including Jairin Anzaldua-Ervin’s federal charge.
• Multiple federal law enforcement components continue guarding the facility, and state and city officials await the appellate ruling as protests persist outside the South Portland site.