Overview

• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem toured the Portland ICE field office on Tuesday with conservative influencers who documented the visit from the facility roof.
• Photos and video showed roughly a dozen reporters and protesters, including a man in a chicken costume, not the “army of Antifa” described by the visitors online.
• Influencer posts from inside and on the roof showed Noem leading officers in prayer, delivering a pep talk, and telling a National Guard member, “Get ready.”
• Federal Judge Karin Immergut blocked President Trump’s effort to federalize Oregon’s National Guard and later barred Guard deployments to Portland from other states.
• Oregon Governor Tina Kotek accused federal officers of using excessive tear gas and trying to provoke crowds, as earlier clashes produced arrests including influencer Nick Sortor, whose charges were later dropped after a DOJ civil-rights inquiry threat.