Overview

• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met twice with Police Chief Bob Day and also met the county sheriff, state police leadership and Gov. Tina Kotek during a daylong visit.
• Portland police cordoned streets around the South Portland ICE building for the visit, and Noem briefly viewed the area from the roof as a small group of protesters heckled.
• In a Fox News interview, Noem called local elected officials “pansies” and demanded more security, a wider buffer zone and reopened streets around the facility.
• Noem said she told Mayor Keith Wilson she would send four times more federal officers if the city did not adopt the measures she outlined.
• Officials report roughly 70 arrests and repeated use of chemical munitions at protests since June as city leaders question the legality of federal tactics, with a judge temporarily blocking the National Guard deployment.