"In early October, Keith Wilson, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, visited 4310 South Macadam Avenue, an address that has thrust his city back into the national spotlight-and into the crosshairs of President Donald Trump. Since June, this site, the local headquarters for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE), had been the focus of daily protests, with activists rallying against the Trump Administration's immigration policies, often clashing with MAGA counter-protesters."
"To the public, what was going on inside the building largely remained a mystery. No media, beyond Trump-friendly right-wing influencers, had been allowed in. But Wilson was "summoned" to the building, in his words, to meet with Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who came to town after Trump announced, on Truth Social, that he was authorizing "all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland.""
Federal officials moved to escalate a confrontation in Portland by preparing to deploy troops and the National Guard to an ICE facility where daily protests had occurred since June. Demonstrations featured a carnivalesque atmosphere with inflatable frog suits and clashes with MAGA counter-protesters. The ICE building at 4310 South Macadam Avenue was a boarded-up former data-processing center guarded by masked, armed federal officers on the rooftop, and media access was restricted. Mayor Keith Wilson met Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after a Truth Social post and described the facility as disheveled, hot, with a broken HVAC and overflowing dumpsters.
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