Portland's city leaders and residents are pushing back against ICE. Now Trump is sending in troops

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The plaintiffs ask the court to declare the federalization and deployment of the Oregon National Guard in the state illegal and permanently prevent such action being taken by the Department of Defense again.
49% : Now the city council is moving toward an ordinance that would make it legally binding, prohibiting any Portland government organization from assisting in federal immigration enforcement, except for providing information that is already available to the general public.
48% : The building used by ICE is owned by a family partnership whose beneficiaries are not listed publicly.
46% : While hundreds of people who were arrested went free without charge during that turbulent year, prosecutors are now pointing to those past protests in a warning to people who hope to send a message about ICE.
44% : And her proposal to add extra fees on buildings used for federal detention raised concerns from another council member.
43% : "If the city allows further separation of families by forcing ICE to operate processing elsewhere, that is on them," ICE said in a statement to CNN affiliate KATU.
42% : Portland sent a notice to the building's private owners last week, saying ICE has committed code violations by boarding up windows and keeping some detainees in the holding facility for longer than 12 hours.
41% : In response, Louisville, Kentucky, dropped its policy refusing to hold immigration suspects in its local jail for ICE, with the mayor acknowledging that "millions of dollars in federal grants were at stake.
41% : " Portland first called itself a sanctuary city nearly a decade ago with a nonbinding resolution saying the Portland Police Bureau "shall not cooperate with ICE except as expressly required by Federal Law."
40% : " The filing names Trump, Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and their departments as defendants.
40% : "Federal records show that ICE violated its land use conditions of approval 25 times in 10 months," the notice states.
38% : Here is what we know about what is ahead for the city famous for loud protests and liberal politics as its standoff with federal immigration officials gets more tense.
37% : In what turned out to be a foreshadowing of rhetoric that would get even hotter in his second term, Trump in July 2020 called Portland a "beehive of terrorists" and deployed the National Guard to protect federal buildings downtown.
34% : However, the White House said Trump's use of the National Guard would make Portland safer. "President Trump is using his lawful authority to direct the National Guard to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland following months of violent riots where officers have been assaulted and doxxed by left-wing rioters," spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement emailed to CNN Sunday.
32% : " And local officials have made it clear that, regardless of any concerns about more flare-ups in the tense standoff between ICE and protesters, they don't want the Trump administration's help.
21% : Last week, Trump refocused attention on Antifa - the loosely organized group of leftists and anarchists who are known for anonymity and destructive masked demonstrations - designating it as a "major terrorist organization."
18% : Trump has previously said, without evidence, that "paid terrorists" are wreaking havoc in Portland.

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