War-ravaged downtown Portland earlier today.
The farmer's market is evidently chock-full of Antifa disguised as regular people as anyone can see.
Photo posted September 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM ”
MY cousin Kaylee lives in Portland, Oregon and has been participating in the non-violent protest at the ice detention facility there. Some of her video is included in these reports from KPTV FOX12 Oregon. NOT MY pres drumpf / trump has been threatening to go to war against Portland's residents, justifying sending in troops by spreading fascist lies, propaganda, deception, and misinformation that the city is being destroyed by opponents of his neo-nazi regime. ( Anyone else disgusted how this 5 time draft dodger is so eager and willing to deploy troops when he was too cowardly to serve in the military himself? If he would have been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam war that would have shown the courage to take a stand, but donald jessica drumpf's / trump's daddy got him medical deferment letters from doctors who had their offices in buildings he owned in New York City ). Thank God US District Court Judge Karin Immergut ( appointed by drumpf / trump ) has the moral courage to stop the deployment of troops to Portland for 2 weeks pending another court ruling making her injunction permanent. The final article is from the New York Times....
Federal helicopters flying over Portland result in increased noise complaints, Port of Portland says
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Since as early as Saturday, helicopters have been spotted circling Portland after President Donald Trump announced plans to deploy troops in the area.
One neighbor who lives near the ICE facility in South Portland told FOX 12 on Saturday that helicopters were circling overhead for several hours.
“There was three of them circling for over seven hours last night,” said Lawshanda Shavers on Saturday. “They were louder than the protestors!”
FOX 12 reached out to the Port of Portland on Monday to ask about the helicopters flying over the metro area.
A Port of Portland spokesperson responded on Monday night, saying they have issued an alert on their noise management page after a rise in noise complaints related to the helicopters.
“We are aware of the higher volume of helicopter and propeller airplane activity over South and Southwest Portland,” a Port of Portland spokesperson said. “This appears to be related to federal law enforcement and/or military activity and is not a development the Port of Portland can control.”
ICE FACILITY NEIGHBORS
The FBI confirmed at least one U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter was flying over Portland on Saturday after they say a laser was aimed at the helicopter, leading to the arrest of four undocumented immigrants.
Under federal law, CBP Border Patrol officers are permitted to “board ‘any vessel, railway car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle’ mostly within an area of 100 air miles from a U.S. ’external boundary‘" to search for undocumented immigrants.
Portland is roughly 60 air miles from the coast, which is the nearest U.S. external boundary.
CBP’s website says their responsibilities include “interdicting terrorists, illegal narcotics, and non-citizens attempting to egress away from the border area into the interior portions of our nations.”
Several Portland locals expressed concern on social media about the helicopters flying over their homes, including one woman who caught one of the helicopters on video near Elizabeth Caruthers Park on Saturday night.
“On Saturday I could hear them loudly inside my apartment. My apartment is a concrete building and I hardly hear my neighbors let alone the sounds of helicopters doing laps,” Kaylee Hunter told FOX 12 on Wednesday. “It’s upsetting to have military helicopters with weapons on the personnel in my neighborhood which is any other time a quiet and nice place.”
Hunter says she and her partner, who is completing his residency training to become a doctor, had moved to South Portland to be closer to OHSU.
“Even though the helicopters are directed for the ICE building it feels personal when they are flying over the neighborhood that we all call home,” Hunter said. “I am not looking forward to military presence. I’ve never witnessed any danger in my neighborhood.”
Hunter also says most of her neighbors are older people and health professionals who are already low on sleep from work without the noise of the helicopters overhead.
“The doctors and other health care professionals don’t need to come home after a long shift of saving lives to have military circling us,” Hunter said.
Video from my cousin Kaylee Hunter, of the military helicopters flying around her apartment building in Portland, OR, 27 SEP 25. This is also included in the report by KPTV Fox12 Oregon.
Judge grants temporary restraining order blocking Portland troop deployment
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Officials speak after judge temporarily blocks Portland troop deployment
Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore.
A federal judge on Saturday blocked the Trump administration from using Oregon National Guard soldiers in response to nightly protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore.
Judge Karin Immergut, of the U.S. District Court in Oregon, sided with Democrats who run the state government when she issued a temporary restraining order blocking the mobilization. President Trump and the Defense Department had ordered 200 Oregon soldiers for a 60-day deployment.
In her ruling, Judge Immergut wrote that she expected a trial court to agree with the state’s contention that the president exceeded his constitutional authority in mobilizing federal troops for local work and likely violated the 10th Amendment.
The soldiers have been training on the Oregon coast and were expected to be in place by the weekend, though federal officials have not said what duties they would perform beyond assisting ICE.
The restraining order expires in two weeks. During that time, the judge is expected to rule on a request for a longer injunction against the deployment. Federal lawyers have appealed the restraining order, which is part of a larger lawsuit filed by Oregon and Portland that accuses the president of violating his constitutional authority.
“President Trump exercised his lawful authority to protect federal assets and personnel in Portland following violent riots and attacks on law enforcement,” Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman said. “We expect to be vindicated by a higher court.”
The decision comes as the president pushes to deploy the National Guard in several major U.S. cities to combat crime and support immigration enforcement. On Saturday, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat, said that Mr. Trump planned to send 300 Guard troops to Chicago soon.
During almost two hours of arguments Friday, lawyers for Oregon’s attorney general, Dan Rayfield, contended that the president did not have the authority to use the National Guard at the ICE facility and warned that the arrival of federal forces would lead to greater violence.
State and city attorneys described Mr. Trump’s selection of Portland for deployment as “at best, arbitrary, and at worst, a politically motivated retaliation for the adoption of policies” that the president viewed as too liberal.
The president’s actions “represent one of the most dramatic infringements on state sovereignty in Oregon’s history,” Scott Kennedy, an attorney for Oregon said in court. “They radically reshape the balance of federal-state power,”
State lawyers also questioned the timing of Mr. Trump’s decision, noting records from the Portland Police Bureau that showed the size of the nightly demonstrations had dwindled before the president posted on his social media website last Saturday that he planned to ask the Department of Defense to use federal troops to “protect” Portland.
Portland Police commanders checked in with ICE officials every evening, according to records they filed in support of the temporary restraining order, and for several weeks prior to the president’s declaration, ICE employees reported that things were relatively quiet and that they did not need help.
Judge Immergut, who was appointed by Mr. Trump during his first term, agreed that the timing of the president’s order did not meet the legal standard for calling in the National Guard, saying the state provided “substantial evidence that the protests at the Portland ICE facility were not significantly violent or disruptive in the days — or even weeks — leading up to the President’s directive.”
Mr. Kennedy also said the situation in Portland did not meet the standard required for mobilization of federal soldiers for domestic work; the law allows federal troops to be used domestically in times of foreign invasion, rebellion or when normal law enforcement efforts are not capable of maintaining order.
Federal lawyers contended that the protests in Portland constituted both a potential rebellion and a law enforcement challenge beyond what federal officers on the ground could handle. But Mr. Kennedy said the federal government was defining “rebellion” so broadly it could include any political demonstrations or “opposition to its authority.”
Judge Immergut agreed, writing that the federal government had shown evidence of “sporadic violence” but not “any evidence demonstrating that those episodes of violence were part of an organized attempt to overthrow the government as a whole.”
Eric Hamilton, a Justice Department lawyer, told the judge the decision to use National Guard soldiers was prompted by the Sept. 24 shooting that killed two detainees at a Dallas ICE facility and months of demonstrations in Portland that have left federal employees frightened and exhausted.
“Violent and cruel radicals have laid siege,” he said. “The evidence we have submitted at least reflects a danger of a rebellion, monthslong targeting of the Portland ICE building with violence, intimidation and threats.”
In the order released Saturday evening, Judge Immergut wrote that the president’s argument about the need for mobilization was contradicted by evidence that recent protests had been comparatively quiet and nonviolent, supporting the state’s case that the decision to use troops “was not ‘conceived in good faith.’”
The nightly demonstrations at Portland’s ICE building began in early summer and have included occasional skirmishes between protesters and federal agents as demonstrators tried to block vehicles from entering and exiting a parking garage. Multiple times a day, ICE agents in riot gear march out of the building to clear the driveway. During daylight hours, the crowd disperses quickly. At times federal officers have used pepper balls, tear gas and other crowd dispersal weapons to move people back.The Portland Police Bureau reported 27 arrests since early June outside the building, and court records show at least two dozen arrests by federal officers.
The protests have turned rougher since the president’s announcement last weekend with the arrival of right wing counterprotesters, some of whom have been spotted observing the crowd from the ICE building roof. A march to protest the potential deployment Saturday afternoon ended with federal officers using tear gas and pepper balls against a crowd that had gathered in the road in front of the building.
Judge Immergut, a former U.S. attorney in Oregon, is the second federal judge assigned to Oregon’s lawsuit against Mr. Trump. The first recused after a request from the federal lawyers because his wife, Representative Suzanne Bonamici, a Democrat, had spoken out against the National Guard deployment.
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