After months of ignoring disruptive Antifa protestors outside the Portland, Ore., immigration facility, Portland police are finally enforcing the law and ordered their tents and supplies off the streets over the weekend.
The move comes as the Trump administration has pressured Portland officials to restore order outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building and awaits the okay to send Oregon National Guard troops to the city.
President Donald Trump issued the order to send Guard troops to Portland nearly a month ago, but ongoing legal battles have delayed their deployment there.
While the two sides fight it out in the courts, Portland police demanded that protesters gathered outside the ICE building in the South Waterfront area clear tents and warned of stepped-up enforcement.
On Saturday, around 8:30 p.m., more than 30 officers arrived amid the pouring rain and ordered the removal of a protester camp near the facility that had entirely blocked sidewalks and had reports of “criminal activity” in the camp, The Oregonian reported.
The police also warned they will enforce low-level violations such as blocking sidewalks, consuming alcohol or drugs in public, jaywalking, and the like in the coming days.
“What we haven’t been enforcing is, like, the drinking in public, standing in the middle of the street, the blocking vehicles, just kind of stuff like that,” one officer told a protester across from the ICE building, per The Oregonian report. “If you can stand on this sidewalk and peacefully protest, that’s great. If you want to be over here with an open can, blocking traffic, doing all this stuff, then we’re going to start enforcing those things.”
Portland officials claim everything is fine around the ICE facility, while residents have complained about the noise, chemical agents and disorderly conduct for months. The Portland Police Bureau has faced criticism for ignoring the concerns of nearby residents amid the clashes between federal agents and protestors.
One local resident filed a lawsuit over the noise and lost to the city. Local officials also relocated the Cottonwood School due to the ongoing protests, KGW News 8 reported. In addition, a growing list of independent journalists have reported being assaulted since early June.
Portland officials have abated the encampment several times over the past few months — most recently Oct. 23 — but it’s returned within days, The Oregonian reported. The city has taken an enforcement stance similar to how it treats homeless camps, posting written warnings prior to its occasional removal.
KPTV FOX 12 reported on Sunday the Portland Police Bureau arrested three people the night before.
The protesters — who have seemingly claimed the streets around the ICE facility as their territory — clapped back with their usual response, accusing local police of aiding federal immigration officials. Police said they were merely enforcing city laws.
“I think that it’s pretty lame that they’re going to enforce something as small as jaywalking when they could be spending their time focusing on actual crimes,” protestor Seth Todd, who has protested since early June in what has become his trademark inflatable frog costume, told The Oregonian.
Various social media posts and Frontlines TPUSA reported Portland police raided the Antifa “supply tent” next to the ICE building, hours after Seattle podcaster and journalist Brandi Kruse was allegedly assaulted outside the same site.
“BREAKING: Oregon State Troopers and Portland Police just blocked off the road around Antifa’s ICE camp as crews cleared the ENTIRE camp, hauling off Antifa’s stuff in box trucks PORTLAND MUST KEEP UP THIS ENFORCEMENT! DO NOT let Antifa rebuild!” independent journalist Nick Sortor posted on X Sunday.
🚨 BREAKING: Oregon State Troopers and Portland Police just blocked off the road around Antifa’s ICE camp as crews cleared the ENTIRE camp, hauling off Antifa’s stuff in box trucks
PORTLAND MUST KEEP UP THIS ENFORCEMENT!
DO NOT let Antifa rebuild! pic.twitter.com/ldf1z2Yarh
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 27, 2025
“This is a level of local response we haven’t seen in 140 days,” Brandi Kruse added on X, resharing Sortor’s post. “I hope they mean it, but the timing is suspicious – just before an important hearing on National Guard deployment.”
This is a level of local response we haven’t seen in 140 days. I hope they mean it, but the timing is suspicious – just before an important hearing on National Guard deployment. https://t.co/b2dSNgieAO
— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) October 27, 2025
Frontlines TPUSA also shared on X that on Saturday a “crush of MAGA patriots overwhelmed Antifa, and local police broke up a nearby encampment used by protesters for supplies and storage.”
WATCH: Over the weekend, far-left activists targeted the Portland ICE building, but in much smaller numbers.
That's because on Saturday, a crush of MAGA patriots overwhelmed Antifa, and local police broke up a nearby encampment used by protesters for supplies and storage.
But… pic.twitter.com/k2LM5Hy1vD
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) October 27, 2025
Several independent journalists and conservative influencers have reported being assaulted by Antifa members and violent agitators since anti-ICE protests erupted in June.
They include Sortor, who was arrested by Portland police, Katie Daviscourt, Cameron Higby, Chelly Bouferrache, Brandi Kruse and Nick Shirley, who also showed footage of the Antifa encampment finally being cleared out.
“Inside the encampment they had loads full of medicine, medical gear, party supplies, a fridge, bbq, etc… ANTIFAs 140 days of control has officially come to an end,” Shirley posted on X.
🚨ANTIFA HAS BEEN DISMANTLED IN PORTLAND
After 140 days of controlling and camping on this street in Portland, ANTIFA has officially been cleared out as the police FINALLY stepped in and cleared the encampment.Inside the encampment they had loads full of medicine, medical… pic.twitter.com/NMEnOd1wSV
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) October 26, 2025
Several independent journalists and conversative social media influencers attended an Oct. 8 White House roundtable to share their coverage of the violent Antifa protestors. Andy Ngo was among those who reported he was violently attacked and sustained a serious brain injury after an assault by Antifa members in Portland in 2019.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Oct. 24, a federal appeals court paused a decision issued by a three-judge panel that ruled in favor of Trump calling up 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect federal property in Portland — the latest ruling in a complicated legal back-and-forth involving lawsuits and appeals filed to block Trump from sending Guard troops to Democratic-controlled cities, PBS reported in an update on the court battles.
On Monday, Oct. 20, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overruled a temporary restraining order issued by a lower court judge, U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, letting Trump take command of 200 Oregon National Guard troops. But Immergut’s second order remained in effect, blocking him from actually deploying them.
At a hearing Friday, the Justice Department requested Immergut’s second order be immediately dissolved because its similar to the one the appeals panel rejected in a 2-1 decision.
The brief pause, known as an administrative stay, will remain in effect until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, while the court decides whether to take another look at the case, KGW 8 News reported. Immergut has scheduled a three-day trial on the merits of the case to start this Wednesday.
