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Portland set to see Trump crime crackdown reckoning after 2020’s humiliating violence spree
Anti-ICE protesters clash with federal agents in Portland
Fox News’ Jonathan Hunt reports the latest on anti-ICE riots in Portland. ‘Outnumbered’ co-host Kayleigh McEnany also joined ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss Oregon’s lawsuit against the Trump admin and an ex-ESPN host calling for civil discourse.
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Portland, Oregon, is on track to face a Trump crime crackdown reckoning that’s more than five years in the making.
Portland was ravaged by violence in 2020 as liberal protesters, Black Lives Matter activists, Antifa anarchists and others converged on the deep blue stronghold following the death of George Floyd during an interaction with Minneapolis police on Memorial Day of that year.
The Trump administration deployed federal law enforcement to help quell the violence near federal property, but did not roll out crime crackdown initiatives on par with what the president is currently unveiling in cities such as Washington, D.C., this year.
Now, President Donald Trump has set his sights on the left-wing city to remove illegal immigrants and crack down on crime trends — five years after the city saw millions of dollars in damages and witnessed consecutive nights of rioting that began on Memorial Day and continued into September 2020.
TRUMP VOWS ‘FULL FORCE’ AS HE PLANS TO SEND TROOPS TO PORTLAND AMID ANTI-ICE PROTESTS
Police deploy tear gas and munitions to disperse protesters during a demonstration in Portland, Ore., Sept. 5, 2020. (AP)
«At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,» Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday morning.
«I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!» he added.
George Floyd’s death on Memorial Day in 2020 sparked nationwide protests and riots, but in Portland, unrest raged for more than 100 consecutive nights, with the city recording a staggering 144% increase in homicides between 2019 and 2021, and millions of dollars in damages to businesses and government buildings.
Trump was in office during the riots and protests of 2020, as his administration juggled the coronavirus pandemic — including state lockdowns and vaccine requirements for some workers — while Trump faced Joe Biden and the Democratic Party at the ballot box.
Trump railed against the violence that played out in The City of Roses, while the Department of Homeland Security launched the Protecting American Communities Task Force to protect federal monuments, memorials, and other buildings from violence and vandalism in the city and other crime-rattled cities like it.
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The task force was formed after rioters broke into the Multnomah County Justice Center at the end of May, igniting a fire inside and spray-painting the building. The justice center houses Portland police headquarters and a county jail, and sits next to the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse.
The federal courthouse faced repeated vandalism, including rioters launching fireworks at the building, graffiting the exterior with anti-police slogans, and breaking its windows. The task force worked to protect the Hatfield building, as well as a handful of other federal buildings, from attacks, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Demonstrators shield from tear gas fired by federal officers during a protest at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Ore., July 24, 2020. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo)
«These are anarchists. These are not protesters. People say protesters. These people are anarchists. These are people that hate our country. And we’re not going to let it go forward,» Trump said in July 2020, while claiming that violence-plagued cities needed «more federal law enforcement» and celebrating that the law enforcement deployed to Portland had «done a fantastic job.»
Trump railed against local Democratic leaders at the time for failing to end the violence when it first began, including slamming then-Mayor Ted Wheeler as «incompetent» and a «fool,» as well as messages against then-Gov. Kate Brown, while underscoring that federal law enforcement would clean the city up.
OREGON COUNTY LOST $1 BILLION IN 2020 AS RESIDENTS FLED CRIME, HOMELESSNESS: ‘IT’S LIKE PORTLAND DIED’
Federal officers fire crowd control munitions at protesters outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, Ore., July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Federal law enforcement officials on the task force, however, were phased out of the city that summer, with local police replacing federal officers who worked to protect federal buildings beginning at the end of July.
Critics accused Trump of abusing power by deploying federal authorities to Portland. A coalition of Democratic mayors — including leaders from Washington, D.C., Portland and Chicago — urged Congress to block further deployments, arguing it threatened the First Amendment.
PORTLAND RIOTS CAUSED AT LEAST $2.3M IN DAMAGE TO FEDERAL BUILDINGS IN CITY, STATE’S US ATTORNEY SAYS
Protests and riots continued in the city in the fall months of 2020 — when the final leg of the federal election dominated headlines – and after federal officials left the city. Federal law enforcement officials had been phased out of the city by Aug. 31, according to a DHS Inspector General report published in 2021.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing the White House, Sept. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
All told, the riots caused an estimated $2.3 million in damages to federal buildings in Portland alone, Fox News Digital previously reported, while Portland police reported spending at least $6.2 million to cover overtime and personnel costs for just roughly one month of the riots, and businesses in the downtown area lost tens of millions of dollars in revenue and damages due to the protests and riots, the police chief said at the time.
In the fallout, the police department’s staffing woes worsened as the city defunded its force and morale cratered; homicides hit an all-time high in November 2022 – recording 101 homicides that year – and shootings increased across the city, with Portland recording more than 1,000 shootings across the first 10 months of 2021.
AT LEAST 16 CITIES SEE RECORD HOMICIDES IN 2021
Trump has been on a crime crackdown blitz since his second inauguration, as agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security launched massive deportation efforts to remove the millions of illegal immigrants who flooded the nation under the Biden era, and Trump turned his attention to individual cities he believes are in need of assistance on law and order.
Trump federalized the Washington, D.C., police department on Aug. 11 and deployed the National Guard to patrol the city. Trump has celebrated the federalization of Washington, D.C.’s police force as a success, including notching zero homicides across a 13-day period in August, and arresting more than 2,000 suspects for crime stretching from illegal firearms charges to immigration arrests. He has also lauded Democratic D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for her assistance with the effort.
National Guard troops patrol Washington, D.C., after Trump ordered their deployment in August 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
«We don’t have a crime problem in Washington anymore,» Trump told reporters earlier in September of the crackdown. «And the mayor has been very helpful.»
Two hundred National Guard members are expected to converge on Portland in the coming days. The campaign follows Chicago’s ongoing «Midway Blitz» crime crackdown to weed out illegal immigrants in the Windy City, and as Memphis, Tennessee, prepares to receive its own teams of federal law enforcement and National Guard members later this week to combat crime in the southern city.
Portland has seen ongoing issues with crime, including rampant drug use and homelessness, and has seen flaring protests over the summer — most notable near a Portland ICE facility — as the Trump administration carried out various immigration crackdowns across the country.
Anti-ICE graffiti was scrawled on the outside of the Portland ICE facility, while the demonstrations have become violent at times between protesters and federal agents, prompting authorities to use rubber bullets, tear gas and flash bangs to break up the crowds, Fox Digital reported earlier this month.
In August, protesters displayed a guillotine and fought with police before officers fired munitions to disperse the crowd.
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Oregon sued the Trump administration on Sunday in an attempt to prevent the deployment of 200 National Guard members to Portland. The National Guard members began arriving to the city over the weekend, Fox Digital previously reported.
Local leaders have slammed Trump’s order as «unlawful,» while arguing the city poses no threat to national security.
«Our city is a far cry from the war-ravaged community he has posted on social media,» Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek told reporters at a news conference on Sunday. Kotek added that she spoke directly with Trump.
«There is no insurrection, there is no threat to national security and there is no need for military troops in our major city,» she added.
Fox News Digital’s Cameron Arcand, Michael Dorgan and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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House Dem lashes out at ‘racist’ MN fraud probe amid major investigation in his own state
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As House Oversight Democrats denounced a hearing on Minnesota’s sprawling fraud scandal as politically motivated, Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., took it further — calling the investigation «partisan and racist.»
But back in California, state auditors have repeatedly flagged major programs as «high-risk» for waste and improper payments, raising fresh questions about whether Min is dismissing scrutiny he wouldn’t want aimed at his own state.
During a House Oversight Hearing earlier this month on the fraud issues in Minnesota, Min said, «We have not seen evidence of any type of fraud on the scale we’re talking about» in California. Min added during the hearing that he had concerns about the ongoing fraud in Minnesota, which has included a significant portion of Somali immigrant perpetrators, but said he had issues with the probe because it appeared Trump was only targeting Democrat-led states, and not Republican-led states as well.
MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY ADMITS FRAUD CRISIS IS REAL, SAYS ‘EVERYBODY COULD HAVE DONE MORE’ TO PREVENT IT
Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., called a federal oversight hearing looking into widespread fraud in Minnesota «partisan and racist,» leading some critics to call him out for turning a blind eye to widespread fraud in his own state. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
«I have concerns about this hearing as well as recent actions by the Trump administration. It’s hard for me not to look at this hearing in the context in which it’s taking place and not see this as a partisan and racist hearing,» Min complained.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on these accusations from Min but did not receive a response in time for publication.
«Democrats will do anything to deflect from the fraud that has been allowed to run rampant on their watch, including playing the race card,» House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said. «First, it’s not racist to call out criminal behavior. Second, I wonder what Congressman Min’s constituents have to say about him not taking fraud seriously when California taxpayers are also being robbed blind to the tune of $72 billion.»
Representative Tom Emmer, a Republican from Minnesota, during a television interview at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A report released by the California State Auditor’s office last month found several state agencies wasted or misused millions, which follows other audits showing many billions being lost to waste, fraud and abuse in the state, according to California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.
MINNESOTA FRAUD SCANDAL SPARKS PUSH TO SCRUTINIZE BILLIONS IN BIDEN-ERA ENERGY GRANTS
«It’s totally ridiculous,» Hilton told Fox News Digital of Min’s comments that there is no evidence of California fraud. «We’ve already seen state auditor reports that have characterized tens-of-billions-of-dollars as being improperly spent, starting from the audit of state homelessness spending.»
California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton clapped back at Congressman Dave Min’s (D-Calif.) claim that there is no evidence to suggest widespread fraud in the state. (John Phillips/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
According to Hilton, there are criminal prosecutions ongoing in California pertaining to homelessness spending by officials.
Meanwhile, seven state agencies in California have been denoted as «high-risk» for fraud, waste and abuse by the State Auditor’s office, while an extra agency was also added to the list of vulnerable programs that is regularly kept.
«Vulnerable Democrat Dave Min is more outraged by an oversight hearing than the billions in fraud hurting Americans in Minnesota and California,» said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Christian Martinez. «For Min, accountability isn’t a principle, it’s a problem.»
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Fox News Digital reached out to Min for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Uruguay anuncia medidas de apoyo para productores rurales tras cinco años de sequías intermitentes
El tambo familiar del productor uruguayo Daniel Suárez sufre sequías, de manera interrumpida, hace cinco años. El déficit hídrico es un asunto que cada tanto vuelve a ser el tema central de sus preocupaciones, como sucedió en las últimas semanas de 2025. La lluvia no llegaba al país y las pasturas destinadas a la alimentación del ganado eran cada vez menos.
Suárez veía cómo los cultivos no lograban desarrollarse y se iban perdiendo, con la consiguiente pérdida económica que eso significaba, según relató este lunes al noticiero Telenoche de Canal 4. Tuvo que utilizar las reservas previstas para el invierno, lo que encarece los costos de producción. La cantidad de leche diaria se redujo un 50%, lo que derivó en una baja de entre el 20% y el 25% de la elaboración de quesos.
Historias como las de Suárez se repiten en el sur de Uruguay, que hasta este fin de semana esperaba con ansias la lluvia. Las precipitaciones llevaron calma a los productores rurales, que sintieron “alivio”, pero en muchos casos no fue suficiente y los reclamos al gobierno para que tomara medidas de apoyo continuaron.
Para este martes, el Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca (MGAP) convocó una reunión para evaluar la situación provocada por la falta de lluvias. A la salida del encuentro, el ministro de Ganadería, Alfredo Fratti, aseguró que no existen “datos objetivos” que hagan necesario que Uruguay declare la emergencia agropecuaria (el nivel máximo de las decisiones previstas).
Sin embargo, se resolvieron medidas de apoyo para productores agropecuarios de Canelones, Colonia, Florida, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Montevideo, Rocha y San José, los departamentos más afectados por el déficit hídrico.
El Ministerio de Ganadería anunció que solicitará al Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) –el organismo previsional de Uruguay– que postergue los vencimientos del pago de los aportes patronales rurales. Con esto, las obligaciones que vencían en enero pasarán a mayo; al tiempo que los vencimientos del quinto mes, se postergan para julio.
De esta manera, explicó el gobierno, se evitan superposiciones de pagos.
“Es un alivio”, dijo Fratti al anunciar esta medida. Y señaló en una rueda de prensa que de continuar con esta situación hídrica, se deberán tomar medidas puntuales para el sector de la granja y para los pequeños ganaderos.
Otra medida anunciada por el gobierno fue la autorización para el pastoreo del ganado en caminos rurales y en rutas nacionales. “Es imprescindible para este momento”, argumentó Fratti.
Un reclamo del sector productivo era poder acceder a alternativas de financiamiento flexibles en este momento. Una de las respuestas a este pedido es que el banco estatal República presentará “nuevas medidas específicas”, según se señala en la información difundida por Presidencia.
Además, el Instituto Nacional de Colonización –otro organismo estatal– abrió una línea de crédito por USD 2.000 dólares –con una tasa de un 5% de interés anual– para pequeños productores familiares que necesiten dinero para el alumbramiento de agua o la compra de forrajes. Así lo informó el presidente de la institución, Alejandro Henry, en una rueda de prensa.
Henry agregó que el organismo trabaja en medidas de apoyo para proyectos de riego en las colonias. “Nos parece que tenemos que apuntar como país a estas medidas para el mediano y largo plazo”, señaló.
● Postergación del vencimiento de enero del aporte patronal rural al BPS
● Autorización del pastoreo en rutas nacionales y caminos rurales
● Apoyo técnico y divulgación de buenas prácticas para productores ganaderos por parte del Instituto Plan Agropecuario y del programa Procría
● Facilidades en los créditos e inversiones en agua para productores colonos por parte del Instituto Nacional de Colonización
● Facilidades créditos de República Microfinanzas
● Habilitación de una línea específica del Banco República para enfrentar consecuencias del déficit hídrico
● Concretar coordinaciones interinstitucionales para el suministro de agua para consumo humano y producción familiar, con OSE e intendencias.
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Iran pushes for fast trials and executions of suspects detained in protests despite Trump’s warning: report
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Despite President Donald Trump’s warnings, Iran’s chief justice called for fast trials and executions of suspects detained in the ongoing anti-government demonstrations, a report said Wednesday.
The remarks from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei come as the death toll in the protests has risen to at least 2,571, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said. Other reports say the death toll is more than 3,000, with the real number likely to be even higher.
«If we want to do a job, we should do it now. If we want to do something, we have to do it quickly,» Mohseni-Ejei said in a video shared by Iranian state television, according to The Associated Press. «If it becomes late, two months, three months later, it doesn’t have the same effect. If we want to do something, we have to do that fast.»
Trump warned Iran about executions in an interview with CBS News that aired on Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump, left, and Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the chief justice of Iran, right. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Mohammadali Najib/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
«We will take very strong action,» Trump said. «If they do such a thing, we will take very strong action.»
«We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen. And you know, if they want to have protests, that’s one thing, when they start killing thousands of people, and now you’re telling me about hanging — we’ll see how that works out for them. It’s not going to work out good,» the president added.
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Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
Trump also vowed on Tuesday that those responsible for killing anti-regime demonstrators will «pay a big price.»
«Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING — TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!» Trump wrote on Truth Social. «Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price.»
People gather on Jan. 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. (Anonymous/Getty Images)
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«I have canceled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY,» he added.
Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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