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CentralMass

(16,994 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:26 PM Sep 2025

U.S. Border Czar threatens to 'flood' Portland, other cities with ICE agents

https://www.kptv.com/2025/09/04/us-border-czar-threatens-flood-portland-other-cities-with-ice-agents/
"PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan said Wednesday at a news conference that the Trump administration plans to “flood the zone” with ICE agents in sanctuary cities like Portland, Seattle, and Chicago.

“We’ve got 10,000 more agents coming on, we’re going to flood the zone,” Homan said to reporters on the White House lawn. “You’re going to see a ramp up of operations in New York. You’re going to see a ramp up of operations continue in L.A. and, you know, Portland, Seattle. I mean, all these sanctuary cities refuse to work with ICE … we’re going to address that.”

Last week, the administration asked a military base outside Chicago to help with immigration operations.

This came weeks after National Guard troops were deployed in Washington D.C. with an aim to crack down on crime, illegal immigration, and homelessness. Two months earlier, National Guard troops were deployed to Los Angeles, despite strong opposition from locals."
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U.S. Border Czar threatens to 'flood' Portland, other cities with ICE agents (Original Post) CentralMass Sep 2025 OP
I mean hes been threatening for a while... I think hes scared. SSJVegeta Sep 2025 #1
Homan's ill-fitting suits are so embarrassing Prairie Gates Sep 2025 #2
I think we're gonna see some real push back with all this bluster and threats. I don't like what I'm fearing Deuxcents Sep 2025 #3
It would not be the first time my city was attacked Mme. Defarge Sep 2025 #4
Oh hell, come on up Homan GenThePerservering Sep 2025 #5
'U S Border czar' had better shut his mouth. elleng Sep 2025 #6
Portland will give them quite the welcome the ICE agents won't soon forget. Fiendish Thingy Sep 2025 #7
Va Pour Sa! MrWowWow Sep 2025 #8

SSJVegeta

(3,141 posts)
1. I mean hes been threatening for a while... I think hes scared.
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:32 PM
Sep 2025

Let's make sure we keep it that way.

Prairie Gates

(8,479 posts)
2. Homan's ill-fitting suits are so embarrassing
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:35 PM
Sep 2025

At least the Nazis had some sense of tailoring. What a buffoon.

Deuxcents

(27,715 posts)
3. I think we're gonna see some real push back with all this bluster and threats. I don't like what I'm fearing
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:37 PM
Sep 2025

Is gonna happen

Fiendish Thingy

(24,093 posts)
7. Portland will give them quite the welcome the ICE agents won't soon forget.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 12:25 AM
Sep 2025

Portland activists have already dealt with masked feds in Unmarked vans during the first Trump administration, as well as many years of harassment by the Proud Boys, whose world headquarters are just across the River in Vancouver Washington.

This ain’t Portland’s first rodeo.

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