Former CNN reporter says Portland ‘has begun to resemble domestic occupation’
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Former CNN correspondent Amy La Porte, Portland, Oregon, on Friday, a view for Seattle Times “a pilot program to normalize domestic militarization” announced.
“Now, Portland is no longer just my home-a rose city, food carts and rain-sagging bicycle strips-Located militarization is a pilot program to normalize. Even, it continues already, “he wrote La Porte Part of the idea“I have dealt with the dictatorships for CNN. Portland sounds frightening.”
In late September, President Donald Trump announced that he directed the war secretary Pete Hegset to deploy “Full Power if necessary” to deploy the troops protected from the war to protect against “anti -anti -and other indigenous terrorists”. A federal judge prevented the President’s efforts to place his national guard troops in Portland with a decision late at night on Sunday.
La Porte suggested that Trump follows Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Türkiye’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro.
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Federal agents, including the Ministry of Interior Security, Border Patrol and Police members, are trying to exclude protesters out of the US immigration and Customs Protection (ICE) facility in the city center in Oregon, Oregon on 5 October 2025. (Spencer Plato/Getty Images)
“Some will claim that the institutions of America are too strong to renew. But Hungary’s Viktor Orban took him in a decade, and former Venezuela President Hugo Chavez did a light job to reorganize the Supreme Court, not to eliminate the limits of the presidency and to manage the Land,” he continued.
La Porte also referred to the short suspension of the host Jimmy Kimmel late at night, and called it “anything other than Benign”. “He should scare us,” he added.
Kimmel was suspended by Disney after Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooting, but the show returned days later.
“As a journalist, and a cnn ‘fake news’ graduate is not less, I do not treat the threats as abstractions.
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“For now,” He feels his life in Portland ordinary, but he said, “The city’s Quotidian charm feels fragile under a meeting storm.”
“Today Portland. Tomorrow Seattle or Atlanta may be. Every federal attack on the basis of democracy. The certain thing is that when the collective challenge is greeted by the breakage of authoritarianism, the purpose, but forced, online, online, courts and the streets, we must insist that the republic will tolerate any way.”
According to Camila Wamsley, Portland’s Ice Office Director, Portland’s ICE plant has endured more than 100 flat nights.
Every night, protests, bottle rockets that hit the ice building, rocks that shatter the windows, the eyes of the officers and barricades that prevent the eyes of the vehicles and the protests every night went beyond cheers and signs, he added.
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“It is annoying for us to watch people who are attacked on the street and know that we don’t really have the authority to take steps unless there is a little connection to the federal law.” He said.
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Fox News’ Greg Wehner and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
