Portland, OREGON – Over 100 people showed up outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building Friday night from both sides of the aisle. A group of conservative streamers are gathering in front of the ICE facility for a “Patriot Weekend” to stand up against a recent hit list from Antifa doxing what they called ‘right wing content creators.’
Protestors and counter protestors were seen shouting with megaphones at each other and at ICE agents on the roof of the building. For the most part, those who considered themselves “the patriots” stood on the sidewalk in front of the ICE facility. People were seen wearing pins saying “I love ICE” and waving American flags and flags saying “We stand with ICE.”
The anti-ICE protesters set up across the street from the ICE facility where “ICE MELTS” is graffitied on the fence and a sign saying “Palpatine>Trump.” There was a rack of inflatable animal suits free for people to put on. At any time there were a dozen to half a dozen people who were seen dancing around in costume on the sidewalk.
Just a block away, a giant inflatable President Donald Trump is lit up and impossible to miss on the back of a pick up truck where people are grilling up burgers and handing out pizza.
“We just decided to make a huge weekend out of it to show support to ICE,” Serena, who goes by Right Side Rebel on X. “A group of us are gonna bring snacks and drinks tomorrow, earlier in the day, to try to give to ICE.”
Serena, who is an Army veteran, put out a flyer on social media to gather conservative streamers together at the ICE facility. She was one of those doxxed in the Antifa hit list for her coverage of the ICE protests in Portland.
“I don’t like the Doxxing from either side,” Serena said. “At the end of the day we go home to families, children, that’s our personal life. This is a protest.”
Selena has been covering the protests for more than six weeks. She said it’s not just their names and twitter handles being released. Addresses and license plates have been doxxed leading to two people in her group having their cars damaged or completely totaled.
“It’s not fun when they dox us,” Salena said. “When they find out what we drive, where we live, it’s not fun.”
Selena said Friday was just the warm up. Many people will be flying in town for the big event on Saturday night starting at 7pm.
An inflatable chicken told Washington Examiner she saw the flyer and it rallied her to come to the ICE facility to protest against the conservative streamers, ICE, and Trump.
“I like to wear the costume and dance around to keep things light in contrast to the mean right-wing streamers,” she said.
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More than a dozen Portland Police officers were seen walking up and down the three blocks where people were protesting trying to keep the peace. One officer Washington Examiner spoke to said this was the busiest it’s been in weeks and seemed to be aware there was something being celebrated but was not sure which side was celebrating.
Almost every single person, from both sides of the protest, had a cell phone on a selfie stick streaming themselves walking around and getting into confrontations with each other. At one point when a woman was accused of assaulting someone, police started asking people if they caught the attack on video. While one girl happily obliged and showed her video to an officer, everyone else said they were not willing to stop their stream to play back the video for police.