In an absolutely horrific incident on Labor Day, Monday, September 1, leftist rioters who have been accused of being paid terrorists and agitators by President Trump went berserk and burned American flags, clashed with federal agents, and even threatened ICE agents with a guillotine, a seeming threat of serious bodily harm.
For reference, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are a cornerstone of the administration’s efforts to crack down on sanctuary cities and the lawlessness allowed within them. As such, they have been deployed all over the country, including in hostile environments like Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago.
In Los Angeles, their presence sparked major riots that almost flared totally out of control and saw National Guard troopers deployed to the city to keep it and the ICE agents within it generally safe from rioters. Now, much the same thing is happening in the notoriously woke city of Portland, where ICE agents are facing hostility from rioters and the municipal government.
Particularly, the ICE presence saw protests on Labor Day that spiralled into a massive, rowdy riot, with the anti-ICE protesters wreaking havoc outside of the ICE building in the city by burning flags, getting in violent clashes with federal law enforcement, and trotting out a guillotine with which they menaced the ICE agents, erecting the symbol of mass execution in front of the ICE field office on South Macadam Avenue.
President Trump declared that the rioters and agitators involved were paid agitators, saying, “These are paid terrorists. Okay, these are paid agitators. These are professional. I watched that last night. I’m very good at this stuff. These are paid agitators. They get paid money by radical left groups, not radical right groups, radical left groups, and they get paid a lot of money.”
Despite the threats of bodily harm directed at the agents, the Portland government refused to intervene, declaring that the local police will not aid ICE because it is cracking down on illegal immigration and Portland is a sanctuary city that rejects such actions completely.
In fact, Portland Mayor Keith Wilson, a Democrat, said, as Fox News Digital reports, “We will not engage with the federal immigration enforcement that goes on. That is our sanctuary city goals; that is what the governor’s goals are. So you can rest assured we won’t be engaging with or working with ICE in any circumstances.”
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ICE, for its part, described the protesters’ behavior and threats as being absolutely obscene and a total, “unhinged” threat to law and order that won’t be tolerated. Commenting on the matter to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for ICE said, “For misguided protestors, who don’t have the first idea what the ICE mission is, to call for beheading officers is unhinged behavior.”
Watch the protesters with the guillotine here:
Continuing, that spokesperson added, “Our ICE law enforcement officers are now facing a 1,000% increase in assaults against them. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens to protect and defend the lives of American citizens. Politicians and activists must turn the temperature down and tone down their rhetoric.”
President Trump vowed to use the National Guard to shut the Portland riots down. He said, “And when we go there, if we go to Portland, we’re going to wipe them out. They’re going to be gone, and they’re going to be gone. They won’t even stand the fight. They will not stay there. They ruin. They’ve ruined that city. I have people that used to live in Portland. They’ve left. Most of them have left, but what they’ve done to that place is just, it’s like, it’s like living in hell.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video