'Daily Show' star films outside Portland ICE and right-wing media get special access: Get caught up

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‘Daily Show’ star films outside Portland ICE and right-wing media get special access: Get caught up
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/10/daily-show-star-films-outside-portland-ice-and-right-wing-media-get-special-access-get-caught-up.html


Updated: Oct. 14, 2025, 8:08 a.m.

Portland ICE protest Oct. 13, 2025



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The scene outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement compound south of downtown Portland early Monday evening was characteristically mellow.

What’s ahead in legal wrangling over a potential National Guard deployment to Oregon’s largest city, however, is anything but settled. Federal, state and city officials are wrangling over which level of federal judges have the right to rule on which legal challenge, when and to what effect. Stay tuned to OregonLive.com for developments as soon as Tuesday.


Right-wing influencers got access to Kristi Noem’s Portland visit while local media was shut out



U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem surveys South Portland from the roof of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.Sean Meagher/The Oregonian

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s Oct. 7 visit to Portland came without the typical advance notice to local press, but several right-wing social media influencers were granted unprecedented access to her and to the ICE compound in Portland.

Local news organizations received no interview opportunities, press availability or public statements during Noem’s visit. But influencers with large social media followings appeared to ride in her motorcade and join her inside the ICE facility. The influencers took videos of Noem speaking from the roof of the building, coming out of meetings with public officials and even questioning unnamed, handcuffed people detained by federal officers................................

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Portland ICE protest
Protesters gather outside the Portland ICE facility on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025.