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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4566939" data-attributes="member: 48469">From the WSJ: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-oregon-reach-deal-for-drawdown-of-federal-agents-in-portland-11596044448?mod=hp_lead_pos4" target="_blank">Trump Administration, Oregon Agree to Reduce Federal Agents in Portland</a>&quot;Oregon and the Trump administration said they had reached a deal Wednesday for a potential drawdown in Portland of federal agents whose controversial presence has been at the heart of recent violent protests in the city.The administration also said it was sending federal agents into several Midwestern cities in a separate push to fight violent crime.State police will deploy to downtown Portland and defend the exterior of the federal courthouse, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said. She added that agents from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement would leave the downtown area beginning Thursday, while remaining in the city.Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf declined to confirm those details. On a conference call Wednesday, he said officers from his department, which includes CBP and ICE, would remain in Portland “until we are assured that the courthouse and other federal facilities will no longer be attacked nightly and set afire.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4566939, member: 48469"] From the WSJ: [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-oregon-reach-deal-for-drawdown-of-federal-agents-in-portland-11596044448?mod=hp_lead_pos4']Trump Administration, Oregon Agree to Reduce Federal Agents in Portland[/URL] "Oregon and the Trump administration said they had reached a deal Wednesday for a potential drawdown in Portland of federal agents whose controversial presence has been at the heart of recent violent protests in the city. The administration also said it was sending federal agents into several Midwestern cities in a separate push to fight violent crime. State police will deploy to downtown Portland and defend the exterior of the federal courthouse, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said. She added that agents from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement would leave the downtown area beginning Thursday, while remaining in the city. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf declined to confirm those details. On a conference call Wednesday, he said officers from his department, which includes CBP and ICE, would remain in Portland “until we are assured that the courthouse and other federal facilities will no longer be attacked nightly and set afire.” [/QUOTE]

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