Portland leaders are so concerned with “resisting” President Donald Trump that they would rather allow criminals to openly defy the law than make Portland a functioning city.
Democrats in Oregon are crying foul over the National Guard being deployed to Portland, where antifa is again leading violent “protests.” The Democratic mayor of Portland is dismissing videos of the violence as being from 2020, urging Trump to send teachers or “outreach workers” instead of federal law enforcement. There have been multiple arrests for vandalism against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in the area.
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Meanwhile, the Portland police chief is dismissing any and all lawlessness as just happening on “one city block.” That this city block so happens to include federal property that Portland is refusing to protect is apparently irrelevant, as is the implication that Portland leaders are so incompetent that they cannot enforce the law on this particular city block. However, this is par for the course for Portland, which allowed lawless people in 2020 to take over three city blocks for months as an “autonomous zone” that openly defied city and state authority.
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All the while, state and local leaders insist Portland is a thriving city being put upon by the Trump administration. Portland has the highest office vacancy rate in the country at 35%, and businesses cite lawlessness and homelessness as reasons for leaving. Mayor Keith Wilson is whining that the ICE facility in Portland has boarded up windows, apparently not bothering to ask why the facility would board up windows in the first place. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) also didn’t bother to ask that, as he posted a video of the facility in broad daylight to argue that no one is, or has ever been, near it.
Portland has not been a truly functional city in the past five years, after weak-willed leaders allowed antifa criminals to do whatever they want on any block in the city. The lawlessness is making it less likely for people who haven’t already moved out to visit downtown, leading “vibrant” Portland to continue decaying. Portland leaders and Oregon Democrats have had five years to get this under control and arrest everyone involved in this persistent left-wing street violence. All they had to do was enforce existing laws; instead, they have spent all that time whining about how conservative media portray their violent rioters.