Portland, Oregon, once again finds itself in the national spotlight — and for all the wrong reasons. The city’s ICE facility has become ground zero for Antifa-led mobs who seem more interested in chaos than justice.
These agitators, emboldened by years of lenient local leadership, are doing everything they can to sabotage the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce immigration law. What’s unfolding isn’t peaceful protest — it’s a calculated campaign to obstruct federal authority and undermine the rule of law.
Things in Portland got so out of control in September that President Trump was forced to call in the Oregon National Guard to restore order and protect federal personnel from escalating harassment and violence. Predictably, that decision has since become tangled in the courts — a familiar story whenever Trump takes decisive action to enforce the law.
Meanwhile, Oregon’s Democratic leaders have been nowhere to be found in offering real solutions. Instead, they’ve been busy hurling baseless accusations. Senator Ron Wyden, for instance, accused Trump of “launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland” — as if the chaos wasn’t already raging thanks to Antifa’s months-long reign of intimidation.
Wyden’s hyper left-wing worldview clouds his thinking and judgment. Instead of condemning the violent extremists wreaking havoc in his own backyard, he’s now targeting the journalists brave enough to document it.
These are reporters — like The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt and independent journalist C.K. Bouferrache — who’ve risked their safety to expose Antifa’s operations, training, and street-level tactics that Portland officials would rather ignore.
On Monday, Wyden lashed out on social media after Daviscourt posted a photo showing herself and Bouferrache atop Portland’s ICE facility, where they were reporting on the ongoing unrest. Rather than acknowledging their courage or the public service of their work, Wyden chose to smear them.
He sneered, “Assuming actual local news outlets like OPB, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, Oregon Capital Chronicle, the Portland Mercury, KATU, KOIN, KGW, KPTV & others would get the same rooftop reporting access as these right-wing influencers.”
Assuming actual local news outlets like OPB, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, Oregon Capital Chronicle, the Portland Mercury, KATU, KOIN, KGW, KPTV & others would get the same rooftop reporting access as these right-wing influencers https://t.co/DY96Y8A6vy
— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) October 6, 2025
Not surprisingly, his statement did not go over well with the reporters who have done the hard work that so many in the Oregon media haven’t. Daviscourt responded thusly:
1. I’m not an influencer.
2. I’m a full-time employed journalist who has been covering the occupation for the past 4 months, mostly by myself with the exception of another independent photojournalist @hunnybadgermom.
If local news had any ground presence over the last four months, they would have also been invited to embed with ICE/FPS.
Where have they been?
TPM’s senior editor, Andy Ngo, who has been covering Antifa in the northwest for years with the battle scars to prove it, also responded:
The outlets you name haven’t even bothered to step outside at night up close with a camera, unlike the two women you’re smearing — women who actually put themselves in danger to document what’s happening. You showed zero care when they were assaulted. Instead, you’re parroting Antifa’s slander by dismissing them as “right-wing influencers.” You and your family are a disgrace.
The outlets you name haven’t even bothered to step outside at night up close with a camera, unlike the two women you’re smearing — women who actually put themselves in danger to document what’s happening. You showed zero care when they were assaulted. Instead, you’re parroting… pic.twitter.com/sOm1J8higA
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 6, 2025
So did Bouferrache:
Not an influencer, Mr. Wyden. I’m a journalist and a constituent of yours. And I’ve been covering this story since the middle of June and the Far left since 2017.
— C.K. Bouferrache aka Honeybadgermom (@hunnybadgermom) October 6, 2025
TPUSA’s Savanah Hernandez, who has also covered some of the “protests,” added her perspective, too:
First off, they would actually have to report on what's actually happening outside of the ICE facility for that to happen
Second off, Portland ANTIFA are so violent that this is often the only way reporters can film what is going on at the ICE facility without being harassed
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) October 6, 2025
Rather than belittling them by suggesting they’re not “real” journalists but just “influencers” chasing photo ops, maybe Senator Wyden should accept Andy Ngo’s challenge and spend a night on the ground with them. He’d see firsthand the intimidation, violence, and chaos these reporters have been documenting — the kind that Portland police routinely ignore under the city’s politically paralyzed leadership.
Of course, Wyden won’t do that. Doing so would shatter the carefully scripted Democrat-media narrative that Portland is some kind of “peaceful” progressive utopia. Admitting the truth — that Antifa has turned parts of the city into lawless zones and that local leaders have enabled it — would be political heresy in today’s Democratic Party. And so, the lies continue, even as the city’s streets tell a very different story.
