The demonstration came at the end of a week in which federal immigration officials said over 100 people had been detained in Maine.

There are so many more people coming into the movement right now and with that we have to figure out a way to direct that energy into something concrete,” says one organizer in Portland, Oregon.

For the past several months, Trump administration officials — along with conservative journalists and social media influencers — have repeatedly claimed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland is under siege by “rioters ...