Antifa (United States)

Videos circulating from the Portland, Oregon area show local activists, including bar co-owner Kiley Delgado and her husband Karim, using personal vehicles to blockade and surround U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during field operations. The footage, recorded by Delgado herself, shows cars maneuvered to box in federal vehicles while bystanders are recruited in real time to help trap the agents, who in one instance reportedly had to drive through a residential hedge to leave the scene.

The incidents come as the Department of Homeland Security has expanded immigration enforcement activity in sanctuary jurisdictions across several states, including Oregon, prompting increased counter-surveillance and direct-action tactics from local activist networks tracking ICE vehicles near Portland. Critics note that similar vehicle-blockade incidents involving other residents have previously drawn arrests and political attention, including commentary from Oregon's congressional delegation, raising questions about uneven enforcement. No charges against the Delgados have been publicly reported. The episodes highlight escalating friction between federal immigration authorities and sanctuary-city activists as enforcement operations intensify nationwide.

ICE officers conducting targeted enforcement operations in Salem, Oregon, were confronted by a crowd near a parking lot on Lancaster Drive over the weekend. Bystander video showed demonstrators surrounding agency vehicles, with one person striking an SUV's side mirror with a baseball bat and others shouting at officers to leave. Agents reportedly deployed crowd control munitions, including tear gas and pepper balls, after the confrontation escalated. One video appeared to show an ICE vehicle pushing past a car blocking its path.

Reports identified some participants as affiliated with Antifa, which the Trump administration designated a domestic terrorist organization earlier in 2025. Federal sources said local and state law enforcement did not intervene to help disperse the crowd. The incident follows a reported increase in ICE operations in Oregon, a sanctuary state, and similar confrontations with activists in the Salem and Portland areas in recent days. The episode underscores escalating tensions around immigration enforcement amid the administration's broader push to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state Cabinet voted Tuesday to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), its Florida chapter, the Muslim Brotherhood and antifa as domestic terrorist organizations, alongside more than 90 groups already on the federal foreign terrorist list, including al-Qaeda, Iran's IRGC, the Houthis and Mexican drug cartels. The designations, made under new state law HB 1471, are set to take effect Nov. 5 and could strip groups of public funding and contracts, force dissolution, and impose criminal penalties for material support, with added consequences for Florida schools and colleges.

CAIR and civil-liberties groups, including the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center, are challenging the action in federal court, arguing it violates First and Fourteenth Amendment protections and lacks evidence of violent conduct. A prior DeSantis executive order against CAIR was previously blocked by a federal judge. State officials, including Attorney General James Uthmeier, defend the designations as necessary to cut off funding to groups they say support terrorism. The legal fight is expected to intensify before the November effective date.

Turmoil in Shasta County, California's elections office has intensified after registrar Clint Curtis sealed a room containing primary ballots with locks and duct tape, claiming without evidence they seemed suspicious. County leaders publicly condemned Curtis and asked the FBI, California's attorney general and secretary of state to investigate his conduct, while Curtis separately said he too had asked the FBI to look into the matter. The county's Board of Supervisors previously censured Curtis over treatment of staff, and internal investigations found he threatened employees and misused work time on his own campaign.

Curtis, a longtime election denier with no prior election administration experience, drew national attention for seeking to hire Tina Peters, a convicted former Colorado clerk tied to a 2021 voting-machine breach, as a consultant. California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office are reviewing whether such a hire would violate state law. The dispute echoes a separate case in Riverside County, where a sheriff's seizure of ballots is being challenged before the California Supreme Court, raising broader questions about election security and oversight ahead of the midterms.