PORTLAND, Ore. — It was a quiet Thursday morning outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland's South Waterfront. Outside was Jack, who's been coming down to protest for months now.

"Just kind of a rainy morning in Portland with a couple people doing what they can," he said of the protests. "And it's evolved."

Jack is hard to miss in the images of these recent protests. He's always dressed in a bright yellow chicken onesie and draped in the American flag.

"It kind of dismantles their narrative that we're some radical terrorist organization," Jack said. "We're just kind of Portlanders keeping Portland weird."

The protests escalate at night, Jack acknowledged, when more demonstrators come down and get rowdier — and federal officers periodically come out to

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