PORTLAND, Ore. — Rep. Cliff Bentz says President Donald Trump is justified in his push to send federal troops to protect Portland's ICE building on the South Waterfront, criticizing the Portland Police Bureau for a lack of enforcement in the surrounding area.

"The president had little choice when it came to calling up the National Guard because local law enforcement is incapable of protecting the people that are trying to carry out the federal work of immigration and control," Bentz said Wednesday in an interview with KGW.

Bentz, Oregon's only Republican member of Congress, who represents much of Eastern Oregon, said PPB should've cleared the area around the ICE building well before DHS Secretary Kristi Noem arrived on Tuesday.

"They should be putting up barriers, protecting ingres

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