‘A failure of government’: Rep. Dexter talks immigration, the shutdown and more at Portland town hall

After an opening procession of protesters from Portland’s frog brigade , U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter — wearing frog earrings — took the podium before a crowd of more than 100 people at a North Portland town hall Saturday morning.

The first-term Democrat from Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District hosted the town hall less than 24 hours after federal district court Judge Karen Immergut handed down a long-awaited permanent injunction that bars the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard to Portland’s ICE facility as a response to the mostly peaceful protests there.

While ICE’s continued operations in and around Portland were a key point of discussion at the town hall in Roosevelt High School’s gymnasium, the audience questions covered a sprawling range of topics.

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