For the third time since President Donald Trump returned to office, protesters turned out Saturday for “No Kings” rallies throughout the nation, including across the Pacific Northwest.

Tens of thousands of protestors marched throughout Seattle and Portland with large crowds gathering in communities including La Grande, Bend, Corvallis, Redmond, Pendleton and Hermiston and throughout southwest Washington.

This latest wave of protests comes amid the war with Iran, soaring gas prices, ongoing criticism over immigration enforcement, culminating with November’s midterm elections.

“This is so exciting,” said Marjorie Casswell, one of the thousands of people who turned out in Vancouver, Washington. “My hope is that it does encourage many, many more to make their voices heard and then vote.”

The Trump administration is also facing increased pressure to improve the costs of living for working and middle-class Americans.

“Our economy is tanking because there’s a man in the White House that is really only interested in his own narcissistic financial needs,” said Erik Martin who attended the demonstration in Portland.

After that event concluded, some people traveled to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the south Waterfront. The building has been the site of regular protests since Trump took office for a second time, often resulting in clashes.

Portland Police said officers arrested three people after the crowd repeatedly stepped onto the ICE facility’s driveway. At times, demonstrators pushed open the gates of the building before retreating into the crowd. Later, another person climbed onto a lower part of the ICE building itself before climbing back down.

Around 10:15 p.m. Portland Police declared an “unlawful assembly,” pushing back protesters from outside the facility, ordering their dispersal and drastically thinning the size of the crowd.

“Failure to adhere to this order may subject you to citation or arrest,” a PPB soundtruck blared into the crowd. “If necessary, crowd control measures, including impact munitions or other physical force may also be used if justified by law. You are directed to move away from the ICE facility.”

Saturday night appeared to show a change in tactics from federal law enforcement officers, who have in the past have used crowd control weapons, including tear gas, pepperballs and flashbang grenades to push protesters back from the building. Those actions have been repeatedly criticized by protesters, neighbors, local lawmakers and policing experts as overbroad and dangerous.

“I’m not sure why they’ve shown this much relative restraint compared to what they’ve done in the past, but I’m definitely surprised that they have not thrown gas yet,” Freya Gadeholt told OPB Saturday outside the ICE building. “Like, I keep getting ready for it. I keep putting my mask on, and they keep not doing it.”

Since early February, the courts have drastically limited federal law enforcement officers’ use of force outside the Portland ICE facility. Two federal judges in Portland issued separate orders that restricted — but did not prohibit — the use of tear gas, pepper balls and other crowd control weapons at the facility.

The Trump administration appealed and, on Wednesday, a divided federal appeals panel temporarily paused those orders. That ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit effectively removed barriers around federal law enforcement’s use of crowd control munitions.

“Based on how aggressive they’ve been in the past, I was worried they were going to immediately use it as a green light to start gassing protesters, abusing protesters,” Gadeholt said.

OPB’s Bryce Dole contributed to this report.

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