The former governor-turned-Department of Homeland Security Secretary was not on the ground for more than a few minutes on Tuesday afternoon when the Oregon governor showed up to greet her. But Gov. Tina Kotek couldn't answer her questions or guarantee her ICE officers' safety. Kotek, in a towering show of leadership, passed the buck to the Portland police chief, Bob Day, who proceeded to tell Noem that he couldn't help keep ICE officers safe, either. A meeting with Mayor Keith Wilson netted the same result.

Portland's stubbornly held notion that Antifa isn't a threat to ICE officers is belied nearly every night when the terror group swarms the driveway of the large federal facility and attacks the officers' cars, sometimes with munitions, as they go out on operations or come into the facility with people they've just arrested.