MAGA influencer Nick Sortor arrested outside Portland ICE building

Muri Assunção, New York Daily News on Oct 3, 2025

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A prominent right-wing influencer was arrested after a fight outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, late Thursday night, police said.

Nick Sortor, 27, of Washington, D.C., and two Oregon residents were taken into custody by the Portland Police Bureau just before 11:30 p.m.

All three were charged with disorderly conduct, officials said.

Authorities had been monitoring the area after reports of fights breaking out outside the ICE facility in South Portland. Around 11:15 p.m., the bureau’s Rapid Response Team moved in and arrested Sortor along with two women — 43-year-old Son Mimi Yi, of Portland and 49-year-old Angela Davis, of Vernonia.

All three were released without bond in the early hours of Friday, online court records show.

Around 10 a.m. Friday, Sortor posted a video of the incident on X, accusing Portland police of making “a big freaking mistake.”

The internet personality claimed the incident “proved” what he had been saying for years — that the PPB is “corrupt and controlled by violent Antifa thugs.”

“You thought arresting me would make me shut up and go away,” Sortor wrote. “You couldn’t have been more wrong.”

The arrest of the MAGA influencer came just days after President Donald Trump said he had directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists” — while authorizing “full-force if necessary.”

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson was quick to denounce Trump’s allegations, saying the number of “necessary troops” needed was “zero, in Portland and any other American city.”

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