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Portland’s progressive city council is finding ways to expel immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) with a preventive facility that has become a flashpoint for violent clashes between agents and radical agitators.
Last week, city councilors reported a pack hearing that they would consider cancellation of ICE permits to operate their South Waterfront facility with Dakshin Moody Avenue due to the alleged violation of the 2011 conditional-use permit, according to the local news outlet Wilmet Week.
The permit allows detention and administrative use under specific limitations, but MPs have expressed concern that snow has been holding detainees there for more than the required 12-hour limit.
The US Customs and Border Protection agents detain a person in Portland, Ore on Saturday, June 14, 2025 during a protest outside the US immigration and customs building. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Residents and MPs also raised moral concerns, stating that the facility reduces the city’s sanctuary city policy, while the residents testified about targeted arrests, gas attacks and intimidation.
Local resident Mitchell Dar said, “Our values of sanctuary and humanity are subject to siege.” He also said that the armed works of federal agents threatens the safety of all, not only the immigrants.
Other residents complained that loud bangs and flashbangs subsidized housing residences and a local school students were interrupting life. A handful of people also blamed Antifa for ugly scenes outside the convenience.
Since June, chaotic visual features have been revealed, including an event, where a large group of anti-iM protesters tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from entering and exit, forcing agents to deploy rubber pills, tear gas and flash bangs.
DHS announced that a new American flag was added to the Portland ice facility by the protesters. (Courtesy DHS’s photo)
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Violent agitators have also broken the convenience with windows, pelted agents and rocks and other items. On Independence Day, violent rioters cut the internet cables, damaged the sprinkler system, thrown rocks and fireworks in law enforcement and burnt an American flag according to DHS.
But the concerns of most of the residents and MPs are related to the alleged violation of their permit conditions by ICE, especially how long they were occupied in custody rather than violence caused by protesters or agitators.
He urged the council that citing a local report, citing a local report that the Ice violated more than two dozen permits by holding the prisoners for more than 12 hours.
The city council member Angelita Morilo told the hearing of the community and the Public Safety Committee, “If we allow the ice to operate, when they have violated their permits, it means that anything is allowed to move forward.” “And therefore, for me, that change in information has changed the calculation.”
Meanwhile, City Council member Steve Novi said that the council should take a broad moral stance against the federal exile machine.
Novic said, “This is an attack on our democracy as a whole … attack on immigrants is the tip of spear.” “We should not try to find out how to keep our heads low and attract the attention of this administration.”
City Council member Eric Jimramanman said that the Chamber was searching for legal routes to cancel the permit and the city’s Attorney Office was working on a memorandum about the city’s legal options about the facility of snow.
Law enforcement officers caught a protestor outside the US immigration and customs building during a protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025 in Portland, Ores. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Border Caesar Tom Homan swore the “Double Down and Triple Down” on sanctuary cities last week that is specifically obstructing the operation of ice, referring to Portland.
“We are going to work,” Homan said on Fox News “Kudlo.”
“We are going to do it in Portland as well. But for the mayors of New York City and Chicago, President [Donald] Trump made it clear two weeks ago that we are going to double the sanctuary cities. … If we cannot arrest that bad man in jail, we will go to the community and we will find him. Or we will do more executive enforcement. ,
Fox News’ Alexandra Coach and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.