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The City Council of Turning Progresive of Portland is exploring ways to expel the application of immigration and customs (ICE) of a detention center that has become a point of inflammation for violent clashes between agents and radical agitators.
Last week, the city councilors told an audience full of considering revoking ICE's permit to operate their installation of South Waterfront throughout South Moody Avenue due to the alleged violations of a 2011 conditional use permit, according to Willamelette Willamette Willamette Willamette.
The permit allows the detention and administrative use under specific limitations, but the legislators have expressed concern that ICE has been retaining the detainees there for a longer time than the required limit of 12 hours.
Customs and border protection agents of the United States arrest a man outside the United States immigration and customs building during a protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025 in Portland, Oregon (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
The patriotic ice officer replaces the US flag after the protesters burned the existing banner at Portland facilities
Residents and legislators also raised moral concerns, saying that the installation undermines the policy of the city's sanctuary, while residents testified about specific arrests, gas attacks and intimidation.
“Our sanctuary values and humanity are under siege,” said Michelle Dar, local resident Michelle Dar. He also said that the armed actions of federal agents threatened everyone's safety, not just that of immigrants.
Other residents complained that strong bangs and flashbangs were interrupting the lives of subsidized residents and students of a local school. A handful of people also blamed Antifa for the ugly scenes outside the facilities.
The chaotic scenes have developed outside the facilities since June, even in an incident in which a large group of anti-hielo protesters tried to block police vehicles to enter and leave the installation, which forced the agents to deploy rubber bullets, tear gas and explosions to apply to the crowd.
DHS announced that a new American flag was added to its Portland ice facilities after protesters burned others. (Photo courtesy of DHS)
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Violent agitators have also destroyed windows, agents thrown and installation with rocks and other objects. On Independence Day, the violent uprooters cut internet cables, damaged the sprinkle system, threw rocks and fireworks in the police and burned an American flag, according to DHS.
But most residents and concerns of legislators belonged to the alleged ICE violation of their permits terms, particularly related to the time they remained detained, instead of violence caused by protesters or agitators.
They urged the Council to revoke the permit, citing a local report that ICE had violated permission more than two dozen times by keeping those arrested for more than 12 hours.
“If we allow ICE to continue operating when they have violated their permits, that means that anything becomes allowed in the future,” said the city council member, Angelita Morillo, to the audience of the Public Security Committee. “And so, for me, that change in information has changed the calculation.”
Meanwhile, the city council member Steve Novick said the council should take a broader moral position against the federal deportation machine.
“This is an assault on our democracy in general … the assault on immigrants is the tip of the spear,” said Novick, according to the exit. “We should not try to discover how to maintain our low heads and avoid the attention of this administration.”
The city council member Eric Zimmerman said the Chamber was exploring legal paths to revoke the permit and that the city's lawyer's office was working on a memorandum on the legal options of the city with respect to the ICE installation.
The law agents take a protester outside the United States immigration and customs building during a protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025 in Portland, mineral. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Tom Homan border tsar last week promised to “duplicate and triple” the sanctuary cities that obstruct ice operations, specifically mentioning Portland.
“We are going to do the job,” said Homan in “Kudlow” of Fox News.
“We will also do it in Portland. But for the mayors of New York and Chicago City, president [Donald] Trump made it clear two weeks ago, we will double and triple the cities of the sanctuary. … If we cannot arrest that bad in jail, then we will go to the community and we will find it. Or we will make more application of the work site. “
Alexandra Koch and Bill Melugin de Fox News contributed to this report.
