Portland City Council Considers How To Boot Ice Out Of City Facility

Portland’s progressive-leaning metropolis assembly is exploring ways to expel Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from a detention installation that has go a flashpoint for convulsive clashes betwixt agents and extremist agitators.

Last week, metropolis councilors told a packed proceeding that they would see revoking ICE’s licence to run its South Waterfront installation along South Moody Avenue owed to alleged violations of a 2011 conditional-use permit, according to section news outlet Willamette Week.

The permit allows detention and administrative use under specific limitations, but lawmakers person raised concerns that ICE has been holding detainees location for longer than nan required 12-hour limit.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents detain a man extracurricular nan U.S. Immigration and Customs building during a protestation Saturday, June 14, 2025, successful Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

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Residents and lawmakers raised civilized concerns too, saying that nan installation undermines nan city’s sanctuary metropolis policy, while residents testified astir targeted arrests, state attacks and intimidation.

"Our values of sanctuary and humanity are nether siege," section resident Michelle Dar said. She besides said that national agents’ equipped actions threatened everyone’s safety, not conscionable that of immigrants.

Other residents complained that large bangs and flashbangs were disrupting life for residents of subsidized lodging and students of a section school. A fistful of group besides blamed Antifa for nan disfigured scenes extracurricular nan facility.

Chaotic scenes person been unfolding extracurricular nan installation since June, including successful 1 incident wherever a ample group of anti-ICE protesters tried to artifact rule enforcement vehicles from entering and exiting nan facility, forcing agents to deploy rubber bullets, tear state and flash bangs to disperse nan crowd.

DHS announced a caller American emblem was added to its Portland ICE installation aft protesters burned others. (Photo courtesy of DHS )

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Violent agitators person besides smashed windows, pelted agents and nan installation pinch rocks and different objects. On Independence Day, convulsive rioters trim net cables, damaged nan sprinkler system, hurled rocks and fireworks astatine rule enforcement and burned an American flag, according to DHS.

But astir residents and lawmakers’ concerns pertained to ICE’s alleged usurpation of its licence terms, peculiarly related to really agelong detainees were being held, alternatively than nan unit caused by protesters aliases agitators.

They urged nan assembly to revoke nan permit, citing a section study that ICE had violated nan licence much than 2 twelve times by holding detainees for longer than 12 hours.

"If we let ICE to proceed to run erstwhile they person violated their permits, that intends that thing becomes permissible moving forward," City Council Member Angelita Morillo told nan organization and nationalist information committee hearing. "And so, for me, that alteration successful accusation has changed nan calculation."

Meanwhile, City Council Member Steve Novick said nan assembly should return a broader civilized guidelines against nan national deportation machine.

"This is an battle connected our populist arsenic a whole… The battle connected immigrants is nan extremity of nan spear," Novick said, per nan outlet. "We should not beryllium trying to fig retired really to support our heads debased and debar nan attraction of this administration."

City Council Member Eric Zimmerman said nan enclosure was exploring ineligible pathways to revoke nan licence and that nan metropolis attorney’s agency was moving connected a memo astir nan city’s ineligible options regarding nan ICE facility.

Law enforcement officers drawback a demonstrator extracurricular nan U.S. Immigration and Customs building during a protestation Saturday, June 14, 2025, successful Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

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Border Czar Tom Homan past week vowed to "double down and triple down" connected sanctuary cities that are obstructing ICE operations, specifically mentioning Portland.

"We're going to do nan job," Homan said connected Fox News' "Kudlow." 

"We're going to do it successful Portland too. But for nan mayors of New York City and Chicago, President [Donald] Trump made it clear 2 weeks ago, we are going to double down and triple down nan sanctuary cities. … If we can't apprehension that bad feline successful nan jail, past we'll spell to nan organization and we'll find him. Or we'll do much worksite enforcement."

Fox News’ Alexandra Koch and Bill Melugin contributed to this report.