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Portland police arrested four people Saturday during protests at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the South Waterfront area.
The demonstration came at the end of a week in which federal immigration officials said over 100 people had been detained in Maine.
Portland Mayor Mark Dion says federal agents are conducting targeted operations, not neighborhood patrols, as ICE reports more than 50 arrests in Maine in the last two days.
There are so many more people coming into the movement right now and with that we have to figure out a way to direct that energy into something concrete,” says one organizer in Portland, Oregon.
Federal immigration agents arrested and detained a Gresham family, including a 7-year-old child, outside a Portland hospital last week as the girl’s parents sought emergency medical care for her. The arrest at Adventist Health hospital Jan.
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ICE detainees are being removed from the Portland jail
It is unclear whether the federal government or Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce’s office initiated the removals.
On the fourth day of an ICE surge in Portland, the city's immigrant community remains in fear as locals take to the street.
The Portland City Council’s weekly meeting was temporarily shut down Wednesday night by protesters angry about what they see as councilors’ lack of sufficient pushback against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency,