Portland mayor demands ICE leave after federal agents used tear gas during a weekend protest outside an ICE facility, according to city officials. Mayor Keith Wilson said the daytime demonstration was peaceful and posed no danger to federal agents.
According to reporting, thousands of demonstrators arrived at an ICE facility in Portland’s South Waterfront area on Saturday. Witnesses described federal agents deploying tear gas and other less lethal munitions as the crowd approached the facility, including in areas where parents and young children were present.
Mayor Keith Wilson issued a statement that night calling on ICE to leave Portland. In the same statement, Wilson criticized the use of chemical agents during what he described as a peaceful daytime protest and urged ICE personnel to resign.
The AP reported that Portland police monitored the protest and that paramedics treated people affected by the gas. The AP also described the building as a federal immigration processing center used to determine immigration statuses.
