From the roof of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland, Oregon, federal agents late last month watched as thousands of people marched past the processing center in protest. Families and children were among the daytime crowd, which had gathered for an event advertised as family friendly. When some protesters reportedly crossed the facility’s property line and…
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While protests have been continuous in Portland, Oregon—and around much of the country—over the last year, crowds have flooded city streets as a reaction to shocking moments of ICE violence. On Wednesday, January 7, ICE agents shot and killed a Minneapolis legal observer, Renee Good. The community response was swift as protests filled the icy streets of the Twin Cities, and Mayor Jacob Frey vocally demanded ICE “Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.” The federal government’s response was to have the FBI take over the investigation of the shooting, blocking local and state law enforcement. The White House blamed Good’s death on a “left-wing conspiracy” and lied about the events that took place.
The following day, two people were shot by ICE officers in their vehicle near Adventist Health hospital in the southeast side of Portland. ICE claims, like the officers did in Minneapolis, that the two alleged Venezuelan migrants had “weaponized their vehicle.” After being shot the two fled in their vehicle three miles to an apartment complex parking lot where they ultimately made an emergency medical call and were subsequently arrested and sent to separate critical care hospitals. DHS then went to social media to post photos of the alleged arrestees, saying, without providing evidence, that they were associates of the Tren de Aragua gang and involved in sex crimes.
“This is Oregon. We do not need you. You’re not welcome. And you need to get the hell out of our community,” said Oregon State Senator Casey Jama, himself a former refugee from Somalia, at a press conference just hours after the shooting.
Within hours, organizations called for demonstrations. Labor unions
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Jan. 09, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
The mayor of Portland, Oregon told Immigration and Customs Enforcement to leave the city after federal agents shot and wounded two people on Thursday, just a day after an ICE agent killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
“We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts,” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson said in a statement. “Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘full force’ threatened by the administration has deadly consequences. As mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.”
The shooting took place Thursday afternoon during what the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) described as a “targeted vehicle stop” conducted by Border Patrol agents. Echoing its narrative about the deadly Minneapolis shooting—which was contradicted by video footage from the scene—DHS said the driver “weaponized his vehicle and attempted to run over the law enforcement agents.”
But Wilson said Thursday that the Trump administration could not be trusted to provide an accurate account of events or conduct an honest investigation.
“We know what the federal government says happened here,” said Wilson. “There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time has long passed.”
The man and woman shot by Border Patrol agents were reportedly married, and both were taken to a nearby hospital. Neither their identities nor their conditions were immediately made public.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said late Thursday that his office was investigating the shooting to determine “whether any federal officer acted outside the scope of their lawful authority.”
“We have been
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