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Recent warnings about ICE agents conducting widespread action in Portland and Lewiston drew a crowd of around 200 people at Monument Square.
Protests broke out at locations across Portland late Thursday after a Border Patrol shooting that injured two people near a Portland medical clinic. News of the shooting quickly rekindled mass protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the city’s South Waterfront,
Many decided to protest Saturday in response to the shootings by federal agents in Portland and Minneapolis, with some attending a town hall with Rep. Maxine Dexter.
Hundreds of people filled Monument Square on Thursday night, a day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Hundreds of Oregonians turned out across Portland and in Salem to protest against federal agents shooting people in Portland and Minneapolis, as well as U.S. military action in Venezuela. Several groups quickly organized Saturday’s events after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed an unarmed woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis,
Hundreds gathered outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday in protest after authorities said federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital.
The Department of Homeland Security said its agent shot at gang members in self-defense. Still, hundreds protested at Portland’s ICE facility, and hundreds more held a vigil at City Hall.