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"Occupy ICE" Blockades ICE offices in Portland (Tent City sanctioned by Mayor)
Willamette Week ^ | June 23, 2018 | Aaron Mesh

Posted on 06/24/2018 5:29:06 PM PDT by nwrep

The occupation of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters on the South Waterfront has over six days expanded from a scattering of chairs to a village of more than 80 tents, four portable toilets, six couches, a commissary and a medic's office.

The protest now closely resembles the Occupy Portland camps that seized two downtown parks in 2011. Once again, a Portland mayor has sanctioned the takeover—but this time, the target is a federal agency, and the goal is to directly impede its work.

Mayor Ted Wheeler has pledged to not intervene with Occupy ICE, saying he considers the work of federal immigration agents "un-American" and doesn't want Portland police to aid ICE's operations.

The blockade would now be difficult to dislodge anyhow.

"We've seen tremendous support," says Mary Ann Warner, an occupation organizer. "We're seeing so much food. I don't think anyone's going hungry."

The protest, blocking the front doors and driveway of ICE's building along Southwest Macadam Avenue, has forced the suspension of agency work since June 18. The Portland occupation, the first nationwide, is an attempt to disrupt President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy that has treated refugees seeking asylum as criminals and separated small children from their parents.

ICE shut down its Portland office after protesters blocked the entrance.

(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...


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1 posted on 06/24/2018 5:29:06 PM PDT by nwrep
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Send in Federal troops.

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2 posted on 06/24/2018 5:30:45 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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Time for federal marshals.


3 posted on 06/24/2018 5:30:58 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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4 posted on 06/24/2018 5:31:02 PM PDT by nwrep
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Bring in the Active Denial System


5 posted on 06/24/2018 5:32:45 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nwrep

They really look like fine, upstanding young Americans, don’t they????*ROFL*


6 posted on 06/24/2018 5:34:33 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: nwrep

Look at all the Meds on that table


7 posted on 06/24/2018 5:35:22 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Lurker
Absolutely. What the hell are they waiting for?
8 posted on 06/24/2018 5:35:51 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: KC_Conspirator

With heavy equipment licenses.


9 posted on 06/24/2018 5:36:20 PM PDT by wally_bert (This is the message phone company. I see youÂ’re using our unit, now how about paying for it?)
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Don’t worry they’ll soon start stealing from and eating their own


10 posted on 06/24/2018 5:36:59 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Ok. So who are the behind guys? Let me guess [Soros].


11 posted on 06/24/2018 5:37:31 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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For starters, arrest the mayor and local law enforcement leadership for supporting an attack against the federal government.


12 posted on 06/24/2018 5:37:32 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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To: butlerweave

Look at all the Meds on that table
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Yep. And the dumbasses have them sitting in the sunlight. Their antipsychotics will quickly lose all their potency—then look out.


13 posted on 06/24/2018 5:38:45 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: nwrep

This is insurrection.


14 posted on 06/24/2018 5:40:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: House Atreides

How about a new meme...

#OccupyRedHen


15 posted on 06/24/2018 5:40:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The curious thing is none of these individuals have any kind of occupation or value to the local community. My guess is that they get a couple hundred dollars monthly from ‘dad’, and they live off that.

Feds ought to just pick them up and transport them to some holding camp in the middle of some Alaskan range.


16 posted on 06/24/2018 5:42:28 PM PDT by pepsionice
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I took my boys up to Portland for a summer camp. Total cost for a place to stay while I was up there was about 1500 bucks.

Dang! I coulda just camped out in a tent and saved a bunch money!

17 posted on 06/24/2018 5:43:02 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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I don’t think Trump will let these Occupy things take over like in the Obama years


18 posted on 06/24/2018 5:43:53 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: TADSLOS
arrest the mayor and local law enforcement leadership

What would happen if they just disappeared and were never heard from again?

Where's Hoffa?

19 posted on 06/24/2018 5:44:57 PM PDT by ASA Vet (MGTOW)
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Feds ought to just pick them up and transport them to some holding camp in the middle of some Alaskan range, Gitmo.
20 posted on 06/24/2018 5:46:57 PM PDT by ASA Vet (MGTOW)
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