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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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To: GOPJ

If a bunch of libertarians and conservatives blocked the door to the local tax collectors offices the cops would be busting heads faster than you could say Jimmy Cricket.

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41 posted on 06/24/2018 6:39:32 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Relocate MS-13 whose cases are being adjudicated to that camp.


42 posted on 06/24/2018 6:41:09 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Lurker

“...The blockade would now be difficult to dislodge anyhow. ...”

Really???

It’s amazing what the business end of a bayonet can accomplish.


43 posted on 06/24/2018 6:46:00 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: nwrep

round up the stupid bastages and drop them off in North Korea.


44 posted on 06/24/2018 6:48:11 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: nwrep

Let the beatings begin.


45 posted on 06/24/2018 6:48:23 PM PDT by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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To: NFHale

“It’s amazing what the business end of a bayonet can accomplish.”

Or a few canisters of CS.

I said earlier that if a bunch of libertarians and conservatives were blocking entrances to the tax collectors offices the cops would have been busting heads in less than an hour.

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46 posted on 06/24/2018 6:50:26 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lurker

The Bonus Marchers got handled pretty rough back in the 30s, too.

These communist assclowns want a showdown, I say give them a showdown.


47 posted on 06/24/2018 6:55:23 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: nwrep

Screw this. We have our own homeless. I hate paying for this and abortion and other things that should never be sent to the taxpayer to pay.


48 posted on 06/24/2018 6:56:00 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: NFHale

“The Bonus Marchers got handled pretty rough back in the 30s, too.”

They sure did. If I remember right a young Lt. named Patton was involved in busting up a peaceful protest.

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49 posted on 06/24/2018 6:57:28 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lurker

“...Patton ....”

He was indeed.


50 posted on 06/24/2018 6:59:32 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Lurker
If a bunch of libertarians and conservatives blocked the door to the local tax collectors offices the cops would be busting heads faster than you could say Jimmy Cricket.

It's almost like there's a double standard ... or something...

51 posted on 06/24/2018 7:00:08 PM PDT by GOPJ (A vote for ANY Democrat is a vote for open borders & disintegration of America culture -allendale)
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To: GOPJ

Or something.

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52 posted on 06/24/2018 7:11:36 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: nwrep

So President Trump orders all federal offices in Portland closed. Social Security, IRS, etc. Make it clear to Portland citizens that the offices are being closed because of the mayor’s seditious actions.


53 posted on 06/24/2018 7:26:42 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: nwrep

break out the fire hoses!


54 posted on 06/24/2018 7:35:50 PM PDT by 1956tbyrd
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To: butlerweave

I take four different medications and I’m 32.


55 posted on 06/24/2018 7:38:47 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wally_bert
With heavy equipment licenses.

The scoops are on their way!


56 posted on 06/24/2018 7:39:18 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
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To: savedbygrace
Better yet, halt all federal dollars to Portland. Don't care what the money was for, stop it until Portland clears the protesters and make it safe to re-open the office. If that doesn't work, send in Fed Marshall's to remove the protesters followed by heavy equipment to destroy the camp.
57 posted on 06/24/2018 7:56:41 PM PDT by matt04
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To: nwrep

Step 1: erect a fence around the protest site
Step 2: release some fine upstanding illegal MS-13 gang members to the camp
Step 3: ?
Step 4: watch the SJWs (who last week were probably protesting the eeeevil police) beg to have the Police to help them to keep them safe


58 posted on 06/24/2018 7:59:53 PM PDT by matt04
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To: nwrep

Federalize Oregon National Guard.

Clean it out.


59 posted on 06/24/2018 8:07:23 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: AndyJackson

Clinton Foundation, doing “good works” don’t you know


60 posted on 06/24/2018 8:08:48 PM PDT by tinamina
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