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Posted on 07/30/2018 11:23:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
ICE officers sent a cease-and-desist letter Monday to the mayor in Portland, Oregon, demanding he apologize for ordering city police to stand down as protesters ravaged the immigration agency’s headquarters and menaced its employees.
Agency employees say they were harassed, followed and had their personal vehicles damaged when protesters tried to block them from leaving. They say Portland police refused to respond, under orders from Mayor Ted Wheeler, who said he backed the protesters over the feds.
With police on the sidelines the Occupy ICE protesters shut down U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s building on Macadam Avenue for a week in June and manned an encampment to continue harassing employees for more than a month.
“When the mayor gave the order that police would not support ICE employees trapped in the facility, he turned the lives of our employees over to an angry mob,” said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, which had its lawyer send the cease-and-desist letter. “The mayor stated publicly that he supported the protests, which were supposed to be about protecting immigrant families, but what about the mom’s and dad’s that we had working in that building? What about their kids? These are questions that we’ll be expecting the mayor and city of Portland to be answering in the days to come.”
Portland’s protests were the most violent of a series of nationwide outbursts against ICE, fueled by anger at President Trump’s get-tough border policies.
The situation quickly spiraled out of hand, growing from a small group of protests into a massive “occupy” encampment that shut down ICE’s rented building from June 20 through June 28, when federal police finally gathered enough manpower to retake control. The encampment continued for weeks afterward.
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In my view what Mayor Ted Wheeler did was criminal. He should be prosecuted or at the very least tarred, feathered and run out of office on a rail.
Ammo up, people.
The police are not going to protect you in Portland.
It’s Portland - they approve of his actions.
“He should be prosecuted or at the very least tarred, feathered and run out of office on a rail.”
It’s Portland...he will be presented with the Order of Lenin! /s;)
Decent Americans are facing pure evil. The far left fringe must be stopped before they take the absolute power that they have been dreaming of since their national socialist and soviet socialist brothers lost their footholds.
He should be
Sued.
Wheeler is a disgusting SOB. He literally belongs with all the filth he supports. He should sit in it.
Since the ************ is obvioulsy another lawless lying lib, he'll have no complaint coming when the angry mob drags him out of his car, the mayor's office, his house, or some restaurant, and beats him to death in the street. Soon please. Naturally, I mean that in the nicest possible way. Thanks jazusamo.
Do they get Federal funds for their law enforcement? Take it away!
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And the police do it?
Time to fire the police and let neighborhoods and businesses hire private security.
I couldn’t agree more, lowlifes don’t come much lower than Wheeler.
They should sue the Mayor of Portland just like the police was sued in San Jose.
Portland police chief just following orders. /s
I’d like to see the Feds arrest him. It’s most certainly criminal. Or it should be if it is not.
This will continue to escalate until legal action is taken against these lawless thugs and politicians.
BUMP
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