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Posts published in December 2025

News – December 15, 2025

KATU: Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE amid crackdown on Somali immigrants

News – December 14, 2025

The Oregonian: Portlanders demand return of ICE-tracking app outside downtown Apple store

KGW: Rumors of ICE lodging in Waldport spark quick community response – In under a week, the central Oregon coast city sprang into action, seeking to ensure ICE did not set up operations there

KATU: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem gets heckled leaving ICE meeting while holding her grandchild

News – December 13, 2025

The Oregonian: McMinnville condemns ICE operations in city. Many community members say that isn’t enough

The Oregonian: Student-led walkout against ICE draws 1,600 protesters from eight Hillsboro schools

The Oregonian: Immigration enforcement transforms Oregon’s most Latino city as fear empties businesses and rattles residents

News – December 12, 2025

The Oregonian: ICE arrests father on his way to drop off his children at school in North Portland

The Oregonian: Multnomah County is latest local government to declare emergency due to ICE actions

KGW: Hillsboro High School students walk out to protest ICE – Hillsboro High School, as well as three other schools, walked out of class Friday morning in protest of immigration enforcement in their community

KOIN: Family claims ICE retaliated against Vancouver man after speaking out against ‘excessive force’

News – December 11, 2025

The Oregonian: Lawsuit claims Multnomah County jail illegally detained federal immigration suspects

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB): Nurses union alleges ICE is allowed to dictate patient care at Legacy Emanuel – The Oregon Nurses Association alleges management told nurses that immigration detainees do not hold the same rights as other patients

Willamette Week: Union Says Portland Hospital Fails to Address Inappropriate Behavior by ICE Agents – The Oregon Nurses Association alleges Legacy Emanuel Medical Center has applied inconsistent standards to federal immigration officials compared with policy governing law enforcement guarding detainees at the hospital

Oregon Capital Chronicle: Trump’s Guard deployments to blue cities divide US Senate panel

News – December 9, 2025

The Oregonian: Student-led ICE protests erupt across Washington County amid enforcement crackdowns

The Oregonian: ‘Daily Show’ airs special that features ‘emergency’ Naked Bike Ride in the ‘burning hell hole’ that is Portland

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB): Right-wing influencer to sue Portland for $10 million after arrest at ICE protests – Nick Sortor and his attorney argue the Portland Police Bureau has a history of bias against conservatives

News – December 8, 2025

The Oregonian: ‘Absolutely appalled’: Judge blasts ICE for failing to feed detainee before court

The Oregonian: Wyden says he won’t stand for ICE ‘Airport Alcatraz’ in Portland

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB): Hundreds of Washington County students stage walkout over ICE activity – Students in Beaverton, Hillsboro and Forest Grove walked out of school Monday morning

OPB: Vancouver man speaks for first time since viral video of ICE arrest – Jose Paniagua Calderon spoke to reporters via video chat from the Tacoma ICE facility on Monday

KOIN: ‘We are all afraid:’ Immigration advocates rally for man allegedly run over during ICE arrest in Vancouver

News – December 6, 2025

The Oregonian: Most immigrants arrested in Oregon aren’t violent criminals, new federal data shows

Oregon Capital Chronicle: Portland’s DA balked at charging federal agents under Oregon law. Then AG Rayfield stepped in – Multnomah County District Attorney’s office says only Attorney General Dan Rayfield has the resources to investigate excessive force concerns, but the attorney general will seek District Attorney Nathan Vasquez’s stamp of approval 

Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB): Eugene and Springfield both announce end of Flock camera usage

KGW: Family believes ICE ran over their loved one while detaining him in Vancouver – Video a witness captured on their phone shows federal agents driving a vehicle forward before the man they’ve detained starts screaming in pain

KATU: US senator Patty Murray of Washington state says ICE agents ‘sic attack dogs’ on Vancouver man

KATU: Neighbors of Portland ICE facility allege harmful effects of tear gas in lawsuit

KGW: ‘They don’t treat you like a human being’: Jackie Merlos, Portland mother of four, reflects on more than 100 days in ICE detention – Merlos spent more than 100 days in federal detention — first at a Customs and Border Protection facility with her children, and then at an ICE facility in Tacoma WA