Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters shut down streets in Portland

Hundreds of protesters opposing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) marched done downtown Portland connected Sunday, temporarily shutting down roads arsenic they walked from City Hall to a detention installation successful the South Waterfront.

Video from Fox 12 Oregon captured demonstrators carrying signs urging ICE to permission the metropolis and calling for accountability successful the January deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, some of whom were changeable and killed by national agents successful Minneapolis.

The section presumption reported that Portland Contra Las Deportaciones, an migrant rights organization, held a rally astatine City Hall successful the day earlier marching to the ICE facility.

"People are outraged, and I deliberation radical are seeing that, you know, our leaders have routes that they could beryllium taking," said Cami Saunders of Portland Contra las Deportaciones.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploy capsicum balls, teardrop gas, and flashbang grenades arsenic hundreds march from Portland City Hall to an ICE installation during a protestation successful Portland, Oregon, connected Feb. 1, 2026. (Sean Bascom/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Footage from the country showed national agents firing teardrop state and capsicum balls astatine protesters arsenic they stood extracurricular the entranceway to the facility, which has been utilized arsenic an ICE tract bureau since 2011.

"About 8 oregon 10 of them came retired with guns, immoderate benignant of guns they person and flash bombed, conscionable started throwing them astatine the assemblage – conscionable exploding everywhere. It was similar a warfare zone," said a pistillate protester who was lone identified arsenic Robin.

"It felt similar we were nether attack. I decidedly got hit. I had to tally astir the country and determination a clump of h2o connected my face," she told Fox 12.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploy capsicum balls, teardrop gas, and flashbang grenades arsenic hundreds of protesters march from Portland City Hall to an ICE installation successful Portland, Oregon, connected Feb. 1, 2026. (Sean Bascom/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek criticized national migration enforcement actions successful the state, saying ICE has "no spot successful Oregon."

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"The usage of teardrop state against families, children, and peaceful demonstrators yesterday is simply a horrific maltreatment of authorization that undermines nationalist information and violates law rights," she wrote successful a station connected X. "Federal agents indispensable basal down and beryllium held accountable."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploy capsicum balls, teardrop gas, and flashbang grenades arsenic hundreds of radical march from Portland City Hall to an ICE installation to protestation the agency’s actions successful Portland, Oregon, connected Feb. 1, 2026. (Sean Bascom/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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According to the City of Portland authorities website, the ICE installation includes a processing halfway wherever national officers detain and interrogation individuals to find their ineligible status, arsenic good arsenic offices wherever immigrants conscionable with ICE officials arsenic portion of the citizenship process.

The installation is guarded by officers from the Federal Protective Service, an bureau wrong the Department of Homeland Security, alternatively than Portland Police, though section officers whitethorn patrol surrounding streets for nationalist safety.