The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office director in Portland recently revealed that the agency’s facility in Portland, Oregon, receives very little help from local police officials despite facing nightly attacks from Antifa and left-wing protesters.
Fox News reported that Cammila Wamsley, the director of Portland’s ICE office, told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that the ICE facility in Portland has been attacked and threatened with violence for over 100 consecutive nights and that Portland police officials rarely provide aid to federal officials due to directions from the city’s Democrat mayor and city council members.
Wamsley told Melugin that the Portland Police Bureau has received guidance from the mayor and the city council that they are “not really supposed to respond” to the ICE facility in Portland.
“There have been folks that have been assaulted right down here on the street, even across the street. And it takes Portland police a while to respond or sometimes they don’t respond at all, which is unfortunate because, you know, people here deserve to be protected by the police, just as they would six blocks from here,” Wamsley stated.
The Portland ICE office director explained that Portland police officials “will not respond” if any immigration enforcement activity is taking place at the ICE facility.
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“It’s frustrating for us to watch people be attacked on the street and know that we don’t have the authority to be able to really step in unless there’s some nexus to federal law, Wamsley told Melugin.
According to Fox News, Wamsley explained that the nightly protests not only involve protesters chanting anti-ICE slogans and displaying signs in opposition to the agency’s operations but now also involve protesters breaking windows with rocks, using lasers to target the eyes of ICE officers, blacking vehicles with barricades, and attacking the ICE facility with bottle rockets.
In addition to the attacks against the ICE facility in Portland, Wamsley told Fox News that at least six ICE employees have been doxxed and multiple employees have been followed home by protesters.
“Later, towards the evening and around dark, there are a lot of folks that come up dressed in all black,” Wamsley said. “They are here to wreak havoc. They’ll block our cars, throw paint, damage property and even try to follow our folks home.”
Emphasizing the commitment of ICE agents to continue serving the American people in Portland in the face of opposition, Wamsley said, “The people that work here are here to serve the American public. They are here to enforce the same immigration laws we’ve had in place since the 1950s. Nothing has changed in that regard. We come to work every day. We do our job the way we have been doing it, and we’ll continue to do that.”
