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by JACKIE LABRECQUE and KATU.com staff
On Sunday, June 17, 2018, protesters set up a camp around the United States Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement Center, in southwest Portland, to protest the separation migrant families at the border. (KATU / Tristan Fortsch)
PORTLAND, Oregon (KATU) – Dozens of protesters remain outside the US Immigration and Customs (ICE) facility in Southwest Portland on Wednesday. Employees have not returned to work since protesters closed it a week ago.
Federal agents gave protest notices to protesters on Monday and Tuesday. The notices remind the protesters that they are breaking federal law by blocking entry.
While the police at the Department of Homeland Security attempted to distribute the notices, the protesters tore or did not take them.
The protesters say that they are not going anywhere.
"This group is ready to go ahead and continue doing what we need to do to make sure to abolish ICE," said Danialle James of the Occupy ICE PDX movement.
Protesters began camping at ICE premises on June 17 after learning that migrant children were separated from their parents on the border between the United States and Mexico.
The Oregonians for immigration reform say it is bad for protesters to try to prevent a government agency from doing its job. They want the federal government to do more, not less, in the area of illegal immigration.
They are also busy collecting signatures for an initiative to put to a vote in November that would remove Oregon's sanctuary status, including laws that prohibit local and state authorities from helping to enforce the law. federal law on immigration.
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