Photo story: Portland,Oregon protests
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| Nov.6 8:47 pm An up-close photo of ICE agents' faces outside the Portland, Oregon, U.S immigration and customs enforcement building in downtown Portland. This is an unusual occurrence, as the agents go to great lengths to cover their faces, but this was a fairly small protest of maybe 20–35 people. When a protester mentioned, “You guys are very brave to show your full face when we are hunting you.” |
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Oct.18 4:31 pm This was also the day of the second No Kings Protest toward the ending of the night. A photo of a man among the rubble and tear gas with a full face respirator. All “black bloc" is a guerrilla warfare tactic being utilized in Portland; the concept is that it is harder to pick you out of the crowd if the crowd is all wearing black. In the background, you can see a different person in "black bloc" with a helmet on and a medical red and white badge displayed on the helmet. This group of people came together in full black bloc and made announcements over megaphones telling people a lawyer's hotline, how to call for a medic if you get injured, and where and how to find the medical tent, and what they offer (masks, water, saline, baby wipes, etc.). |
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Oct.18 7:28PM This is the Cascadia flag flying over tear gas. The Cascadia movement is a movement in the Pacific Northwest searching for more independence through the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia. The creator of the Cascadia flag (Alexander Baretich) was actually at this protest. |
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| Oct.18 2:27 pm A young woman fills a bucket with water provided from the medical tent to help extinguish tear gas and pepper balls. To do this, they take traffic cones and put them over a tear gas canister or pepper balls and then pour water into the top hole. From there, they can take them out of the “zone,” which is what they call it, being the street and sidewalk outside the immigration and customs enforcement in Portland. The phrase “pepper balls” is what they use to refer to a pepper spray projectile gun. The most common tactic by federal agents is deploying projectile pepper spray guns from the rooftops that they stand on and then tear gas from the front lines, but sometimes they end up shooting their own officers. These are the people who were organized heavily and people came out and assumed positions of war, whether you're on the front lines with a riot shield, moving the agents back or guiding foot and regular traffic and offering medical care. People were organized and worked together. |
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Terrance Greene is an immigration lawyer from Salem, Oregon. The biggest question is why are the protests happening? Why are people so upset about this immigration issue? Why have these protests reached record numbers? “More than 40,000 people turned out in Portland alone for the No Kings protest, and people turned up en mass in scores of cities and towns throughout Oregon and Washington,” said an article from OPB posted October 20. So to answer these questions, I interviewed Greene at his Salem office. He deals with these cases on a daily basis. This interview has been edited for clarity. Q:Do you think that ICE raids have changed our community, in any way? “Oh, absolutely yeah, I'm getting lots of reports from folks that their businesses have been significantly impacted. By, you know, the normal flow of immigrants that would come in. So, I have a couple clients that own restaurants, for example, and they don't have the same amount of volume. Some of them are worried that they're gonna have to close because people just don't want to come in. People are just not coming out, right? And then I have clients where they got called last week, and you know, the parents have decided to not leave the house. Because of ICE raids that have happened here, it's terrible. The kids have been coordinating, doing their grocery shopping and bringing meals to them. People think that immigrants for some reason don't have that big of an outside influence on the economy. Well, they're going to learn that they do really quickly, because you know, the economic impact will show up in the data and it will show up in unemployment. It will show up in a lower GDP.” Q: Do you see any cases where ICE agents break laws? “Sometimes, they don't even take them to the local (ICE holding facility) so the attorneys, we can't find them, and they take them, and where do they ship them to? Like one in Louisiana or in Texas or Georgia. The way that they do the process is insane, the tactics are unfair.” Q: Has it become harder to represent legal status? “In the past when I practiced, we've been able to bond them out and then their case can be non-detained. They go back home to their normal lives, Like thousands of ways that they've changed the process. One is the way they interpret bond hearings. It's very, very difficult to get a bond." Q: And that was easy before? "Oh, way easier before.” Citations and sources https://recorder.google.com/4fc43f58-a0a7-4fff7-bf35-21e075ab4ec7 |
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