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Feds Falsely Boast of Immigration Raid Targeting Portland, But Only Detain Four People

October 03, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Willamette Week
By Katie Shepherd
September 29, 2017

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement trumpted a raid that ostensibly arrested 33 undocumented immigrants in Portland, then changed its story nearly a day later, saying it had only detained four in this sanctuary city.

The ICE press release-widely parroted by local media, until ICE retracted it-came less than two weeks after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited Portland to deliver a diatribe against sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal agents to enforce federal immigration laws.

Read the full article at the Willamette Week website here.