Two people were shot by federal immigration agents in East Portland, Oregon, police said on Thursday, a day after an agent of the same agency fatally shot a US citizen in Minneapolis.
Both victims of the Portland shooting are alive, but the extent of their injuries is unknown, according to Congresswoman Maxine Dexter. Portland's mayor, Keith Wilson, called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to end all operations in the city until a full investigation is completed, saying: 'We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts.'
Dexter said ICE had 'injected terror, chaos, and cruelty' into communities and accused the Trump administration of using violence to control people. Councillors for the East Portland neighbourhood also released a statement, pledging to do everything in their power to protect residents from aggressive immigration enforcement.
The Portland shooting follows the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a poet and writer, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. Democrats in Congress have threatened to withhold funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless the agency's conduct is restrained. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut proposed reforms requiring warrants for arrests, banning agents from wearing masks during operations, and limiting border patrol agents from operating in cities far from the border.
In a separate development, President Donald Trump told the New York Times that his own morality was 'the only thing that can stop me' and that he did not need international law. The ICE agent involved in the Minneapolis killing has been identified as a ten-year law enforcement veteran, while the FBI has taken over the case and restricted Minnesota's access to evidence.
