Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took multiple people into custody in Cottage Grove early Wednesday morning, an organizer with the Rural Organizing Project said, with additional reports of ICE activity elsewhere in the county.
Three ICE SUVs blocked a work van in an apartment parking lot on Gateway Boulevard, taking away two workers in handcuffs, according to information from a third person in the work van who was not detained, said Abelio Carrillo with the Rural Organizing Project, a statewide grassroots organization based in Cottage Grove.
Carrillo said he knew of a total of seven people detained in Cottage Grove in three different stops by ICE Wednesday…