Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen, says he was abducted by masked plainclothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement when he arrived at his Northeast Portland job last Thursday and was kicked to the floor of a van and taken to an ICE detention center.
The abduction is described in a letter sent today to Secretary Kristi Noem of the Department of Homeland Security from Miranda’s attorney, Michael Fuller, indicating Miranda’s intention to seek damages for his treatment.
The incident may be the first documented in Portland in which ICE has swept up an American citizen as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants nationwide. It comes against the backdrop of increased immigration raids across the nation…