Portland City Council will consider new sanctions against a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, which has been the focus of monthslong demonstrations, recent land use debates and several court decisions.
Next week, City Councilor Angelita Morillo will propose a policy that would introduce a new fee for private property owners whose building is leased to be used as a detention facility. This would exempt all government-owned property, like the Multnomah County Detention Center or a federally owned ICE detention facility, which Portland doesn’t currently have (but federal officials have expressed interest in).
Only one Portland building currently meets this description: The South Portland ICE facility, which is owned by a private developer who has leased the building to ICE since 2011…