PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two Portland leaders are calling on the mayor to enforce regulations on detention facility owners sooner rather than later.
As first reported by OPB, District 3 Councilor Angelita Morillo and District 4 Councilor Mitch Green have pushed Portland Mayor Keith Wilson to take “urgent action” against landlords who have allowed their tenants to deploy chemical munitions.
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Just last month, the full Portland City Council approved Morillo and Green’s proposal to impose a yearly impact fee on the owners of detention buildings — which applies to that of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on South Macadam Avenue. The ordinance further established that officials would penalize landlords who neglected to prevent “environmental harms” in public spaces or other properties like apartment complexes.
“We brought forward the Detention Facility Fee legislation to not only ensure that property owners who lease to entities like ICE internalize the externalities they create with their commercial relationship with them, but also to establish that it is not permissible to allow their tenants to emit chemical residues like tear gas beyond the premises of their facility,” Morillo and Green wrote in a letter on Tuesday…