Officials in the city of Portland, Oregon, are claiming that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility is violating “land use” agreements as the agency works to deport illegal aliens.
The office of Portland Democratic Mayor Keith Wilson said on Wednesday that he would be “launching a process to determine whether the site’s detention practices comply with the conditions of the site’s land use approval.”
Wilson’s office claimed there were “more than two dozen detention policy violations of the [South Waterfront] facility’s land use conditions of approval” over the course of 10 months.
Those purported violations involve not allowing detainees to be “kept overnight or held for more than 12 hours.”
The city’s permitting bureau investigated the facility and concluded that detainees were held past the
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