Nick

But they were eating on the daissssssss

Telling the city council to do a thing it clearly has no power to do and then saying you don’t want anything else is pretty sus

Interesting when anti-ICE social media account holders, the PBA, and Kevin Dahlgren all line up to attack socialist city councilors for trying to leverage city power against detention facilities.

I bet the Mayor thinks it is hilarious since it’s the administrative side that reviews the ICE permit.

November 18, 2025 Honorable Portland Council President Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Councilors, We write to express our opposition to the Detention Facility Impact Fee. While we understand your motivation for proposing such an ordinance, we write to ask you to consider the long-tterm implications and unintended consequences of this proposal. The Portland Metro Chamber (The Chamber) is greater Portland's Chamber of Commerce and represents the largest, most diverse network of businesses in the region. The Alliance advocates for business at all levels of government to support commerce, community health and the region's overall prosperity. We represent more than 2,100 members, from 27 counties, 13 states and virtually every industry sector. More than 80% of our members are small businesses We share your concerns with the current federal administration's antagonistic approach to our community, and we were grateful that half the members of this council joined over 175 elected officials and organizations signing on to our call to action for a unified voice of opposition to an unjustified federal troop deployment. For more than a century and a half-since before Oregon achieved statehood-Portland has been a city where civic expression, including protest, has played a defining role in our public life. Throughout this long history, the City has never required the subject of a protest to bear the financial burden associated with public safety, cleanup, or street closures. The proposal now under consideration would dramatically depart from that long-standing principle and create an avenue for targeted financial liability based solely on the political aims of others. This change would introduce significant long-term risks. Portland's political landscape has evolved over time and will continue to do so. A policy that allows elected officials to levy costs on entities that are the focus of protests-regardless of whether those entities organized,

1. Lack of Environmental Impact Evaluation To our knowledge, the City has never undertaken an environmental impact assessment of protest activity. If the environmental effects of demonstrations are a basis for new fees or restrictions, such analysis should be conducted before establishing a policy framework that selectively assigns financial responsibility. 2. Departure From Established Practice for Civic Events While the City routinely requires event organizers to cover public safety and right-of-way impacts for parades, marathons, and other permitted activities, this proposal would mark the first time a tax-paying business would be charged for costs associated with an event it did not host, sanction, or participate in. This is a significant shift in policy with far-reaching implications. 3. Risk of Creating a New Revenue Mechanism Targeting Businesses If adopted, this measure could establish a precedent enabling the City to levy impact fees whenever a business becomes the focus of a protest. Such a mechanism would send a chilling signal to the commercial real estate and broader business community. Portland competes with other cities and surrounding jurisdictions for investment; proposals that create unpredictable or punitive cost exposure threaten our competitiveness. 4. Absence of Protestor Accountability While the Chamber strongly supports the right to free speech and peaceful assembly, the current proposal places the entirety of the financial burden on the business being targeted-regardless of the actions of demonstrators. This raises a fundamental policy

Portland's success depends on fostering a stable, predictable, and fair business environment. We urge the Council to reconsider this proposal and engage stakeholders in developing a policy approach that honors our city's values, protects constitutional rights, and sustains the economic vitality that Portland depends on. Portland Metro Chamber Multifamily NW Oregon Smart Growth Home Building Association of Greater Portland Building Owners & Managers Association of Oregon

Welp, it looks like the Portland Metro Chamber’s solidarity with the community against ICE and a federal invasion ends at charging an impact fee to property owners who would rent their properties to detention facilities that harm neighbors & drain public resources.

Can’t say that we’re surprised!

“I haven’t seen you at the protest!” is one of the funniest Portlandisms

What’s really important is that you think all of this stuff is about you and your twenty angry comrades.

No one else in the community is doing anything to resist except you.

You’re the center of the world.

You really want to center yourself as a victim in a weird culty way that only divides people the community and makes a popular front harder to achieve.

It’s childish, stupid, and beneath what we need in this moment.

You care about an issue that many people in our community care about — including councilors and lots of other organizations that directly serve communities under — and are pursuing an unhinged strategy bc the people running the social media hate Morillo.

It’s astounding to watch unfold.

lmao you’re so unhinged. I watched the hearing.

Literally what are you talking about? The scraps of my city council trying to maximize the limited authority they have to impact ICE? Yes, I’m happy my left wing city councilors are trying to find leverage there. Why would I get mad at people trying?

Go yell at the mayor & the city administrator.

I’m very interested in facts. You aren’t. You people are interested in personal beef, division, & Instagram likes.

Bad faith losers.

They should take meetings with the people who act in bad faith and literally film shit under the table and post it online because why?

Seems like it’s more useful to work directly with immigrant communities under threat than people who think protesting entitles them to invent reality.

I’m not the one acting like an unhinged weirdo in public.

Yeah sorry you don’t get to just make shit up when bad things happen and invent a reality where the council doesn’t take this seriously.

It’s a false reality being advanced in bad faith by people who have a personal conflict they are trying to politicize.

It’s a bald faced lie that councilors aren’t meeting with people about this.

Grow the fuck up

Wow if you show up at a protest then you can act like a moron in public. You can ignore facts and just show up and scream at people. I guess that’s the standard of behavior.

I’ve been to plenty of protests and never thought it entitled me to be ignorant like that.

Trying to drive a wedge between the council and grassroots activists is actively harmful to efforts to push back against ICE.

Feeling self-righteous about that behavior is wild.

Time to dive deep and do some self analysis.

It’s extremely wild to show up en masse and (1) act like the immigrant on city council who gets death threats and her fucking apartment building published in the daily mail, and (2) knowingly misrepresent the power the council has here just to show up and act like assholes in public.

Everyone who thinks you’re acting like a baby in public is on the payroll

What do you think social media is?

Looking for reasons to be mad.

When are you supposed to eat exactly? They’re in extremely long meetings and have to eat at the dais.

Extremely weird critique.

Mitch cosponsored the impact fee.

Sameer worked on codifying sanctuary city status.

Ryan and Clark have been reticent to do ANYTHING on ICE.

No other city has revoked an ICE permit.

And yet the people shouldering all the blame according to these activists? The women of color on council.

If you see your friends liking and sharing shit like this, have a conversation.

Using left-wing aesthetics to cover for misogynistic bullying is really fucked up.

I think it’s honestly disgusting and deeply unserious that the Revoke the Permit people have clipped videos of my women colleagues eating pizza at the dais as some kind of shaming tool, which is now being used by right-wing media to harass them in misogynistic ways. Congrats everyone.

Kevin Dahlgren 🤝 Revoke the Ice Permit

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Misrepresenting facts & dishonestly editing videos to maximize rage clicks

Since I’ve been an adult in this country, the political choice has been:

crude, blood thirsty, racist murderers for empire

OR

well-spoken, data-driven, less-overtly racist murderers for empire

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Hard to imagine the quiet acceptance of Trump murdering people in fishing boats in the Caribbean without Obama putting a liberal sheen on drone strike murders.