""Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame," Wilson said. "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children.""
""The labor movement's guiding principle is solidarity," Graham Trainor, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO union federation, said at the rally. "That means that anything that aims to undermine our solidarity or divide our communities is a fucking labor issue.""
Thousands of local union members and supporters gathered in Portland's South Waterfront for a family-friendly anti-ICE demonstration hosted by Oregon labor leaders. The peaceful march outside Portland's ICE facility became chaotic when federal agents met the crowd with repeated rounds of tear gas. Local leaders, including Mayor Keith Wilson, condemned the federal response and called on ICE agents to resign, saying their actions replaced legitimacy with shame and harmed children. The rally began at Elizabeth Caruthers Park around 3 p.m., with union leaders stressing solidarity against policies targeting marginalized groups. The event followed a union-led general strike in Minneapolis and a national shutdown that saw student walkouts and business closures.
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