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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE is scouting out locations to set up operations in my small Oregon town.
I live in Newport, on the coast. It's a small tourist and fishing town on the Oregon coast. We have a lot of immigrants that are recruited from Guatemala to work in a big fish processing plant. Their children are well established in our local schools. The work is very hard physically, and the company houses some of them in dorm-style lodgings.
A couple of days ago, some mystery group approached the city about taking over part of our airport to set up a concentration camp. City council had a town hall on it tonite. I couldn't make it, but apparently it was packed.
This afternoon, a truck full of yeehaws was cruising all through town with big flags, including a large black flag, which I guess is one of the militia groups. They've also started recruiting for ICE jobs. Every Nazi tweaker in the region -- we have lots of Methros -- will now get the best paying jobs on the coast.
Feel like I've been punched in the gut that it could happen here.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/11/11/newport-oregon-ice-possible-operations
CanonRay
(15,832 posts)CentralMass
(16,771 posts)jmbar2
(7,465 posts)CanonRay
(15,832 posts)Seems like a lot for Florence. I am so sorry.
CanonRay
(15,832 posts)They were in uniforms, not tactical gear.
jmbar2
(7,465 posts)Restaurant, nursing home workers?
CanonRay
(15,832 posts)The parked in the Safeway lot and we're heading towards Bay Street.
jmbar2
(7,465 posts)CentralMass
(16,771 posts)Permanut
(7,782 posts)won't be happening now.
RockRaven
(18,464 posts)Off the top of my head I recall reading that it was the 2nd largest (by tonnage) fishing port in the state and in the top 20 nationally.
I'm sorry for the lasting harm about to be visited upon your community.
jmbar2
(7,465 posts)They laid off a bunch of NOAA workers -- young science-types with families -- and may now be moving the Coast Guard to another town. These are our best-educated young professional folks. If they destroy the fish processing industry, it will sink the rest of the fishing industry.
What really scares me is the empowerment of the neo-nazi types. There has always been a strong neonazi faction presence in Oregon living out in the woods. Periodically, they parade through town in trucks emblazoned in huge flags. It had receded quite a bit until yesterday. Recall the Ammon Bundy group taking over Malheur a few years ago.
We only have about 10,000 people, with a lot of retirees. They could easily take over this town given well-paid ICE jobs, vehicles and weapons, while the rest of the population collapses financially.
58Sunliner
(6,255 posts)Cha
(315,979 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(12,227 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)Tree Lady
(12,917 posts)Especially the coast it is for peace and rest.
We are going to Newport for Thanksgiving, staying down by NYE beach.
Hopefully they are all gone by then, I live 3-4 hrs away.
jmbar2
(7,465 posts)His daughter made a heartbreaking plea for his release at last night's town hall.
Tree Lady
(12,917 posts)In all the towns they are trying to devour.