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Watch: ‘Abolish ICE’ Activists Force Closure of Family-Owned Charity Food Cart [Portland Oregon; Profits went to homeless]
Watch: ‘Abolish ICE’ Activists Force Closure of Family-Owned Charity Food Cart 25 Jul 20185247
A Portland, Oregon, food cart has been forced to close, according to its owners, after an employee was threatened and mocked by “abolish ICE” activists.
The Happy Camper food cart, owned operated by Scott and Julie Hakes of Portland, is being forced to close after their 21-year-old daughter, Brianna, — who works at the food cart — was allegedly targeted and threatened by illegal alien activists nearby with an “abolish ICE” camp site.
For weeks, illegal alien activists have taken over the sidewalk and roadway to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The activists are demanding that the local Portland ICE office be shut down, though police have ordered the activists to shut down the camp site.
The Happy Camper food cart serves food to the public and gives the profits towards helping the homeless in the Portland area. Now, the owners of the food cart are saying they are having to close down shop after Brianna was threatened and followed by abolish ICE activists after she sold an ICE employee food.
Brianna captured footage of the multiple incidents, where abolish ICE activists shout at her through a bullhorn.
“They already know what she drives,” Pam Hakes told KGW News of the abuse their daughter has endured. “They see her walking around and they run after her.”
“She finally had enough,” Scott Hakes, the girl’s father told KGW News. “She finally called me up on the phone, crying.”
“The antagonizer screams out, gets on the blowhorn and starts screaming that my daughter is laughing at them, trying to make a mockery of them,” Scott said. “If they catch her outside the cart, they’re going to hurt her. They’re constantly cussing at her and screaming at her.”
“We had 20 individuals, 10 to 20 individuals, rush the cart with customers to intimidate them to where they didn’t want to come back,” Scott said.
Journalists who have visited the camp say the area has a “memorable” smell and, ironically, has strict rules inside the borders of the camp.
Zitat I just got back from the “abolish ICE” Portland camp. It’s become a sprawling parallel fortress society. The smell is memorable. Many rules (eg photography not allowed inside). pic.twitter.com/u1doewRaaZ
— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 24, 2018
A bit of panic ensues when Portland Police finally go inside camp to post statements that space will be cleared. I followed them. pic.twitter.com/4EqNnljXHs
— Andy C. Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 24, 2018
As Breitbart News reported, the abolish ICE protesters at the Portland camp site were recorded last week using a mock guillotine to behead President Trump.
Abolish ICE activists with the George Soros-funded group “United We Dream” recently shut down an intersection in Miramar, Florida, demanding that the local ICE office be closed down, Breitbart News reported.
The latest Harvard/Harris Poll reveals that 3-in-4 swing voters oppose the Democrats’ plan to end all immigration enforcement across the U.S. by abolishing ICE. Overall, nearly 70 percent of Americans said they oppose abolishing ICE. Likewise, nearly 60 percent of Democrats said they do not want ICE to be disbanded.
ZitatWell Mayor Wheeler perhaps the National Guard or Federal Troops ought to step in and keep the ICE office open.
They may have to do it.
ZitatWhile Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers have arrested at least one of the protesters (for blocking a ICE vehicle)—there's been little response from the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), a department that's known for regularly showing up at Portland protests ready for battle.
Mayor and Police Comissioner Ted Wheeler says that's intentional. Yesterday, Wheeler announced he wouldn't be asking PPB to engage with ICE—a federal agency he believes is "on the wrong track." According to his office, this is also what he's telling PPB Chief Danielle Outlaw.
"While the mayor can't give tactical direction to the police bureau, he has given strategic direction," says Michael Cox, a spokesperson with Wheeler's office. "His thinking is, 'This is a federal agency on federal property with its own law enforcement agency, and we don't need to get involved.'"
However, Cox adds, that doesn't mean PPB won't show up if they're called. But that call won't be coming from the mayor's office.
Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing A vicious mob targeted the ICE office and even a food cart. The police followed orders to do nothing. By Andy Ngo Aug. 3, 2018 5:24 p.m. ET
Portland, Ore.
Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to demand ICE’s immediate abolition. They’re gone now, but a community is left reeling. Thirty-eight days of government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.
A mob surrounded ICE’s office in Southwest Portland June 19. They barricaded the exits and blocked the driveway. They sent “guards” to patrol the doors, trapping workers inside. At night they laid on the street, stopping traffic at a critical junction near a hospital. Police stayed away. “At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help. Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team. The facility shut down for more than a week.
Signs called ICE employees “Nazis” and “white supremacists.” Others accused them of running a “concentration camp,” and demanded open borders and prosecution of ICE agents. Along a wall, vandals wrote the names of ICE staff, encouraging others to publish their private information online.
Federal workers were defenseless. An ICE officer, who asked that his name not be published, told me one of his colleagues was trailed in a car and confronted when he went to pick up his daughter from summer camp. Later people showed up at his house. Another had his name and photo plastered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being part of the “Gestapo.”
Where were the police? Ordered away by Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler, who doubles as police commissioner. “I do not want the @PortlandPolice to be engaged or sucked into a conflict, particularly from a federal agency that I believe is on the wrong track,” he tweeted. “If [ICE is] looking for a bailout from this mayor, they are looking in the wrong place.”
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The locals who spoke to me all wondered why the city allowed this and ignored their calls for intervention. Peter Simpson, a public-information officer with the Portland Police Bureau, explained that “at the mayor’s direction, PPB involvement was very limited” until July 25.
Back at the trolley tracks, the occupiers have been evicted but taxpayers will have to foot the costly cleanup bill. The Hakes family is still trying to recover. Brianna has decided to move out of the neighborhood. “They know my face and car,” she said. Like other residents I spoke to, she expects the mob to return.