Federal, state and local lawmakers representing Portland have issued statements condemning the shooting of two people by federal immigration agents today.
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter of Oregon wrote: “Just one day after the horrific murder in Minneapolis, I received reports that two people in my district were shot by federal immigration officials this afternoon in East Portland. Both individuals are alive, but we do not know the extent of their injuries,” she said.
“ICE has done nothing but inject terror, chaos, and cruelty into our communities. Trump’s immigration machine is using violence to control our communities—straight out of the authoritarian playbook. ICE must immediately end all active operations in Portland,” Dexter added.
As we reported earlier, Portland mayor Keith Wilson has issued a statement on the shooting of two people by federal immigration officers, calling on ICE to leave the city. “We cannot sit by while constitutional protections erode and bloodshed mounts. Portland is not a ‘training ground’ for militarized agents, and the ‘full force’ threatened by the administration has deadly consequences,” he said. “As Mayor, I call on ICE to end all operations in Portland until a full investigation can be completed.”
The Portland city councilors who represent the East Portland neighborhood where two people were shot by federal immigration agents today have released a statement as well. Councilors Candace Avalos, Jamie Dunphy and Loretta Smith wrote: “As your East Portland councilors, we have stood united to protect Portlanders from aggressive immigration enforcement and federal overreach and we will continue to do everything in our power to keep our communities safe.”
“We are asking our counterparts at every level of government to do the same,” they added.
We are going to close the blog now. Thanks for reading and we’ll be back on Friday with more live coverage of US politics and events in Minneapolis and Portland.
It’s 10.15pm in Minneapolis and 8.15pm in Portland and we’re going to pause this live coverage now. Here are some of our key full reports on the day’s events – thanks for being with us.
A day after an ICE officer fatally shot US citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been demanding restraints on the agency Donald Trump has empowered to carry out his mass deportation campaign – and some are threatening to use the next funding deadline to force those changes.
Chris Murphy, a Democratic senator of Connecticut, wrote on X, sharing a video of the shooting: “Democrats cannot vote for a [Department of Homeland Security] budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.”
Axios reported on Thursday that Murphy was preparing to introduce a sweeping reform package that would require a warrant for arrests, ban agents from wearing masks during enforcement operations and limit border patrol agents from operating in cities far from the border.
Many Democrats are loath to trigger another shutdown fight after a protracted showdown last year over healthcare subsidies, but public opinion has shifted as Trump escalates what has become an increasingly violent federal enforcement campaign.
You can read the full report here:
Just days after launching the unprecedented US operation in Venezuela to seize its president and effectively take control of its oil industry, Donald Trump sat down with New York Times journalists for a wide-ranging interview that took in everything from international law, Taiwan and Greenland to weight-loss drugs.
The president, riding high on the success of an operation that has upended the rules of global power, spoke candidly and casually about the new world order he appears eager to usher in: an order governed not by international norms or long-lasting alliances, but national strength and military power.
You can read some key points from the interview here:
As we said earlier, Donald Trump appeared on Hannity’s show on Fox tonight.
Trump said he expected to meet with the Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, the Nobel peace prize winner who was in hiding during deposed president Nicolás Maduro’s rule.
I understand she is coming in next week sometime. I look forward to saying hello to her.
One of our picture desk editors has pulled together this selection of photos that capture some of the emotion of today’s developments in Minneapolis.
Amanda Gorman, the young poet who delivered the poem “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of Joe Biden in 202, has written a poem in memory of Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis yesterday.
Gorman shared the poem on a social media account earlier today, it reads:
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,That there her absence roars,Blood-blown like a rose.Iced wheels flinched & froze.Now, bare riot of candles,Dark fury of flowers,Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,Crouches our power,The howl where we begin,Straining upon the edge of the crooked craterOf the worst of what we’ve been.
Change is only possible,& all the greater,When the labour& bitter anger of our neighborsIs moved by the love& better angels of our nature.
What they call death & void,We know is breath & voice;In the end, gorgeously,Endures our enormity.
You could believe departed to be the dawnWhen the blank night has so long stood.But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,When they forever are so fiercely Good.
Donald Trump is speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News currently, bemoaning the fact that he was not awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and saying it “would be a great honor” if María Corina Machado gave him her Nobel Peace Prize, as she’s promised to do, when she visits the country.
Oregon governor Tina Kotek said the priority right now is a “full, completed investigation, not more detentions” and demanded transparency and cooperation from the federal government.
“We are all shaken and outraged by another terrible, unnecessary violent event instigated by the reckless agenda of the Trump administration,” she said. “While the details of the incident remain limited, one thing is very clear: when a president endorses tearing families apart and attempts to govern through fear and hate rather than shared values, you foster an environment of lawlessness and recklessness.”
She called on Oregonians to remain “united in peaceful opposition”.
Portland mayor Keith Wilson similarly shared details previously released by his office in a statement, adding that cities could no longer rely on the federal government to tell the truth.
“There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time has long passed,” he said.
Wilson also said that he spoke with Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey earlier today.
“The administration is trying to divide us. To pit communities against one another. To make us fear one another,” he said. “I want to say it clearly that we stand with Minneapolis, we stand with Minnesota, we stand with Chicago, we stand with LA, we stand with every community that is hurting in our nation.”
He added that not only ICE, but also their Homeland Security management, must be investigated.
Portland police chief Bob Day shared many of the same details released in a previous statement.
“I’m saddened that we are hear once again,” he added. “But I’m also incredibly grateful for Portlanders.”
Portland city and Oregon state officials are gathering in Portland for a press conference on the shooting of two people there today. We’ll bring you the top lines as they happen.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations has updated its statement on the shooting of two people in Portland by border patrol agents today.
Earlier in the day, the FBI Portland X account posted a statement saying it was “investigating an agent involved shooting”. Shortly after it was posted, that statement was removed from the FBI’s social media account. A new post now reads that the bureau is “investigating an assault on a federal officers”.
Protesters are continuing to gather across the country to demonstrate against the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good one day after an ICE agent shot her in Minneapolis, and as news continues to come in about the shooting of two people by a Border Patrol agent in Portland today.
Here are some images of the demonstrations in Boston, Washington DC, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.
Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
