ICE agents hold teens at gunpoint at Oregon coffee shop
A group of teenagers at a Dutch Bros Coffee in Hillsboro, Oregon, earlier this month was stopped at gunpoint by approximately 10 masked immigration agents and a police dog, according to local law enforcement records.
“Subjects in a white van and white truck exited their vehicles and pointed guns at the customers at the drive-thru window,” according to a dispatcher.
Baristas at the drive-thru took shelter in a restroom during the Oct. 3 incident, and Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Hillsboro police responded to the scene. Police with the city on the west side of Portland’s metropolitan area later confirmed the agents were with ICE.
The confrontation is an example of the Trump administration’s increased immigration crackdown in Oregon in recent months. This month, ICE officers also pushed into an apartment in Gresham, east of Portland, where a 24-year-old woman and her 3-month-old baby were staying with her stepfather and brother. ICE agents drew their rifles at the family and arrested the stepfather and brother, even though they weren’t who ICE was searching for.
Immigration agents also arrested four Latino construction workers at a job site in Gresham and held a Latino man on the ground in the middle of a Portland street, with an agent on top of the man for nearly two minutes while the man screamed in Spanish that he couldn’t breathe, according to interviews, police reports, court records and videos shared with The Oregonian/OregonLive. Immigration authorities also mistakenly arrested a U.S. citizen — another Latino man — outside his worksite earlier this month.
In Hillsboro, the teenagers who were stopped by ICE at the Dutch Bros Coffee told local police that it was the second time immigration agents had stopped them at gunpoint that morning.
Two hours earlier around 8:10 a.m. or 8:20 a.m., agents in a white truck and van stopped the teens’ black Mazda near Su Casa Super Mercado in Hillsboro. During the stop, the agents damaged the Mazda’s back bumper, the teenagers later told police.
The 17-year-old driver of the vehicle said the agents “pointed guns at them, flashed a badge and asked him and his passengers for their ID’s, and took pictures of them,” according to the Hillsboro police report. “After the incident he went home to tell his mother and went to school.”
Another one of the teens told officers that the agents at Dutch Bros “did the same thing as earlier, pointed their guns at them, asked for identification and took photos of them,” the police report said. The teen said he felt scared.
The teen said agents told the high school students that they were “looking for a homicide/immigrant suspect.”
The police report did not specify the teens’ legal status and immigration officials declined to comment on the case.
“Subjects in a white van and white truck exited their vehicles and pointed guns at the customers at the drive-thru window,” according to a dispatcher.
Baristas at the drive-thru took shelter in a restroom during the Oct. 3 incident, and Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Hillsboro police responded to the scene. Police with the city on the west side of Portland’s metropolitan area later confirmed the agents were with ICE.
The confrontation is an example of the Trump administration’s increased immigration crackdown in Oregon in recent months. This month, ICE officers also pushed into an apartment in Gresham, east of Portland, where a 24-year-old woman and her 3-month-old baby were staying with her stepfather and brother. ICE agents drew their rifles at the family and arrested the stepfather and brother, even though they weren’t who ICE was searching for.
Immigration agents also arrested four Latino construction workers at a job site in Gresham and held a Latino man on the ground in the middle of a Portland street, with an agent on top of the man for nearly two minutes while the man screamed in Spanish that he couldn’t breathe, according to interviews, police reports, court records and videos shared with The Oregonian/OregonLive. Immigration authorities also mistakenly arrested a U.S. citizen — another Latino man — outside his worksite earlier this month.
In Hillsboro, the teenagers who were stopped by ICE at the Dutch Bros Coffee told local police that it was the second time immigration agents had stopped them at gunpoint that morning.
Two hours earlier around 8:10 a.m. or 8:20 a.m., agents in a white truck and van stopped the teens’ black Mazda near Su Casa Super Mercado in Hillsboro. During the stop, the agents damaged the Mazda’s back bumper, the teenagers later told police.
The 17-year-old driver of the vehicle said the agents “pointed guns at them, flashed a badge and asked him and his passengers for their ID’s, and took pictures of them,” according to the Hillsboro police report. “After the incident he went home to tell his mother and went to school.”
Another one of the teens told officers that the agents at Dutch Bros “did the same thing as earlier, pointed their guns at them, asked for identification and took photos of them,” the police report said. The teen said he felt scared.
The teen said agents told the high school students that they were “looking for a homicide/immigrant suspect.”
The police report did not specify the teens’ legal status and immigration officials declined to comment on the case.
