ICE arrests US citizen in Oregon. Attorney decries ‘illegal abduction’
Francisco Miranda, a U.S. citizen caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration sweep, was able to record his arrest in Portland before ICE agents confiscated his cellphone.
While ICE officers have mistakenly arrested citizens in several documented cases across the country this year, Miranda appears to be the first known case of a citizen being arrested in Oregon.
Miranda was detained outside his jobsite last Friday. Willamette Week first reported on his arrest.
“What do you mean an overstay?” Miranda could be heard asking one of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in his video. Miranda’s lawyer shared the video with The Oregonian/OregonLive.
The masked agent responded: “An overstay.”
“Because where were you born and don’t lie to me,” the agent replied.
“I’m from California,” Miranda told him.
“Don’t lie to me. Where were you born?” the agent asked Miranda again.
“California,” Miranda repeated.
Miranda is Latino and lives in Milwaukie.
Last month, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for ICE to use race as a factor when deciding who to stop.
ICE has made wrongful arrests under other administrations, as well, and has paid settlements in some of the cases. A 2021 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that ICE officers had arrested 674 “potential citizens” from 2015 through early 2020, held 121 in detention facilities and deported 70. The report – the most recent government data available – called for better ICE tracking of erroneous arrests and better training for ICE officers.
In Oregon, immigration officers have arrested at least 306 people this year through the end of July, according to the Immigration Enforcement Dashboard, an independent project developed by Relevant Research with data from the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley. That’s likely an undercount because the Trump administration hasn’t made data readily accessible to the public.
Homeland Security officials didn’t respond to a request for comment by deadline.
During Miranda’s arrest, the same ICE agent told him that authorities were going to take him in to verify his information after he repeatedly told them he was born in California.
“No, you are not, dude,” Miranda told him.
A few seconds later, a second ICE agent threatened Miranda with his police dog: “Turn around or you are going to get the dog. Turn around.”
“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda told the agents before he was handcuffed and the video ends.
Miranda declined an interview Wednesday through his attorney, Michael Fuller of Portland.
But Fuller said he sent a letter Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about Miranda’s case.
According to the letter, ICE agents struck Miranda “forcefully from behind, causing him to collapse,” before putting him in an unmarked van.
Miranda was released, without explanation, after spending several hours at the ICE office in South Portland and “was driven back to his place of employment without being given any legitimate reason for his abduction,” the letter says.
Miranda had also shown his Oregon driver’s license to the agents before he was detained, according to the letter.
“ICE wasted taxpayer dollars on this illegal abduction and made fools of themselves in the process,” Fuller said in an email.
Fuller has asked Homeland Security to produce all documents related to Miranda’s arrest, any evidence it has that shows Miranda isn’t a U.S. citizen or overstayed a visa and any documents related to ICE’s policies on the use of force and the use of dogs during arrests.
"What we are seeing across the country is not an isolated mistake, these are systematic abuses of power, a violation of the Constitution, and acts of state-sanctioned violence,” the City Council said in the letter.
U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Oregon, on Thursday released a statement denouncing Miranda’s immigration arrest.
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While ICE officers have mistakenly arrested citizens in several documented cases across the country this year, Miranda appears to be the first known case of a citizen being arrested in Oregon.
Miranda was detained outside his jobsite last Friday. Willamette Week first reported on his arrest.
“What do you mean an overstay?” Miranda could be heard asking one of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in his video. Miranda’s lawyer shared the video with The Oregonian/OregonLive.
The masked agent responded: “An overstay.”
“Because where were you born and don’t lie to me,” the agent replied.
“I’m from California,” Miranda told him.
“Don’t lie to me. Where were you born?” the agent asked Miranda again.
“California,” Miranda repeated.
Miranda is Latino and lives in Milwaukie.
Last month, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for ICE to use race as a factor when deciding who to stop.
ICE has made wrongful arrests under other administrations, as well, and has paid settlements in some of the cases. A 2021 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that ICE officers had arrested 674 “potential citizens” from 2015 through early 2020, held 121 in detention facilities and deported 70. The report – the most recent government data available – called for better ICE tracking of erroneous arrests and better training for ICE officers.
In Oregon, immigration officers have arrested at least 306 people this year through the end of July, according to the Immigration Enforcement Dashboard, an independent project developed by Relevant Research with data from the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley. That’s likely an undercount because the Trump administration hasn’t made data readily accessible to the public.
Homeland Security officials didn’t respond to a request for comment by deadline.
During Miranda’s arrest, the same ICE agent told him that authorities were going to take him in to verify his information after he repeatedly told them he was born in California.
“No, you are not, dude,” Miranda told him.
A few seconds later, a second ICE agent threatened Miranda with his police dog: “Turn around or you are going to get the dog. Turn around.”
“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda told the agents before he was handcuffed and the video ends.
Miranda declined an interview Wednesday through his attorney, Michael Fuller of Portland.
But Fuller said he sent a letter Monday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about Miranda’s case.
According to the letter, ICE agents struck Miranda “forcefully from behind, causing him to collapse,” before putting him in an unmarked van.
Miranda was released, without explanation, after spending several hours at the ICE office in South Portland and “was driven back to his place of employment without being given any legitimate reason for his abduction,” the letter says.
Miranda had also shown his Oregon driver’s license to the agents before he was detained, according to the letter.
“ICE wasted taxpayer dollars on this illegal abduction and made fools of themselves in the process,” Fuller said in an email.
Fuller has asked Homeland Security to produce all documents related to Miranda’s arrest, any evidence it has that shows Miranda isn’t a U.S. citizen or overstayed a visa and any documents related to ICE’s policies on the use of force and the use of dogs during arrests.
"What we are seeing across the country is not an isolated mistake, these are systematic abuses of power, a violation of the Constitution, and acts of state-sanctioned violence,” the City Council said in the letter.
U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Oregon, on Thursday released a statement denouncing Miranda’s immigration arrest.
Source: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/ice-arrests-us-citizen-in-oregon-attorney-decries-illegal-abduction.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Ftheoregonian%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F592582473&fbclid=Iwb21leANVrCZjbGNrA1WrsWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeuvsOnvWlC-7b1xXN4VLVTYBiaOfU0DhjVZoXzfIvZPyTCK2xlypo7t4yu_c_aem_eqSbH0MY8pJ6Jga9hDvU2A
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