Weekly Update for February 8, 2026

The Data

  • 10 detentions reported to the PIRC hotline 2/2-2/10

  • All detentions reported to have occurred in Multnomah, with half having occurred at checkins at the Macadam ICE facility.

  • 89 Detentions reported to PIRC thus far this year.

Ways to Engage

While we are in a moment of fewer detentions in community, there are 3 ways we need you to engage:

  1. Call your senators and congresspeople 

  2. Help our community prepare

  3. Care for yourself and neighbors

Call Your Senators and Congresspeople

This next week it is CRITICAL for people across the  country to tell their federal electeds to:

  1. Not send another cent of funding towards ICE and CBP.  Not one more cent can be invested in their 85 billion dollar campaign of cruelty against our neighbors.

  2.  Abolish ICE: because some may forget, but Oregonians know: this agency is barely 2 decades old, and has a much bigger problem of a couple bad apples. The whole barrel is rotten, and we won’t settle for the lie that we can’t find a better way to welcome and  honor families who have the courage to start a new life in a new land.

The continuing resolution ends on Friday the 13th, so call daily for the next 5 days to make your voice heard!

Apps like 5 calls (https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/) are a great way to find your electeds if you’ve never called before.

Help our community prepare

  1. You can help your neighbors make sure they know to call PIRC if they see ICE or a loved one is detained! Find fliers that you can print and hang up in your community about our rights and the hotline at tiny.url/pirc25

  2. So many people have had their breadwinner or loved one snatched away by ICE over the last few months and for those families, the burden is only growing. We’ve been so appreciative of your generosity; to give to those families, consider looking at the @asylumsolidaritypdx or @ddc_oregon linktrees for family GoFundMe’s, or checking if your local school to see if you can donate their for their social workers and counselors to help families out

Care for yourself and neighbors

Take a moment to self assess. How are you holding up? What can you do in the next week to care for yourself?

 We need a movement that can last, and that means taking pauses; evaluating, and adjusting. We have years ahead of hard work, and we must build a world we want to fight for, not just fight against what is happening now.

On the left is a useful tool to check in with yourself.

Partner of the Week

This week we want to thank SURJ PDX (Standing Up for Racial Justice, Portland), who hosted a wonderful appreciation event for our dedicated Legal Observers this weekend. Thank you SURJ PDX for the love and care! For more info about SURJ PDX go to surjpdx.com or email  surjpdxinfo@gmail.com