If people in the Portland area think they’ve spotted ICE, there’s a number that many organizations, such as the ACLU, suggest they call: the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition hotline.

The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC) was founded two decades ago by a group of activists and became an independent nonprofit organization in 2021, but since Donald Trump came into office promising a mass deportation campaign, the coalition’s statewide rapid response network has kicked into high gear.

“We’ve seen a huge increase in the number of reports of ICE activity since the change of administration—and while some of that is related to folks knowing about us, there's unquestionably been a huge escalation in terms of ICE enforcement across Oregon,” Natalie Lerner, a spokesperson for PIRC, said

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