Portland Mayor Keith Wilson has offered a troubling portrait of workplace conditions inside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, depicting a high-stress and haphazard environment.
Those types of oversights and mistakes are an accident waiting to happen, he said.
Wilson issued the warning in a Newsweek editorial published Saturday in which he also accused the Trump Administration and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem of needlessly courting disaster.
The alarming details and blistering broadside came nearly two weeks after Wilson met with Noem inside the immigration building during her visit to Portland earlier this month.
“The ICE facility was a mess of overflowing dumpsters, loose body armor and crowd control munitions and a broken HVAC ai