Proposed Detention Center Fee Yields Hostile City Council Meeting

Portland City Hall faced three competing demonstrations on Wednesday as the City Council considered a rental pricing ordinance and a change to city code that could slow the Trump administration’s local anti-immigration machine.

The November 20 Council meeting was disrupted on several occasions and included multiple expulsions. On the agenda was the ordinance barring algorithmic price-fixing in the city, which passed, and a first reading of an ordinance co-sponsored by Councilors Angelita Morillo and Mitch Green to implement a new fee on detention facilities.

Before the evening meeting, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members set up canopies and handed out pizza outside City Hall, gathering to support a final vote on Morillo’s ordinance to ban algorithmic price fixing technology la