mayor Portland, OregonOver the weekend, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to leave his city after federal agents used tear gas on a group of demonstrators, including young children, outside an ICE facility.

Mayor Keith Wilson described Saturday’s protests as peaceful, and federal agents reportedly used tear gas, pepper balls, flash grenades and rubber bullets against anti-ICE demonstrators.

Wilson urged ICE agents to resign and for the agency to leave Portland, condemning their “use of violence” and “trampling on the Constitution.”

“Today, federal forces deployed a large amount of chemical munitions, disrupting a peaceful daytime protest at which the vast majority of those present did not violate the law, made no threats, and did not pose a danger to federal forces,” he said in a statement on Saturday.

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Mayor Keith Wilson called the protests in the city peaceful and called on ICE to withdraw. (Ali Gradisher/Getty Images)

“To those who continue to work for ICE: resign. To those who control this agency: leave. Through your use of violence and violation of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with disgrace. To those who continue to make these disgusting decisions, go home, look in the mirror, and ask yourselves why you gas children. Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murder on America’s streets. No one is forcing you to lie to yourself, even as your bosses continue to lie to the American people,” the mayor continued.

The mayor added that the country “will never accept the existence of federal agencies using deadly force against the people they are sworn to serve.”

“I share the impatience of those who demand that we use every legal tool at our disposal to fight back against this inexcusable, unconscionable and unacceptable violence against our communities,” Wilson said. “I agree on the need for action. Action that can withstand the scrutiny of the justice system will take time – we cannot lose this battle.”

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Federal agents fired tear gas at a group of demonstrators, including young children, outside an ICE facility in Portland. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Portland officials are working to implement an ordinance that took effect last month that imposes fees on detention facilities that use chemical agents, the mayor said.

“As we prepare to put this law into effect, we are also documenting today’s events and preserving the evidence. The federal government must and will be held accountable,” he wrote.

“Portland will continue to stand steadfastly with us immigrant neighborThey deserve safety, dignity, and the full protection of the communities they helped build,” he continued. “We are also proud of the Portlanders who showed up today in peaceful solidarity to demonstrate the strength and clarity of these shared values ​​in the face of federal overreach. “

The country is in turmoil after two killings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents and a bipartisan review of immigration enforcement strategies. in minneapolis last month.

The Trump administration has faced bipartisan scrutiny over its immigration enforcement tactics after two killings of U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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Renee Nicole Good was shot to death by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 in Minneapolis, and Alex Pretti was shot by Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection Officer Raymundo Gutierrez on January 24 while documenting an immigration enforcement operation in the same city.

Intensive care unit nurse Preeti appeared to be trying to help a knocked out female agent, but he was sprayed with an irritant, pushed to the ground and beaten, according to video and eyewitness accounts. One agent was later seen pulling Preti’s legally owned firearm from his waistband before other agents fired several shots, killing him.