IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1048 
Opposing the targeted harassment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment officers and employees and reaffirming the fundamental principle 
that public safety services should be provided without discrimination. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 31, 2018 
Mr. NORMAN (for himself, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. BABIN, Mr. BRAT, and Mr. JODY 
B. HICE of Georgia) submitted the following resolution; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Commit-
tees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Opposing the targeted harassment of U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement officers and employees and re-
affirming the fundamental principle that public safety 
services should be provided without discrimination. 
Whereas Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a candidate for Congress 
from New York, welcomed the support of Occupy ICE 
LA, a group that called U.S. Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement (in this preamble referred to as ‘‘ICE’’) a 
‘‘genocidal ethnic cleansing machine’’ and ‘‘the Gestapo’’, 
and posted photos of ICE employees on the internet, en-
couraging activists to ‘‘[k]now their faces, never allow 
them to feel safe’’; 
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Whereas Cynthia Nixon, a candidate for Governor of New 
York, stated that ICE ‘‘is a terrorist organization’’; 
Whereas a mob of leftwing activists recently surrounded an 
ICE office in southwest Portland, Oregon, trapping ICE 
employees inside the building; 
Whereas ICE employees were subjected to doxxing and vio-
lent threats after their social media profiles, phone num-
bers, and home addresses were posted on the internet by 
leftwing activists; 
Whereas an ICE officer was reportedly followed and ‘‘con-
fronted when he went to pick up his daughter from sum-
mer camp’’, and another ‘‘had his name and photo plas-
tered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being 
part of the ‘Gestapo’ ’’, according to the Wall Street 
Journal; 
Whereas the Mayor of Portland, Oregon, Ted Wheeler, 
barred the Portland Police Bureau from coming to the 
aid of ICE employees, stating, ‘‘I do not want the 
@PortlandPolice to be engaged or sucked into a conflict, 
particularly from a Federal agency that I believe is on 
the wrong track . . . If they are looking for a bailout 
from this mayor, they are looking in the wrong place.’’; 
Whereas the ICE office in southwest Portland was shut down 
for days due to threats and occupation; 
Whereas leftwing activists have similarly harassed and threat-
ened ICE employees and targeted ICE offices for closure 
around the country; 
Whereas the National Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment Council’s representative stated in a letter to Mayor 
Ted Wheeler that ‘‘[y]our current policy forbidding Port-
land law enforcement agencies from assisting employees 
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of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency 
who request law enforcement assistance while at or away 
from work’’ leaves ‘‘them vulnerable to violence, harass-
ment and even death . . . Your policy has created a zone 
of terror and lawlessness. We ask that you end your pol-
icy of not responding to calls for police services from ICE 
employees immediately. Our membership has been the 
subjected to threats of physical violence and harassment 
since you announced your policy.’’; and 
Whereas the President of the Portland Police Association, 
Daryl Turner, stated, ‘‘There is no place for personal, po-
litical bias when it comes to providing public safety serv-
ices to our communities. In that respect, our Mayor, who 
is also our Police Commissioner, has failed miserably.’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) expresses solidarity with the men and 
women of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment who bring human traffickers, drug traffickers, 
gang members, and violent criminals to justice; 
(2) condemns the doxxing and targeted harass-
ment of all officers and employees of U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement and the violent 
threats they continue to endure from leftwing activ-
ists; and 
(3) calls on the Mayor of Portland, Oregon, Ted 
Wheeler, to immediately resign so that a leader com-
mitted to protecting all law-abiding citizens and pub-
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lic servants from harm can assume the duties of 
mayor of Portland. 
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