Federal immigration officers detained two people outside of Walmart in Warrenton late Monday morning.

The arrests come just weeks after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained at least six people in the Seaside area.

Norma Hernandez with Consejo Hispano, an Astoria-based nonprofit that provides a variety of resources to the Latine community, said the people detained Monday were at their jobs as Door Dash delivery workers, picking up grocery orders.

“So that is happening in our community, and that’s not a rumor, that is a fact,” Hernandez said, speaking at an Astoria City Council meeting Monday night, adding, “It has been a very long, stressful day and very unsettling for our community,”

At Monday’s meeting, city leaders read a resolution condemning ICE’s tactics when officers detained people in Seaside and reaffirming the City Council’s dedication to upholding community and constitutional principles.

With Monday’s arrests, Hernandez said the community she serves feels like the county is “under siege.”

In a statement to KMUN, Jenny Pool Radway, executive director of Consejo Hispano, said a sense of safety has been shaken.

“These actions terrorize hardworking people who contribute every day to the strength of our region,” she said.

Clatsop County school districts have reported a dip in attendance following the arrests in Seaside. Astoria School District is now offering distance learning options for children whose families are afraid to leave their homes or send them to school.

During the operations in Seaside, ICE officers did not clearly identify themselves through badges or uniforms and drove unmarked cars. They did not let local law enforcement know they were in the area.

This time, Astoria Police Chief Stacy Kelly said the federal officers were identifiable as ICE, but they did not alert local police or emergency dispatchers.

“Federal agencies do not information local jurisdictions in advance of their operations, and this action was no exception,” Warrenton Mayor Henry Balensifer told KMUN in a statement.

“State law prohibits the city from expending any resources assisting federal immigration enforcement, and federal law prohibits the city from interfering with federal actions,” he continued. “At this time, we have limited information and are continuing to assess the situation.”

Clatsop County Sheriff Matt Phillips agreed that normally there would not be communication with ICE.

But in the last month, amid heightened tensions around the Trump administration’s more aggressive immigration enforcement policies, he and other Oregon sheriffs have asked for more information ahead of ICE operations. They said they want to avoid confusing and possibly dangerous confrontations between local officers and unidentifiable, masked immigration officers.

Phillips told KMUN he still has those concerns following the ICE operations on Monday.

Katie Frankowicz is a reporter with the KMUN newsroom. This story comes to you from the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.

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