The sound of a protest outside her window wakes Brennah Hammar in the middle of the night. "It's like a war zone," Ms Hammar, 57, says about her street. "There are times I've had to have a gas mask on inside my own home," she says, demonstrating how she now wears her mask to sleep.
Tear-gas creeps into her apartment complex, Gray's Landing, which is located across from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland's South Waterfront neighbourhood. For those living in this apartment complex, there is a daily battle on their doorstep, although they disagree over who is to blame for the violence. |
