Overview

• Cottonwood School carried out an emergency move to a recently vacated middle-school site just weeks before classes were set to begin.
• School leaders say enrollment plunged as families reported drifting gases and staff routinely found munitions on the playground.
• Anti-ICE activists documented spent canisters labeled CS tear gas, Green Smoke and Orange Smoke, and a reporter was shown a used Green Smoke canister.
• Portland officials said they received reports of pepper balls, pepper spray and smoke grenades near the ICE facility and described steps to limit chemical runoff into waterways.
• ICE did not disclose the makeup of its crowd-control munitions or respond on the record, while Sen. Ron Wyden warned that depending on the chemicals used, children could get sick.