The owners of a non-profit food cart in Portland, Oregon, say they’ve been run out of business by the Occupy ICE protesters who set up camp outside an immigrant detention facility six weeks ago.

Julie and Scott Hakes, owners of The Happy Camper Food and Coffee Bar, operate the food cart to raise money for their nonprofit homeless advocacy group, Operation Off The Grid. They say they no longer feel safe in the neighborhood after Occupy ICE PDX began protesting across the street at the Southwest Portland U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility.

Mr. Hakes said it all started when his 21-year-old daughter made the mistake of laughing with a customer, and protesters assumed she was laughing at them and not supportive of their cause. A video Mr. Hakes shared with ABC-affiliated KATU News showed someone with a megaphone berating the girl from across the street.

“She’s laughing at the immigration laws that have [expletive] over families,” said the unidentified protester.

“Boom, there it went,” Mr. Hakes recalled. “We were on the number one hit list from that point on.”

He said the harassment got worse after protesters caught his daughter serving food to a Department of Homeland Security officer. He said the harassment escalated to level of death threats, and business at the cart took an 80-percent hit.

“If they catch her outside the cart they are going to hurt her. They are constantly saying they are going to hurt her. They’re constantly cussing at her and screaming at her,” Mr. Hakes told KATU News. “We had 10 to 20 individuals rush the cart with customers to intimidate them to where they didn’t want to come back. … She finally had enough. She called me up on the phone, crying. I said ‘Breanna, shut the doors, we’re done.’”

He put the cart up for sale over the weekend with an asking price of $29,999, a Facebook post read.

“We just decided her safety is our number one concern. No matter how much we want to help people, family comes first,” Mrs. Hakes said.

“The organization is going to continue on, nothing is going to stop that,” her husband added.

Antonio Zamora, who says he is a co-founder of the occupation, told KATU News off camera that individual actions do not speak for the group, and that harassment and threats violate their code of conduct.

A Portland Police spokesperson confirmed they have at least one report of threats at the food cart.

The protesters, demonstrating against President Trump’s immigration policies, were ordered to leave before midnight Tuesday or face arrest. Neighbors complained that what started as a political protest ended up serving as a homeless encampment where residents no longer felt safe.

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