... Supporters of a controversial initiative to repeal Oregon’s sanctuary law appeared closer to qualifying for the November ballot.
Oregonians For Immigration Reform turned in 105,000 signatures, according to the group’s president, Cynthia Kendoll. She said backers are also urging petitioners to bring additional signatures to the state Capitol on Friday morning to try to pad their margin. The group needs 88,184 valid signatures from registered voters to qualify for the ballot. That gives them a current margin of error of 19 percent, which might not be enough. “I will...Oregon Issues and News
Oregonians for Immigration Reform
2018-07-05
Today, the Repeal Oregon Sanctuary Law Committee announces that it has submitted to the Oregon Secretary of State the signatures needed to likely qualify Initiative Petition 22 as a measure on the November 2018 statewide ballot. The measure will give voters the opportunity to overturn Oregon Revised Statute 181A.820, the state's illegal-immigrant de facto sanctuary law.
Oregon State Representatives Esquivel, Barreto and Nearman are Chief Petitioners of the initiative and Cynthia Kendoll is authorized agent and President of Oregonians for Immigration Reform, which spearheaded the...
Herald and News
2018-06-29
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation,” declares self-help guru Tony Robbins.
Bereft of the former, the liberal group Our Oregon has embraced the latter.
For the past year, Oregonians for Immigration Reform, a group that advocates policies to stem illegal immigration, has worked to qualify a measure for the November ballot that will enable voters to repeal Oregon Revised Statute 181A.820, the state’s illegal-immigrant sanctuary law. Our Oregon has sought to demonize OFIR’s effort by tarring the thoroughly mainstream organization as a “white supremacist hate group...
A group called Oregonians for Immigration Reform is collecting signatures to get a measure on the ballot to repeal Oregon's sanctuary state status.
KGW
2018-06-26
ALBANY, Ore. – While many are calling for changes in how illegal immigrants are being treated as they cross the border, others in more rural parts of Oregon disagree. Several people in Albany, said people need to come into the United States legally and that current immigration laws should be enforced.
"I'm sad about the protests,” explained Judy, who asked KGW to only use her first name. “I'm all for immigration, but I want it to be legal and I think that we have laws on the books that need to be enforced.”
“My great grandparents were immigrants, they came through Ellis...
Bend Bulletin
2018-06-08
Should Oregon law provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants? This year, voters may get the chance to decide.
Activists affiliated with Oregonians for Immigration Reform are collecting signatures to seek to qualify a measure for the November ballot that would enable voters to repeal Oregon Revised Statute 181A.820. That law prohibits state and local law enforcement agencies from working to detect and apprehend “persons whose only violation of law is that they are persons of foreign citizenship present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.”
To begin, let’s...
OregonLive.com
2018-06-01
Supporters of illegal-immigrant sanctuary policies are notorious for employing emotion over logic. Matt Reed's commentary ("Providing sanctuary in schools isn't enough," May 25) is a spot-on example.
Reed, a teacher at Beaverton School District's Westview High, relates the story of a student's father detained for a violation of immigration law "by a federal government increasingly hostile toward immigrants." (As do many sanctuary advocates, Reed refers to people here illegally merely as "immigrants," a semantic sleight of hand designed to conflate legal with illegal immigrants and...
2018-04-26
Ballots for the May 15, 2018 primary election are arriving in the mailboxes of Oregon’s registered voters.
OFIR has now posted information on the immigration positions of many candidates running in the primary. Please take a moment to look over the information before you fill out your ballot.
The offices for which informational reports are available on the OFIR website are:
Governor
Commissioner of Labor and Industries
Congressional candidates
Oregon House candidates (HD 09, HD 18, HD 19, HD 20, HD 23, HD 26)
Oregon Senate...
SJ Statesman Journal
2018-02-07
Despite national efforts to end DACA, undocumented students in Oregon will continue to have access to tuition equity if Senate Bill 1563 passes.
Students who are not citizens have historically had to apply for "official federal identification" — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals documentation — before they can be eligible for resident tuition at public universities.
Otherwise, they have to pay non-resident or international tuition costs, which can be three or four times more than in-state tuition per year.
But since the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s...
The Oregonian
2018-01-29
The state's largest college opened a new center last week specifically to help support students who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Portland Community College officially opened the door Jan. 22 to its DACA Resource Center at the school's Rock Creek campus on the west side. The school says it's the first center of its kind in the state. ... undocumented students brought to the United States as children, commonly referred to as Dreamers.
"At PCC, we recognize that dreamer students face unique barriers that require additional mental,...
OregonLive.com
2017-11-20
Money problems at the Oregon agency that oversees Medicaid could be more than twice as large as already disclosed, a new report reveals.
Due to errors involving abortion, prison, undocumented immigrants and other factors, the state might have overpaid its contractors or owe other entities as much as $78 million...
....Allen listed $34 million that he said is owed to the agency or went untapped, due to budget and accounting problems....
The disclosures hint at the red meat the reports could serve up to the campaign to overturn $340 million in health taxes enacted to...
