Oregon Issues and News
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...
2017-11-16
Sanctuary jurisdictions in Oregon currently at risk of losing funding, and amounts at risk:
Multnomah County - $173,088
Oregon Criminal Justice Commission - $2,080,04
DOJ Targets More Sanctuaries
By Jessica Vaughan, Center for Immigration Studies, November 16, 2017
Yesterday DOJ sent a letter to 29 sanctuary jurisdictions that received law enforcement grants under the Byrne/Justice Assistance Grants program in 2016, warning them that they appear to be in violation of federal law and may have to repay the funds. In addition, they could be...
The Register-Guard
2017-09-21
PORTLAND — In a speech to federal law enforcement officers, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday urged Oregon politicians to reconsider the state’s “sanctuary” law.
Sessions pointed to a slew of high-profile crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants in Oregon and nationwide as he tried to make the case that the 1987 state law makes Oregonians less safe.
“The problem is that the (sanctuary) policies tie your hands,” he told the law enforcement officials and other federal workers. “Sanctuary policies endanger us all.”
Sessions’ 20-minute address at the U.S....
2017-09-21
Attorney General Jeff Sessions came to Portland on Tuesday, September 19, to speak to state and local law enforcement about the importance of better cooperation between state and federal authorities in controlling immigration.
Here are excerpts from Sessions’ remarks:
The fundamental duty of this government is to protect the safety and the rights of its citizens. President Trump is a law and order President. …
A key concern is that some jurisdictions have undertaken to undo our immigration laws through so-called “sanctuary policies.”
Such policies undermine the...
OregonLive.com
2017-09-18
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be in Portland on Tuesday to talk about sanctuary cities and immigration with federal law enforcement officials.
Sessions will make his remarks at 1 p.m. at the Portland field office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services at 1455 N.W. Overton St.
Sessions is also expected to meet separately with Oregon sheriffs and police to discuss immigration, violent crime, drug enforcement and the opioid epidemic, among other things, an administration official said.
Portland Commissioner Nick Fish wrote on his Facebook page over...
