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Reminder: Sheriff aids ICE deportation effort

Zane Sparling

Outlook

2017-02-07

Tags:

crime, enforcement, ICE, illegal aliens, taxes

Multnomah County law agency trades conviction records for cash subsidies

In the past week, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office has loudly emphasized what it doesn't do to help federal jailers apprehend undocumented immigrants.

But the law enforcement agency does help the national government deport foreign nationals who are convicted in the criminal justice system. Prisoners qualify for one program after one felony or two misdemeanors.

MCSO provides inmate information, including names and sentencing records, as part of a U.S. program intended to subsidize the cost of...

Governor Kate Brown Addresses Immigration Policy and Expands Protections to Oregonians

Oregon.gov

2017-02-02

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enforcement, ICE, illegal aliens, taxes, Oregon

Salem, OR—Governor Kate Brown today acted to strengthen Oregon law to better protect Oregonians and called on Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to bring legal action to oppose the federal government's recently announced immigration policies.

"I will uphold the civil and human rights of all who call Oregon home," Governor Brown said. "It is also my duty to prevent any undue harm to our economy and ensure the ability of Oregonians to support their families. These new policies from the White House show no regard for the values Oregonians believe in or the economic realities Oregon...

A Multnomah County Sheriff’s Deputy Allegedly Aided Federal Agents in Courthouse Immigration Sting

A nationwide immigration crackdown reveals weaknesses in Portland’s “sanctuary city” policies

Corey Pein

Willamette Week

2017-02-01

Tags:

crime, drugs, drunk driving, election, enforcement, ICE, illegal aliens

On Jan. 25, Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese pledged his office wouldn't help President Donald Trump deport undocumented immigrants.

"I believe we have a responsibility to nurture a relationship of trust with everyone in our community," Reese said....

As early as Nov. 15, local officials pledged that Portland will remain a "sanctuary city" for undocumented immigrants...

...Reese won't have to contend only with Trump, but with people in his own employ.

In late December, one of Reese's deputies allegedly helped deliver an undocumented...

Oregon activists react to Trump's executive orders

Natalie Pate

Statesman Journal

2017-01-31

Tags:

election, enforcement, Homeland Security, immigration, Oregon

Opponents of President Trump's executive orders concerning immigrants and refugees plan to rally at the Oregon State Capitol on Wednesday.

"We will demand that the Governor and the State Legislature take immediate actions to defend and protect immigrants and refugees in Oregon," said rally organizers from Voz Hispana, an immigrants rights organization. "Oregon will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine."

Last Friday, President Trump suspended the U.S. refugee program for 120 days, banned all immigrants from seven Muslim countries — Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia,...

Delivering on immigration

Details on the wall, sanctuary cities still to come

The Register-Guard

2017-01-30

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ballot measure 88, enforcement, illegal aliens, Oregon legislation, Oregon Legislature

As he planned his improbable ascent, a peculiar election result from a small Western state might have caught Donald Trump’s eye. In 2014, Oregonians voted nearly 2-1 against a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to issue driver’s cards to people who could not prove legal residency in the United States. The proposal was a modest public-safety measure, but most voters saw it as an accommodation of illegal aliens and said no — hell no. Trump saddled that same emotional response and rode it into the White House. Now he must deliver.

The president made a start last week....

Oregon sheriffs: Quick change in immigration actions 'unlikely'

Pat Garrett - Sheriff, Washington County

CHANNEL 21 KTVZ.COM CENTRAL OREGON’S NEWS LEADER

2017-01-27

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fraud, jobs, enforcement, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, Oregon legislation

WILSONVILLE, Ore. - Oregon sheriffs issued a statement Friday explaining the background to their stance on not reporting all undocumented immigrants to federal authorities, due to state law, and how that likely means no immediate change in their agencies’ procedures.

Here’s the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association’s posted “legal analysis,” in full:

Many Oregon residents are asking their local Sheriff how President Trump’s January 25, 2017 Executive Order on Immigration will change local practices. The Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association provides the following analysis of this...

Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury Tells President Trump: “We Will Stand Up to Bullying”

Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese joins refusal to hold immigrants for deportation

Piper McDaniel

Willamette Week

2017-01-25

Tags:

election, ICE, illegal aliens, Oregon

Officials across the Portland region—including Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese—pledged to defy President Donald Trump's pressure to hold undocumented immigrants for deportation.

Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury said Trump's executive order to remove federal funds from so-called "sanctuary cities" won't cause the county to yield.

"Federal funding is important," Kafoury said in a press conference today. "But we will stand up to bullying."...

(That was always unlikely. As WW reported this morning, to change the existing policy in Multnomah County would defy a U...

Forest Grove won't be a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants

Casey Parks

OregonLive.com

2017-01-25

Tags:

election, enforcement, Homeland Security, ICE, deferred action, illegal aliens

The mayor thought declaring Forest Grove a "sanctuary city" would be a no-brainer.

About a quarter of the Washington County city's 21,000 residents are Latino...

"They play a significant role in the culture of this community," Truax said.

But Monday night, in a tie vote that has divided the community, the council decided it wouldn't be a sanctuary city....

Councilors said they worried the term is too polarizing. President Donald Trump has vowed to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities...

Sanctuary cities have been around since the 1980s and use...

Trump immigration orders force Oregon officials to revisit laws

Lauren E Hernandez

Statesman Journal

2017-01-25

Tags:

enforcement, ICE, illegal aliens, Oregon

Local agencies are analyzing President Donald Trump's executive orders that halt federal funding to sanctuary cities and allows law enforcement to perform the functions of immigration officers.

In one executive order , Trump states the federal government has failed in maintaining a federal and state partnership to enforce immigration laws.

The order requires all executive departments and agencies to "employ all lawful means to enforce the immigration laws in the United States."

The new policy empowers state and local law enforcement agencies to perform the functions...

Arrest Made In Death Of Marion County Deputy Kelly Fredinburg Nearly A Decade Later

Oregon State Police

Flash Alert Newswire

2017-01-21

Tags:

border, crime, enforcement, Homeland Security, illegal aliens, Oregon

On January 20, 2017, it was learned that Alfredo De JESUS ASCENCIO, age 29, was arrested in the Mexican state of Puebla on an arrest warrant for the death of Marion County Deputy Kelly Fredinburg and another man in June of 2007.

On June 16, 2007 Deputy Fredinburg was enroute to an emergency call southbound on Highway 99E north of Gervais when his patrol car was struck head-on by a northbound vehicle driven by Alfredo De JESUS ASCENCIO. Deputy Fredinburg's patrol car caught fire and he was pronounced deceased at the scene. Deputy Fredinburg joined the Marion County Sheriff's Office...

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