Portland has a need for authentic immigration reform and justice It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. If ever there was a time to aspire to that philosophy, it is now. On Saturday, the so-called Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer moveme ...
3 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
Now is the time to speak out to our representatives and tell them “never again.” It has been an emotional, gut-wrenching few weeks. The images and sounds of young children screaming and crying for their mothers and fathers has pushed many of us to the lim ...
22 Jun 2018 - SR editorial board
Americans shouldn't be kept in the dark about the human toll extracted by our immigration policies It is outrageous that we have to declare in print that children should not be traumatized and discarded for political gain. But this abuse is exactly w ...
8 Jun 2018 - SR editorial board
Across the state, the repeal of DACA has been denounced by academic, religious and business leaders Cruel, immoral, vindictive, racist, pandering – all words used to describe the White House decision to repeal DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arriv ...
8 Sep 2017 - SR editorial board
The feds want our complicity. We shouldn't give it to them. Words mean things. Or at least they used to. Take the word “criminal” for example. It has been inserted into the debate over immigration, pushed by the Trump administration insistence on ar ...
18 May 2017 - SR editorial board
ICE's draconian measures are terrorizing families and children It’s heartbreaking to watch. A young man, taking his 13-year-old daughter to school, is handcuffed and taken away by immigration officers, all while his daughter – still in the car – fil ...
9 Mar 2017 - SR editorial board