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  1. "The Divide:" A criminal justice system that targets the poor and favors the wealthy

    Matt Taibbi’s new book looks at the American justice system and the gap between what we’re led to believe and the reality of our economics The premise for “The Divide” is that our society has become “disturbingly comfortable” with a perverse system of jus ...

    27 Feb 2015 - Jim Douglas

  2. El dia de la madre, remembering those behind bars

    As of this writing, today, May 10, is Mother’s Day in Mexico and Central America. I am standing on a small piece of land outside the Detention Center of ICE in Tacoma, Wash. We are here to remember the mothers who are incarcerated in this special jail bui ...

    14 Jun 2014 - Pat Rumer

  3. An ICE-y reception: Immigration officials unfazed by judge's ruling on local detentions

    Last month, a U.S. District court ruling in Portland started a chain reaction that’s slowly stripping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of a controversial policing tool. However, from a data-sharing program to a new mobile fingerprinting init ...

    29 May 2014 - Nathan Gilles

  4. Sheriffs take important step to disentangle from ICE

    Big news last week put Oregon at the forefront of a national movement to disentangle local law enforcement agencies from the harmful practices of federal immigration enforcement, throwing a wrench in the ongoing, devastating deportation dragnet.  Sheriff ...

    6 May 2014 - Becky Straus

  5. ICE case reveals complexities in local policies

    The knocks came early. At around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 23, Daniel Hernandez Garcia and his girlfriend of five years, Josefina Aguiniga, answered the door of their Southeast Portland home to find two officers. “They told me they were police officers and they w ...

    4 Mar 2014 - Nathan Gilles

  6. Hold on, ICE

    Activists continue to find fault with sheriff’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Miguel Hernández, not his real name, really wanted a drink and a night out. What he got was a detention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...

    21 Oct 2013 - Nathan Gilles

  7. ACT network works to change police, ICE collusion policy

    By Andrea Valderrama, Contributing Columnist “On August 12th, 2012 they arrested me around 2 a.m.,” the day laborer says. “I think they arrested me simply because they noticed I was Latino, but they wrote down it was for littering. The police officer told ...

    6 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff

  8. Local enforcement of fed’s immigration law weakens public safety

    Local enforcement of fed’s immigration law weakens public safety by Cassandra Villanueva, Contributing Columnist A hairline crack in the windshield of my sister’s car turned our family’s world upside down in 2010. On their way home from the store to celeb ...

    24 Oct 2012 - Street Roots

  9. Local immigrant rights advocates seek protections against ‘Arizonafication’

    Local immigrant rights advocates seek protections against ‘Arizonafication’   Staff reports Human rights activists are campaigning to make sure Multnomah County doesn’t go the way of some parts of the country where “Arizona-style” policies have damaged im ...

    2 Aug 2012 - Street Roots

  10. How Immigration and Customs Enforcement has co-opted local law enforcement to find their targets for them

    How Immigration and Customs Enforcement has co-opted local law enforcement to find their targets for them By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer It was the unusual number of calls that led the Portland Human Rights Commission to check out Secure Communities. The ca ...

    3 Feb 2011 - Street Roots

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