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Uncertainty over travel ban plagues Portland’s immigrant community

Immigrants, refugees and advocates express apprehension over their ability to travel Anxiety and indignation permeated the room at the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon’s “Know Your Rights” workshop Feb. 4 at Portland State University. The event, ...

9 Feb 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
Planet Portland: Personal journeys of local immigrants

Since 2015, Street Roots has been publishing Planet Portland, a periodic series of articles on the personal journeys within Portland's immigrant communities. These are their stories. Meet Kilong Ung, who spent four years as a slave laborer in Cambod ...

2 Feb 2017 - Street Roots
Defunding Planned Parenthood would be a blow to immigrants

COMMENTARY | Undocumented immigrants and their communities depend on health care providers like Planned Parenthood I have been a board member of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon for five months. I take the work I do personally because my parents are ...

26 Jan 2017 - Leticia Valle
New babies bring unique challenges to foreign-born moms

In Multnomah County, foreign-born moms accounted for 1 in 4 babies in 2015 Adjusting to the physical changes and endless demands a baby brings into her life can be a struggle for any new mom. But for many foreign-born mothers, these challenges are more li ...

4 Aug 2016 - Emily Green
Migrant forest workers win back pay

Laborers were shorted $103,500 for work on public lands in Oregon, Idaho and Arizona The U.S. Department of Labor announced in June that its investigators found two reforestation companies owed more than $103,500 in back wages and damages to their employe ...

14 Jul 2016 - Emily Green
Street Roots editorial: Oregon must protect all workers

Tax dollars should not support the exploitation of reforestation workers Two workforces coexist in Oregon: one that enjoys the protection of labor and safety laws, and one that does not. For three decades, thousands of Latin American immigrant and guest ...

18 Feb 2016 - SR editorial board
Timber's fallen: Efforts show promise for working conditions in Oregon forestry

PART III | Advocates, reforestation operators say effective policy changes will need to come from the top down This is Part III of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of Oregon's immigrant forestry workers. Marko Bey was sit ...

18 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
Timber's fallen: A three-part investigative series on Oregon's reforestation workers

Oregon's immigrant forestry workers have little recourse to pervasive exploitation and labor violations For three decades, thousands of Latin American immigrant and guest workers have performed much of the most grueling work in Oregon's forests. ...

18 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
Timber’s fallen: Enforcement of forest labor laws spotty, lacks bite

PART II | Companies face few inspections, mild consequences despite actions that lead to serious injury or death This is Part II of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of Oregon's immigrant forestry workers. It was raining o ...

11 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
Timber’s fallen: The plight of immigrant forestry workers

PART I | State hearings reveal the vulnerability of workers who live in fear of retaliation if they speak out This is Part I of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of immigrant forestry workers. Any Oregonian who watches network ...

5 Feb 2016 - Emily Green