Layoffs come as the health center sees more patients forgo coverage due to a ‘chilling effect’ from Trump’s immigration rhetoric and ‘public charge’ policy Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center has cut 34 jobs and frozen 47 open positions across its netw ...
25 Oct 2019 - Christen McCurdy
Activists plan a rally to put pressure on the carrier and to inform passengers of their rights Demonstrators will rally in Portland this weekend and deliver a letter to Greyhound Lines Inc., demanding the bus company stop allowing federal immigration enfo ...
13 Sep 2019 - Emily Green
With its rampant conflicts of interest, the immigration court system is not consistent with American democracy, says Judge Ashley Tabaddor, president of the judges’ union Americans have been inundated with images and stories of migrant children separated ...
6 Sep 2019 - Helen Hill
Signatures are being collected for a ballot measure that could come before Oregon voters in November 2020 Efforts to keep undocumented immigrants from driving legally are underway once again – with help from the Oregon Republican Party. Two political hope ...
27 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
The youths see their writing come to life in the theater as part of Project Untangled, a program that helps them with their trauma It was Sunday night, Aug. 11, at the Oregon Children’s Theater in Northeast Portland, and there was a group of adult actors ...
23 Aug 2019 - Casey Miller
Japanese Americans who were detained during World War II share their perspectives on the immigrant detention centers the U.S. operates today The haunting images of children caged in chicken wire, warehoused in government facilities surrounded by armed gua ...
16 Aug 2019 - Libby Dowsett
DIRECTOR'S DESK | The bigotry of the Trump administration’s immigration policy is on full display Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door These are the last lines of the poem at the Statue of Liberty, set ...
16 Aug 2019 - Kaia Sand
Fresh from another trip to a Texas detention center, Sen. Jeff Merkley reminds Americans that children are being detained for extended periods, denied basic needs and separated from their families Simply “do the math” to see how the Trump administration h ...
26 Jul 2019 - Emily Green
BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...
3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
COMMENTARY | Don't think day laborers make valuable contributions to our community? Wrong. The myths surrounding day laborers are not new. Many people have misconceptions about this hardworking group of people who make up part of our communities and ...
3 May 2019 - Marvin Peña