The Regional Solutions Office of the state of Oregon reminds producers in Wasco and Sherman counties that “any time you have crop damage that will adversely affect your yield or crop value, you may be eligible to file a claim,” according to a press release. Producers must Contact their USDA agent within 72 hours after discovery of damage, the release said.

Wasco County Sheriff Lane Magill explained at a meeting Saturday that a 1987 state law prohibits city, county and state police from acting in any capacity to help with immigration efforts. However, if a person is arrested, state law allows — and federal law requires — the local jail to provide that information to immigration officials.

SALEM — Federal immigration officers stopped two vans carrying workers headed to a forest in Oregon to pick an ornamental shrub, and took at least 10 of them away, an activist said Tuesday.