When I left Portland in early February for my hometown of Minneapolis to swap newsrooms for a week and report for our States Newsroom sister site, the Minnesota Reformer, I took one central worry with me. I feared most that the people I love in the Twin Cities would have irrevocably changed over the past […]
PORTLAND— A federal judge on Friday sharply questioned a federal attorney over inconsistent reports regarding the use of less-lethal munitions outside the Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, as well the integration of social media influencers in operations at the site. The hearing came in response to a December lawsuit from residents and the affordable […]
(The Center Square) – A coalition of Democratic legislators announced several bills they're introducing this year to target the activity of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement in California.
(The Center Square) – In reaction to Saturday's fatal shooting of an American citizen in Minnesota by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, California lawmakers are introducing legislation designed to prevent an escalation of ICE presence in the state.
Immigration rights attorneys are asking a federal court to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting people without a warrant in Oregon. Portland-based Innovation Law Lab filed the preliminary injunction motion in U.S. District Court in Eugene on Friday. It’s part of a 2025 lawsuit on behalf of two individuals suing ICE after they were […]
Hundreds of Oregonians turned out across Portland and in Salem to protest against federal agents shooting people in Portland and Minneapolis, as well as U.S. military action in Venezuela. Several groups quickly organized Saturday’s events after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed an unarmed woman in her vehicle in Minneapolis, federal Customs […]
Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas went to Tacoma, Washington, on Tuesday expecting to meet with three of her constituents who are detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. Instead, the second-term Democrat — whose 6th Congressional District includes cities in the northern Willamette Valley grappling with increased ICE presence and arrests — and […]
The American Civil Liberty Union of Oregon is representing a 32-year-old man in a federal lawsuit claiming the man’s civil rights were violate…
A dedicated group of primarily local Black Lives Matter protesters gathered Sunday at the Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility (NOR…
Hood River County Fair achieved an odd sort of balance last weekThe smallest Thursday attendance in memory was followed by a record turnout on…
