Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed eight bills into law Thursday defending immigrant rights as the Trump administration ramps up federal immigration enforcement. Oregon, a sanctuary state, already has some of the most comprehensive immigration protection laws.  The new laws, however, represent the state’s response to a series of controversial federal actions in late 2025 and […]

Before Oregon could rebound to its pre-pandemic international tourism levels, the state experienced another setback in 2025 that is persisting into this year.  Shifts in the political climate and global trade tensions under the Trump administration are impacting people’s decision to come to the United States, according to travel experts, and that also includes Oregon. […]

A federal judge on Friday barred federal agents outside Portland’s waterfront Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility from using tear gas and chemical munitions in a manner that could seep into a nearby affordable housing complex unless there is an “imminent threat to life.” Residents and Reach Community Development, which operates the apartment complex Gray’s Landing, […]

Gov. Tina Kotek and mayors of 31 cities have a message for the federal government: Stop all immigration enforcement in Oregon until recent violent incidents in Minneapolis, Portland and elsewhere are fully investigated. Kotek and the mayors sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House border czar Tom Homan on Thursday, […]

Para leer en español, haga clic aquí.  Federal immigration agents in Portland detained a 7-year-old girl and her parents last week on their way to the hospital, according to a GoFundMe page in Spanish created by family relatives.  Yohendry de Jesús Crespo Álvarez, 40, and his wife Darianny Liseth González de Crespo, 34, had just […]

Oregon’s top legal officer and four Democratic attorney generals from other states will gather for a town hall in Portland on Wednesday, the anniversary of their first lawsuit against the Trump administration.   California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison will join […]

The federal Department of Homeland Security on Friday morning released the identities of two people shot and injured by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Portland on Thursday afternoon.