COMMENTARY | ICE raids parallel police sweeps that break up homeless camps in Portland Imagine a woman asleep in a small apartment in a Southern state with her two children. Suddenly there is a knock on the door. “Who is it?” A male voice answers: “Open t ...
29 Jan 2016 - Pat Rumer
Matt Taibbi’s new book looks at the American justice system and the gap between what we’re led to believe and the reality of our economics The premise for “The Divide” is that our society has become “disturbingly comfortable” with a perverse system of jus ...
27 Feb 2015 - Jim Douglas
Last month, a U.S. District court ruling in Portland started a chain reaction that’s slowly stripping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of a controversial policing tool. However, from a data-sharing program to a new mobile fingerprinting init ...
29 May 2014 - Nathan Gilles
Big news last week put Oregon at the forefront of a national movement to disentangle local law enforcement agencies from the harmful practices of federal immigration enforcement, throwing a wrench in the ongoing, devastating deportation dragnet. Sheriff ...
6 May 2014 - Becky Straus
The knocks came early. At around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 23, Daniel Hernandez Garcia and his girlfriend of five years, Josefina Aguiniga, answered the door of their Southeast Portland home to find two officers. “They told me they were police officers and they w ...
4 Mar 2014 - Nathan Gilles
Activists continue to find fault with sheriff’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Miguel Hernández, not his real name, really wanted a drink and a night out. What he got was a detention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...
21 Oct 2013 - Nathan Gilles
How Immigration and Customs Enforcement has co-opted local law enforcement to find their targets for them By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer It was the unusual number of calls that led the Portland Human Rights Commission to check out Secure Communities. The ca ...
3 Feb 2011 - Street Roots