Immigrants

Immigration agents pulled over a van in Marion County on Thursday morning, busted through the driver’s window and detained four farmworkers on the way to their jobs at a blueberry farm, according to attorneys representing one of the workers.

The U.S. Department of Justice promises more litigation is coming. Top attorneys for Oregon and Washington say their sanctuary laws are on sound legal footing.

The children had new passports and were presumably preparing for a flight out of the U.S., according to a family friend.

His ongoing detention this year sparked protests by union and immigrant rights groups outside the Tacoma detention center, including a vigil on the day of his hearing where a crowd chanted “free them all.”

Oregon orchards have fewer workers this harvest season because they fear making the journey from California to Oregon out of fear they will get arrested or detained by ICE.

Law enforcement agencies received 95 requests for assistance from federal immigration authorities over the course of the past 12 months, according to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission's annual report. That number represents a 265% increase compared to the previous reporting year.

A group of elected officials in one of Oregon’s most racially diverse counties pushed back Monday against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

In its first report published this month, a new Washington task force found the state faces multiple gaps in supports for separated immigrant families.

Legal experts say some asylum seekers are being moved from a process with legal protections into expedited removal, which has "almost none."

President Donald Trump’s move to mobilize the National Guard in California against the wishes of the state’s governor is playing out in yet another court battle over constitutional powers. In Washington state, Democrats have watched the events unfold with anxiety.