Immigrants

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.

A 24 year-old asylum seeker was detained Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers outside a Portland immigration courtroom after she appeared for a scheduled court date.

Roughly 200,000 Afghans came to the U.S. after the Taliban seized control in Afghanistan in 2021. Many are worried about their future as President Trump has steadily eliminated legal protections.

Hundreds of people took to the streets at the Oregon Statehouse Thursday in support of May Day. It is an annual event, but many immigrants and farmworker advocacy groups say this year is different.