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An ICE-y reception: Immigration officials unfazed by judge's ruling on local detentions

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
ICE case reveals complexities in local policies

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
What the Trans-Pacific Partnership means for Oregon

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven other countries negotiating what is the largest trade d ...

15 Feb 2014 - Nathan Gilles
'They considered me a traitor and a spy’

Helping U.S. forces made many Iraqi and Afghan interpreters targets in their own countries, and the visa program intended to help them has fallen under heavy fire Fifty-year-old Omar Al-Kubaisi says he wanted to give his people a voice and help prevent bl ...

1 Jan 2014 - Nathan Gilles
Veering from the learning cliff: the unpopularity of STEM

For two years, an OSU team has tracked the STEM interests and activities of 16 Parkrose fifth-graders Nobody’s quite sure why, but toward the end of middle school students lose interest in science and math. Researchers at one Portland school want to learn ...

2 Dec 2013 - Nathan Gilles
Social enterprise lights the way

A new type of business doing good in Portland The building is striking. Several stories tall and stretching roughly two city blocks, the metal-framed factory’s roof is covered with 4,830 navy blue solar panels. This 850-kilowatt array is the largest of it ...

6 Nov 2013 - Nathan Gilles
Hold on, ICE

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
Hunger at home in suburbia

Food insecurity a primary benchmark in our rising suburban poverty It’s lunchtime at Alder Elementary in the east Portland suburb of Gresham, and even though it’s summer, the school’s gym-turned-cafeteria is packed with children. There are about 80 grade ...

15 Aug 2013 - Nathan Gilles
Reaching out in St. Johns

Far from major services and programs, the faith-based community and advocates come together to help the homeless in Portland’s northern neighborhood Her day starts early. Around 5 a.m. she gets up. She’s spent the night behind a church. Sometimes it’s a s ...

19 Jun 2013 - Nathan Gilles