COMMENTARY | Voters face a choice: maintain Oregon's sanctuary status or further deepen racial disparities in our criminal justice system Often when we think about the disparities in our criminal justice system, we think about people who are arrested ...
12 Oct 2018 - Shannon Wight
Portland has a need for authentic immigration reform and justice It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. If ever there was a time to aspire to that philosophy, it is now. On Saturday, the so-called Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer moveme ...
3 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
Just as Minoru Yasui of Portland's Japantown was courageous in challenging the racist laws of the federal government during WWII It’s not a time to be complacent. The horrifying sequence of actions from the Trump administration has lurched open colle ...
29 Jun 2018 - Kaia Sand
Now is the time to speak out to our representatives and tell them “never again.” It has been an emotional, gut-wrenching few weeks. The images and sounds of young children screaming and crying for their mothers and fathers has pushed many of us to the lim ...
22 Jun 2018 - SR editorial board
Americans shouldn't be kept in the dark about the human toll extracted by our immigration policies It is outrageous that we have to declare in print that children should not be traumatized and discarded for political gain. But this abuse is exactly w ...
8 Jun 2018 - SR editorial board
COMMENTARY | Sanctuary laws protect well-meaning immigrants. They protected my family. On the evening of Saturday, March 3, I visited the Gresham Fred Meyer to pick up some late-night snacks. As I walked up to the doors, I was approached by two canvassers ...
16 Mar 2018 - Jane Doe
Across the state, the repeal of DACA has been denounced by academic, religious and business leaders Cruel, immoral, vindictive, racist, pandering – all words used to describe the White House decision to repeal DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arriv ...
8 Sep 2017 - SR editorial board
The feds want our complicity. We shouldn't give it to them. Words mean things. Or at least they used to. Take the word “criminal” for example. It has been inserted into the debate over immigration, pushed by the Trump administration insistence on ar ...
18 May 2017 - SR editorial board
COMMENTARY | Refugees and immigrants are not a threat to America; we make it great My dear newborn twins, You were born just 76 days after the swearing in of the 45th president of the United States. Your daddy came to Portland with $10 and a plastic bag u ...
16 May 2017 - Som Subedi
ICE's draconian measures are terrorizing families and children It’s heartbreaking to watch. A young man, taking his 13-year-old daughter to school, is handcuffed and taken away by immigration officers, all while his daughter – still in the car – fil ...
9 Mar 2017 - SR editorial board