Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek and the mayors of 31 Oregon cities, including Ashland, sent a letter to Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem and Border Czar Tom Homan, criticizing ICE tactics and citing use-of-force incidents in Minneapolis and Portland.

U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless there’s a likelihood of escape, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

In California, almost 40% of the workforce is foreign-born and more than a million parents — immigrant and otherwise — rely on child care providers so they can go to work.

Close to four thousand employees of the California Department of Public Health were told they must use the federal E-Verify system to keep federal funding. Unions are pushing back.

Scores of nonviolent protesters were hit with chemical munitions during a union-backed rally Saturday.

State lawmakers are rushing to introduce a swath of new bills aiming to restrict the conduct and authority of ICE agents during their operations in California.

The proposal is part of a package of bills that attempt to bolster the rights of immigrants targeted by the federal government’s deportation campaign, which Democrats have called a top priority for the current short session.

An exchange on Wednesday over immigration policies could offer a preview of friction for the upcoming legislative session as Oregon Democrats try to push back on aggressive federal actions.

The effort to build an ICE detention center was put on hold after community members raised concerns – and then sued to keep a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter in Newport, which court filings show was moved in the midst of ICE’s construction efforts.

Data privacy concerns, increasing immigration enforcement impacting enrollment in Healthier Oregon

The California Senate passed a bill that would make it easier to sue federal officers over civil rights violations. Recent shootings of civilians by immigration agents in Minnesota lent urgency to the measure, one of several targeting ICE.

President Donald Trump’s budget office this week ordered most government agencies to compile data on the federal money that is sent to 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia in what it describes as a tool to “reduce the improper and fraudulent use of those funds.”