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Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBA memo by two Republican state lawmakers is the latest sign that the party believes it will benefit in November by attacking Democrats’ record on the nation’s southern border. -
Carlos A. Moreno/CalMattersPresident Biden’s executive action could allow border agents to immediately return migrants to Mexico without considering their asylum claims. While the White House says the new measures will bring order, advocates for migrants say it could cause more chaos and danger.
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U.S. officials have largely attributed the decline to more enforcement in Mexico, including in yards where migrants are known to board freight trains. -
Sixteen Republican lawmakers and legislative candidates from Oregon plan to visit the Arizona-Mexico border on Monday, arguing that lax security around the southern border exacerbates the drug crisis in Oregon, 1,000 miles north. -
Migrants can sue an air transport company that they say misled them when it flew them from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. A judge dismissed claims against Florida officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis. -
The proposal would have meant challenging a federal law that bars employers from hiring undocumented immigrants. Advocates requesting the change argue that the University of California, as a state agency, is exempt from that law. -
More than 1 million immigrants, most lacking permanent legal status, are covered by state health programs. Several states, including GOP-led Utah, will soon add or expand such coverage. -
Democrats in California and elsewhere are divided on the Gaza war. But there’s another bloody war, in Ukraine, and on that, key California members of Congress are also split from the White House. -
The migrant surge at the southern border hit a record of over 2.4 million. Republicans say it's a failure of Biden's policies. The U.N. says, globally, there's never been so many displaced people. -
Venezuelans replaced Mexicans for the first time on record, according to new figures that show September was the second-highest month for arrests of all nationalities. -
This Saturday, a benefit concert in Ashland will help Ukrainian refugee families who came to the Rogue Valley after the Russian invasion. One of those families traveled 7,000 miles from Mariupol to Ashland, Oregon. -
We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories. -
A Portland garden for African refugee growers provides African foods, cultural connection and the joys of farming. -
Migrants say they are facing increased harassment and unabashed cruelty by local, state and federal authorities as permanent residents' general attitudes toward immigrants shift.
