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Eli Imadali/OPBThis comes after a judge last month ordered the Coast Guard to return the helicopter immediately while a lawsuit challenging its abrupt removal proceeds. -
Mia Maldonado/Oregon Capital ChronicleIt’s the clearest sign yet that a detention center could be coming to the coastal fishing city.
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The temporary order comes just three days after a lawsuit challenging the removal. The U.S. Coast Guard has stationed a rescue helicopter in Newport since 1987, not long after three fishermen died when their boat capsized roughly 20 miles off the central coast. -
A missing helicopter and a possible immigrant detention center have roiled the coastal city. -
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Friday that the state is filing a lawsuit to force the federal government to return a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter to Newport. Lincoln County and the nonprofit Newport Fisherman’s Wives group filed a similar lawsuit.
