Troy Brynelson
Oregon Public BroadcastingTroy Brynelson reports on Southwest Washington for Oregon Public Broadcasting, a JPR news partner. His reporting comes to JPR from the Northwest News Network, a collaboration between public media organizations in Oregon and Washington.
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The court’s ruling eliminates restrictions imposed by two federal judges in Oregon that strictly limited when federal officers could use tear gas on crowds outside the facility.
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Two federal judges in Oregon have limited the use of crowd control weapons at the Portland ICE facility. The Trump administration appealed both those rulings. A Tuesday hearing will decide whether to continue restricting the use of tear gas.
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The Trump administration has sent five times more people at least 1,000 miles compared to the last year of former president Joe Biden’s term.
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One lawyer told the court about ICE taking a person through the Eugene facility’s backdoor when she arrived.
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Four of the state’s top lawyers are “highly concerned” about immigration officers stopping a group of teenagers at gunpoint in October and, last week, arresting a high school student on his lunch break.
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Earlier on Wednesday, Gov. Tina Kotek announced the Oregon guard troops would be demobilized. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals put that on pause just over an hour later.
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The Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition reported 329 arrests in Oregon last month.
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U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut said she aimed to issue a ruling Sunday.
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Attorneys returned to court in Portland Thursday as U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut hears further arguments over the legality of domestic military deployment to Portland.
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The revelation came to light today in federal court in Portland, where U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut will decide if President Trump acted lawfully or violated the state’s rights by trying to deploy the National Guard.
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U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut is expected to decide Friday whether to temporarily block the president from deploying troops in Portland.
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Rigoberto Hernandez Hernandez’s release came suddenly Wednesday morning without a court order.