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September 19, 2019

EEOC last year logged the fewest investigators to probe civil rights complaints in at least nine years, POLITICO's Rebecca Rainey reports. The investigators numbered 741 in April 2018 and averaged 758 during that fiscal year. By comparison, during the last four years of the Obama administration there was an average of 825 EEOC investigators.


August 30, 2019

Washington County resident Isidro Andrade Tafolla and the Oregon branch of the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal claim against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, seeking $100,000 for his humiliation, emotional distress and psychological harm after he was questioned by ICE agents in September 2017.?

The case raises troubling questions about how people of color are treated in our community. And about how "safe" a "safe haven" our courthouses are.

Issues:Civil Rights

August 13, 2019

A Forest Grove man detained by immigration officials outside the Washington County Circuit Court in Hillsboro says he's fighting back.

Issues:Civil Rights

August 12, 2019

Immigrant rights advocates are looking for legal and political help to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from detaining people at county courthouses.

ICE has a policy that discourages enforcement actions at sensitive locations such as schools, hospitals and churches. Some in Congress, including U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon, want to codify the policy into federal law and expand it to apply to courthouses.

Issues:Civil Rights

August 1, 2019

Human rights defenders on Wednesday wished imprisoned Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul a "happy" 30th birthday - the second Hathloul has spent behind bars since being jailed last year.

The Saudi women's rights activist is one of 11 women detained in May last year amid a wide sweeping crackdown on dissent.

US Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici also noted Hathloul's birthday, calling the activist's treatment in prison a "clear sign of the human rights violations occurring in Saudi Arabia".

Issues:Civil Rights

July 29, 2019
As a mother, it’s heartbreaking to visit detained migrant children and teenagers who made the dangerous journey to the United States, many of them without a parent, in search of safety.
Issues:Civil Rights

July 28, 2019

Four Democratic members of Oregon's congressional delegation spent their Sunday morning on a tour of two Portland-based facilities that house young migrants who traveled to the United States without a parent or legal guardian.

Issues:Civil Rights

July 16, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist comments" against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump's Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn't "a racist bone in my body."

Issues:Civil Rights

July 15, 2019

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Oregon and Washington lawmakers are condemning President Donald Trump's racist attacks on Democratic congresswomen as the president's ratcheted up his comments at a White House event on Monday, including saying he wasn't concerned by white nationalists embracing his rhetoric.

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici also castigated the president over his comments.

Issues:Civil Rights

June 26, 2019

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Oregon Democratic Representative Suzanne Bonamici talks one-on-one with KATU's Genevieve Reaume about the treatment of children and at the southern border, Special Council Robert Mueller's scheduled testimony to House committees, and the current political dysfunction in Oregon's Capitol.

Issues:Civil Rights