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"As a leader in women's rights, education and labor, the congresswoman is highly aware of the impact of the current border issues on our communities, our counties and our state," said Maribel De Leon, director of microenterprise programs at Adelante Mujeres. "We welcome her participation, along with the Oregon Democratic congressional delegation, in stepping forward against this administration's brutal and (nonsensical) anti-immigrants practices on our southern border." Bonamici represents Oregon's First Congressional District, which covers all of Washington County.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, met with immigrant leaders about family separations Monday.
She toured the Sheridan facility where several detained immigrants have been separated from their children.
She said the Trump administration must stop decriminalizing asylum seekers.
Tuesday is the deadline for the administration to reunite children under age five with their parents after separations at the southern border. However, the justice department is expected to miss the deadline with less than half of children actually set to be reunited.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Gov. Kate Brown, released the following statement Friday in response to the Office of Refugee Resettlement refusing to allow the delegation to tour on Thursday evening Morrison Child & Family Services, where ORR placed children who the federal agency had separated from their parents when they crossed the border.
"The Office of Refugee Resettlement turned down our request to meet with the children being held at the facility here in Oregon.
PORTLAND, OR – Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Gov. Kate Brown, today released the following statement in response to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) refusing to allow the delegation to tour on Thursday evening Morrison Child & Family Services, where ORR placed children who the federal agency had separated from their parents when they crossed the border.
"The Office of Refugee Resettlement turned down our request to meet with the children being held at the facility here in Oregon.
Federal officials turned away a group of Oregon congressmen and the governor after they asked for a tour of a Portland facility that houses immigrant children.
Gov. Kate Brown, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, all Democrats from Oregon, asked the Office of Refugee Resettlement for permission to tour the Morrison Child & Family Services building where immigrant children are being held.
SHERIDAN, Ore. – Some faith communities in Oregon are holding their Sunday services outside of a federal prison in Sheridan, where more than 100 undocumented immigrants seeking asylum are being held.
The groups say that 121 undocumented immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are being held at the Federal Correctional Institution medium-security prison in Sheridan.
majority of them from India. Photo credit: www.bop.gov
US lawmakers denounce President Trump's cruel and callous ‘zero-tolerance' immigration policy.
WASHINGTON, DC: Under President Donald Trump's ‘zero-tolerance' immigration policy, 52 Indian nationals are being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a federal prison in Oregon without any meaningful legal access which is in violation of the US Constitution, federal immigration laws and international treaties.
Over 40 Indian immigrants are being held at a detention center in New Mexico over alleged attempts to enter the United States illegally, according to the Hindu. As many as 52 Indians, mostly Sikhs, are lodged at a facility in Oregon, reports that emerged earlier this week had said.
PORTLAND: At least 72 South Asian asylum-seekers are being detained at a federal prison in Oregon after getting caught up in the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy for illegal border-crossers, a US Senator's office said on Wednesday.
The detainees, held at the Sheridan Federal Corrections Institution, include 52 from India, 18 from Nepal and two from Bangladesh.
All of them are single men, who flew into Mexico and crossed the border into the United States, said Sara Hottman, a spokeswoman for US Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat.