Civil Rights
Oregon lawmakers are demanding answers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, after ICE agents appear to have illegally entred into a home to detain a man, who was released hours later.
Two senators and, a congresswoman and a congressman issued statements Friday demanding action in the wake of the arrest of Carlos Bolanos.
U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer sent a letter to U.S.
The ACLU of Oregon filed a Freedom of Information Act request last week with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal law enforcement agency that governs border control.
Two plainclothes immigration officers didn't racially profile a Latino man when they mistook him for a criminal suspect last month near the Washington County Courthouse, an ICE official says.
Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici says she had not received any response from immigration officials after she and other federal lawmakers
Six members of Congress said Tuesday they want an update from NCAA president Mark Emmert on the progress of a 2016 "pledge" to diversify the college coaching and administrative hiring pools.
Last year the NCAA asked college presidents to sign a pledge to address college athletics' diversity challenges.
WASHINGTON — Over a year ago, the NCAA began asking member schools to get behind a pledge developing better hiring practices that promoted diversity and equality. Without an answer on any progress on that pledge in a year, Congress is now asking questions.