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Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici says she had not received any response from immigration officials after she and other federal lawmakers demanded an investigation into an incident in Hillsboro last month.

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.

Led by Suzanne Bonamici, a Democrat from Oregon, lawmakers have sent correspondence to Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, to demand answers on the organization's progress toward increased hiring diversity.

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More lawmakers are now calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate the actions of agents toward a Hispanic man who is a U.S. citizen outside the Washington County Courthouse.

Federal lawmakers are calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate after a U.S. citizen was stopped and questioned outside the Washington County courthouse by ICE agents.

Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, along with fellow Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer and Congressmen John Conyers of Michigan and Zoe Lofgren of California, are pressing ICE to look into why a handful of plainclothes immigration agents stopped a Latino man outside the courthouse this week, wrongfully accusing him of being in the country illegally.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. — Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D) is calling for an investigation into the questioning of a US citizen by federal agents.

Isidro Andrade-Tafolla, a US citizen, was stopped by two federal agents outside the Washington County Courthouse Monday morning, around the same time a "Sanctuary in the Streets" rally was happening nearby.