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Courtesy of Maia Insinga/Oregon StateColleges and universities in Oregon and California can no longer allow students without permanent legal status access to some federally funded programs meant to help disadvantaged students earn degrees, according to a recent decision from the U.S. Department of Education. -
Comedic writer and author, Felipe Torres Medina, joins the Exchange to talk about the serious immigration process through a lens of humor.
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California is spending more than it expected on Medi-Cal and Republican lawmakers are pointing to coverage expansions that benefited immigrant households. -
Early in his second term, President Donald Trump has focused on deporting immigrants without legal status. That鈥檚 stoked fear among some residents, who are afraid to go about their daily lives. -
The Eureka City Council overwhelmingly voted to become a sanctuary city on Tuesday night. The city decided to do it in the face of possible backlash from the federal government. -
Attorneys for unaccompanied minors ordered to stop work without explanation, followed by sudden reversal. -
California passed a sanctuary state law to protect immigrants during the first Trump administration. Now, a sheriff wants to test it at the beginning of the second. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday approved $25 million for anticipated legal challenges against the Trump administration, positioning California to once again lead the resistance to the MAGA movement 鈥� just as the state is seeking federal assistance for the Los Angeles region鈥檚 recovery from devastating fires. -
Portland has joined at least four other cities and counties in a lawsuit against the Trump administration's threat to pull federal funding from jurisdictions with sanctuary laws that limit cooperation with immigration officials. -
Information about deportations is hitting people at a fast pace 鈥� especially in California鈥檚 agricultural community. -
The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. -
Non-logging forestry work, like planting trees or fuels reduction, is big business in Oregon. But if you鈥檙e picturing those doing this work as classic lumberjacks 鈥� plaid shirts, big beards, white guys 鈥� think again. Foreign guest workers make up much of this labor. And Jackson County is a national center for the industry. -
One of President Trump鈥檚 first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. California is one of them. -
Senate Bill 611 would establish the Food for All Oregonians program, with the goal of helping people who can鈥檛 get federal food assistance through SNAP because of their immigration status.
