Northwest Agriculture Industry Participates In National Immigration Forum
Northwest agriculture advocates are more optimistic Congress will take up the issue of immigration after a forum this week in Washington, D.C. The effort is getting support from a surprising mix of...
View ArticleOregon DMV Grants Driver Licenses To Some Young Immigrants
SALEM, Ore. – Oregon transportation officials reversed course Wednesday and announced that children of undocumented immigrants can get state driver licenses. The decision applies to people who qualify...
View ArticleNorthwest Farmers Plan To Bring More Mexican Guest Workers North
RICHLAND, Wash. – A group of Northwest farmers plans to bring in thousands of legal Mexican guest workers to their fields and orchards this year. Last season many farmers were scrambling to pick their...
View ArticleNorthwest Immigrants Take The Oath Of Citizenship
SPOKANE, Wash. - As Congress prepares for a debate over immigration reform, one group of immigrants in the Northwest quietly completed their paths to citizenship Tuesday. Fourteen people became U.S....
View ArticleSupport For In-State Tuition For Young Immigrants Gains Momentum
SALEM, Ore. – Momentum is building in Salem for a bill to give children of undocumented immigrants in-state tuition rates at Oregon universities. Governor John Kitzhaber threw his weight behind the...
View ArticleSupporters Of 'Tuition Equity' Pack Hearing Rooms In Salem
SALEM, Ore. – Supporters of a bill to allow some undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition rates packed several hearing rooms at the Oregon Capitol Wednesday. They refer to the legislation...
View ArticleNot Many Undocumented Students Expected To Use In-State Tuition
SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon House has approved a controversial bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-state college tuition rates. Supporters called Friday’s vote historic. But...
View ArticleBorder Crossing Stories Play Big Role In Immigrant Family Histories
MABTON, Wash. - Most American families have some kind of immigration lore -- think Ellis Island, the Oregon Trail and slave ships. At dinner tables across the Northwest, some Mexican-American families...
View ArticleNorthwest Town Rides Ups And Downs Of 'Broken' Immigration System
BREWSTER, Wash. - There's one word that politicians almost always use when they talk about the U.S. immigration system. That word is “broken.” But what does that really mean? Residents of the small...
View ArticleOregon Senate Approves Bill To Offer Children Of Immigrants In-State Tuition
SALEM, Ore. – After ten years of effort, immigrant rights advocates are celebrating the final vote to give in-state tuition rates to some undocumented students. The Oregon Senate approved the bill...
View ArticleOregon Advocates Push Four-Year Licenses For People In The Country Illegally
SALEM, Ore. – Oregon, like most states, doesn’t allow you to get a driver license if you’re in the country illegally. That may change. As Congress debates immigration reform, Oregon lawmakers are...
View ArticleOregon Lawmakers Approve Driving Privileges For People Without Legal Presence
People in the country illegally could get a driver license under a bill approved Tuesday by the Oregon House. The vote sends the measure to Governor John Kitzhaber. He plans to sign it during a May Day...
View ArticleThousands Celebrate Legislative Victories At Salem May Day Rally
Immigrants rights groups and labor unions held May Day rallies across the northwest Wednesday. It was a joyous occasion at the Oregon capitol, where thousands of people were on hand to celebrate a pair...
View ArticleDemocrats Push Immigration Reform In Central Washington
Supporters of the immigration overhaul that passed the U.S. Senate are drumming up support for the legislation in the Northwest. On Saturday, one of the Democrats taking the lead on the issue in...
View ArticleForeign Investors Learn 'Bridge To Nowhere' Leads To Visas After All
For a while, it looked like a major highway project across Lake Washington near Seattle could end up as a "bridge to nowhere" for nearly 100 immigrant investors. But now after a long wait, the federal...
View ArticleCensus Report Reveals Language Trends In Northwest Homes
New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show the Northwest has fewer people who speak a foreign language at home than the country as a whole. But the highest concentrations of foreign speaking...
View ArticleForeigners Finance More And More Diverse Ventures To Obtain U.S. Visas
What do these things have in common: an Idaho gold mine, a proposed wind farm in central Washington, a new hotel in Portland and the replacement floating bridge across Lake Washington?They're all...
View ArticleImmigrant Investor Visa Popular With State Legislators, But Outside Their...
There's a little known back door into the United States, available only to the affluent. It's called the immigrant investor visa -- or EB-5.
View ArticleCentral Washington Pastors Rally for Immigration Reform
Immigration activists in the Northwest are pushing for Congress to get beyond the government shutdown fight and return to the issue of undocumented workers. Immigrant rights groups rallied in Yakima,...
View ArticleSignature Drive Forces Vote On Oregon Driver License Bill
Oregon voters will decide next year whether people in this country illegally can qualify for a state driver license.
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