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U.S Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon, on Feb. 13 highlighted their legislation aimed at holding federal immigration agents legally accountable for violating civil rights. Advocates and Oregonians joined them in Woodburn, describing what they called a growing pattern of abusive enforcement actions.

Stopping overly aggressive immigration enforcement will take a “groundswell” of backlash from elected leaders and ordinary Americans, U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas said Friday.

Los miembros demócratas de la delegación del Congreso de Oregón advirtieron el jueves a los altos funcionarios federales de inmigración que se opondrán a cualquier esfuerzo de construir “campos de detención” en Oregón.

Rep. Andrea Salinas, the new vice chair of the Equality Caucus, sat down with the Blade to discuss the battles ahead as she demands protections for LGBTQ Americans.

Two Oregon lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday aiming to hold federal immigration authorities accountable for abusing the constitutional rights of Americans.

Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Ore., is leading the House version and said it “deters illegal enforcement practices and prevents ICE and CBP from operating with impunity.”

According to Oregon State University, Oregon is the leading producer of Christmas trees in the United States, sending more than half of the state’s trees to California each year and shipping some as far as Hong Kong and Japan.

Democratic Representative Andrea Salinas of Oregon, a cosponsor of the GRIT Act, shared a theory. “Once you put the camel’s nose under the tent, that is when you start to expose the real harm,” she said. “Let’s use smoking, for example. Once scientific data really started to come out on that, you recognize, oh, my gosh, there is no safe way to smoke, and so the industry is culpable for causing harm.”