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Sam Dunaway | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n Thirty-one years ago, the Oregon sanctuary law was put in place to prevent Oregon law enforcement agencies from \u201cdetecting or apprehending\u201d individuals solely based on federal immigration law violations. A new initiative petition seeks to place a measure on the November ballot to repeal this law and remove Oregon\u2019s sanctuary state title.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI believe it\u2019s something that would put a lot of communities under attack and fear,\u201d explained Unidos Vice President and sophomore Monica Ortiz.<\/span><\/p>\n Western\u2019s Unidos Club strives to act as a \u201csupport system to everyone who identifies as undocumented and\/or are DACA recipients\u201d according to the Unidos OrgSync. The club hosted an informational workshop on April 26 which aimed to educate students about the proposed ballot measure.<\/span><\/p>\n The main organization behind the campaign for IP 22 is Oregonians For Immigration Reform, or OFIR. According to their website, OFIR \u201cworks to stop illegal immigration as well as reduce legal immigration to a more environmentally, economically and socially sustainable level here in Oregon and across the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Unidos President Cristina Garcia, however, believes that the measure would only incite hate in Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt would cause more division,\u201d Garcia stated. Because the ballot measure would allow law enforcement to stop individuals on the basis of citizenship, she believes that it would lead to an unsafe environment.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPeople of color wouldn\u2019t feel comfortable walking around, because they\u2019d be targeted by police,\u201d explained Garcia.<\/span><\/p>\n The workshop explained the purpose of the initiative, the organizations such as OFIR that are behind it and ways that students can get involved such as voting and telling others what IP 22 is. <\/span><\/p>\n Garcia encourages students to get informed on the initiative petition; \u201cWe\u2019re trying to let people know that this is what it is, don\u2019t sign it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to the informational workshop, a timeline of immigrant rights history with significant events including the signing of the federal anti-immigration bills in 1996 and the Oregon sanctuary state law passing in 1987 was displayed. Ortiz believes that Oregonians can create positive changes for the future. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI believe that now is the time to do something about changing the timeline, doing something positive and helping pass something that is helping communities, not bringing them down and in fear,\u201d expressed Ortiz.<\/span><\/p>\n Contact the author at journalnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Photo by: LATimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Dunaway | News Editor Thirty-one years ago, the Oregon sanctuary law was put in place to prevent Oregon law enforcement agencies from \u201cdetecting or apprehending\u201d individuals solely based on federal immigration law violations. A new initiative petition seeks to place a measure on the November ballot to repeal this law and remove Oregon\u2019s sanctuary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}