"Sitting in the front row were members of the local nonprofit Newport Fishermen’s Wives and a 14-year-old girl who recounted the moment she found out about her father’s September ICE detainment. Wyden invited her to share her story, nodding toward her during his answers to constituent questions.
'Donald Trump is not doing what he said he would do in 2024. He said on immigration he was going to go after terrorists, drug cartels, murderers, people committing violent crime,' he said. 'Nobody said that he was going to go after that little girl’s dad.'
Listening intently was Newport City Councilor Angel Aparicio-Reyes and his 8-year-old daughter. The 32-year-old was born in Newport and returned to the town after meeting his wife in Washington and attending school in California. Though Spanish was the primary language of his household as a child, he has memories of local doctors and teachers from elementary school helping him communicate in English without judgement.
Now he’s had to sit his daughter down, warning her that him being a citizen may not be enough to stop ICE from detaining him because of his appearance. The city is 16.7% Latino, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, and Aparicio-Reyes said many families are beginning to have that conversation with their kids.
'There are still people out there that do not like us,' he said. 'It’s a very real thought that I could be taken away.'
Such a possibility across the Oregon Coast has tugged at heartstrings, but it has also led some to turn to the court of public opinion."
~ Shaanth Nanguneri
"'People will boycott’: How a coastal city's fight against ICE is making waves across Oregon
Local governments in Oregon have struggled with the extent to which they should resist or comply with increasingly aggressive federal immigration policy, but one town took a different approach"
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