Multnomah County Deputy District Attorneys will now consider immigration consequences when charging, making plea bargains, and sentencing noncitizens in an effort to avoid deportation when possible, District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced Thursday. Schmidt said the new policy aims to mitigate disproportionate impacts the criminal justice system can have on immigrant communities. “These reforms announced today would not only promote reconciliation in Multnomah County, but they will also make members of our community safer,” said Tony.
Oregon nonprofits representing communities of color wrote a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to combat white supremacy by investing in their organizations.
Tony DeFalco, executive director of the Latino Network, said the request was prompted by this year’s deadly mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. The white gunman in Buffalo killed 10 Black people in an attack the president has called “hate-filled domestic terrorism” and a “racially motived hate crime.”
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