Immigration Counseling Service (ICS) has joined 233 organizations to call on the Biden Administration to live up to its promise of creating a more humane immigration system by ensuring asylum seekers and other migrants are not placed behind bars in immigration…

On April 13, 1978, Immigration Counseling Service (ICS) began our work to achieve justice and equity for immigrants and refugees. 45 years later, we have faced a long road of both progress and obstacles. Our world and international migration have been immeasurably…

Immigrants living in the United States saw a rare victory in late February when a federal judge approved a historic $1.2 million class settlement for immigrant workers in Tennessee. The settlement found that the U.S. government and federal agents used racial profiling…

2023 has barely begun, and the Biden Administration has already announced plans to further restrict immigration and deny thousands of asylum claims, which is a fundamental human right enshrined in both U.S. and international law. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s…

In a move intended to sow fear and create chaos, Florida and Texas have bused more than 8,000 immigrants out of state in recent months. ICS unequivocally denounces these actions as needlessly cruel political stunts. Governor Greg Abbott of Texas initiated migrant…

On June 29, desperate cries for help led to the discovery of an abandoned tractor trailer in the sweltering heat of Texas, approximately 150 miles north of the Mexico–United States border. Dozens of migrants were found inside, and 53 people died from the ordeal. We…

Today is the 10-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has provided a vital lifeline for 10,000 young people in Oregon alone – and hundreds of thousands of immigrants nationwide who were brought to the United States as…

ICS stands in solidarity with the survivors and victims of the recent, horrific incidents of gun violence across the United States. There are no words to sufficiently express our anger and sorrow following the recent spate of mass shootings: the elementary school…

RELEASE FROM ICS RE: DACA RULING We are beyond dismayed by the recent ruling to emerge out of the U.S. District Court in Houston, Texas. Judge Andre S. Hanen’s decision to declare DACA an unlawful program has once more thrust thousands of young adults into harrowing…

Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status is a type of federal lawful immigration status for vulnerable youth under the age of 21 who are in the state juvenile system. Until recently, however, Oregon state law only made this remedy available to youth younger than 18…