A lawsuit joined by Oregon’s attorney general on Monday, Aug. 18, seeks to stop the withholding of crime-victim grants from states unwilling to assist in immigration enforcement.
Oregon joins 20 other states in the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice. The lawsuit asks a federal district court judge to rule that adopting such immigration enforcement conditions on the grants would be “contrary to the Constitution and federal laws.”
Already, reductions to Victims of Crime Act grants pose problems for Lane County organizations like Kids First, said the organization’s executive director, Patty Perlow…