By Julia Shumway | Editor
“Unless we are willing to confront the system that allows this to happen, there will be another family, another transfer, another child waiting for their parent to come home and another attorney struggling to locate their client.” — Debbie Cabrales, executive director of Centro de Servicios para Campesinos, an organization that provides services to farmworkers and other immigrants. Cabrales joined immigrant rights advocates and the family of Juan Miguel Aldape, a Newberg grandfather detained in a Lowe’s parking lot on Aug. 24 and who is now being held in Louisiana, at a press conference yesterday discussing Aldape’s case.
Also in today's edition:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife staffing down by a third nationwide, 40% in Oregon since Trump returned to office
Election officials urge dropboxes, not mail for November election
Columnist Tim Nesbitt on Independence shutting down its parks
And one more thing:
We’re one week away from the Portland City Club’s election preview lunch, featuring Oregonian/OregonLive reporter Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, pollster extraordinaire John Horvick, Nesbitt and yours truly. For my fellow non-Portlanders, the Oregon Department of Transportation is kindly waiting to begin its southbound I-5 road closure until that night. Registration is free, or $25/$32 if you want lunch. Find more details here.
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By Mia Maldonado
Ashleen Aldape, Juan Miguel Aldape’s daughter-in-law, speaks to a crowd of community members on Sept. 3, 2026, at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg, Oregon. (Photo by Mia Maldonado/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
Juan Miguel Aldape pays his taxes annually, he is a devout Catholic and he is a caregiver for his youngest son with autism, his relatives say. He has lived with his wife for 22 years in Newberg, the wine country town where they chose to raise their family.
By Alex Baumhardt
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist examines macroinvertebrates at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson Hole, Wyo. The agency has lost 1,900 scientists due to early retirements, buyouts and cuts under the Trump Administration. (Photo by Kari Cieszkiewicz/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
The number of people staffing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dropped by 3,600 during President Donald Trump’s second term, according to federal data obtained by the nonprofit conservation group Center for Biological Diversity.
By Dirk VanderHart | OPB
Matt lifts up his 3-year-old son, Theo, to cast his ballot into the Hillsboro Public Library-Shute Park ballot drop box in May 2026. Election officials are increasingly recommending voters plan to use drop boxes rather than mailing their ballot. (Photo by Eli Imadali/OPB)
Oregon election officials want voters to choose the drop box over the mailbox this Election Day.
Commentary: Skirmish on banks of the Willamette reminds us Oregon cities face challenging fiscal future
By Tim Nesbitt
The battle of Bunker Hill it was not. But, just last week, the city of Independence experienced a virtual storming of the gates at its closed municipal parks and a volunteer mower brigade threatening to reclaim their civic turf. But, unlike “the course of human events” that followed in the history of the city’s namesake, this revolt was halted when a nonprofit organization intervened to reopen the city’s riverside events venue.
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