{"id":1003974,"date":"2019-03-18T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003974"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:08:13","slug":"icymi-associated-press-oregon-veterans-court-may-be-collateral-damage-in-immigration-fight-with-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-associated-press-oregon-veterans-court-may-be-collateral-damage-in-immigration-fight-with-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Associated Press: Oregon veterans court may be collateral damage in immigration fight with Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associated Press<\/a>: Oregon veterans court may be collateral damage in immigration fight with Trump administration<\/p>\n

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By Andrew Selsky<\/p>\n

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Three decades ago, Lori Ann Bourgeois was guarding fighter jets at an air base. After her discharge, she fell into drug addiction. She wound up living on the streets and was arrested for possession of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

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But on a recent day, the former Air Force Security Police member walked into a Veterans Treatment Court after completing a 90-day residential drug treatment program. Two dozen fellow vets sitting on the courtroom benches applauded. A judge handed Bourgeois a special coin marking the occasion, inscribed with the words \u201cChange Attitude, Change Thinking, Change Behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The program Bourgeois credits for pulling her out of the \u201cblack hole\u201d of homelessness is among more than three dozen Oregon specialty courts caught in a standoff between the state and federal government over immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration in 2017 threatened to withhold law enforcement grants from 29 cities, counties or states it viewed as having \u201csanctuary\u201d policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration agents. Today, all those jurisdictions have received or been cleared to get the money, except Oregon, which is battling for the funds in federal court.<\/p>\n

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The Veterans Treatment Court in Eugene and 40 other specialty courts, including mental health and civilian drug programs, risk losing all or part of their budgets, said Michael Schmidt, executive director of Oregon\u2019s Criminal Justice Commission, which administers the money.<\/p>\n

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The commission has managed to keep the courts funded through July, Schmidt said. Unless the Trump administration relents or is forced by court order to deliver the money, or the Oregon Legislature comes up with it, the commission must make \u201chorrible, tough decisions\u201d about where to make the cuts, Schmidt said.<\/p>\n

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Speaking in her small office in the Eugene courthouse, specialty courts coordinator Danielle Hanson said if the veterans court budget is cut, the vets would have to start paying for drug treatment, and they would be deprived of housing resources and travel funds to go to residential treatment facilities as far as 330 miles (530 kilometers) away. Some veterans might even be turned away.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt would impact the program substantially,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n

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