Newport’s legal bills to fight immigration center could reach $500,000 — so it’s asking others to chip in

The city of Newport helped fend off an effort by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to land Oregon’s first and only immigration detention center at its airport. Now the legal bills to fight the government’s effort could reach $500,000 – so Newport is asking other cities and counties across the state if they will help pay. The post Newport’s legal bills to fight immigration center could reach $500,000 — so it’s asking others to chip in appeared first on Lincoln Chronicle.