Mayor Ted Wheeler regarding criminal illegal immigrants: “In Portland, we do not merely tolerate diversity, we celebrate it.”

Ted apparently celebrates a diversity of criminals in his city, not just the American kind. Perhaps Ted would be willing to have the police deliver them directly to his family home and release them into his living room where they can thank him personally and get to know one another. Not likely. He would rather the citizens of his fair city and the state have to be victimized by their criminal behavior, over and over and over.

The Lane County Sheriff's policy is only slightly better. I agree the federal government should not require the states to expend significant resources without reimbursement to comply with federal immigration law, but wherever possible we should support federal immigration law. Anyone who does not like that should work to change federal law, not subvert it to the benefit of known criminals and the detriment of your  own neighbors.