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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Friday, February 24, 2017 Oregon joins travel ban lawsuit, citing ‘harm’ to state in providing a welcoming home to people from all over the world,” according to the justice department’s motion. State officials argued that the travel ban could cause a shortage of physicians and medical residents, drain international tuition dollars from universities and strip the state’s tech- nology industry of talent. Out of Oregon’s $92 billion investment portfolio, about $19 million comes from technology companies, who have expressed alarm about the impact the ban will have on their highly-skilled workers who often come from overseas. “That disruption also affects Oregon as a share- By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Oregon’s Department of Justice has filed court papers seeking to join Washington’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries. “The executive order has caused — and threatens to further cause — harm to Oregon and its residents, employers, agencies, educa- tional institutions, health care system and economy. Moreover, the executive order forces Oregon to violate its own laws against discrimination, frustrating Oregon’s sovereign interest program. Likewise, Oregon Health & Science University officials reported the ban affects six of their medical residents and the ability to replace them is unlikely. “The loss of even one resident to a program carries a very high risk of an adverse impact on OHSU’s ability to provide the patient care that the state of Oregon and Oregonians need,” according to court documents. Trump’s executive order, signed Jan. 27, indefinitely bans Syrian refugees and temporarily blocks other refugees and citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. The order came after Trump promised holder,” State Treasurer Tobias Read wrote in a declaration to the court. About 165 of Oregon State University’s 3,529 international students are citi- zens of the countries affected by the travel ban. The ban affects 59 of Portland State University’s more than 1,900 international students. Inter- national students contributed about 13 percent of PSU’s net tuition and fees for 2015-16. “Their tuition revenue will be lost if they are unable to travel to Oregon,” according to the lawsuit. The ban would threaten the state’s ability to attract and retain physicans to prac- tice in rural and underserved areas through the J-1 visa Lawmakers consider boost to service industry worker rights PORTLAND (AP) — U.S. District Judge Anna Brown will hear oral argu- ments Friday on the government’s attempt to compel a reporter to testify in the second trial for the occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. The government wants former Oregon Public Broadcasting reporter John Sepulvado to authenticate his January 2016 recorded interview of Ryan Bundy during the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. An attorney for Sepulvado and Oregon Public Broadcasting filed a motion to quash the government’s subpoena. OPB attorney Duane Bosworth contends the compelled testimony would “chill future sources” for Sepulvado and other OPB reporters. The ACLU of Oregon and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press have filed briefs in support of OPB. Trial began this week for four men who joined leaders Ryan and Ammon Bundy at last winter’s occupation of the refuge. A jury acquitted the Bundys last fall. Bruce Ely /The Oregonian via AP, File service-related employees, who are often earning minimum wage and juggling school and family lives, the study said. The proposals, which are still in the early stages of debate at the Legislature, come a year after a contentious statewide minimum wage increase to nearly $15 per hour by 2022 and this week’s rosy economic forecast by state economists indicating Oregon remained ahead of the nation in terms of job growth and unemployment last year. 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The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said that investigators served search warrants Wednesday evening at the two homes, also seizing nearly 2 pounds of heroin, pills, a handgun and nearly $30,000 in cash. Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Chad Gaidos says the amount of drugs recovered likely puts the bust in the top 10 drug seizures statewide by a police agency. Detective Josh Zwick says the meth was imported from Mexico. Alfredo Narcisco Pineda of Portland; Alejandro Lopez Gonzales of Gresham; and Celso Marroquin Benitez of Portland were booked into jail and face drug and gun charges. PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — The new Washington State University College of Medicine reached another milestone this week when it was accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The commission’s approval for WSU to include a Doctor of Medicine degree is effective in August, when the first class of medical students is scheduled to arrive in Spokane. 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Oregon lawmakers are considering proposals that would give baristas, bartenders, seasonal workers and others in the state’s service industry more control of their weekly schedules and guarantees of being paid despite scheduling issues. ability of the working poor to pursue a second job or the education they need to pursue better-paid occupations, and to provide for consistent care for their children while they are working,” according to the partnership study, which the universities released Thursday. Schedules posted or changed at the last minute, on-call shifts or a sudden drop in available hours after the busy holiday season imposes greater hardship on restau- rant, retail, hotel and other White House Press Secre- tary Sean Spicer called the appeals court’s decision “just a procedural ruling on the temporary restraining order.” “We look forward to a full hearing on the merits of this case, and we feel very confident that we’re going to prevail,” Spicer said during a Facebook Live interview with Breitbart News. A timeline for a decision on the state’s request to join Washington’s suit has not been set, said Kristina Edmunson, a spokeswoman for the department. Since Washington sued the federal government, Minnesota officially signed onto the lawsuit and other states expressed interest. BRIEFLY By KRISTENA HANSEN Associated Press SALEM — Baristas, bartenders, seasonal workers and others in Oregon’s robust service industry are at the center of early discussions in Salem about whether to afford them guaranteed pay and more control over their work schedules. State lawmakers are considering legislation that would require certain employers to honor employees’ preferred work hours and post employees schedules two weeks in advance, or otherwise pay a penalty wage for any changes. Workers who are called in at the last-minute would also be paid at least four hours’ worth of wages if, by the fault of their boss, they were unable to work a full shift. House Bill 2193 and Senate Bill 828 — packaged as sister proposals in both chambers, — are backed largely by workers’ rights groups and unions that sought to support their cause through a partnership study of irregular work schedules with the University of Oregon and Portland State University. “Irregular scheduling acts as a poverty trap, for this generation and the next, as it actively diminishes the during his campaign a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” according to court records. Federal Judge James Robart in Seattle on Feb. 3 temporarily halted enforce- ment of the order nationwide after Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson argued that the order would harm his state’s interests. The state’s lawsuit also claims the order is unconstitutional because it discriminates on the basis of religion. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld Robart’s temporary restraining order. 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