Racist letters found in coastal Oregon mailboxes
LINCOLN CITY Ore. (KPTV) - Starting this week, a letter known as, “The Brown Round Up, Part 1,″ has been circulating across several coastal Oregon towns.
The material is essentially an itemized list, providing ways residents can compile information about those civilians they believe to be “undocumented” at places such as schools, churches, and construction sites.
Lincoln County Sheriff Curtis Landers has served in law enforcement for 37 years, eight atop this department, and says this type of literature is dangerous and does not reflect the essence of these communities.
“It’s just causing a lot of harm in the community, concerns, we don’t want people looking over their shoulder, is someone writing down their license plate for whatever reason,” said Landers.
The letter has ended up in mailboxes such as Landers and the Mayor of Toledo, Ron Cross, amongst countless others. The reality, Landers says, is not only are local agencies not requesting anyone follow these details, but they also can’t be enforced due to Oregon’s Sanctuary laws.
SEE ALSO:
”By Oregon law and our policy, we don’t enforce immigration law and I’m pretty sure immigration offices aren’t asking for this either,” said Landers. “It’s very strange, Lincoln County, is a safe and excellent place to live, people live here free of that harassment. We take it seriously and will investigate bias crimes like that.”
Currently, LCSO said the First Amendment protects the distribution of this kind of content regarding the reporting of potential “illegal aliens” to Homeland Security and other immigration offices. However, there is concern that this act could be a part of something larger and the department says they’ll continue to monitor any situation that could arise.
”We actually have notified the FBI on it, right now we’re hearing it’s isolated to Lincoln County,” said Landers. “We don’t know if it will spread from there, that’s why we want to get in on the radar in case it goes widespread. We don’t want anything to stir up from it.”
Copyright 2024 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.
