YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS UP: Portland Rolls Out PAID “Immigration Leave” — City Workers Get 40 Hours Off for Deportation Hearings While Taxpayers Foot the Bill, No Questions Asked

Gateway Pundit ^ | Jan. 3, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

[T Ruth]

As of January 1, 2026, city workers in Portland, Oregon, can now clock out for up to 40 hours a year — without losing pay or benefits — to deal with immigration-related legal matters for themselves or for family members.

Eligible employees may use this leave for activities such as:

• Obtaining legal support or meeting with immigration or criminal defense attorneys •
• Attending interviews or tests related to naturalization or citizenship •
• Appearing at state or federal criminal court proceedings •
• Deportation hearings •
• Matters involving “unlawful detention” related to immigration status.

For the first 40 hours each year, this leave is paid and coded in the payroll system as IMLV, with the employee remaining on regular payroll the entire time.

The policy does not stop with the employee.

HRAR 6.15 explicitly allows this paid leave to be used to support:

• A spouse •
• A child •
• A parent •
• A sibling •
• Or anyone with a “close association” equivalent to family.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the policy is its strict privacy mandate.

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[ridesthemiles]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO—

IT APPEARS PORTLAND , OREGON, HAS BEEN HIRING PEOPLE NOT ELIGIBLE TO EVEN WORK IN THE USA..

AM I UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY ??????

CAN THIS BE PROSECUTED UNDER AIDING/ ABETTING/ HARBORING????????

[doc maverick]

“IT APPEARS PORTLAND , OREGON, HAS BEEN HIRING PEOPLE NOT ELIGIBLE TO EVEN WORK IN THE USA.”
YES!
It’s pretty bad when you get a illegal alien medical assistant and you can’t understand WTF she’s saying!!
They get a free ride through medical assistant school too!

[heartwood]

I get 56 hours paid leave per year for everything. Vacation, sick days. Yes it stinks. Yes I am looking for a new job.

Maybe the way to get European time off is to work for the government.

I basically do work for the government in that they pay the agency I work for. I just don’t get government benefits.

[No name given]

Bizarro world.

[Carl Vehse]

The Portland city officials openly give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. The Constitution has a word for that.

[joshua c]

illegals work for portland

should affect fed funding

[RetiredTexasVet]

Makes you wonder why a city would even hire illegals ... of course they could perform corruption US citizens won’t do.

[ducttape45]

Every time I hear of stuff like this, part of me wishes the left coast would fall into the ocean. But, I know there are still good people out there and to wish such a thing shouldn’t even enter my mind.

[Salman]

Military occupation of Portland OR is long overdue.

[Savage Beast]

Portland voters must love this. They keep voting for it.

[cherry]

He’ll they’re giving free houses to blacks in washington st.

[Vaduz]

You have a good point however remember laws in Oregon changes faster than the weather.

[Twotone]

If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

[Delta 21]

Extra easy rules for the down trodden. White people need not apply.

Extraconstitutional. Alien and minority to the head of the line.

[Wuli]

In the company I worked longest at sick days was not time-days you were “owed” in a year. They were just the number of days you could take off for being sick or medical reasons, and get paid for that time. It did not mean you were “owed” anything if you did not use all the “sick days” that were possible. AND time off for additional “sick days” were days for which pay was not “owed” but discretionary depending on the circumstances and up to management.

So there was no accumulation of “sick days” except during the year itself. Sick days not taken one year did not roll over into “unused” and eligible sick days the next year.

Overtime as well had to be paid for with the pay for the period the overtime occurred, without exception.

Vacation time as well: Managers and supervisors were required to insure all their folks took the vacation time they were due for the year, and every month the HR manager would query them and remind them to be sure vacation time was taken, AS THERE WAS NO ACCUMULATION OF VACATION TIME EITHER - use of lose it was the policy.

It was not possible for a retirement to include a mass of additional funds owed for sick days, overtime, or unused vacation days.

[cgbg]

“Extraconstitutional.”

The left is using the Constitution for toilet paper.

A lot of folks here are deep in denial.

[bray]

Another fraud laundry for Tiny Kotax.