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The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Washington state has violated the rights of female prisoners housed with transgender women.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/department-of-justice-launches-investigation-into-washington-prison-trans-policies
#KUOW #News #LawAndCourts #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Lgbtq #Transgender #LawAndCourts

Seattle-area people from a variety of backgrounds continue to draw inspiration from the Minnesota residents who mounted a movement against the federal agents deployed in their state earlier this year.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-area-organizers-adopt-and-adapt-minnesota-s-ice-protest-tactics
#KUOW #News #Politics #Protests #Seattle #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

The U.S. Forest Service is shutting down research stations around the country, including centers in Portland, Seattle, and Wenatchee, Washington.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/forest-service-axes-most-research-stations-as-severe-fire-season-builds-in-pacific-northwest
#KUOW #News #Environment #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Science #Environment #NationalParks

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, an increasing number of undocumented farmworkers in Washington state live in fear, not only of being detained and deported, but of having their families torn apart in the process.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/between-ice-and-a-hard-place-wa-farmworkers-fear-deportation-family-separation
#KUOW #News #Poverty #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Immigration #Government

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, an increasing number of undocumented farmworkers in Washington state live in fear, not only of being detained and deported, but of having their families torn apart in the process.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/between-ice-and-a-hard-place-wa-farmworkers-fear-deportation-family-separation
#KUOW #News #Poverty #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Immigration #Government

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, an increasing number of undocumented farmworkers in Washington state live in fear, not only of being detained and deported, but of having their families torn apart in the process.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/between-ice-and-a-hard-place-wa-farmworkers-fear-deportation-family-separation
#KUOW #News #Poverty #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Immigration #Government

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, an increasing number of undocumented farmworkers in Washington state live in fear, not only of being detained and deported, but of having their families torn apart in the process.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/between-ice-and-a-hard-place-wa-farmworkers-fear-deportation-family-separation
#KUOW #News #Poverty #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Immigration #Government

As the Trump administration continues its immigration crackdown, an increasing number of undocumented farmworkers in Washington state live in fear, not only of being detained and deported, but of having their families torn apart in the process.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/between-ice-and-a-hard-place-wa-farmworkers-fear-deportation-family-separation
#KUOW #News #Poverty #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Immigration #Government

The City of Seattle has passed an emergency, one-year ban on new ICE detention centers.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-bans-new-ice-detention-centers-for-1-year
#KUOW #News #Immigration #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Seattle #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

The City of Seattle has passed an emergency, one-year ban on new ICE detention centers.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-bans-new-ice-detention-centers-for-1-year
#KUOW #News #Immigration #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Seattle #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

The City of Seattle has passed an emergency, one-year ban on new ICE detention centers.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-bans-new-ice-detention-centers-for-1-year
#KUOW #News #Immigration #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Seattle #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

The City of Seattle has passed an emergency, one-year ban on new ICE detention centers.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-bans-new-ice-detention-centers-for-1-year
#KUOW #News #Immigration #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Seattle #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

The City of Seattle has passed an emergency, one-year ban on new ICE detention centers.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-bans-new-ice-detention-centers-for-1-year
#KUOW #News #Immigration #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Seattle #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

Washington is one of 24 states suing the Trump administration over its latest attempt to impose worldwide tariffs without congressional approval.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-joins-24-state-lawsuit-seeking-to-block-trump-s-latest-tariffs
#KUOW #News #LawAndCourts #Politics #Government #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Trade #Economy #LawAndCourts

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in Seattle on the legality of the Trump administration’s expanded mandatory detention for immigrants who in the past have been able to seek release while awaiting the outcomes of their cases.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/in-seattle-9th-circuit-judges-consider-trump-policy-of-mandatory-immigrant-detentions
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Government #LawAndCourts

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in Seattle on the legality of the Trump administration’s expanded mandatory detention for immigrants who in the past have been able to seek release while awaiting the outcomes of their cases.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/in-seattle-9th-circuit-judges-consider-trump-policy-of-mandatory-immigrant-detentions
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Government #LawAndCourts

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in Seattle on the legality of the Trump administration’s expanded mandatory detention for immigrants who in the past have been able to seek release while awaiting the outcomes of their cases.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/in-seattle-9th-circuit-judges-consider-trump-policy-of-mandatory-immigrant-detentions
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Government #LawAndCourts

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in Seattle on the legality of the Trump administration’s expanded mandatory detention for immigrants who in the past have been able to seek release while awaiting the outcomes of their cases.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/in-seattle-9th-circuit-judges-consider-trump-policy-of-mandatory-immigrant-detentions
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Government #LawAndCourts

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in Seattle on the legality of the Trump administration’s expanded mandatory detention for immigrants who in the past have been able to seek release while awaiting the outcomes of their cases.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/in-seattle-9th-circuit-judges-consider-trump-policy-of-mandatory-immigrant-detentions
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #Government #LawAndCourts

In Washington state, Democrats and some Republicans are welcoming the U.S. Supreme Court decision restricting the president's ability to impose sweeping tariffs.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/supreme-court-ruling-against-trump-tariffs-lauded-by-some-wa-lawmakers
#KUOW #News #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Economy #Economy #LawAndCourts #Government #Government #SupremeCourt #Taxes

In his first executive order since becoming King County executive in November, Girmay Zahilay has barred immigration authorities from conducting enforcement activities in non-public areas of county-owned buildings and properties.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/zahilay-s-first-executive-order-bars-ice-from-king-county-owned-properties
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Government #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Politics #Government #Immigration #KingCounty

Hundreds of Seattle-area students walked out of school Thursday and gathered at Seattle City Hall downtown to protest the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers across the country.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/ice-out-seattle-students-gather-downtown-to-protest-federal-immigration-crackdown
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Education #Protests #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Immigration #Education #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

Hundreds of Seattle-area students walked out of school Thursday and gathered at Seattle City Hall downtown to protest the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers across the country.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/ice-out-seattle-students-gather-downtown-to-protest-federal-immigration-crackdown
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Education #Protests #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Immigration #Education #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

Hundreds of Seattle-area students walked out of school Thursday and gathered at Seattle City Hall downtown to protest the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers across the country.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/ice-out-seattle-students-gather-downtown-to-protest-federal-immigration-crackdown
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Education #Protests #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Immigration #Education #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

Hundreds of Seattle-area students walked out of school Thursday and gathered at Seattle City Hall downtown to protest the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers across the country.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/ice-out-seattle-students-gather-downtown-to-protest-federal-immigration-crackdown
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Education #Protests #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Immigration #Education #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

Hundreds of Seattle-area students walked out of school Thursday and gathered at Seattle City Hall downtown to protest the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers across the country.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/ice-out-seattle-students-gather-downtown-to-protest-federal-immigration-crackdown
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Education #Protests #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Immigration #Education #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

The Trump administration is using a workaround to retain its preferred U.S. attorney in Seattle, despite his lack of confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It’s a tactic the Justice Department has employed elsewhere, resulting in some legal challenges.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/justice-department-workaround-keeps-former-immigration-judge-as-seattle-s-top-prosecutor-6cbe
#KUOW #News #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Government #Immigration #LawAndCourts #Government #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #Seattle

The Trump administration is using a workaround to retain its preferred U.S. attorney in Seattle, despite his lack of confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It’s a tactic the Justice Department has employed elsewhere, resulting in some legal challenges.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/justice-department-workaround-keeps-former-immigration-judge-as-seattle-s-top-prosecutor-6cbe
#KUOW #News #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Government #Immigration #LawAndCourts #Government #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #Seattle

The Trump administration is using a workaround to retain its preferred U.S. attorney in Seattle, despite his lack of confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It’s a tactic the Justice Department has employed elsewhere, resulting in some legal challenges.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/justice-department-workaround-keeps-former-immigration-judge-as-seattle-s-top-prosecutor-6cbe
#KUOW #News #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Government #Immigration #LawAndCourts #Government #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #Seattle

The Trump administration is using a workaround to retain its preferred U.S. attorney in Seattle, despite his lack of confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It’s a tactic the Justice Department has employed elsewhere, resulting in some legal challenges.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/justice-department-workaround-keeps-former-immigration-judge-as-seattle-s-top-prosecutor-6cbe
#KUOW #News #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Government #Immigration #LawAndCourts #Government #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #Seattle

The Trump administration is using a workaround to retain its preferred U.S. attorney in Seattle, despite his lack of confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It’s a tactic the Justice Department has employed elsewhere, resulting in some legal challenges.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/justice-department-workaround-keeps-former-immigration-judge-as-seattle-s-top-prosecutor-6cbe
#KUOW #News #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Government #Immigration #LawAndCourts #Government #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #Seattle

U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse said Wednesday that “a lot of questions need to be answered” in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota, but stopped short of calling for new leadership at the Department of Homeland Security.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/republican-wa-congressman-immigration-crackdown-has-gotten-out-of-hand
#KUOW #News #RepublicanParty #Congress #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Immigration #Politics #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Government

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nick Brown held a press conference Monday to emphatically condemn federal actions in Minnesota and explain their preparations should the Trump administration crack down similarly in Washington state.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/not-our-america-ferguson-and-brown-condemn-federal-action-in-mn-pledge-action
#KUOW #News #Government #Immigration #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Politics #Government #Politics

The Pacific Northwest’s largest pollution source has shut down, and Washington state officials want to keep it that way.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-s-largest-climate-polluter-shuts-down-despite-federal-order
#KUOW #News #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Energy #ClimateChange #Environment #Environment

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced they are investigating four school districts in Washington state for permitting transgender students to compete in school sports.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/feds-launch-investigations-into-four-wa-school-districts-over-trans-athletes
#KUOW #News #Transgender #Sports #Government #Education #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/trump-says-he-s-dropping-push-for-national-guard-in-portland-chicago-and-la-for-now
#KUOW #News #Politics #Government #Politics #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Portland #Government

Members of the Seattle-area Somali community say they are reeling from the impact of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric — he recently referred to Somali Americans as “garbage” — and from an immigration crackdown that has sent people to detention or left them unable to work.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-area-somalis-seek-officials-help-with-daycare-doxxing-immigration-crackdown
#KUOW #News #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration

Two weeks before Washington state’s biggest source of climate pollution was required to end its five decades of burning coal, the Trump administration has given it a new lease on life.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-s-biggest-polluter-ordered-to-keep-burning-coal-by-trump-administration
#KUOW #News #Environment #Climate #Energy #Climate #ClimateChange #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

Outside Seattle, the suburbs are often hubs for Latino and first-generation immigrant communities. Reports of ICE arrests in some of those smaller cities have been trending over the past weeks, although the official numbers are tough to pinpoint. Some suburban communities are responding to immigration enforcement in different ways.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/as-reports-of-ice-start-popping-up-in-seattle-the-suburbs-already-know-they-re-here
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Immigration #Immigration #KingCounty #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

The University of Washington had a 9% decrease in students from China and India this fall, the home countries for about two-thirds of the university’s 7,900 international students.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/uw-sees-fewer-students-from-china-india-after-federal-immigration-restrictions
#KUOW #News #UniversityOfWashington #Immigration #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Education #Government #Education

Earlier on Wednesday, Gov. Tina Kotek announced the Oregon guard troops would be demobilized. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals put that on pause just over an hour later.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/oregon-national-guard-troops-remain-under-federal-control-following-appeals-court-order
#KUOW #News #Oregon #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Immigration #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #Government #LawAndCourts #LawAndCourts #Portland #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest

The U.S. government shutdown has turned off the spigot of federal aid for people who need help to keep the heat on, but the situation in Washington state is less dire than elsewhere.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-state-home-energy-aid-continues-despite-federal-shutdown
#KUOW #News #Government #Energy #Poverty #TrumpAndTheNorthwest

A coalition of 15 states including Washington and Oregon says a Trump administration proposal to turn a blind eye to greenhouse gas pollution is illegal.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/see-no-emissions-state-attorneys-say-trump-plan-to-stop-tracking-climate-pollution-is-illegal
#KUOW #News #ClimateChange #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Environment

President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required it to keep the food aid program running.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/trump-administration-says-snap-will-be-partially-funded-after-judges-rulings
#KUOW #News #LawAndCourts #GovernmentShutdown #Government #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #Poverty #Health #Politics #Government

A series of immigration arrests has shaken an Issaquah preschool community over the past week. The arrests have also had a ripple effect throughout the city’s education system.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/issaquah-on-edge-after-ice-arrest-outside-day-care-center
#KUOW #News #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #RaceAndIdentity #Immigration #Education #SchoolsAndEducation

A series of immigration arrests has shaken an Issaquah preschool community over the past week. The arrests have also had a ripple effect throughout the city’s education system.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/issaquah-on-edge-after-ice-arrest-outside-day-care-center
#KUOW #News #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #RaceAndIdentity #Immigration #Education #SchoolsAndEducation

A series of immigration arrests has shaken an Issaquah preschool community over the past week. The arrests have also had a ripple effect throughout the city’s education system.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/issaquah-on-edge-after-ice-arrest-outside-day-care-center
#KUOW #News #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #RaceAndIdentity #Immigration #Education #SchoolsAndEducation

A series of immigration arrests has shaken an Issaquah preschool community over the past week. The arrests have also had a ripple effect throughout the city’s education system.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/issaquah-on-edge-after-ice-arrest-outside-day-care-center
#KUOW #News #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #RaceAndIdentity #Immigration #Education #SchoolsAndEducation

A series of immigration arrests has shaken an Issaquah preschool community over the past week. The arrests have also had a ripple effect throughout the city’s education system.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/issaquah-on-edge-after-ice-arrest-outside-day-care-center
#KUOW #News #Immigration #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #RaceAndIdentity #Immigration #Education #SchoolsAndEducation

The revelation came to light Wednesday in federal court in Portland, where U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut will decide if President Trump acted lawfully or violated the state’s rights by trying to deploy the National Guard.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/national-guard-troops-briefly-deployed-to-portland-despite-judge-s-order-federal-trial-reveals-e77b
#KUOW #News #LawAndCourts #Government #Portland #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts #Government