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Victim of unsolved Seattle CHOP killing featured in newly unearthed video

A newly unearthed video has revealed what is likely the last known footage of Antonio Mays Jr. speaking at 2020’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest just days before his death.
- David Gutman / The Seattle Times
Washington farmworker who led union efforts talks life after ICE detention, returning to Mexico

Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, who came to the U.S. when he was 8, has been back in Guerrero for more than a month now after deciding to end his deportation fight.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Secrecy and enforced disappearances: WA human rights group sounds alarm about ICE

The University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights is warning that federal immigration action has crossed a new boundary and is now breaking international humanitarian law.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
For these Northwest artists, this Juneteenth takes on a deeper 'urgency'

Thursday is Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Across the Northwest, local artists are using their craft to celebrate the history and stories of African Americans.
- Noel Gasca
Union farmworker organizer ‘Lelo’ denied bond to leave Tacoma ICE lockup

A prominent Washington farmworker union organizer arrested by ICE earlier this year, will remain detained in the Tacoma ICE facility after being denied release Thursday. The attorney for Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino said he plans to keep pushing to get him out.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Seattle lawyers sue DHS to stop deportation of detained immigrants to ‘third countries’

Lawyers from Seattle and others around the country filed a lawsuit this week against the Department of Homeland Security over a recent practice of the agency to deport people who don’t have legal status in the U.S. to “third countries.”
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Washington family torn apart after father arrested outside of church and deported

As immigration enforcement ramps up, families like these — built over decades — are being confronted with hard choices after federal law enforcement takes members of their family away.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Costco shareholders reject proposal to investigate the company's DEI policies

Costco shareholders have rejected a proposal that questioned the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.
- Noel Gasca
Washington immigrants, rights activists prep for Trump's promised ICE raids

President-elect Trump’s mass deportation promises are coming into clearer focus, with policy shifting to allow immigration officials into hospitals, schools, and churches. For people in the state of Washington, work is underway to prepare for and fight those mass immigration enforcement raids, especially if they overstep Constitutional rights.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Washington man dies at Tacoma ICE facility, days after human rights group visit

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports the detainee, 36-year-old Jose Manuel Sanchez-Castro, died Sunday the Northwest ICE Processing Center. He was the second death at the Tacoma facility this year and the fourth person to die at the processing center since 2006.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez

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