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  A Seattle fourth-grader and his family self-deport to Guatemala

  A Seattle elementary school student left for Guatemala late Wednesday night. His family is self-deporting to avoid federal immigration police. Teachers in Seattle are calling on the school district to better protect students like him.

  • Casey Martin
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  DHS identifies people shot by Border Patrol in Portland; 6 arrested in protests after shooting

  U.S. Border Patrol shot and injured two people in Portland Thursday afternoon, police said, spurring protests that sent hundreds into the streets even as local authorities scrambled to get answers themselves.

  • Conrad Wilson/OPB
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  Seattle joins national protest following Minneapolis ICE shooting

  This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

  • Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
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  The year in numbers: 2025 in Seattle and Washington state

  Record-breaking protests. A historic run for the Mariners. Mass tech layoffs. The closest local election in decades. Here are some of the numbers that shaped KUOW’s stories this year.

  • Teo Popescu
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  Seattle-area Somalis seek officials’ help with daycare doxxing, immigration crackdown

  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.

  • Amy Radil
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  ICE stops Native American actress Elaine Miles in Redmond

  Amid the increase of reports of ICE arrests in the cities surrounding Seattle over the past weeks, a member of a federally recognized tribe says she was also stopped and interrogated by apparent immigration officials.

  • Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
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  As reports of ICE emerge in Seattle suburbs, neighborhood watches take shape

  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.

  • Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
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  UW sees fewer students from China, India after federal immigration restrictions

  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.

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  Oregon National Guard troops remain under federal control after appeals court order

  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.

  • OPB Staff
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  Issaquah on edge after ICE arrest outside preschool

  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.

  • Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez

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