Who are the Benaroyas? They’re not our city’s most magnanimous family, but their name is on a major music hall, a research institute, and wings of the Seattle and Tacoma art museums. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
PHOTOS: Spending Christmas in a Seattle church, hiding from deportation The Las Posadas pageant tells the biblical story of Mary and Joseph seeking and being denied refuge. A downtown Seattle church put on the pageant for a man trying to avoid deportation to Mexico. Casey Martin
Russian asylum seeker dies after suicide attempt. He was to be expelled this month A Russian asylum seeker died after a suicide attempt at the detention center in Tacoma, according to federal officials. Sydney Brownstone
Hunger striker at Tacoma immigration jail carried out of cell, apparently unconscious Advocates for a hunger striker in immigration detention in Tacoma say they fear for his life. Amy Radil
This Kent pastor can't get back into the U.S. So now he evangelizes by Skype When Pastor Carlos Galdamez and his wife, Reina Aquino, left their home in Washington to get a visa in Mexico this past January, they thought it was the last stop on their path to U.S. citizenship. Sydney Brownstone
To stay in America, he must convince a judge his tattoo isn’t gang related A federal judge in Seattle has upheld, for now, Daniel Ramirez Medina’s DACA status. Paige Browning
Immigrant advocates pressure Washington's licensing chief to step down Immigrant rights leaders in Washington state say it's time for Pat Kohler to resign as director of the state's Department of Licensing. The DOL came... Paige Browning
After a year in America, Syrian family weighs a return home In the wake of the Trump Administration’s travel ban, the resettlement of Syrian refugees to the U.S. slowed considerably. In Washington state, the... Liz Jones
He came face to face with ICE and stopped an arrest Morning traffic streamed past a busy intersection in South Seattle, past a family-style pizza shop and a brightly-painted Mexican restaurant that still... Liz Jones
My grandma’s first kiss happened in a Chilean prison September 11, 1973, was the day everything changed for my grandmother, Beatriz Alvarez. She was attending university in Santiago, Chile, on her way to... Diego Villarroel
