Trump And The Northwest

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Republican WA congressman: Immigration crackdown has ‘gotten out of hand’

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.
- Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
'Not our America.' Washington state leaders condemn federal shootings in Minnesota

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nick Brown held a press conference Monday to emphatically condemn federal actions in Minnesota and hint at their preparations should the Trump administration crack down similarly in Washington state.
- Scott Greenstone
Washington’s largest climate polluter shuts down despite federal order

The Pacific Northwest’s largest pollution source has shut down, and Washington state officials want to keep it that way.
- John Ryan
Feds launch investigations into four WA school districts over trans athletes

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.
- Noel Gasca
Sidelining Trump appointee, federal judges in Seattle will name new US attorney

The chief federal judge in the Western District of Washington announced today that the court intends to exercise its power to appoint a new U.S. Attorney in Seattle. The Justice Department's appointee — interim U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd — cannot continue to serve beyond Feb. 3 without support from either the U.S Senate or federal judges in Western Washington.
- Amy Radil
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Portland, LA, and Chicago, for now

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.
- Associated Press
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
Washington’s biggest polluter ordered to keep burning coal by Trump administration

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.
- John Ryan
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
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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