immigration

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys have filed a petition that seeks the release of an Afghan family of five detained by immigration officials when they arrived at Los Angeles International Airport. Lawyers say the mother and father and their three children landed at LAX on Thursday for a connecting flight to Seattle, where they planned to resettle...

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal magistrate in Seattle will not hold an immediate hearing to consider releasing a man arrested by immigration agents despite his participation in federal program to protect people brought to the U.S. illegally as children...

OLYMPIA (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he has signed an executive order to ensure that state workers don't help carry out President Donald Trump's "mean spirited" immigration policies. Trump has said he wants to expand the number of deportations of people in the country illegally...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's attorney general says she has staffers strategizing how to fight back if the federal government tries to withhold funds to force compliance with conservative policies, like on abortion. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told The Associated Press this week that if federal funding to Planned Parenthood is cut, Oregon will push back...

SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers are asking a federal court in Seattle to order the immediate release of a man detained by immigration agents despite his participation in a federal program to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally. But the U.S...

SPOKANE  (AP) — Fliers encouraging people to report "illegal aliens" to immigration authorities were found on the Washington State University campus in Pullman. The Spokesman-Review reports the fliers found Tuesday were similar to those found Monday at the University of Texas...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle judge derided by President Donald Trump on Twitter after blocking Trump's executive order on immigration is known for his conservative legal views, for a record of helping disadvantaged children that includes fostering six of them, and for dramatically declaring "black lives matter" during a hearing on police reform in 2015...

SEATTLE (AP) — The president of Seattle University's student government, who was brought into the U.S. illegally as a child, is stepping down from his role in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election. Seattle University senior Carlos Rodriguez says President Donald Trump's inauguration, executive orders regarding immigration, the travel ban and the wall on the southern U...

OLYMPIA (AP) — Democratic members of the Washington state Legislature have sent a letter to President Donald Trump decrying his recent executive order on immigration. The letter, signed by all 74 Democrats in the state House and Senate, was sent Tuesday...

Yakima Bishop Joseph Tyson says while he understands the intent of the presidents travel restriction from 7 different countries he believes the entire situation could have been handled differently to better help people around the country and the world better understand it's about security and not about banning Muslims...