immigrants

Funding is available to undocumented immigrants who have lost jobs, contracted the virus, or have cared for a family member who contracted it.

The House Republicans are working on a new farm bill after it was voted down. One of the areas that is being worked on is the legalization of Dreamers.

BURIEN, Wash. (AP) — Voters in the small Seattle suburb of Burien will decide this fall whether to repeal the city's so-called "sanctuary city" ordinance aimed at protecting immigrants. The Burien City Council earlier this week voted 6-1 to send the measure to the Nov...

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has ordered a Seattle-based immigrant rights group to halt a large part of the work it does to advise immigrants of their legal rights and help them fill out paperwork. The nonprofit Northwest Immigrant Rights Project sued the Justice Department Monday in federal court in Seattle, saying the order would force thousands of people to go without legal help i

CHICAGO (AP) — Immigrants and their allies are preparing for May 1 rallies nationwide and say there's renewed momentum to fight back against President Donald Trump's policies and more collaboration among different advocacy groups. Around the world, union members have traditionally marched on May 1 for workers' rights...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's mayor is calling a judge's action to block any attempt by President Donald Trump's administration to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" yet another rebuke of Trump's misguided agenda. A federal judge on Tuesday issued the preliminary injunction in two lawsuits — one brought by the city of San Francisco, the other by Santa Clara County — against an executive

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle's mayor and two council members plan to create a $1 million legal defense fund to help immigrants and refugees. Mayor Ed Murray and council members Lorena González and Tim Burgess said Thursday that the fund would support Seattle residents and workers with limited financial resources who are facing civil proceedings in immigration court...

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought on behalf of tens of thousands of immigrants around the United States who may not have been told that they had a one-year deadline to apply for asylum. The case concerns immigrants who either were found to have a credible fear of persecution if returned to their home country or expressed such a fear...

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Two members of the Snohomish County Fire District Board of Commissioners who made racially insensitive comments about Mexican laborers avoided disciplinary action by voting against the idea. Commissioners Bob Meador and David Chan on Friday each voted no, resulting in a 2-2 tie and the action failed...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge in Greenbelt, Maryland, has blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting six predominantly Muslim countries. Judge Theodore Chuang ruled Thursday in a case brought near the nation's capital by the ACLU and other groups representing immigrants, refugees and their families...