The Northwest turns up the heat on ICE, making it harder to arrest and deport immigrants
by Richard Read, Los Angeles Times
Jan 06, 2020
4 minutes
YAKIMA, Wash. - A man in handcuffs locked to a belt chain trudged up metal stairs, eyes fixed on the door of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter plane bound for El Paso, Texas.
He turned and brightened when gusts carried the shrill tone of a whistle blown by one of a dozen activists 50 yards away. "No estas solo!" - You are not alone! - the activists yelled across the tarmac from behind chain-link and barbed wire fencing.
Awkwardly, the man with a goatee and glasses - one of 51 unidentified detainees dispatched on a recent Tuesday by ICE - twisted his right wrist to wave.
Much of the focus on President Trump's immigration crackdown has been at the U.S.-Mexico border, which
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