Monica
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Monica
@itsmonicacarrillo.bsky.social
Murrow News Fellow reporting on rural issues for The Spokesman-Review & Spokane Public Radio 📝🎙️
Reposted by Monica
When President Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time, Alberto asked his coworker if he could put her phone number in his children’s school backpacks

A month later, she got the call that he had been detained

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A Spokane man who fled the Nicaraguan government in fear for his life is detained by ICE, again. His family is bracing for life without him
Alberto Lovo Rojas feared returning to Nicaragua with a target on his back.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#NEW: With Trump’s second presidency less than two months away, Luis Cortes, lawyer who fought for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program before the Supreme Court in 2019, is urging recipients to prepare a future without it.

My latest: www.spokesman.com/stories/2024...
'Community organizing means showing up': Lawyer who fought for DACA in the Supreme Court urges undocumented immigrants to prepare for a future without it
Luis Cortes, the lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court in 2019 to defend a visa program allowing undocumented immigrants to temporarily reside legally in the United States, is now urging recipien...
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November 27, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Reposted by Monica
Last week I hung out at the Jean Kim Foundation's Hygiene Center in Lynnwood. It is a one-stop hub for showers, food and clothes.

I got the chance to meet Petey. Having a hot meal is one of his favorite parts of the center. He likes meatloaf.

lynnwoodtoday.com/im-so-thankf...
‘I’m so thankful to have this place’: A one-stop hub for showers, food and clothes in Lynnwood - Lynnwood Today
The first thing you’ll see on Amberlee Bell’s desk is a vase full of flowers. Bell’s partner typically gives her an assortment of flowers for certain occasions or just because,...
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November 23, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Since 2016, former President Donald Trump has talked about a mass deportation plan. And with many rural Washington agricultural communities made up of at least 70% Hispanic, they fear under a second presidency, it will become reality.

Read more:
www.spokesman.com/stories/2024...
Some Washington agricultural communities fear a second Donald Trump presidency as deportation threats persist
OTHELLO, Wash. – José Portillo looks up at a picture of former President Barack Obama near his desk.
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November 21, 2024 at 5:43 AM