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Washington Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Adam Smith on Tuesday renewed their call to close all for-profit federal immigration detention centers.
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Senator Patty Murray's letter comes several months after a 61-year-old detainee, Charles Leo Daniel, was found dead at an ICE Processing Center, a detention center in Tacoma.
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Washington officials are working to distribute around $32 million in state funding this year to aid asylum-seekers, as hundreds of migrants live in tents in the Seattle area.
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Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own.
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The Pierce County Medical Examiner determined Charles Leo Daniel, who spent extensive time in solitary confinement, died of natural causes in March.
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A cluster of tents in a grassy lot in Kent highlights the issues that many communities face as President Joe Biden attempts to restrict migrants seeking asylum.
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The asylum-seekers, mainly from Angola, Congo and Venezuela, have set up an encampment in a Seattle suburb near an empty motel.
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The United Nations over the last decade has logged an increasing number of crew members abandoned by shipowners around the world. That’s left sailors aboard months and sometimes years without pay.
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Community members have raised concerns about councilmembers’ ties to the restaurant and hospitality industry ahead of a vote that would rollback a minimum wage law for app delivery drivers.
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Washington’s immigrant population is jumping at the chance to apply for health insurance as coverage expands for those without a federally-recognized immigration status.
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After a new minimum wage law for gig delivery drivers took effect, apps like DoorDash, Instacart and Uber Eats raised customer fees. Now Seattle City Council is considering revisions to the law.
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A new report from the Anti-Defamation League indicates there was a spike in antisemitic incidents last year, both locally and nationally.