Farah Eltohamy

4 days ago | cascadepbs.org | Farah Eltohamy

Valdez said her lot rent — what she pays for the ground under her mobile home — had nearly doubled in the past decade, and she expected to face another $100-a-month increase in July. “$100 – it’s like worth a week of groceries for my kids, it’s half of my energy bill, it’s a pair of shoes for my kids, it’s even having to choose to have a Saturday evening at the movies, or an ice cream or something,” she said.

4 weeks ago | cascadepbs.org | Farah Eltohamy

Farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez participates in the Farmworker Tribunal at the State Capitol in January. Juarez, 25, was arrested by immigration officials on March 25. (Jason Redmond for Cascade PBS) Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, a farmworker and union organizer whose March arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement drew national outcry, will remain in detention after a judge announced Friday that she lacked jurisdiction to release him on bond.

1 month ago | wenatcheeworld.com | Farah Eltohamy

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1 month ago | cascadepbs.org | Farah Eltohamy

The group, Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest, provides reentry assistance to those released from the processing center. Volunteers now huddled under a nearby tent to escape the wind and rain as they watched for any motion from the detention facility. They held arms crossed and shoulders roused against the cold. Any second now. Peering through the chain-link barriers, they spotted a detention officer emerge from a corner of the building with three other figures.

Feb 23, 2025 | washingtonstatestandard.com | Moe Clark |Farah Eltohamy

President Donald Trump has identified state and local law enforcement agencies as being pivotal in his plans to deport millions of undocumented people from the U.S. But the extent of how his undertaking will play out on the ground remains unclear, especially in Washington and other “sanctuary states” that have local laws prohibiting such collaborations.