Farah Eltohamy

2 weeks ago | northwestprimetime.com | Farah Eltohamy

Brenda Valdez feels like she can finally exhale. The mother of two and mobile home owner from Elma in Grays Harbor County said she no longer has to hold her breath waiting for the next lot rent hike to come knocking at her door after Washington state adopted an unprecedented 5% annual limit on rent increases for manufactured home owners last month.

3 weeks 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.

1 month 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.