Nina Shapiro
Senior Editor at Seattle Times
Seattle Times reporter, covering social issues and more. [email protected]
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Nina Shapiro
WHATCOM COUNTY — Some 25 years ago, a man who ran an Indian deli near the Canadian border approached Ferndale dairy farmer John Appel. I see you make cheese, the man said. Would you consider making paneer? Appel had never heard of it. But he was game. On a burner in the rustic creamery Appel Farms had then, the deli owner showed him how to make the mild cheese used in delicious curries and other dishes. In a yellow Cadillac, the deli owner delivered the farm’s paneer to gas stations along the border.
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3 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Nina Shapiro |Daniel Beekman
Madina Hassany said she felt helpless when she heard about the travel ban President Donald Trump signed late Wednesday. The Kent resident, who immigrated from Afghanistan shortly before the Taliban regained control, has family and friends trying to come to the U.S.“We were hoping to be together,” said Hassany, an elementary school administrative assistant.
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4 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Nina Shapiro
Washington’s increasingly crowded immigrant detention center got a surprise visit Friday: three members of Congress. Democratic U.S. Reps. Pramila Jayapal and Emily Randall of Washington and Rep. Maxine Dexter of Oregon said they showed up unannounced at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma to exercise their right to congressional oversight. “Three congresswomen here.
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4 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Nina Shapiro
TACOMA — An immigration judge ruled Thursday that Lewelyn Dixon, a decadeslong green-card holder whose February arrest at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport by immigration officials attracted national attention, shouldn’t be deported. Dixon, who works as a lab technician at UW Medicine, had a hearing before Judge Tammy Fitting at the immigration court in the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
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1 month ago |
yakimaherald.com | Nina Shapiro
In the lobby of a downtown skyscraper that houses Seattle's immigration court, attorney Shir Becker stood Thursday with flyers at the ready. "Are you here for immigration court?" Becker, with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, asked people walking into the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building. If the answer was yes, the attorney had news to share: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been in the building arresting people.
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