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• Out & About: Group working to translate fishing rules into Russian

  May 13, 2012 in Outdoors on Page C10 OUTDO – A group of anglers is trying to get Spokane River anglers speaking the same language on fishing restrictions to protect struggling native redband trout. The group has worked … 7

• Border Patrol’s Spokane presence raises questions

  May 2, 2012 in News, City Federal agents have increased their presence in the Spokane area in what some believe is an overreaching effort to combat illegal immigration at a local level. Officials with the U.S. … 32

• May Day protests disrupt downtown Seattle, Portland

  May 1, 2012 in Region SEATTLE — May Day demonstrators who marched through Seattle turned violent today, with black-clad protesters using sticks and bats to smash downtown stores and automobile windows. A small fire was … 24

• Dana Milbank: Arizona law won’t help Romney

  April 26, 2012 in Opinion on Page A11 WASHINGTON – Aficionados of the Etch A Sketch will recall a certain flaw in the toy: If you use it often, some of the lines drawn no longer disappear when … 5

• Supreme Court to weigh Arizona immigration law

  April 23, 2012 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court and the Obama administration are set for another politically charged clash Wednesday as the justices take up Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. It will be … 33

• Marshallese making a new life in Spokane

  March 4, 2012 in City on Page A1 One day last spring, Spokane resident Rick Burnham suddenly realized a lot of people from the Marshall Islands live here. Until then he had no idea where the Marshall Islands … 15

• Immigration crackdown changes harvest plans

  January 22, 2012 in Business on Page E5 ATLANTA — It’s unclear whether farmers in Georgia and Alabama will face a shortage of workers due to tough new laws targeting illegal immigration, but some producers said they have …

• Kennewick council to vote on E-Verify use

  January 15, 2012 in News The Kennewick City Council on Tuesday will vote on whether to adopt E-Verify as a condition for employment and for contractors who want to do work for the city. 4

• High court to look at state immigration laws

  December 12, 2011 in Nation/World The Supreme Court agreed today to rule on Arizona’s controversial law targeting illegal immigrants. 2

• Supreme Court sustains Ariz. employer sanctions law

  May 26, 2011 in News, Nation/World WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona’s law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in … 17

• Everybody wins but Utah’s workers

  March 12, 2011 in Opinion on Page B4 Someone is missing at the celebration for the Utah Compact on immigration. Who could that be? Latino activists, the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, the Chamber of Commerce and the … 6

• Washington driver’s license proposal called racist, anti-immigrant

  February 4, 2011 in City on Page A6 OLYMPIA – A legislative hearing over a proposal to make driver’s license applicants give the state a Social Security number and a verifiable residence was abruptly halted Thursday after some … 15

• For 2nd year, deportations drop in the Northwest

  November 11, 2010 in Region The number of deportations of illegal immigrants from Washington, Oregon and Alaska dropped by nearly 9 percent during the last fiscal year, while deportations of immigrants considered convicted criminals were … 4

• Mother granted stay to fight deportation

  October 20, 2010 in City on Page A5 Shou Feng Zheng, a Spokane mother who faced deportation to her native People’s Republic of China, won a last-minute stay Tuesday, allowing her to remain in the United States for … 6

• Chinese woman’s deportation delayed one year

    October 19, 2010 in City Shou Feng Zheng, a Spokane mother who faced deportation to her native People’s Republic of China, won a last-minute stay today, allowing her to stay in the United States for … 3

• Mother at risk of deportation makes one more asylum plea

    October 16, 2010 in City on Page B1 An immigrant mother of two young children faces deportation next week unless she can win an eleventh-hour stay based on deteriorating human rights conditions in her native China. “If I …

• Immigrant mother makes one last plea to stay

    October 15, 2010 in City An immigrant mother of two young children faces deportation next week unless she can win an 11th-hour stay based on deteriorating human rights conditions in her native China. “If I … 3

• Eye on Boise: Constitutional amendment would allow tuition at UI

  September 12, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 BOISE – A little-noticed item on this year’s general election ballot, SJR 101, would amend the Idaho Constitution to permit tuition to be charged at the University of Idaho. The …

• Music a cultural bridge at Hispanic Heritage Festival

  August 29, 2010 in City on Page B2 “Alegria” is a sense of deep-felt joy. It’s a feeling that Luis Vigil hopes his band, Los Vigiles, is able to create in a crowd. As Vigil awaited the beginning … 2

• Hillyard festival celebrates Hispanic heritage

  August 28, 2010 in City “Alegria” is a sense of deep-felt joy. It’s a feeling that Luis Vigil hopes his band, Los Vigiles, is able to create in a crowd. As Vigil awaited the beginning …

• Judge pulls key pieces from immigration law

  July 29, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 PHOENIX – A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizona’s immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation between police … 7

• Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law

  July 28, 2010 in Nation/World A federal judge dealt a serious rebuke to Arizona’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law today when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect. 44

• Mental illness adds to ordeal of deportation

  July 26, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 NEW YORK – Thousands of mentally disabled immigrants are entangled in deportation proceedings each year with little or no legal help, leaving them distraught, defenseless and detained as their fates … 7

• Government sues Arizona over law on immigration

  July 7, 2010 in City on Page A1 PHOENIX – The Obama administration sued Arizona on Tuesday to throw out the state’s toughest-in-the-nation immigration law and keep other states from copying it. The lawsuit filed in federal court … 19

• Man deported before he could be charged with murder

  July 2, 2010 in City The roommate of a man found shot to death near Green Bluff last fall has been charged with his murder. But detectives haven’t arrested Miguel A. Rodriguez-Barbosa. The 19-year-old was …

• Arizona cops get guidelines

  July 2, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A14 PHOENIX – Police officers trying to enforce a controversial new Arizona immigration law cannot use race to form a suspicion that someone is in the country illegally, but can rely …

• Obama lashes out at GOP on immigration

  July 2, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – In his first major speech on the issue since taking office, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. immigration system “offends our most basic American values” and … 24

• Town putting immigration concerns to a vote

  June 21, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 FREMONT, Neb. – Angered by a recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants, voters in the eastern Nebraska city of Fremont will decide today whether … 8

• Citizenship proposal faces constitutional test

  June 16, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A1 PHOENIX – Emboldened by passage of the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in … 12

• Obama, Brewer discuss law

  June 4, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama received Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the Oval Office on Thursday, but the two made no progress in bridging the enormous gulf that divides them …

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