The Model Family Mentorship Program is a 501(c)3 non-for-profit organization funded privately through corporate and community donations. The program is targeted at young, employed, families with children. I recently spoke with the Gary Boone who’s the founding partner of the program about the impact it’s having on families across Washington.
 

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A recent [...]

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President Barack Obama has appointed Thomas A. Saenz, age
42, to head the  U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights
Division. Thomas A. Saenz is a  former Vice- President of Litigation
for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
(MALDEF) as well as the former Chief Counsel of Los Angeles Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa. Thomas  A. Saenz and Antonio Villaraigosa are
alumni [...]

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Yesterday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a factory in Bellingham, in our state. We showed up to the polls to vote for Obama. We heard his promises of change. We have seen the countless reports that Bush-era immigration enforcement tactics are both financially and humanely costly. And now, we are getting more of the same.
Raids [...]

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By MANUEL VALDES
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SEATTLE — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered a review of a raid earlier this week at a Bellingham, Wash., manufacturing plant that ended with the arrests of 28 illegal immigrants.
“She’s ordered a review of this operation, and is demanding answers about why this happened and all the background information,” [...]

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OLYMPIA—La Diputada Mary Lou Dickerson (Demócrata de Seattle), el Fiscal del Condado de King, Dan Satterberg, y la mayoría de expertos en prostitución concuerdan en que tratar a menores que se prostituyen como víctimas de explotación sexual es mejor para reducir la prostitución que tratarlos como criminales.
Hoy la legislatura también estuvo de acuerdo y le [...]

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Hace dos años, 31 por ciento de los extranjeros en territorio estadunidense eran originarios de México, porcentaje que supera a Filipinas, India y China, con cuatro por ciento cada uno, refirió en un comunicado de la Universidad Nacional.

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Noticias de la Cámara de Diputados del Estado de Washington
Cámara de Diputados da bienvenida a Grant-Herriot como la nueva diputada del distrito 16
OLYMPIA – Una Cámara de Diputados con mucha actividad hoy dio la bienvenida a la recientemente nombrada Diputada Laura Grant-Herriot con fuertes aplausos y un día lleno de acción plenaria.  Grant-Herriot, Demócrata de [...]

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There were seven main areas for research on Latinos in Washington this fall by Whitman College Students.

Affordable Farmworker Housing
Latino Immigrants & Agriculture
Informing Policymaking for Latino Health
Neighborhood Based Organizations and Latinos
Latinos and Green-Collar Jobs
Taxation Inequality and Latinos
Latinos and Civility in the Schools

In collaboration with their community partners, these students asked: What obstacles do Latinos [...]

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EPHRATA — The banners are ready. The displays are going up.

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Company Will Deal With Neighbor’s Concerns Over New Store

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