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Oregon Rep. Andrea Salinas kept from constituents on visit to Tacoma ICE center
1+ day, 32+ min ago (767+ words) The Northwest ICE Processing Center is in Tacoma, Washington. Oregon's U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas was unable to meet with constituents detained there on Tuesday because meetings with lawyers were cancelled due to lack of available space. Oregon's U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas went to Tacoma, Washington, on Tuesday expecting to meet with three of her constituents who are detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. Instead, the second-term Democrat " whose 6th Congressional District includes cities in the northern Willamette Valley grappling with increased ICE presence and arrests " and a lawyer from the Portland-based nonprofit Innovation Law Lab, who represents the three detained, were left to wait. When Moh Dawood Akbari heard that an Afghan man was the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Thanksgiving eve, he began to cry. Read moreWA Afghan community sad, afraid after…...