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Camping arrests of WA immigrants spark questions from Congress members

A dozen members of Congress are asking questions of the U.S. Forest Service about immigration enforcement arrests of five men camping with their families in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest over Labor Day weekend. The Democratic lawmakers — including New York's Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Rep. Emily Randall,…

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Rep. Espaillat among those to introduce bill aimed at giving governors more oversight of immigration detention centersNew York State Rep. Adriano Espaillat, along with New Jersey Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, introduced H.R.9271 to Congress on Thursday, June 11. Also known as the "Governor's Right to Inspect Act of 2026," the bill is meant to provide state governors with the authority to conduct health and…
Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and MarxismDarializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.

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