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  • Democrats seek to shield Washingtonians from President's executive orders

    Enrique Perez de la Rosa, WNPA Olympia News Bureau|Feb 16, 2017

    OLYMPIA, Feb. 16 — Washington State Democrats have introduced legislation they say will protect residents from recent presidential executive orders. At a news conference Wednesday called by House Democrats, Sen. Guy Palumbo (D-Maltby) said the legislation is meant to shield the state from affairs in the nation’s capital related to President Donald John Trump’s executive orders. “Democrats are trying to find a way to build a wall around Washington State to keep D.C. out, and this hateful rhetoric and all these actions,” Palumbo said. On the sa...

  • Trump travel ban echoes World War II Japanese-Americans' internment order

    Enrique Perez de la Rosa, WNPA Olympia News Bureau|Feb 16, 2017

    BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Feb. 20 - On March 30, 1942, about four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, then-22-year-old Kay Sakai was removed from her home on Bainbridge Island and taken by ferry to Seattle under armed guard. "Will I ever see my home again? How long are we going to be gone? Where are we going?" Sakai asked herself as she saw the island get smaller and smaller behind her, she said. "It goes through your mind. No answers." It was the first leg of a three-day journey to the M...