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ICE Seattle limiting raid details after Seattle media leaks
Immigration officials have been forced to stop sharing all pertinent details on pending raids in and around Seattle and Spokane due to media leaks.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Seattle Field Office Director Cammilla Wamsley explained to “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH that her office alerts local law enforcement agencies when her agents are targeting criminal illegal immigrants. The coordination is intended to cut down on surprises or any “blue on blue shooting.”
But she said it’s been a challenge in Seattle and Spokane.
“We do have some situations with some local police agencies in which we struggle with that notification because it is leaked to the media as soon as we make those notifications,” Wamsley explained. “And that endangers my workforce. It causes issues with the public. We’re trying to work through those concerns with our partners.”
ICE Seattle says leaks by Seattle law enforcement are deliberate
ICE Seattle believes the leaks are intentional, meant to interfere with enforcement efforts. But as a direct result of the apparent leaks, Wamsley said ICE Seattle stopped fully coordinating with local enforcement in certain cities.
“In some instances, we’re delaying that notification until right around the time we’re out in the field so that there’s little to not lead time for our locations to be leaked,” she explained. “We’re also not necessarily sharing exactly where we are, but more, where we are in relation to neighborhoods or more generalized areas. It’s tough and it’s a bit demoralizing for our officers who are deeply committed to the mission.”
Wamsley said ICE Seattle has much better relationships with agencies outside of Seattle and Spokane. Law enforcement agencies in central Washington are especially helpful when they can legally do so.
Paying a price for leaks
Keep Washington Working Act, the state’s dubiously titled sanctuary law, prevents most cooperation between law enforcement and ICE.
“I can tell you that the sheriff and the local organizations are following the state law, even if they don’t want to,” Wamsley said.
The Seattle Police Department said the same thing: the department will not violate the Keep Washington Working Act to cooperate with federal investigations around illegal immigrants. Policy bars cooperation without approval from the Chief of Police or a designee. How often is approval given? Never.
As a result of the lack of cooperation, ICE Seattle said it is forced to make arrests in neighborhoods or at businesses, where it’s less safe to conduct raids. If local agencies cooperated when they seek to arrest criminal illegal immigrants, the likelihood of more public raids is greatly “diminished.”
If it’s determined that any city official or law enforcement staffer is breaking the law with their leaks, Wamsley believes there will be legal consequences.
ICE Seattle is targeting criminal illegal immigrants
Wamsley also noted that ICE Seattle arrests are targeted.
“I think there is a general idea that the public has that we are willy-nilly, if you will, targeting, not targeting people; that we’re just making arrests of folks on the streets without having background on what their history is, both immigration and criminality, which is inaccurate,” she explained. “We do engage in targeted enforcement operations in which we are identifying people who are in the United States in violation of immigration laws, and who generally also have some criminality in their background, which could be as simple as a simple assault or as complex as a murder conviction.”
ICE Seattle announced last week that agents arrested Doung Duc Nguyen, a citizen of Vietnam. He was previously convicted in Washington for rape, kidnapping, indecent liberties, burglary, and felony harassment. He had been previously ordered removed by an immigration judge in 2022.
And despite the riots in Los Angeles and increased local pressure to stop enforcing immigration laws, ICE Seattle will continue.
“I understand that people maybe don’t agree with the platform of the president or of this administration, but we have a job to do, and it’s been the same job that we’ve been doing since 1954, and we’re not going to stop doing that,” Wamsley explained.
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Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
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Brandon Nimmo hits leadoff homer, Jacob deGrom works 4 scoreless as Rangers beat Seattle Mariners 5-0
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – APRIL 17: Corey Seager #5 of the Texas Rangers tags out Dominic Canzone #8 of the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning at T-Mobile Park on April 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
SEATTLE – Brandon Nimmo hit a leadoff home run, Jacob deGrom threw four shutout innings and Gavin Collyer earned his first career win as the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Friday night.
Seattle lost its fourth straight game, and was shut out for the fourth time in 21 games, falling to 8-13. The Mariners were shut out six times during the 2025 season. Texas won its third straight game.
Nimmo led off the game with a 372-foot shot to right field off Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (1-3). It was Nimmo’s 16th career leadoff homer and second of the season. He also hit a leadoff home run on April 11 in a 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
DeGrom effectively maneuvered through Seattle’s lineup, and worked out of a one out, bases-loaded jam in the first inning. The two-time Cy Young Award winner recorded two of his three strikeouts after walking Josh Naylor to load the bases. Randy Arozarena fanned on a curveball, and Luke Raley swung through a fastball.
Texas added to its lead after Nimmo’s homer. Wyatt Langford’s single to left scored Corey Seager, who led off the third inning with a double. The Rangers stretched the lead to 3-0 on an RBI single from Jake Burger in the seventh.
The Mariners’ best scoring chance came in the sixth after Collyer (1-0), who worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings, left the game.
J.P. Crawford singled to left off Tyler Alexander with two out, and Mariners third base coach Carlos Cardoza sent Naylor from second base, but he was thrown out by Langford.
Texas added two more runs in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Andrew McCutchen and an RBI double by Josh Jung.
Seattle third baseman Brendan Donovan left the game early due to a left hip issue.
Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller, who started the year on the injured list with a left oblique injury, was at T-Mobile Park for the first time this season. He will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma on Saturday.
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Mariners RHP George Kirby (2-2, 3.25) will face Rangers righty Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 5.40) on Saturday afternoon.
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