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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Diamondbacks vs. Mariners, 6:40 p.m., Ch. 34

Diamondbacks RHP Merrill Kelly (6-2, 3.43) vs. Mariners RHP Emerson Hancock (2-2, 5.19).

At Chase Field: The Mariners fell out of first place this week and entered Sunday, June 8, on a five-game losing streak. The Diamondbacks hope they’ve drawn the former AL West leaders on the schedule at the right time, with Seattle struggling. Kelly gets the ball to open the series and is coming off seven scoreless innings on one hit at Atlanta in his last start. He’s faced the Mariners just once in his career and is 0-1, but he has not taken a loss in more than a month this season. … Hancock, originally drafted by the Diamondbacks in the 38th round out of high school in 2017, was taken in the first round in 2020 by the Mariners. He’s spent the past two seasons splitting time between Seattle and Triple-A Tacoma, but has been in the big leagues all of this season. Hancock has a win in his only career start against the Diamondbacks, but this season, he has been prone to giving up early runs before settling down.

–Jose Romero

Coming up

Tuesday, June 10: At Chase Field, 6:40 p.m., Diamondbacks RHP Brandon Pfaadt (7-4, 5.51) vs. Mariners RHP Bryan Woo (5-3, 3.07).

Wednesday, June 11: At Chase Field, 12:40 p.m., Diamondbacks LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (1-3, 7.05) vs. Mariners RHP Bryce Miller (2-5, 5.73).

Thursday, June 12: Off

Friday, June 13: At Chase Field, 6:40 p.m., Diamondbacks RHP Ryne Nelson (2-2, 4.60) vs. San Diego Padres TBA.

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The Seattle Seahawks’ OTA practices last week were open to media members, which offered them the first glimpse of new offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak’s scheme.

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Of course, it’s difficult to glean too much from practices at this stage of the offseason. No live contact is allowed, teams are still early in the process of installing their playbooks and new players and coaches alike are still adjusting to their surroundings.

But even with all that in mind, former NFL wide receiver Michael Bumpus liked what he saw at OTAs from Kubiak’s Shanahan-style offense, which is known for its wide-zone blocking scheme and play-action attack.

In particular, Bumpus said it was refreshing to see the connectivity of Kubiak’s system and how everything ties together.

“I saw the vision,” Bumpus said during Friday’s Four Down Territory segment on Seattle Sports’ Bump and Stacy. “I literally saw the vision of Kubiak and this offense. … I saw a wide zone. I saw a wide zone to a screen. I saw a wide zone look to a reverse boot over the top. You just see the connection from play to play to play.

“It was just refreshing to see not necessarily new concepts, but concepts that connect,” he added. “… It’s OTAs, (so) take it for what it is. But the vision was there and it was fun to see it unfold.”

The connectivity of Kubiak’s scheme is something other analysts have highlighted, too.

Back in January, when Kubiak was interviewing for the Seahawks’ offensive coordinator job, ESPN analyst and former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky described it as a “butterfly effect” during an appearance on Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk. Orlovksy said the attachment from play to play is the biggest difference between Kubiak’s system and the one run by former Seahawks OC Ryan Grubb last season.

“In that (Shanahan coaching) tree that Klint comes from, that scheme, the most fundamental part of it is everything looks the same,” Orlovksy said. “There is always a butterfly effect to a play call, and things are always constantly attached. There’s a consistent sequencing of events. You’re painting a picture so often in that scheme, rather than writing a letter.

“And Ryan Grubb’s stuff (last) year, I do think that there was, we’re gonna call this play, and then we’re gonna call this play, and then two quarters later, we’re gonna call this play,” he added. “There wasn’t a lot of attachment to, all right, we called this, and we have these three things off of it that are gonna look the same or were set up because of.

“I think that’s the fundamental difference.”

Listen to the full Four Down Territory segment at this link or in the audio player near the middle of this story. Tune in to Bump and Stacy weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or find the podcast on the Seattle Sports app.

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