Jayapal: CBP admits to ‘enormous mistakes’ in border stops of Iranian Americans, others from Middle East
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said the agency made “enormous mistakes in protocol” when its officers questioned Iranian-born people — some for as long as 12 hours — at the U.S.-Canada border last month, according to U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal. On Monday, Jayapal met with Adele Fasano, the director of field operations for the Seattle Field Office of Customs and Border Protection, and Fasano’s chief of staff, as well as U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene and representatives from the offices of U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier and Sen. Maria Cantwell. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)
What happens to a ferry after it retires? It gets sold for $200K
A pile of scrap metal or sold off at auction to someone with a dream. Those are the two usual fates that await a 60-something-year-old Washington State Ferry. Unless that dreamer wants to pass along the opportunity at sailing the “largest registered private yacht,” which is exactly what happened with the Evergreen State, the first boat built specifically for use as a ferry in Puget Sound. After being bought at auction in 2018 by Greg Jones, an entrepreneur from Florida, under the buyer name of Jones Broadcasting, it was put back on the auction block. Continue reading at KOMO News. (WSDOT)
Washington lawmaker wants to ban openly carried guns at the state Capitol
Following an unpermitted pro-gun rally, a Democratic state lawmaker has introduced legislation to ban openly-carried guns on Washington’s Capitol grounds. State Rep. Tana Senn of Mercer Island said she filed her bill Monday, just days before a key cut-off deadline, after witnessing what she described as an “unsafe work environment” at the Capitol last Friday. That’s when a group of approximately 250 people, many of them openly-carrying pistols and rifles, staged a pro-Second Amendment “March for Our Rights” event that had not secured a required permit. Pictures posted to Facebook showed the participants rallying on the steps of the Capitol before going inside. Continue reading at KNKX.
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