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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Friday, March 31, 2017 Immigration agents round up 84 in Pacific Northwest agents arrested 19 people in a similar sweep in northwestern Washington state. Those arrested included 77 men and seven women from 12 countries, the vast majority of them from Mexico. Nine- teen had drunken driving convictions, and 14 had been convicted of assault, sex offenses or domestic violence. Some will be prosecuted for illegally re-entering the country while the rest face deportation proceedings. “This operation high- lights our commitment to promoting public safety through the pursuit of targeted criminals residing By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE — Immigra- tion agents rounded up 84 people — including 60 with criminal records — during a three-day operation in Wash- ington, Oregon and Alaska, authorities said Thursday. The operation ended Monday and targeted crim- inals residing in the U.S. illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Seattle field office said in a statement. It was the region’s biggest immigration roundup in recent memory. Last summer, in the U.S. illegally,” Bryan Wilcox, acting field office director ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations in Seattle, said in the release. Among those arrested was Francisco J. Rodriguez Dominguez, a participant in a federal program designed to protect from deportation those who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Rodriguez Dominguez was brought to the U.S. from Morelia, in Mexico’s Micho- acan state, at age 5. Last December, he entered a diversion program following a drunken driving arrest and had attended all his court dates and required meetings, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, which publicized his arrest earlier. The organization suggested Rodriguez’ arrest represented an erosion of protections under the Deferred Action for Child- hood Arrivals program amid President Donald Trump’s call to boost deportations. ICE said it targeted him because of the DUI. The Department of Homeland Security can terminate DACA status if it determines someone is a risk to public safety. Rose Richeson, an ICE spokeswoman, said she did not have information on whether anyone else arrested in the operation had participated in DACA. She referred an inquiry to Sharon Rummery, a spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who also said she did not have the information. Also among those arrested was a previously deported Mexican man who had been charged with child rape, and who was recently released from custody by a local jurisdiction despite a detainer request by the agency. ICE said he was arrested in the Seattle area, but the agency Pot advocates hope Wyden’s support a sign of federal legalization Workers demolish site of Hanford mishap standard for americium-241. He was struck by a mixture of nitric acid, broken glass, americium and other mate- rials. After the explosion, he had his clothing removed, was washed with water and transferred to a decontami- nation facility where he was washed again and given medicine to purge the radio- activity. Because of the risk of exposure to other individ- uals, McCluskey was placed in isolation in the Hanford Emergency Decontamination Facility for five months. By then, his body’s radiation count had fallen by about 80 percent and he was released. McCluskey’s friends avoided him, and his minister finally had to tell people it was safe to be around him. McCluskey largely avoided the media, but he did speak in favor of developing nuclear power. He died on Aug. 17, 1987, at 75, of coronary artery disease. He had the disease before the accident, and an autopsy found no signs of cancer. Following the 1976 explosion, the facility never operated again. The Energy Department said its contractor, CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Co., should complete demolition of the entire Plutonium Finishing Plant by September. By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state have finished demolishing the site of a famous nuclear accident during the Cold War that exposed a man to the highest dose of McCluskey radia- tion from the plutonium byproduct americium ever recorded, the U.S. Depart- ment of Energy announced Thursday. The McCluskey Room was named for Harold McCluskey, who in 1976 survived the horrifying accident and died 11 years later of unrelated causes after becoming known as the Atomic Man. A contractor recently demolished the room — the first of four main buildings that made up the Plutonium Finishing Plant complex that will be torn down. “Completing demolition on this building was years in the making and is both historic and a significant risk reduction,” said Tom Teynor, project director for the Department of Energy. AP Photo/File This 1976 file photo shows a room in which particles of radioactive material and glass flew into on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Wash., injuring one and exposing nine others to radioactivity. Hanford, located in southeastern Washington, began making most of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear arsenal during World War II. Plutonium production has ended and the site is now engaged in a massive cleanup of nuclear waste. That work is expected to take decades and cost tens of billions of dollars. One of the most heavily contaminated portions of the site — half the size of Rhode Island — is the Plutonium Finishing Plant, where plutonium was converted into hockey puck-shaped disks and shipped to factories where nuclear weapons were assembled. The 64-year-old McCluskey was working in the plant on Aug. 30, 1976, when a chemical reaction in his glove box produced an explosion that blew out the glass and contaminated him. A glove box is a device in which people use large gloves to handle dangerous materials that are under glass. McCluskey was exposed to 500 times the occupational Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Hi 54 60 61 62 60 53 60 60 67 59 63 58 58 68 53 58 65 67 62 59 63 62 56 56 58 61 67 Lo 41 28 35 48 30 28 40 33 39 33 34 32 32 45 40 43 40 39 39 41 31 39 35 28 40 42 38 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c pc c pc pc c c c pc c pc pc c pc c c c pc pc c c c c c c c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 63 75 67 61 82 36 64 68 56 70 53 Lo 41 60 47 46 49 24 47 46 39 61 43 W pc t sh t s sn t s r pc r Sat. Hi 72 74 63 59 83 40 60 67 56 74 50 Lo 38 63 48 44 49 34 43 50 35 63 43 W pc s s t s pc sh pc pc pc r WINDS Medford 63/41 (in mph) Klamath Falls 57/31 Boardman Pendleton REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Some sun today. Mostly cloudy tonight; occasional rain and drizzle across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny and warmer today. Eastern Washington: Sunshine and patchy clouds today. Mostly cloudy tonight. Western Washington: Partial sunshine today. Occasional rain and drizzle tonight. Northern California: Mostly sunny today; pleasant in central parts. Clear tonight. Cascades: Mostly sunny today; milder. Mostly cloudy tonight. Today Saturday WSW 4-8 WNW 4-8 WSW 7-14 WSW 8-16 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 0 3 5 5 3 marijuana ever since voters agreed to do so in 2014. In particular, he focused on seeking to remove federal restrictions preventing cannabis businesses from using banking services and deducting expenses from their taxes. In this new package of bills, Wyden for the first time supports removing federal criminal penalties for all users, both recreational and medicinal. He is also now in favor of completely removing marijuana from the federal list of controlled drugs. And for the first time, he backs establishing a federal tax on marijuana sales. Robert Capecchi, director of federal policies for the Marijuana Policy Project, said Wyden’s support could be important for the legaliza- tion movement. “Mr. Wyden’s a little more cautious on these issues than others,” Capecchi said, “so having him come around and support this is a sign that this is not an issue that one has to be cautious about.” The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 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An immigration detainer — essentially a request that a local jail hold someone in custody until ICE can pick them up and begin deportation proceedings — is not backed by a probable cause finding and doesn’t satisfy that legal requirement, the court said. 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Snow will blanket parts of the northeastern United States today. Rain will soak the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic while showers and thunderstorms, some severe, sweep across the Southeast. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 94° in El Centro, Calif. Low 17° in Watertown, N.Y. 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