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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
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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden
is becoming an all-out
supporter of protecting
and promoting the legal
marijuana industry and its
consumers.
Wyden, the top Democrat
on the powerful Senate
Finance Committee, joined
Rep. Earl Blumenauer,
D-Oregon, and several other
lawmakers in backing a series
of pro-marijuana bills that
were introduced Monday.
“What we’re doing
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approach that deals with
all of the major problems
we’re hearing about,”
Wyden said in a conference
call with Blumenauer from
Washington, D.C., Thursday.
He cited “the problems
faced
by
marijuana
businesses,
medical
marijuana
researchers,
people legally consuming
marijuana. With our bill,
people won’t be committing
federal crimes if they follow
state marijuana laws.”
Wyden has defended
Oregon’s right to legalize
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
SATURDAY
Abundant
sunshine
Times of clouds
and sun
56° 39°
62° 39°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
TUESDAY
Partly sunny
Increasing
cloudiness
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
58° 36°
54° 34°
61° 38°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
67° 39°
62° 40°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
52°
58°
79° (1964)
40°
37°
19° (1936)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.01"
2.35"
1.40"
6.27"
3.94"
3.91"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
59°
61°
79° (2003)
43°
37°
16° (1954)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.04"
1.47"
0.85"
4.93"
2.70"
3.09"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Apr 3
Apr 10
6:37 a.m.
7:22 p.m.
9:11 a.m.
11:59 p.m.
Last
New
Apr 19
58° 32°
63° 40°
Seattle
56/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
63° 37°
Apr 26
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
56/39
60/40
Tacoma
Moses
57/44
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 63/41
52/36
54/44
58/43
64/39
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/45
56/44 Lewiston
62/41
Astoria
56/39
53/45
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
58/43
Pendleton 49/26
The Dalles 62/40
56/39
64/43
La Grande
Salem
53/30
59/42
Albany
Corvallis 59/42
59/41
John Day
54/31
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
63/36
58/41
53/34
Caldwell
Burns
62/34
52/26
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
53
55
53
59
52
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62
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WORLD CITIES
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Jerusalem
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Mexico City
Moscow
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Hi
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WINDS
Medford
63/41
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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
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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.”
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declined to release further
information about him.
Many jurisdictions in
the Northwest refuse to
honor immigration detainer
requests after a federal court
in Oregon ruled in 2014 that
it’s unconstitutional to hold
people without a warrant
after they would have other-
wise been released.
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.
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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.
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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.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Memphis
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Minneapolis
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New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
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