ICE flights mean financial gain for Yakima
An average of two flights take off and land at the Yakima airport every week carrying about 160 people in federal immigration custody.
That means an increase in revenue from airport fees for the city.
Local immigrant activists are calling for a ban of Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights.
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Paige Browning
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Paige hosts midday newscasts and monitors news of significance to the Puget Sound region. She hopped over Washington’s mountains to join KUOW, after hosting news and reporting at Spokane Public Radio since 2011. She began her start in radio while a journalism student at University of Montana, by sharing stories with KUFM. Paige was raised in the mountains and rivers around Spokane. In her spare time she cheers on the Mariners in the summer, and hopes for snow in the winter.
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