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Monica

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Murrow News Fellow reporting on rural issues for The Spokesman-Review & Spokane Public Radio 📝🎙️

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Monica @itsmonicacarrillo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#New: A Spokane historian is reconsidering the future of Cesar Chavez's legacy after a NYT investigation reveals women and girls accusing him of sexual abuse. “While I'm very confident that his legacy will be revised, my deep hope is that the legacies of the movement will not be.”
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Spokane historian weighs in on Cesar Chavez after allegations of sexual abuse: 'His legacy will be revised'
Spokane historian Ray Rast is weighing the future on Cesar Chavez’s legacy following a New York Times investigation detailing allegations that he sexually abused women and girls.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/03/2026
A rookie ICE agent fresh out of the Trump administration’s abbreviated basic training program made critical errors in paperwork that became the government’s justification for detaining a California man for days in December, federal court records show.
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After rookie ICE agent’s paperwork error, man is detained for days
The new officer completed a basic training program that provided a third of the hours once dedicated to teaching recruits how to fill out a key form.
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Monica @itsmonicacarrillo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Hi Bluesky! Long time, no see. Thought I’d come on here and share my latest. I’ve been examining long COVID in Latino farmworkers for the last few months — some of who continue to deal with symptoms post diagnosis and ongoing hospital bills. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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Six years later, COVID symptoms linger for many Latino farmworkers in Washington
The dizziness started while Baldomero Muñoz was working in the blueberry fields of Oregon.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
When President Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time, Alberto asked his coworker if he could put her phone number in his children’s school backpacks A month later, she got the call that he had been detained via @itsmonicacarrillo.bsky.social @alexdugganreports.bsky.social
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A Spokane man who fled the Nicaraguan government in fear for his life is detained by ICE, again. His family is bracing for life without him
Alberto Lovo Rojas feared returning to Nicaragua with a target on his back.
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Monica @itsmonicacarrillo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#NEW: With Trump’s second presidency less than two months away, Luis Cortes, lawyer who fought for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program before the Supreme Court in 2019, is urging recipients to prepare a future without it. My latest: www.spokesman.com/stories/2024...
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'Community organizing means showing up': Lawyer who fought for DACA in the Supreme Court urges undocumented immigrants to prepare for a future without it
Luis Cortes, the lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court in 2019 to defend a visa program allowing undocumented immigrants to temporarily reside legally in the United States, is now urging recipien...
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Angelica Relente @a-rlnt.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Last week I hung out at the Jean Kim Foundation's Hygiene Center in Lynnwood. It is a one-stop hub for showers, food and clothes. I got the chance to meet Petey. Having a hot meal is one of his favorite parts of the center. He likes meatloaf. lynnwoodtoday.com/im-so-thankf...
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‘I’m so thankful to have this place’: A one-stop hub for showers, food and clothes in Lynnwood - Lynnwood Today
The first thing you’ll see on Amberlee Bell’s desk is a vase full of flowers. Bell’s partner typically gives her an assortment of flowers for certain occasions or just because,...
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Monica @itsmonicacarrillo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Since 2016, former President Donald Trump has talked about a mass deportation plan. And with many rural Washington agricultural communities made up of at least 70% Hispanic, they fear under a second presidency, it will become reality. Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2024...
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Some Washington agricultural communities fear a second Donald Trump presidency as deportation threats persist
OTHELLO, Wash. – José Portillo looks up at a picture of former President Barack Obama near his desk.
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