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# POD: The story of migrant arrests in the Spokane area
- URL: https://www.rangemedia.co/podcasts/pod-the-story-of-migrant-arrests-in-the-spokane-area/
- Published: 2025-05-09T22:13:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-09T22:13:11.000Z
- Description: An overview of the immigration crackdown in the Inland Northwest since Trump took office.
- Author: RANGE
- Tags: Podcast, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-02-19 03:03

This week, Valerie Osier and Aaron Hedge go through many (though certainly not all) of the prominent immigrant arrests carried out by federal agents in the Spokane area since the Trump administration took power and embarked on a dramatic and widespread immigration crackdown. They also chat about the many ethical and journalistic considerations we make when covering these stories.

**Relevant reading:**

- [Immigration officials are arresting people in Washington and warehousing them in Idaho](https://www.rangemedia.co/immigration-arrests-spokane-idaho/)
- Spokane city [reaffirmed its support](https://www.rangemedia.co/city-council-immigration-solidarity-resolution/) of the Keep WA working Act
- Spokane Valley [did the opposite](https://www.rangemedia.co/spokane-valley-immigration-policy/)
- Ghanaian immigrant, Bismarck Avornu, was [detained after church](https://www.rangemedia.co/they-just-take-people-ghanaian-immigrant-taken-by-ice-after-church-service/); He’s one of few to get [out on bond](https://www.rangemedia.co/migrant-detained-by-ice-back-with-family/) and he shared about what it’s like in the Northwest ICE Processing Center
- [ICE agents with no warrant violently arrest](https://www.rangemedia.co/federal-ice-breaks-windows-arrests-men-without-warrant/) migrants in Spokane Valley - Jeison and Cesar Ruiz Rodriguez
- Martin Diaz [arrested](https://www.rangemedia.co/arrested-without-warrant-migrant-wife/) without warrant.
- That arrest revealed to us that ICE is [reportedly surveilling](https://www.rangemedia.co/ice-surveillance-immigration-activist-deportation/) immigration activists