From The Seattle Times 10/24/2025
ISSAQUAH — Immigration officials arrested a mother outside an Issaquah child care center Thursday, after they stopped her while she was driving to the Spanish-language immersion preschool, the school’s director says.
The Learning Nest Preschool was closed Friday and it is not clear when it may reopen, said owner and director Fatima Escareno.
Early in President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration said it would let federal immigration agencies carry out arrests at schools, churches and hospitals, ending a policy that was in effect since 2011.
“These are things that should not happen at schools,” Escareno said. “And, I mean, the sign is clear outside, we’re a preschool. These are little kids. How dare you come and do this?”
Read more: https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/immigration-officials-detain-woman-outside-issaquah-immersion-preschool/