Saturday Special: How ICE used a ruse to arrest a longtime Spokane resident
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As the Trump administration seeks to fulfill its campaign promises to deport millions of people, some have found themselves in deportation proceedings despite being legal permanent residents with a green card.
Like Sergey Kostenyuk.
He came to Spokane from Ukraine as a refugee more than thirty years ago, when he was a child.
KUOW’s Eilís O’Neill reports that on the day of Sergey’s arrest, ICE officers used an elaborate ruse.
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