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Saturday Special: How ICE used a ruse to arrest a longtime Spokane resident

Saturday Special: How ICE used a ruse to arrest a longtime Spokane resident

Seattle Now · KUOW News and Information

May 10, 202512m 6s

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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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