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Sea Change Alert! AP Article refers to both Seattle and Washington State as "Liberal". #BigNews - AP on Yahoo: US can continue using Seattle airport for deportation flights, appeals court says FTA: SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can continue using a Seattle airport for chartered deportation flights, a federal appeals court ruled in a decision that rejected a 2019 local order that sought to counter then-President Donald Trump's immigration policies. The agency has long used airports around the country to charter flights deporting hundreds of thousands of noncitizens considered lawfully removable from the U.S. But in 2019, in keeping with efforts in liberal Seattle and Washington state to resist Trump's priorities, King County Executive Dow Constantine issued an executive order expressing concern that the deportations could constitute human rights abuses. It announced that future leases at the county airport, also known as Boeing Field, would bar operators from servicing deportation flights. The order prompted ICE to begin using an airport in Yakima — a much farther drive from ICE's Northwest detention center in Tacoma — for the deportation flights. The U.S. sued King County in 2020, arguing that Constantine's order discriminated against the federal government by singling it and its contractors out for unfavorable treatment, and that it violated the terms of a World War II-era contract that guarantees the federal government's right to use the airport. --Snip-- https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-continue-using-seattle-airport-194200282.html Image: AP file photo