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Trump’s deportation plan: Can he really expel 13 million immigrants? — A reminder to media to keep asking questions

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One of the first things President-elect Donald Trump has promised under his second reign is mass deportations of the estimated 13 million undocumented immigrants in the United States—and one of the ways he has promised to do it is under the now-infamous Alien Enemies Act of 1798, used nationwide during World War II (WWII) to forcibly imprison thousands of Japanese and Japanese Americans in incarceration camps across the United States.

From Bruce Lee to Chinatown: Sue Ann Kay reflects on her Seattle roots

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“I’m 79, and in the Chinese calendar, you’re a year old when you’re born. So I’m using that I’m 80, because it sounds better,” Sue Ann Kay, a longtime Seattleite and Chinatown-International District advocate said with a laugh, during her recent Q&A with the Northwest Asian Weekly.

Musical nonprofit Totem Star helps keep heritage alive at King Street Station arts hub

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Even though Daniel Pak started “kicking to the beat of the drum” at a jazz club in Honolulu, Hawai’i, while still in his mother’s womb, it wasn’t until middle school, when he picked up the acoustic guitar, that music clicked for Pak as a transformative medium.