Overview
- An unidentified person threw a rock through a window of the Yakima field office on Saturday before igniting grass behind the building designated as an ICE facility.
- No one was injured in the attack and local police have opened an investigation treating the incident as arson.
- The office complex, located 140 miles southeast of Seattle, also contains a Washington State Department of Social and Health Services unit.
- A June directive from the White House to boost daily interior arrests led to coordinated raids in cities such as New York and Los Angeles and specialized operations targeting cannabis farms.
- Local governments and courts have challenged federal operations through injunctions against appearance-based stops and refusals to share data with ICE.