A 19-year-old honor roll student about to start her freshman year at the University of Washington. Two caregivers of vulnerable people, including someone requiring round-the-clock attention. A father of three on his way to a plumbing job. A Laotian refugee.

All were recently detained in Washington state by immigration agents, and they’re but a sampling of those affected by an immigration enforcement crackdown that has significantly stepped up over the past few months, advocates said at a Tuesday news conference in Seattle.

More than a half dozen organizations came together at Casa Latina, an organization devoted to Latino economic empowerment, to call attention to the impact of ceaseless detentions and to issue a plea to elected officials and ordinary residents to get involved.

“The surge is here,” said Roxana Norouzi, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group OneAmerica. “It is happening right now, right here, to us in our home in Washington state.”

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