Residents of this rural Washington town want their ‘mayor’ out of ICE detention

In a recent photo, Juan Martinez wears jail scrubs in blue, the color nonviolent detainees get at the immigration detention facility in Tacoma.

Old photos show his long hair, streaked with gray, pulled back. But these days, his hair is cropped short, tapered close to the head on the sides with curls of gray framing his face.

But it’s the same face many early morning commuters from Conway, Washington, saw until U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him in late July outside the gas station he worked at…

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