Spokane refugee agency marks three-year anniversary

Thrive Spokane says it will continue to do its work of helping refugees and immigrants, despite the federal emphasis on limiting immigration.

Thrive and its executive director, Mark Finney, celebrated three years in Spokane on Friday with a back-to-school celebration that provided children with supplies such as backpacks, shoes and clothes.

"One of the things we're trying to do is to just reclaim the public spaces and say, look, ICE can't take you away if you've got a legal status, if you've got a green card or a visa or a humanitarian parole stamp in your passport. You should be able to enjoy the community just like everybody else. So that's why we're doing things like this," Finney said.

He told SPR News ICE agents haven't yet come

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