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In August, the U.S. Border Patrol set up three immigration check points on the Olympic peninsula, in which everyone gets stopped. Since then, the Border Patrol has arrested 15 suspected illegal immigrants from those checkpoints. Some people say the federal government is overstepping its authority, while others have questions. Port Townsend Mayor Michelle Sandoval has called for a public meeting on the issue, tonight (Monday) at Chimacum High School. To get details about the checkpoints KUOW's Derek Wang spoke with Mayor Sandoval and U.S. Border Patrol Spokesman Mike Bermudez.

The foreign aid organization U.S.A.I.D. Says it's sending bills to the families of the five Afghan students who left their study program at the University of Washington. The students are being detained by Canadian Immigration. KUOW's Carolyn Adolph reports.

For Washington farmers, the arrival of the harvest season is pretty predicable. What's less predictable, is who will show up to bring in the crops. Many of the state's farm workers are undocumented immigrants, at risk of deportation. It's a shaky way to run a business, and farmers here are fed up with the federal government's failure on immigration reform. KUOW's Liz Jones has our story.

Many longtime farm families are getting out of agriculture. In their place are immigrants who dream of owning and farming their own land. We meet a husband and wife from Mexico. After years of seasonal farm work and minimum pay, they took a leap and started their own farm in Blaine, Washington. KUOW's Ruby de Luna reports.

A new report alleges human rights violations at Tacoma's federal immigration facility. KUOW'S Jason Pagano has more.

A Washington State ferry worker has denounced the Border Patrol for its actions at the Anacortes ferry terminal. He says a plainclothes agent asked him to help spy on passengers. KUOW's Liz Jones has more.

When the war in Iraq started, Iraqi exiles in Everett (Washington) paraded in the streets. Five years later, polls show most Americans oppose the war. But support is still strong among those who lived under Saddam Hussein. Correspondent Austin Jenkins recently returned to Everett and filed this reporter's notebook.

All this week, KUOW has been airing a special series created by reporter Liz Jones. The series focuses on the transplanted community of indigenous Purepecha people from Mexico, now living in South Seattle. Perhaps you come from another culture. How to you keep traditions and customs alive away from your hometown? Is there a local community here that matches your background? How is that community held together?Plus, Cliff Mass joins us with a weekend weather forecast.Monday on Weekday: Reptile Adventures with Brady Barr

The Northwest has long been a magnet for immigrants from across the globe. One relative newcomer is an indigenous group of people called Purepecha, or Tarascan. They come to the Seattle area from central Mexico, and their first language is an Indian dialect, not Spanish. They've formed their own village within the city. But now, this village searches for leaders to help with hurdles at schools, health clinics and in their neighborhood. In the final part of our series, KUOW's Liz Jones looks at some growing pains in this young community.

About 3,000 miles south of Seattle you'll find a small Mexican town called Quinceo. You've probably never heard of Quinceo. But the indigenous Purepecha people who live there, know all about Seattle the Space Needle, the rain, even the traffic. People in Quinceo estimate half of the town packed up and went North, mostly to the Puget Sound area. In part four of our series on the Purepecha migrants, KUOW's Liz Jones explores our unofficial sister city in the rural heart of central Mexico.

In and around Seattle, the population of Mexican immigrants steadily grows. Increasingly, more of them are children. Parents bring them along to the Northwest in hopes their children will thrive with new opportunities. But what happens when you take kids who only know life in an Indian village and drop them in Seattle, with its fast paced lifestyle? In part 3 of our weeklong series, KUOW's Liz Jones talks with indigenous Purepecha teens about life on both sides of the border.

Some call the Purepecha's homeland in central Mexico 'the Mexican dustbowl.' Deforestation scars the mountainsides, and abandoned farm plots shrivel under the hot sun. For many, the search for work now leads North. KUOW's Liz Jones takes us on a job search from the Mexican countryside to the shores of the Duwamish.

Pundits called Bill Richardson's endorsement a big boost to Barack Obama's chances with Latino voters. Politics is only one way Mexican immigrants are changing this country. In some cities the most popular radio stations are Spanish language. But the changes could be even more profound. Today on The Conversation Gregory Rodriguez, a fellow at the New American Foundation says Mexican Americans will destroy the Anglo American racial system. He'll explain why. Also, the price of recycled paper has gone up 40 percent. Good news for cities with waste paper to sell. Bad news for local paper mills. We'll explain. PLUS a grassroots effort to save bowling in Ballard. The Sunset Bowl is slated for demolition next month.

It's easy to lump together all Mexican immigrants. But not all Mexicans moving to the Seattle area share a common culture or even a common language. The indigenous Purepecha are one such group emerging in our midst. We start with a look at how this group of people settled here and what parts of their unique culture survived the journey north.