Amid a nationwide bolstering of federal immigration enforcement, the city of Spokane wants to help immigrant residents understand their rights.

Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown’s office issued a news release Friday announcing a new webpage directed at informing the Lilac City’s immigrant and refugee residents of the constitutional rights afforded everyone, regardless of their immigration status.

“Our city is stronger because of the diversity of people who call Spokane home,” Brown said in the release. “This new website is just one way we are working to ensure that everyone, no matter where they come from, has access to the support they need to feel safe.”

City spokeswoman Erin Hut said the webpage came about from months of meetings Brown and Jerrall Haynes, director of the city’s office of Ci

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