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ISSAQUAH — Immigration officials arrested a mother outside an Issaquah child care center Thursday, after they stopped her while she was driving to the Spanish-language immersion preschool, the school’s director says.

The Learning Nest Preschool was closed Friday and it is not clear when it may reopen, said owner and director Fatima Escareno.

Early in President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration said it would let federal immigration a

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