Oren Roberts

FERNDALE, Wash.—At 7:21 a.m. on Tuesday, March 25, a prominent immigration activist, Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known by the community as “Lelo,” was arrested in Sedro-Woolley, Wash., by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, while driving his partner to her workplace. Lelo is a volunteer organizer with Community to Community, or C2C, a local food justice organization and has been serving with the network since he was 12 years old.

I cherish the X on my driver’s license, but on Feb. 5, I applied for a new passport with a different gender marker. It wasn’t something I wanted to do. The State Department is no longer accepting applications for passports with X gender markers. According to its updated , it will only issue passports with a sex marker matching “the customer's biological sex at birth.” These changes are in response to an executive order issued on Jan.

On Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, as many as 1,000 people gathered to protest outside of Bellingham’s Federal Building. Similar Presidents Day protests were held at government buildings across the country, organized over social media through groups like the 50501 Movement. Many online posts advertised “No Kings Day” protests. In Bellingham, hundreds of people clustered on the sidewalk at the intersection of Magnolia Street and Cornwall Avenue. Passing cars that honked in support were met with cheers.