Hundreds of asylum-seekers are camped out near Seattle. There's a vacant motel next door Men sit in the shade of a community tent near a charging station at an encampment of asylum-seekers mostly from Venezuela, Congo and Angola next to an unused motel owned by the county, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Kent, Washington. The group of about 240 asylum-seekers is asking to use the motel as temporary housing while they look for jobs and longer-term accommodations. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson) (Lindsey Wasson/AP)