Accused Seattle-area rape suspect arrested and deported nine times

"Our community will be safer when all individuals trust they can cooperate with law enforcement officers and public health officials without fear of discrimination or retribution based on immigration status," said Council member Larry Phillips.

"King County has long observed policies that its employees not inquire into the immigration status of the people with whom they interact," said Council Chair Dow Constantine. "This law makes our county safer."

Try as they might, immigration-overhaul advocates who were hoping to get arrested during a demonstration Thursday in downtown Seattle just, well, couldn't.

They packed the lobby of a downtown office building for about an hour, blocking access to its elevators and refusing to let people through.
 
When that wasn't enough, they spilled into the street and sat down in the middle of three successive intersections along Madison Street, blocking traffic.

Madrigal's arrest and immigration record includes a staggering number of contacts with law enforcement since 1989. That's the year he was convicted of theft using a firearm in California.

He was deported a couple of times after that. Then in 1999, he was arrested for drug sales in both San Diego and San Francisco. Records show that he was deported three times that year between April and August.

He was arrested for drugs again in Stockton, Calif. in 2000. In 2002, he pleaded to third degree sexual assault in Denver. Later that year, he was deported again. And in 2003, records show he was deported three more times.