State Attorney General Bob Ferguson wants Washington residents to contact his office if they are asked to host immigrant children separated from their family as part of the federal government’s new “zero-tolerance” immigration crackdown.

The announcement by Ferguson’s office Tuesday comes amid widespread uproar over the U.S. Department of Justice’s new “zero tolerance” immigration crackdown, in which undocumented children have been taken from parents who were detained after crossing the southern border.


Ferguson’s office is seeking information such as, “if a Washington resident is currently housing or will soon be housing a child who has been separated from his or her parents pursuant to this policy,” according to a Tuesday news release.

The federal government has typically placed several hundred unaccompanied minors per year in Washington homes, according to the news release......