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Family reunited 15 years after mother’s deportation

By Johanna Bejarano April 10, 2023

After 15 years, Claudia Cifuentes reunited with her children. She returned to the U-S from Guatemala through a family reunification process after being deported in 20-08 when her children were still underage. Continue Reading Family reunited 15 years after Read More

Immigrant Advocates Express Concern Over Pending Deporation Of Person Detained In Tacoma

By Lauren Gallup August 25, 2022

File photo. The Northwest Detention Center, run by the private GEO Group, is located in Tacoma. CREDIT: KOMO via AP

Immigrant advocacy group, La Resistencia in Tacoma, has started a petition to block the pending deportation of a person detained at the Northwest Detention Center. Continue Reading Immigrant Advocates Express Concern Read More

Artist Creates Portraits For La Resistencia Of People Detained

By Lauren Gallup June 2, 2022

In an effort to bring awareness with art, artists have been creating portraits of people detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma since 2020. The portraits are posted on La Resistencia’s social media accounts, an organization working to end detentions and deportations. Read More

Man Who Filed Petition For Release Deported

By Lauren Gallup March 7, 2022

Israel Arrascue, a man who had been detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, was deported to Peru on February 28, according to Maru Mora-Villapando, of the immigrant advocacy organization La Resistencia. Continue Reading Man Who Filed Petition For Read More

Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Undocumented Immigrants To Fight Deportation

By NPR News March 4, 2021

National Guard troops keep watch Thursday, March 4, 2021 at the Supreme Court. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it more difficult for undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for a long time to fight deportation. The court's 5-to-3 ruling came in the case of a man who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years but who had used a fake Social Security card to get a job as a janitor. Read More

Families Separated At Border Hope Biden Reunites Them, Bringing Deported Parents Back

By NPR News January 28, 2021

The Rio Grande as seen from the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, in 2019. A mother and her four daughters from Honduras crossed the river nearly three years ago to seek asylum. The daughters were released from a federally funded shelter and placed with their father in Virginia. Their mother is in a shelter in Honduras.

The Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, is the latest to detail how the Trump administration's family separation policy was a mess from the beginning. In a report out this month, the inspector general found there was little recordkeeping and no plan for how to reunite these families. Read More

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks President Biden’s 100-Day Deportation Moratorium

By NPR News January 26, 2021

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security plaque is on a podium as international passengers arrive at Miami international Airport where they are screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) using facial biometrics to automate manual document checks required for admission into the U.S. Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Miami. Miami International Airport is the latest airport to provide Simplified Arrival airport-wide. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton requested a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security last Friday. A federal judge granted the request Tuesday, suspending President Biden's 100-day deportation ban. Read More

Federal Government Sues King County Over Ban Of Deportation Flights From Boeing Field

By NWPB News February 10, 2020

A man detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement waves back to activists from the Yakima Immigrant Response Network Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 as they wave signs and call out "no estas solo, you are not alone." CREDIT: ENRIQUE PÉREZ DE LA ROSA/NWPB

The United States Department of Justice is suing King County over its ban on deportation flights from Boeing Field. A King County executive order banned deportation flights from Boeing Field in April 2019. Since then, ICE has diverted detainees to and from Yakima airport by bus. Read More

In ‘Party Of Five’ Reboot, Deportation Separates The Family Instead Of Death, But Tragedy Remains

By NPR News January 11, 2020

The Party of Five reboot centers on five Latinx siblings who are left to navigate life on their own after their parents are deported. Gilles Mingasson/Freeform

The hit '90s TV drama is back with a timely twist. Co-creator Amy Lippman and writer Gabriel Llanas talk about creating a show about five Latinx siblings whose parents are deported to Mexico. Continue Reading In Read More

Judge Blocks Federal Government Move To Fast-Track Deportations

By NPR News September 28, 2019

In this March 3, 2015, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York during a series of early morning raids. Richard Drew/AP

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said that the move appeared to have violated federal law. She stated that the administration did not follow the correct decision-making procedures. Continue Reading Judge Blocks Federal Read More

Stay In A Western Washington Motel 6? You May Have Claim On A $12M Settlement

By Enrique Pérez de la Rosa August 28, 2019

The hotel chain Motel 6 agreed on Thursday to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Washington state claiming hotel guest information was improperly provided to immigration officials, according to Attorney General Bob Ferguson. CREDIT: Elaine Thompson/AP

Motel 6 turned over the private information of more than 100,000 guests to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, doing so without warrants or consent. Now, those guests can claim their part of a $12 million settlement. Continue Read More

Report Criticizes Yakima For ICE Deportation Flights, As City Explains Financial Quandary

By Enrique Pérez de la Rosa August 21, 2019

A new report from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights estimates that on average 160 people in ICE custody now flow through the Yakima airport each week. The city receives money for each of those flights, and is at risk of losing millions in federal grants if they don't allow them. Read More

Yakima And King County Airports Risk Funding Loss If They Don’t Cooperate With ICE

By Esmy Jimenez May 20, 2019

In this still image from a vide, detainees are loaded onto a Swift Air charter flight at King County International Airport (Boeing Field) in Seattle. COURTESY OF UWCHR/ALEX MONTALVO AND WADII BOUGHDIR

Seattle’s Boeing Field and the Yakima Air Terminal have a choice: Let Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) flights land at the airport or risk future money from the government. It started in April when King County Executive Dow Constantine issued an order to rid Boeing Field of ICE flights. Read More

To get a "satisfactory" rating on their performance evaluations, judges will be required to clear at least 700 cases a year. Some judges warn quotas could erode due process for immigrants. Continue Reading Justice Department Rolls Out Quotas For Read More

Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely

By NPR News February 27, 2018

Immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally are transferred to be processed at the Tucson sector of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Arizona in 2016. CREDIT: ROSE D. FRANKLIN

The court ruled that immigrants, even those who are permanent legal residents and asylum seekers, have no right to periodic bond hearings, meaning they could be held indefinitely in some cases. Continue Reading Supreme Court Ruling Means Read More

Washington Prisons Deportation Program Still Going After 6 Years

By Austin Jenkins March 29, 2017

Since 2011, Washington’s prison system has deported 339 convicted felons instead of locking them up. The deportations are part of a voluntary program designed to reduce prison costs. Continue Reading Washington Prisons Deportation Program Still Going Read More