Bellingham City Council

This week, Bellingham’s City Council voted to dissolve its Immigration Advisory Board. The city has now created a new work group to support its compliance with the Keep Washington Working Act.

A workgroup in Bellingham will help to make the Immigration Advisory Board, or IAB, work better. The move comes after the city council talked about suspending the next advisory board meetings. Now, a community group is organizing on top of it all.

Immigrant organizations in Bellingham want the city to budget for an immigrant resource center. But concerns about data privacy are holding up the city…