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Washington immigrants, rights activists prep for Trump's promised ICE raids

President-elect Trump’s mass deportation promises are coming into clearer focus, with policy shifting to allow immigration officials into hospitals, schools, and churches. For people in the state of Washington, work is underway to prepare for and fight those mass immigration enforcement raids, especially if they overstep Constitutional rights.
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Deportation flights have resumed out of King County Airport / Boeing Field

KUOW’s Gustavo Sagrero reports the county is also publishing data on those flights.
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
National

An immigrant activist says ICE deported him in retaliation. Now he's back in the U.S.

The Biden administration has allowed several prominent immigrants' rights activists back into the U.S. after they charged that immigration authorities were retaliating against them for speaking out.
Joel Rose
National

Sanctuary Immigrants Take Refuge In Texas Church, Watch Election Closely

President Trump's immigration policies are on the line and many are hoping Joe Biden will follow through on pledges to help immigrants and asylum-seekers if he wins the election.
John Burnett
National

Judge Blocks Deportation Of Honduran Teenager Due To Pandemic

The 16-year-old boy was to be deported Wednesday under a new administration policy that applies federal health statutes, intended to mitigate the spread of disease, to immigration cases.
Vanessa Romo

Scott Neuman
National

Hmong Leaders Rally Against Trump Administration Deportation Push

The State Department is negotiating with Laos to deport thousands of Hmong who broke the law in the U.S. — even if they've already served their time.
Rob Mentzer
National

Trump Administration Moves To Speed Up Deportations With Expedited Removal Expansion

The changes will allow ICE officials to deport undocumented immigrants who can't prove they have been in the U.S. for more than two years, without a hearing before a judge. It takes effect Tuesday.
Vanessa Romo
National

Asylum-Seekers Can Appeal Fast-Track Deportations, Court Rules

A 1996 law limited the ability of immigrants to appeal asylum officers' decisions of whether they truly fear persecution in their home country. An appeals court says those limits are unconstitutional.
Matthew S. Schwartz
National

Atlanta Rapper 21 Savage Arrested By ICE For Allegedly Overstaying Visa

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the rapper, long associated with Atlanta, is actually a U.K. citizen who came to the U.S. in 2005 and overstayed his visa.
Matthew S. Schwartz
It's the only legal help some immigrants have — and it's getting scrapped

Every day at detention centers around the country, lawyers give "know your rights" presentations to immigrants facing deportation. For many, it’s the...
Liz Jones

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