Detained immigrant escapes from ICE center in Tacoma Tacoma Police responded to a call from the Northwest ICE Processing Center Wednesday night about an escaped detainee. It remains unclear if the person remains at large or if they were returned to the facility. Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Government Seattle lawyers sue DHS to stop deportation of detained immigrants to ‘third countries’ Lawyers from Seattle and others around the country filed a lawsuit this week against the Department of Homeland Security over a recent practice of the agency to deport people who don’t have legal status in the U.S. to “third countries.” Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Hundreds rally at ICE center in Tacoma after detention of union members Hundreds of union workers and immigrant rights advocates rallied Thursday evening outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma to protest the arrest of dozens of people, including the leader of a farmworker union in Skagit County and a technician and union member at UW Medicine. Liz Jones Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Books Memoirist Putsata Reang talks about the 'complicated love' for America, Cambodia, and Ma This is the KUOW Book Club, and we just finished reading "Ma and Me" by Putsata Reang. Katie Campbell Play AudioListen 31 mins
ICE detains leader of farmworker union in northwest Washington state Farm worker activist Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, known in his community as “Lelo,” was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, March 25, and is being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. Eilís O'Neill Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Law & Courts Trump administration can suspend approval of new refugees amid lawsuit, appeals court rules An appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to suspend entry of new refugees as a lawsuit plays out over the president’s executive order halting the nation’s refugee admissions system. Associated Press
UW Medicine employee, green card holder detained by ICE in Tacoma Lewelyn Dixon was on her way back to the Seattle area on Feb. 28 after visiting family in the Philippines when she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and sent to the immigration detention facility in Tacoma. Eilís O'Neill
The U.S. needs kidney doctors. The Trump administration deported one despite her valid visa Dr. Rasha Alawieh's deportation is the latest in a recent string of unusual arrests by immigration officials at U.S. borders, and not the first in which attorneys and judges have decried a lack of due process. Eilís O'Neill
Books Author Putsata Reang describes life as a refugee when 'you cannot go in the water or come up on land' This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Putsata Reang's memoir "Ma and Me." Katie Campbell
Law & Courts Trump tracker: Washington state's legal challenges to the administration KUOW has compiled a comprehensive guide to Washington state's responses to the Trump administration. Teo Popescu
