Immigration And Customs Enforcement

Government

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.

Race & Identity

Washington man dies at Tacoma ICE facility, days after human rights group visit

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports the detainee, 36-year-old Jose Manuel Sanchez-Castro, died Sunday the Northwest ICE Processing Center. He was the second death at the Tacoma facility this year and the fourth person to die at the processing center since 2006.

Race & Identity

Muslims observing Ramadan at Tacoma ICE center aren’t receiving timely meals, immigration advocates say

Race & Identity

'The neighbors we needed during World War II.' Japanese Americans protest Seattle area deportation flights

Japanese American community members and immigration advocates gathered at Boeing Field Tuesday to call for an end to deportation flights out of King County International Airport.

Race & Identity

'History is being repeated.' Japanese Americans call for Northwest Detention Center's end

Japanese Americans and groups calling for the closure of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma blocked the federal building in downtown Seattle on Friday.

Race & Identity

Video shows heavily armed guards detaining hunger strikers at Tacoma ICE center after using tear gas

Detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma were subjected to tear gas, had guns pointed at them, and were physically restrained during a hunger strike last year for better living conditions.

Politics

Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

National

Supreme Court sides with the Biden administration in a fight over immigration

The Supreme Court handed President Biden's administration a major victory in a long-running dispute over how to enforce the nation's immigration laws.

Hunger strike suspended at ICE facility in Tacoma, but objections remain

Advocates for people detained at Tacoma's Northwest ICE Processing Center say dozens of detainees have ended a hunger strike — for now.