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Government

The end of for-profit prisons in Washington state is in sight

One Tuesday the Washington legislature passed a bill effectively blocking for-profit private prisons from operating in the state.
Esmy Jimenez
WA Legislature considering bill to ban for-profit prisons and detention centers

The Washington legislature moved one step closer to ending for-profit private detention centers in the state. House Bill 1090 passed with bipartisan support and now moves to the Senate.
Esmy Jimenez
The last immigrant youth jail in the country moves to end contract with ICE

One of the last detention centers in the U.S. to hold undocumented immigrant youth wants to end its contract with ICE.
Esmy Jimenez
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
Law & Courts

ICE has spent almost $175K at a Seattle Police firing range

Since 2004, federal records show the Seattle Police Athletic Association has received $158,955 from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for use of its firing range and facilities. While the contracts don't violate any laws, it speaks to the tangled relationships between local governments, law enforcement, and the feds -- and of the murky boundaries of where one power ends and another’s responsibility begins.
Esmy Jimenez
National

Harvard, MIT Sue Immigration Officials Over Rule Blocking Some International Students

The policy — which bars foreign students unless they have in-person classes — will "create as much chaos for universities and international students as possible," the schools said Wednesday.
Colin Dwyer
'Recovered positive' Covid-19 case at Tacoma immigrant detention center

At least one person at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma has tested positive for Covid-19. But local immigration officials are not counting this as a positive case.
Esmy Jimenez
'Any day the sickness will arrive.' ICE detainees in Tacoma brace for COVID-19

This week, activists held a protest outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, pushing for the release of vulnerable detainees amid the coronavirus pandemic. The protest is taking the form of a car caravan to maintain social distancing.
Esmy Jimenez

Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst
A caravan protests outside the Tacoma immigrant detention center

Immigration activists are pushing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, arguing the coronavirus outbreak is a threat to the detainees' health.
Esmy Jimenez
Health

ICE flights continue in the Northwest despite coronavirus

Immigration advocates are calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to end deportatioflights to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, especially in Latin America where people are being deported to.
Esmy Jimenez

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