Immigration And Customs Enforcement

We won’t build it: Seattle tech workers struggle with their ties to immigration enforcement

The Southern border may be far from the Northwest, but some of the software being used by immigration officials is being built here in Seattle. Now tech workers are grappling with their responsibility as the creators of that technology. Some are even finding themselves transformed into reluctant activists.

'Secret' WA youth detention center at center of records request dispute

The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a case regarding undocumented youth detained in Washington state.

Migrants: Locked up and forgotten? How U.S. citizens hold the key

According to immigration lawyer César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, the dissolving of immigration prisons in the US is a good first step towards mending our immigration system.

Crime

British family's illegal border crossing into Washington state was no accident, feds say

U-S Customs and Border Protection released surveillance video today that CBP said shows a British family of seven illegally crossing Oct. 3 from Canada into the U.S. at Lynden, Wash. The incident has gotten international attention because the Connors family said they’re just tourists who swerved to avoid an animal in the road – and unwittingly crossed the border.

He spent 20 days in solitary in Tacoma's immigrant jail. Others spend far longer

“Not eating doesn't affect as much as being alone. Because anyone can stop eating one, two days. But not everyone can withstand be locked up alone,”says Raul, an undocumented immigrant who spent time in solitary at the Northwest ICE Processing Center.

Behind the locked doors of Washington's immigration detention center

The Northwest Detention Center is now the Northwest ICE Processing Center. In over 15 years of existence, it’s been the site of hunger strikes, allegations of misconduct, a lawsuit over detainee wages, and most recently an attack that turned deadly.

Washington state joins coalition to challenge Trump Administration on child detention

Earlier this month, the Trump administration issued a rule to withdraw from that agreement. Now Ferguson

National

When His Mom Was Deported In 2008, A Certainty Shattered: 'Where Is Home?'

Pedro Lopez, a 24-year-old born in Mexico, recalls when ICE agents raided the meatpacking plant in Iowa where his parents worked. "It was just shattering," he said.

ICE flights mean financial gain for Yakima

An average of two flights take off and land at the Yakima airport every week carrying about 160 people in federal immigration custody. That means an increase in revenue from airport fees for the city. That’s driving calls from local immigrant activists are calling for a ban of Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights.