Immigration And Customs Enforcement

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A Pierce County man expected to be deported to Vietnam. Instead, ICE routed him to South Sudan

His deportation is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to deport immigrants to “third countries" — places other than the immigrants’ country of origin.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
ICE agents at Seattle courthouse arrest people whose deportation hearings are dismissed

People showing up for hearings at the Seattle Immigration Court this week are facing something new. Federal immigration agents wait in the courthouse hallways to arrest people if their deportation proceedings are dismissed by a judge.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
ICE arrests 17 in raid at Kent specialty beverage company

Federal immigration agents arrested 17 people Tuesday in a raid at a specialty beverage manufacturer in Kent.
- Liz Jones
A fight between romantic rivals in Washington state results in ICE arrests

The love triangle set off big emotions — and a series of events that would end with a man and his brother in immigration jail, and possibly headed to El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Union farmworker organizer ‘Lelo’ denied bond to leave Tacoma ICE lockup

A prominent Washington farmworker union organizer arrested by ICE earlier this year, will remain detained in the Tacoma ICE facility after being denied release Thursday. The attorney for Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino said he plans to keep pushing to get him out.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
His day started with selling a chicken coop. It ended in immigration detention

Sergey Kostenyuk and Mary Loisate have been together for more than 20 years. Loisate was born in the U.S., but Kostenyuk is a legal permanent resident with a green card. He came to Spokane from Ukraine as a refugee more than 30 years ago, when he was a child.
- Eilís O'Neill
Spokane man arrested by ICE spent more than a decade trying to obtain legal status

As the number of ICE arrests across Washington state increases, more people are documenting their encounters with federal agents, leaving friends and family stunned, people in federal custody unsure about their future, and others in their community fearful of future raids and arrests.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Bellingham roofing company knew in advance about ICE raid that arrested dozens

Court records show that a Bellingham roofing company knew the Immigration and Customs Enforcement was investigating its workers weeks before an ICE raid led to 37 people being arrested in the early morning on April 2.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Irish woman with green card held at Tacoma ICE center, questioned about decades-old drug conviction

An Irish woman has been taken into custody at the ICE detention center in Tacoma, according to federal records and a GoFundMe by her sister.
- Isolde Raftery
Tacoma ICE center detentions spike by nearly 50% since March, says U.S. Rep. Randall

The number of people held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma has jumped almost 50% in the past month, according to numbers provided to a Washington congressmember.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez

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