Immigration In The Northwest

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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
Washington AG Brown's 3 takeaways from birthright citizenship SCOTUS hearing

Brown said he was encouraged to hear many of the justices express “pretty explicitly that they thought the president’s order was unlawful and unconstitutional."
- Amy Radil
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
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
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
Peruvians in the Yakima Valley on edge after couple deported by ICE

Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, ICE picked up and deported a Peruvian couple in Sunnyside. Friends say they were asylum seekers who had missed a hearing. Now, the whole community is on edge.
- Eilís O'Neill
Washington 'sanctuary law' allows ICE agents to pick up people leaving prison. They often don't

Washington state’s so-called “sanctuary law” is in the crosshairs of elected officials. But new data from the state’s department of corrections shows, even when the state works with federal immigration enforcement, the federal government isn’t always following through.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
What will it take to restart refugee admissions? Seattle judge presses Trump's DOJ for details

A Seattle judge said he's seeking a timeline for the Trump administration to "turn back on" the system of refugee admissions for those already approved to travel to the U.S. before President Trump's order suspending the program.
- Amy Radil

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