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Lawsuit challenges new law closing immigrant detention center in Tacoma By Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times Published: May 18, 2021, 2:24pm Share: The Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. Amanda Cowan/The Columbian SEATTLE — The GEO Group, a huge private prison corporation, is suing the state, claiming a new law mandating the closure of the immigrant detention center it runs in Tacoma would unconstitutionally subvert federal authority. Not only does the law enacted by the ...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? On a cold, rainy night last November, Bastian Rodriguez spent the first hours of his 18th birthday inside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement van. Rodriguez was aging out of the Cowlitz County Youth Se...

Associated Press Lesdny Suyapa Castillo holds the hand of her sleeping daughter, Nataly, 8, at a park gazebo in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Mexico Friday, March 26, 2021. Castillo, who says she worked as a frontline COVID-19 nurse in her country of Honduras, says she left for a better life with her daughter to the U.S. after the government stopped paying her salaries. She and her daughter were smuggled into the U.S. on an inflatable raft in order to seek asylum, but they were expelled b...

Inslee OLYMPIA, Wash. (Legal Newsline) - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney Mary Robnett were accused of trying to undermine the U.S. Constitution in federal court.  The complaint was filed by plaintiff the GEO Group, Inc. on April 29 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The GEO Group privately owns and operates the only immigration detention facility in the state of Washingt...

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7 hours ago Citing $1 million a day of wasted federal dollars, the American Civil Liberties Union called on President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday to close 39 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities across the U.S., including the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral. The federal government has been paying for the empty bed spaces at these facilities, almost all run by privately-owned companies, which the ACLU called “wasting” taxpayer money. The ACL...

Border crisis: Number of children held in Border Patrol facilities drops 84% since peak last month CNN 4/30/2021 By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN © Jaime Rodriguez Sr/U.S. Customs and Border Protection Temporary processing facilities in Donna, Texas, processes family units and unaccompanied alien children (UACs) encountered and in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol. The facility will bolsters processing capacity in the RGV while the permanent Centralized Processing Center in Mc...

The ACLU says there have been "documented patterns of abuse, mistreatment and misconduct at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. In a report the ACLU released earlier this month, the organization alleges failures at the facility to properly respond to the COVID-19 pandemic led to an outbreak that included the first death of a person in ICE custody to the virus. The report also alleges persistently inadequate medical care for detainees, dangerous building conditions, and abuse and retaliation against...

Border patrol agents blamed the smugglers for endangering the lives of five undocumented migrants. Last Thursday, border patrol agents witnessed smugglers lowering a woman and two children on a section of a 30-foot border wall, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported. The incident happened at around 3:15 a.m. when camera operators initially observed a man being lowered down the border wall using a rope. It can be recalled that a video surfaced on the internet showing two toddlers ...

Published: 24 April 2021 Calexico, California -  El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of three adults with a two-year-old and a six-year-old after human smugglers lowered them by rope down a 30-foot section of the border wall early Thursday morning. The incident occurred at about 3:15 a.m., when camera operators assigned to the El Centro Station’s Remote Video Surveillance System (RVSS) observed a man being lowered down the border wall with the use of a rope, ...