The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights

August 27, 2025

Financial Times | Peter Andringa, Irene de la Torre Arenas, Molly Taylor, Oliver Roeder, Stefania Palma: “The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights” cites UWCHR’s research on immigration enforcement trends in WA state. Read the full article →

Press Conference Calls for Transparency and Accountability for Enforced Disappearances and Refoulement in Washington State

August 26, 2025

5 portraits of people in circles who spoke at a press conference over a black and white background filled in with source documents used in the report, "Gross Human Rights Violations in Washington State: Enforced Disappearance and Refoulement"

On August 21, 2025, UWCHR released our latest report, “Gross Human Rights Violations in Washington State: Enforced Disappearance and Refoulement,” tracing the connections between Washington state institutions and grave human rights violations against Washingtonian migrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). We found evidence of greater local involvement

Gross Human Rights Violations in Washington State: Enforced Disappearance and Refoulement

August 21, 2025

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Executive summary This report reviews local involvement in gross human rights abuses against immigrants, focusing on forced disappearance and refoulement. Its findings reveal that the connections between Washington state and these crimes are broader and deeper than has been previously known. They are broader because there are many more cases of Washingtonians being subjected to