Visit our monthly update page for ongoing information on driver and vehicle data sharing with federal immigration enforcement agencies in Washington state. Download report fact sheets: Report overview (English) Deteniendo la Ruta del DMV-a-DHS (Español) Stopping the DMV-to-DHS Pipeline (English) Executive summary In recent months, traffic stops have become an increasingly frequent, visible, and violent

UWCHR’s Research Coordinator Phil Neff sits down with Andrea Marcos, reflecting on his time as he prepares to depart after thirteen years at the Center for Human Rights. In July 2026, Phil will move on to a new role as Senior Research Analyst with the Deportation Data Project. Andrea Marcos: Phil! It’s so sad to

Join our team and help conduct human rights research with real-world impact! The Research Coordinator at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights will be responsible for supporting the design and implementation of ongoing and new research. This position will conduct literature reviews and research to include collecting, coding and analyzing qualitative and quantitative

At a time when immigration enforcement is both more visible and more secretive than ever before, UWCHR is publishing a new dataset released to us as part of settlement negotiations in ongoing FOIA litigation against DHS. This data, drawn from I-213 forms[1] produced by ICE during 2022 through 2025 in the agency’s Seattle Area of

Update: This position has been filled. The University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) invites applications from UW undergraduates interested in forming part of our research team. We are recruiting 1-2 interns to support our work to declassify U.S. government documents related to historic human rights violations in El Salvador and elsewhere in Latin