At the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, our research team is examining the human rights implications of contemporary immigration enforcement in Washington state.
At a time of heightened concern about immigrant rights, it is more important than ever to understand the policies our government has implemented at the local, state, and federal level to handle immigration, and to examine the effects of these policies on the lives and liberties of all Washingtonians.
Read our most recent reports regarding this initiative:
August 4, 2017
On June 19, 2017, the first day of the summer strawberry harvest, farmworkers at Sakuma Brothers Farm in the Skagit Valley began picking berries in the early morning fog. As they did so, they were making history. After four years of struggle that grew from local walk-outs and strikes to a national boycott against the
May 12, 2017
May 11, 2017
Ferguson, ’89, became famous overnight when his office beat the president in court. STORY BY QUINN RUSSELL BROWN FOR COLUMNS MAGAZINE, MAY 6, 2017 Bob Ferguson landed on the front page of newspapers across America thanks to Donald Trump. But Donald Trump wasn’t thanking Bob Ferguson. Washington’s attorney general sued the president over the first