For the past 18 months, I’ve been working with the University of Washington Center for Human Rights as a communication fellow funded by the Jennifer Caldwell Endowed Fund. This opportunity was presented to me thanks to the University of Washington Communication Leadership Program, from which I will graduate in June. My work consisted of developing

Immigrants detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA have consistently reported sanitation issues including spoiled food and dirty laundry, which raise grave health concerns in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In February the Department of Justice sued King County, WA to reopen Boeing Field in Seattle for deportation flights. Later that week, the UWCHR released a video explainer, produced by UW students and alumni, giving background on the ICE Air deportation flight network.

The Benjamin Linder Award/Fund allowed for me to participate in research being conducted with the Center for Human Rights (CHR) at the University of Washington. I had the privilege of working with Angelina Godoy, Phil Neff, and Tara Saleh this summer in human rights work that centered itself on undocumented migrants in our state. Recently,

In recent days many have focused a great deal of attention to the conditions under which migrants—including many children—are being held along the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet far fewer people are aware of the extent to which interrelated rights concerns crop up right here in Washington state. Student researchers at the UWCHR have set out to

The advent of regular ICE Air deportation and detainee transfer flights via Yakima Air Terminal-McAllister Field has deepened Yakima’s role in immigration enforcement in the Pacific Northwest, but the flights build on prior infrastructure centered on the pipeline between Yakima County jail and the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.

A newly-released Department of Homeland Security document reveals allegations of serious abuses on ICE deportation flights, including accounts of mistreatment, excessive force, due process violations, and deaths.

A database of ICE Air’s deportation flights reveals records of more than 34,400 passengers picked up by ICE at Boeing Field in King County, Washington.

Each year, “ICE Air” removes tens of thousands of people from the US via a network of private charter flights. The UW Center for Human Rights is making public an ICE database regarding these flights and documenting the corporations and municipalities participating in ICE’s deportation flights.

Key findings Inmate booking and release data from Pierce County jails shows that during the period from October 2016 through July 2018, over 188 inmates were the subject of detainer requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Latinx inmates are heavily overrepresented in the population subjected to ICE detainers. Statistical analysis shows that, when controlling