Northwest ICE Processing Center

At least 16 deportation flights have left from Boeing Field since May, and immigration advocates are trying to watch every single one.

University researchers found detention staff threw balls of pepper spray and used other means of force against detainees, including those with mental illness. They found such incidents occurred on average once a month.

After court order, ICE is now deporting immigrants from both Boeing Field and Yakima Air Terminal. Approximately 400 people have been deported since May.

The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project names a new executive director as Jorge Barón exits after 15 years.

Due to a court order, deportation flights have resumed at Boeing Field after being banned for four years.

With a previous bill outlawing private detention facilities tied up in the courts, lawmakers passed new legislation mandating privately owned or operated detention facilities meet the same standards as public ones.

A 29-year-old Mexican man who was arrested by U.S. immigration agents in 2017 despite his participation in a program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children will be allowed to remain in the country for at least the next four years under a settlement with the Justice Department. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle announced the agreement Wednesday with Daniel Ramirez Medina.

Nine people held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma have joined in a hunger strike to protest what they say are unclean conditions amid worries about a COVID spread. The strike began last week, according to the group La Resistencia.

It’s been more than two years since families and friends have been able to visit loved ones in person at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Tacoma. ICE suspended visitations at all detention facilities in early 2020 and has kept that policy in place. Now, national and local immigrant rights groups have started to push back after visitations at federal and state prisons have largely resumed.

Ever since GEO Group, the private prison company that runs the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Tacoma, suspended its detainee worker program last month, some immigrants have been speaking out about conditions deteriorating.