Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs

Kids in Need of Defense, or KIND, currently serves more than 400 unaccompanied children and youth across the Pacific Northwest.

In times of crisis, the federal government can grant foreign nationals temporary protections that allow them to work, and deportations can be deferred. Immigrant advocates are demanding that people from Ukraine get those protections, too, and that includes detainees at Tacoma's ICE facility.

Cuc Vu remembers the day her mom became a U.S. citizen.“To see her coming out of that naturalization interview — that day was one of the happiest days…