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LETTER: Councilmembers concerned about corrections contract

December 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Open letter to Gov. Jay Inslee: We write on behalf of City of Seattle residents to express deep concern about the recently publicized contract signed between the Washington Department of Corrections and Geo Group Inc. As we understand it, this contract would potentially send up to 1,000 Washington-based prisoners to North Lake Correctional Facility in […]

Filed Under: Letters to the Editor Tagged With: 2008, 2015, African Americans, Congressman Adam Smith, Councilmember Kshama Sawant, Fourth Washington, Geo Group, Immigration Act, Jay Inslee, Northwest Detention Center, Seattle, Third Washington State, United States, Vol 34 No 50 | December 5 - December 11

NONPERMANENT RESIDENTS (Part 3) — Local Cambodian men facing deportation for crimes committed when young

June 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Part 1 Part 2 Rithy Yin, 33, pointed toward his church, Victory Outreach Church, from the kitchen of his sister and brother-in-law’s townhouse, where he lives with his new wife, Jackie, and stepson, Jacob.<!–more–> “We go to the streets and we minister to people — to the homeless or […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 2014, AEDPA, Assistant Federal Public Defender Jay Stansell, Customs Enforcement Public Affairs Officer Andrew Munoz, IIRIRA, Justice Department, KPLU, Local Cambodian, Mexico, Northwest Detention Center, President Barack Obama, Ram Son, Rithy Yin, SEARAC, Touch Hak, United States, Vol 33 No 26 | June 21 - June 27, Yoon Joo Han

South Korean man deported for human smuggling

May 17, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A South Korean man convicted in March of facilitating the illegal entry of South Korean nationals into the United States was deported May 12 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Border Patrol, Border Protection, Canada, Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, ICE, Northwest Detention Center, South Korean, Sung Hoon Ha, Tulalip Casino, United States, Vol 33 No 21 | May 17 - May 23, parking

EDITORIAL: Cold as ICE: Don’t separate families

March 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” — From “The New Colossus” by American poet Emma Lazarus, engraved on the Statue of Liberty There’s nothing like a […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Andrew Munoz, Customs Enforcement, Demands Facebook, Emma Lazarus, Geo Group, Hunger Striker, ICE, Labor Notes, Northwest Detention Center, Performance Based National Detention Standards, Vol 33 No 13 | March 22 - March 28, attention

Four deportation detainees remain on hunger strike

March 14, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – A hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center entered a fifth day on March 10, with four detainees still protesting their treatment and calling for an end to deportations. The strike began March 7 when about 750 detainees refused to eat.

Filed Under: Features, Community News Tagged With: 2014, Andrew Munoz, Hong Kong, ICE, Northwest Detention Center, Sue Misao, TACOMA, Tony Ng, United States, Vol 33 No 12 | March 15 - March 21, Wah Mee Massacre, attention

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