“Seattle does not cooperate with immigration enforcement but does not prevent or impede it,” said Jena Yang of the city’s Office of Immigrant Safety and Refugee Affairs (OIRA).
ACRS loses federal grant, impacting services for green card holders
Despite having half a year to go on its contract for a federal grant that allowed the Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) to help green card holders to complete their naturalization applications and brush up on their United States history and civics, ACRS learned, along with all other grantees—including others in King County and the City of Seattle—that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminated the grant, effective March 27.
US deports 116 Chinese migrants in first ‘large’ flight in 5 years
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it sent 116 Chinese migrants from the United States back home in the first “large charter flight” in five years.