City leaders on Monday announced a slate of new investments aimed at strengthening legal defense services for immigrants and refugees while helping community groups meet urgent, day-to-day needs.
Seattle’s Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs director discusses City response to possible immigration action
Immigrants around the country face increasing pressure and stress from federal immigration enforcement agents sweeping into communities, rounding up immigrants regardless of their status and without due process.
Vu to rejoin OIRA
The Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA) announced that former Director Cuc Vu will be re-joining the department as OIRA’s new acting director.
Harrell announces investments in immigrant, refugee, and unhoused communities to combat federal cuts
When she first moved to the United States in 2010, Jinyao Ma struggled to find stable work.
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.