Tag: Immigration

Jayapal and Smith push bill to end immigration’s private prisons

Posted on by Sarah Corn
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A protestor climbed a light pole outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma in 2015 and hung and unfurled a sign reading “You are not alone” in Spanish to the detainees inside. (Photo by Angelica Chazaro)

via the Seattle Globalist

Seattle-area legal assistant and DREAMer Graciela Nuñez puts her fear of being detained in the U.S. immigration system in stark terms.

“I am more scared to be put in the Tacoma detention center than I am of being deported,” Nuñez said. Continue reading “Jayapal and Smith push bill to end immigration’s private prisons” →