Immigration Archives – Page 3 of 4

Migrant detained by ICE back with family

By Aaron Hedge ● Immigration ● March 21, 2025

RANGE caught up with Bismark Avornu, who’s lived in the Spokane area for 15 years, where he met his wife and is raising two American children, about his 45 days in a Tacoma processing facility.

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An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.

By McKenzie Funk ● Labor ● March 20, 2025

GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.

Uncertainty for Spokane’s Haitian migrants — and for employers

By Aaron Hedge ● Immigration ● March 13, 2025

After President Donald Trump canceled a program that allows people who fled a country in turmoil to work and live here, a local jobs program is unsure what will happen to them.

ICE agents with no warrant violently arrest migrants

By Aaron Hedge ● Immigration ● March 11, 2025

Federal agents surveilled and detained two men in Spokane Valley, broke into their truck, injured and arrested them as they were going to a court hearing, breaking up a family.

Refugees in Spokane at risk as World Relief navigates changing U.S. policies

By Cassy Benefield ● Immigration ● March 11, 2025

Local affiliates of refugee relief program are laying off employees and feeling uncertain as Trump executive orders and rhetoric roil the US.

How to find a loved one in ICE custody and how to help them

By Sandra Rivera ● Immigration ● March 4, 2025

As the Trump administration continues to arrest thousands of migrants, it’s essential to know how to navigate the system they’re recorded in

Cómo encontrar a un ser querido bajo custodia de ICE y cómo ayudarlo

By Sandra Rivera ● Immigration ● March 4, 2025

A medida que la administración Trump continúa arrestando a miles de migrantes, es esencial saber cómo navegar el sistema en el que están registrados

Lawyers plead for life-saving care for man in Tacoma immigrant detention center

By Jake Goldstein-Street ● Immigration ● March 4, 2025

They say staff have denied Oganes Doganyan treatment for months as he faces deportation.

‘They just take people’: Ghanaian immigrant taken by ICE after church service

By Aaron Hedge ● Immigration ● February 13, 2025

ICE arrested the man from his home while his wife, a US citizen, was on her way home from the grocery store. He is being held at a facility in Tacoma, and a lawyer is trying to reopen his green card application.

Solidarity, if not sanctuary

By Erin Sellers ● Immigration ● February 11, 2025

The Spokane City Council showed their solidarity with the immigrant community by promising to continue to follow state law, but opposition feared it created a false sense of security.