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Professor of Human Rights, director of @UWCHR, and relentless believer in things unlikely. She/her. Opinions mine.
Jul 6, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
Tomorrow is "Arthur's" 18th birthday. He's been held for 9 mos by ICE in Cowlitz county youth jail, despite never being charged with a crime. ICE plans to wake him up at 5 am + send him to #NWDC in Tacoma, defying a federal judge's order (relevant text of the order below)... text from Judge Gee's 6/26/20 court order Cowlitz County has been paid about $45,900 for collaborating in the arbitrary detention of this boy, per the terms of its contract with ICE below (the day rate was amended in 2017 to $170/day)...
Jul 5, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
URGENT For the past 9 mos, ICE has held a migrant boy in the juvenile jail in Cowlitz County, WA. ICE found him when looking 4 his friend; he's never been charged with a crime in his life. On Tues, he turns 18 + ICE plans to send him to the #NWDC in defiance of judge's order... He arrived in the US as an unaccompd minor at 14; ICE has never shown evidence he is a danger or a flight risk. But Cowlitz Co. is making $170/night to warehouse him, until the cash he generates can be transferred to GEO... jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/20…
May 28, 2020 9 tweets 6 min read
Great to hear calls for new public health guidelines for air travel in light of COVID-19. But any credible guidelines must tackle the public health practices of #ICEAir, which have been ignored for years despite contagion, abuse, and violence on planes. A thread: In recent weeks it's become clear that ongoing deportation of infected migrants is spreading the virus to countries with struggling health systems, like Guatemala -- where the Health Ministry says as many as 50-75% of deportees have tested positive,
Dec 16, 2019 5 tweets 3 min read
Este documento q recibimos hoy de la Agencia de Inteligencia de la Defensa EEUU confirma lo que ya se sabía sobre el flujo de información entre gringos, salvadoreños, y hondureños durante la guerra -- pero agrega nuevos detalles. Abro hilo. P. ej., en el operativo Azenón Palma del 82, en el marco del cual sucedieron las masacres de El Calabozo y La Conacastada, el documento dice que mataron a 260 guerrillas y capturaron a 25. En este operativo, desaparecieron muchos niños/as y adultos. Sus familias aún los buscan.
Nov 20, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
Fun facts from the trenches of govt transparency work: yesterday we got this response to our FOIA request for copies of ICE's records of prior approval for recent arrests at WA state courthouses. /1 In official policy, ICE says it will only conduct arrests at courthouses when "operationally necessary," approved ahead of time using a document called a Field Operations Worksheet, so we'd requested that doc for cases where enforcement actions may raise red flags. /2