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Aug 11, 2021 12 tweets 3 min read
Today, we are proud to release the first report from our "Immigrant Rights Observatory" project monitoring the implementation of and compliance with Washington state laws protecting immigrant rights: jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/20… The report, "Protecting Immigrant Rights: Is Washington’s Law Working?" is the result of more than 18 months of research in collaboration with community partners including @ACLU_WA, @NWIRP, @columbialegal, the Washington Defender Association, and WA Immigrant Solidarity Network.
Jan 12, 2021 9 tweets 6 min read
The President of El Salvador has spent the week of the anniversary of the 1992 Peace Accords characterizing the accords as a "farce" and "business deal" while verbally attacking human rights defenders including lead #ElMozote lawyer @davidemorDDHH: During 2020, under President Bukele's command, the Salvadoran military repeatedly blocked court-ordered inspections of military archives for documents related to the #ElMozote massacre:
Aug 20, 2019 11 tweets 5 min read
Yakima's role in the immigration detention and deportation pipeline in the Pacific Northwest has expanded following the shift of #ICEAir flights from Boeing Field in Seattle earlier this year. Our latest report:
jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/20… Each week, approximately 90 people now flow through Yakima in ICE custody (~30 via Yakima County jail, + ~60 via #ICEAir at the city-owned airport), destined for detention at the "Northwest ICE Processing Center" (f.k.a. Northwest Detention Center) in Tacoma, WA.