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Northwest Health Law Advocates (NoHLA) @nohla.org · 16/09/2026

Huge thanks to EXP Technical, Project Access Northwest, @nwirp.bsky.social, and Fulcrum Capital for helping us make Mending Health Care With Community happen! 👏🤩 Our sponsors rock! Join us - nohla.org/learn-2026 #HealthPolicy #HealthLaw #HealthJustice #HealthEquity #HealthAdvocacy #CommunityHealth

Logos for EXP Technical Custom IT Solutions and Support, Project Access Northwest, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and Fulcrum Capital - with purple and white footer that reads Thank you, Ally Sponsors - Mending Health Care With Community 2026, NoHLA.org.

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Human Rights First @humanrightsfirst.org · 19/09/2026

DHS must respect due process and give people meaningful notification and the chance to contest removal to a country where they face harm and persecution. @nwirp.bsky.social

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Washington state should not aid the federal government in its goal of mass detention and deportation by providing access to sensitive data to be used for civil immigration enforcement ***when we have laws specifically prohibiting this from happening.*** washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/08/i...

washingtonstatestandard.com

ICE searched WA driver’s license data into November, report finds • Washington State Standard

Despite vows to restrict immigration agents' access to Washington license information, the data sharing continued, researchers said Thursday.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“We need to put issues of light and darkness up alongside issues of nutrition and access to clean air and clean water,” said Lya Osborn, a Seattle-based lighting designer and founding member of the non-profit Light Justice.

theguardian.com

Dim days, bright nights: a hidden cruelty of Ice detention

Tens of thousands of people held across the US amid Trump’s immigration crackdown could face an insidious hazard: broken internal clocks

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Gracias por compartir información importante y recursos valiosos para nuestra comunidad! 🙌🏽

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We are deeply grateful for your generosity and for standing with our community. Having strong community support during these pivotal times is essential — it’s what allows us to keep doing the work, and it’s vital in the ongoing fight for justice and equity. ✊🏽

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Our Solidarity Social at Icicle Ridge Winery is coming up next Wednesday, and we’d love for you to join us. ✨We hope you can gather with us as we reaffirm our joint commitment to equity and justice for all. The event is free, with a suggested donation of $75. RSVP here ➡ bit.ly/3HH5jn7

Many members of NWIRP's Wenatchee staff wearing matching green shirts stand together in a wooded forest with yellow leaves on the trees.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Please join us for a CLE July 31 at Seattle U to learn how private sector attorneys can help non-profits further civil rights for people in Washington state. The event is moderated by Justice Sal Mungia. www.mywsba.org/PersonifyEbusiness/Default.aspx?TabID=1356&productId=26577224

Working with non-profits to further civil rights, moderated by Supreme Court Justice Sal Mungia.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, said the administration is “adopting a draconian interpretation of the statute” to jail people who may have lived in the U.S. for decades, have no criminal history and have U.S. citizen spouses, children and grandchildren.

seattletimes.com

Immigration agency flexes authority to sharply expand detention without bond hearing

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to detain far more people than before, tapping a legal authority to jail anyone who entered the country illegally.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Unfortunately, many community members missed their hearings. Missing your immigration court hearing will likely result in a deportation order and increase your risk of being arrested. Please visit NWIRP's Know Your Rights page for more information. nwirp.org/resources/kyr/

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Know Your Rights | NWIRP.org

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Yesterday, we received a credible report that ICE enforcement officers would be present at the Seattle immigration court. Our team and volunteers quickly mobilized to support community members attending their court hearings. ICE enforcement officers were not present and there were no arrests made.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

“A lot of what this administration is doing is attempting to send a message through its arrests [and] through its removals,” he said. “It shouldn’t shock anyone that who they are targeting for arrest is part and parcel of the larger effort to intimidate, exact retribution, and send a message.”

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

"Aaron Korthuis, an attorney at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, who is representing Juarez Zeferino in the class-action lawsuit, said he did not doubt the activist was a political target."

theguardian.com

Ice ‘politically targeted’ farm worker activist Juarez Zeferino, colleagues say

Detention comes amid Trump crackdown against perceived political enemies, including immigrants and labor organizers

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Last week, we stopped seeing ICE presence at the Seattle immigration court. Unfortunately, it seems that instead of getting the message that we don't want them in our community, they have simply adjusted their tactics.

seattletimes.com

As pushback grows to WA immigration court arrests, ICE changes tactics

ICE spent weeks at immigration court. No longer, a sign of changing methods that are breaking norms, sowing confusion and sparking evolving pushback.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In the midst of so much terrible news, we are proud that Washington State legislators have passed several new laws to protect immigrant and worker rights in our state. These laws provide more state oversight at the detention center in Tacoma, provide important protections for workers, and more.

inlander.com

New Washington laws strengthen protections for immigrant communities amid federal attacks

The legislative session in Olympia this year was dominated by a focus on the biennial budget. But between discussions of funding cuts and new taxes,...

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

NWIRP is proud that it is able to help educate the community about their constitutional rights and the immigration benefits that our laws provide, and is committed to assisting individuals in exercising those legal rights.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It is a sad reflection on our current government that efforts to defend constitutional and statutory rights are labeled as efforts to undermine the federal government.

NWIRP is proud that it is able to help educate the community about their constitutional rights and the immigration benefits that our laws provide, and is committed to assisting individuals in exercising those legal rights. This is overlaid over the final page of the letter we received, which includes signatures from the Chairman of the Committee as well as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.

We thank all of those who stand with us and support us in defending and advancing the rights of immigrants. This text sits above an image of all our staff gathered in a beautiful meadow with tall pine trees smiling.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Our response to a recent "oversight" letter NWIRP received today from the Committee on Homeland Security.

NWIRP, like many of our partners across the country, received this "oversight" letter yesterday from the Committee of Homeland Security, from the U.S. House of Representatives. This is overlaid over the first page of the letter we received.

It states that "the Committee is concerned that certain NGOs are now actively advising [undocumented noncitizens] on how to avoid and impede law enforcement officials, which can only be seen as an attempt to undermine the work [of the] federal government." This is overlaid over the second page of the letter we received from the Committee.

This is just the latest example of what can only be described as authoritarian efforts to intimidate all those who do not share the administration's anti-immigrant agenda. This is overlaid over the 3rd page of the letter we received from the committee.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Thank you to the many community members who reached out to their elected officials and other leaders about this unfair practice. We are back in and ready to continue informing our client communities of our rights!

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This restriction has since be rescinded and all our staff and volunteers are again permitted to enter the building and assist the community. If you are volunteering with NWIRP, we ask that you check in on the 4th floor lobby of the immigration court for additional instructions.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This morning, NWIRP staff members and volunteers who have been providing Know Your Rights materials and consultations to community members at the immigration court in Seattle were told they would be restricted from entering without an appointment. Attorneys with appointments were permitted to enter.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/06/2025

While ICE agents can note in their database if someone they’ve investigated turns out to be a citizen, they are not required to do so. As a result, records are often wrong and left uncorrected even after agents have been told of a mistake. (Published March 2025)

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Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.

Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

NWIRP Executive Director Malou Chávez spoke with @msnbc.com about the confusion and fear our communities are experiencing because of the Presidential Administration's many attacks on their due process rights. www.msnbc.com/chris-jansin...

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

We are heartbroken to see immigrant communities under attack, again. This new travel ban, despite exceptions, sends a clear message of exclusion, undermines family reunification, and endangers lives. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

seattletimes.com

‘Another layer of cruelty’: WA immigrant communities shaken by Trump travel ban

The Seattle region has large numbers of people from several of the countries named in the ban, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea and Iran.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

These community members are in Djibouti only because DHS violated the terms of a federal district court order requiring DHS to provide them with due process before deporting them to a country that was not listed on their removal orders.

theintercept.com

ICE Official Reveals Miserable Conditions for U.S. Immigrants at Djibouti Prison

A top ICE official said illness is common at Camp Lemonnier, with inadequate medical care and exposure to smoke from burn pits.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Heartbreaking! Reporting suggests that the facility is currently operating nearly 300 PERCENT above capacity, with 1,700 people crammed into a facility with an official maximum capacity of 600. The conditions have devolved dramatically in the last few months, threatening health and safety.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit heard arguments from NWIRP and the State of Washington defending the district court’s finding that the Executive Order is a blatant violation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, guaranteeing U.S. citizenship to all who are born in the United States.

seattletimes.com

In Seattle, appeals court grapples with Trump birthright citizenship order

The arguments at the courtroom in downtown Seattle were far different from a few months ago when a judge called Trump's order "blatantly unconstitutional."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Our May Newsletter is now live! In this month's issue: > ICE presence in immigration courthouses > The latest on NWIRP's ongoing class action suits > Upcoming free immigration webinars > Resources for immigrants > How we stay determined in the face of injustice

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May 2025 NWIRP Newsletter

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Immigrants deserve due process, which is why our staff has been present this week at the Seattle Immigration Court to warn and inform community members that ICE officers are trying to place people whose cases have been dismissed in expedited removal proceedings.

seattletimes.com

How WA advocates are reacting to a new ICE tactic

People mobilized at Seattle Immigration Court to advise immigrants of their rights and support those taken away in what appears to be a new tactic to fast-track removals.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Yesterday's ICE raid in Kent also involved the IRS, and at least one person from the raid is now being held at the detention center in Tacoma. We are heartbroken for those who were impacted yesterday, as well as their families. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

spokesman.com

IRS participates in immigration raid at Kent beverage company

In one of the first immigration raids involving the Internal Revenue Service, federal agents arrested 17 people at a Kent beverage manufacturing company Tuesday.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.

ICE agents at Seattle courthouse arrest people whose deportation hearings are dismissed

The photo shows two men in the foreground wearing camo baseball caps and with neck gaiters pulled up to cover everything but their eyes. They are in plain clothes. Three other men are seen in the background, all wearing surgical masks. One has a hoodie entirely up so that only his eyes are visible. All are standing around looking suspiciously cop-like.

caption: Gustavo Sagrero Alvarez
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
May 21, 2025 / 5:45 pm

caption: Suspected agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement line the hallway outside a courtroom at the Seattle Immigration Court Wednesday.
Suspected agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement line the hallway outside a courtroom at the Seattle Immigration Court Wednesday.
KUOW Photo / Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Three very talented artists recently created work for us inspired by the immigrant rights movement. We are so excited to share their beautiful pieces with you! Each artist is recognized in the alt text for their respective piece.

A collage of people, including a recent graduate, a gardener, a physician, a father and child, a young girl flying a rainbow colored kite, and a blue haired woman with a yellow flower in her hair surround the words "immigrant rights are human rights."

This piece was created by Brigid Slinger.

A stoic woman, painted in a melancholy blue with a vibrant red covering her neck and right cheek, looks upward. there is a monarch butterfly rested in her black hair. Overlayed across the painting are the words "Justice for Immigrants Justice for All."

This piece was created by Periko the Artist.

A group of protestors holding signs reading "keep going," "we are stronger together," and "justice for immigrants, justice for all" stand in front of a cityscape with Mount Rainier nestled above the buildings. Overlayed above them are the words "immigrant rights are human rights."

This piece was created by Valeria Ortiz.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Thank you very much for this great article! We will be sure to include alt text in our future posts

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“The order appropriately recognizes that DHS must afford our class members a chance to apply for protection from removal to a country where they face a serious risk of torture.”

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“Today, the court affirmed a fundamental principle: due process still matters,” said Leila Kang, a Supervising Attorney of Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Breaking News: Judge Finds U.S. Government Unlawfully Deported Noncitizens on Flight to South Sudan in Violation of Court Order, Issues Remedial Relief

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Not sure if they were with OPLA or not actually! It’s a good question though, will let you know more specifics if we hear more

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

If you have an active case, here are our recommendations - Show up to your court hearing to avoid a deportation order being issued in your absence - You have the right to oppose the dismissal of your case - If the case is dismissed, you have the right to appeal - If you fear persecution, say so

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

⚠️ ICE at Immigration Court Thread ⚠️ Recently arrived immigrants (who have been in the U.S. for less than 2 years), non-U.S. citizen immigrants with criminal history, and immigrants with final orders of removal are at greatest risk of being detained by ICE if their case has been completed.

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Northwest Immigrant Rights Project @nwirp.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Our attorneys have witnessed ERO officers at the Seattle immigration court both yesterday and today. In Seattle, it appears that these officers are working in conjunction with USCIS attorneys who are pushing for cases to be dismissed in court, opening the door for expedited removal.

seattletimes.com

ICE arrests at WA immigration court spark fear of fast-track removal

Immigration attorneys suspect ICE is using an "underhanded" tactic to sidestep court proceedings and boost deportation numbers for the Trump administration.

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