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Legal information for those held @ the NWDC

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Clere Yves Voixant

taken from: http://www.seattlelawgroupwa.com/northwest-detention-center/

The Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA holds legal and illegal immigrants who are in removal proceedings or awaiting deportation. Detainees may contact an immigration attorney at any time while in the Northwest Detention Center or other detention facilities. We strongly urge you to engage the services of an immigration attorney as soon as possible, preferably before removal proceedings begin.

In addition to personal visits, you can contact the Center at (253) 779-6000 for information on any legal or illegal immigrants being held there. The Center asks that you have his/her name, date and country of birth, alien registration number, and any aliases ready before calling. To contact a detainee, you may also call (253) 396-1611 to leave his/her full name and alien registration number, your phone number, and your message.
Help for Legal or Illegal Immigrants Facing Deportation

Seattle Law Group’s immigration law experts work with immigrants to ensure competent and professional representation throughout the complex and often protracted removal proceedings. Our extensive experience with immigration and bond cases means you or your loved one facing deportation will receive highly competent and effective legal assistance before, during, and after detention in the Northwest Detention Center or other facilities..

Our immigration attorneys have extensive knowledge of all forms of relief from removal, and understand how legal and illegal immigration status, among other factors, may effect the outcome of removal proceedings. We will use every available means to help clients avoid deportation and resolve any immigration problems, so as to stay in the United States.
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Mainstream Media: Latino Leader Says ICE’s Secure Communities Program Is Making Yakima Anything But Secure

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Clere Yves Voixant

(Seattle Weekly)

Keegan Hamilton

07/13/2011

Patricia Flores is a lifelong resident of Yakima County and a leader of the area’s Latino community. On the surface, she’s exactly the type of person who should support Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s new “Secure Communities” program, which seeks to deport undocumented immigrants who pose “serious threats to public safety.” But the program, which cross-references fingerprints of people arrested by local law enforcement with an ICE database, has Flores–along with governors of three states–crying foul.

Rather than giving the boot to felons and repeat offenders, documents released by ICE indicate that close to 80 percent of the individuals deported as a result of Secure Communities had no criminal convictions at all, or were charged with minor infractions like traffic violations. And, according to Flores, in Yakima it’s making women who are victims of domestic violence less likely to come forward for fear that their spouse will wind up in a cell at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac.
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Keepin’ an eye on ICE

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Clere Yves Voixant

The Migra Watch Network (http://migrawatch.org) provides resources to communities in the form of educational presentations regarding, “basic rights and immigration issues;” research regarding detainees, human rights, immigration laws; ICE monitoring; as well as, raid response.Their website provides maps showing the locations of various immigration detention centers throughout the country and maps out places where recent raids have occurred. On their website can also be found various educational tools regarding immigration and detention in the United States.

Perhaps most interestingly they provide a hotline: #831-331-1119, that can be used to report ICE raids and the presence of ICE in people’s communities. According to their website, MigraWatch is based on a CopWatch (http://www.copwatch.org/) type model. Volunteers walk around their communities monitoring and recording ICE activity. They concentrate most of their attention to areas where there is a known and rampant ICE presence and encourage people to volunteer. They are looking specifically for those who are bi-lingual and are available, by phone, for 72 hours at a time.
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