Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice In lieu of their postponed vigil, they urge those interested to sign a petition to stop ICE from keeping people in detention in the midst of this pandemic: https://secure.everyaction.com/917IdVUh2kSbYhGeA5bpcQ2?fbclid=IwAR1dzseg3FQGBBvw-fpgnkIkWUopMqBbEvg2BlisKYpd9BnepEXMgWf-efc
Elizabeth Maupin of Issaquah/Sammamish Interfaith Coalition writes: I have been in touch with the Seattle University Law School and the Housing Justice Project about training and placing court watchers in the King County eviction courts. Once the moratorium ends there will likely be a tsunami of eviction cases. Volunteer court watchers who sit in a…
Undocumented workers who lost income because of the coronavirus pandemic, but were passed over for federal assistance, will finally be getting some help in Washington state, thanks to a new $40 million relief fund. Gov. Jay Inlsee is setting up the new financial assistance program with cooperation from a broad coalition of immigrant rights organizations,…
A band of the Kumeyaay Nation whose native land spans both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border filed a federal lawsuit this week against the Trump administration seeking an injunction to stop further construction of the border wall through sacred, ancient burial lands. Human remains have been disrupted and unearthed by recent pre-construction blasting at the…
Come Oct. 2, immigrants and foreign nationals in the United States will have to pay substantially more in fees to apply for many immigration and naturalization benefit requests. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published this week a final rule in the Federal Register that details the new cost for dozens of immigration and naturalization…
