May 30, 2023
A Seattle federal judge gave the green light Tuesday to a class action settlement that will require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to pay $500,000 in legal fees for a group of medically vulnerable immigrants who claimed the agency did not do enough to protect them from COVID-19 while detaining them.
August 24, 2021
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must test immigrants for COVID-19 before transferring them to a Washington state detention center, after a federal judge blamed the agency for 240 detainees and facility staff contracting the virus over the past three months.
June 15, 2020
A Washington state judge has denied a request for temporary release from three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees who claim they are at-risk of catching the novel coronavirus while in detention.