Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

Columbia Legal Services and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) represented the two people who were unable to post bail or not released after paying bail, because of the immigration hold placed upon them under Yakima County’s former policy.

SEATTLE (AP) — A Syrian woman who is trying to bring her 16-year-old son to the United States from the war-torn country says President Donald Trump's order prohibiting some people from that country from traveling to the U.S. is unfair. Reema Duhman, now living in Seattle, is a plaintiff in a federal class-action lawsuit filed in Seattle this week by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project that says

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has approved class-action status for a lawsuit over whether poor children are entitled to lawyers during deportation hearings. The order by U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly in Seattle comes in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and immigration advocates...