The Northwest Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tide flats of Tacoma, Washington. The detention center opened in 2004 under a contract with The US Department ...
The Northwest Detention Center is a private immigration prison facility located on the tide flats of Tacoma, Washington. The detention center opened in 2004 under a contract with The US Department of Homeland Security, Though owners have changed over time, the facility is now owned by the GEO Group Which operates prison facilities in Australia, The UK, South Africa, the US and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the largest and primary investigative branch of Homeland Security, expanded the facility's housing capacity 1,000 detainees, making it the largest detention center owned by GEO Group on the West Coast of the United States.
In 2003 the ICE launched Operation End Game, the largest police operation in US history, to remove all undocumented migrants from the US by the year 2012. The project's predecessor, Operation Wetback in 1954, removed 1.2 million Mexicans from the American Southwest. ICE does not need warrants to make arrests or to conduct raids. Since July 2007, raids have increased the number of detained migrants from 18,000 to 26,000 nationwide. Homeland Security relocates 700 detainees a week in the United States.
Migrants in the facility are mostly from the Northwest regions of Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Washington. Due to the increase in raids they've recently come from places like New York, Puerto Rico and Guam. ICE agents move the detainees to the facility under the cover of night.
Nationwide tens of thousands of children every year lose a parent to deportation. 85% percent of those detained don't have legal counsel, since they do not have a right to due process or protections against unlawful searches or seizures.
After raids in the Northwest rounded up hundreds of migrant workers at a time from places like Auburn, Washington and Portland, Oregon, a protest in solidarity with the No Borders Camp actions in Arizona took place at the same time in Tacoma.
The march was focused not at the facility itself, which is tucked away unnoticed amongst shipping terminals and superfund sites, but at the Wells Fargo Bank building, which invests in the GEO Group's operations worldwide. The march was labeled a homeland security threat, and policed heavily. Police with cameras and less than lethal weapons intimidated protesters, and suggested that local landlords evict the protest organizers from their homes. The march occupied an intersection for more than ten minutes, circling from crosswalk to crosswalk until police used force. One woman taking pictures was arrested for spitting on the ground, and then intimidated by police and bystanders. Another was arrested for disarming an officer, though that charge was later dropped. In front of the Wells Fargo Bank, another arrest occurred.
As raids at jobs sites increased over the last years, members in the community seemed to have noticed little. As purges in accordance with End Game increase, the Tacoma activist community is attempting to increase awareness about the facility's proximity and what it stands for.
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Endemic please get your head out and THINK ! this is not an issue of blame or race! It is a FACT, the term is Illegal the past/history of America is not the issue it is the issue of "ILLEGALS" sneaking in and MORONS getting upset when they get caught.
Endemic use the logic if they (immigrants) really want the "American dream" then by all means they should learn at least enough to get by on, you don't sneak "illegally" into a country and get that country to change to your language. You would attempt to blend in, and the issue of "illegal immigrant "rights in the video is absurd did they not get the term "illegal" .
Men! let me tell you guys and is no joke, I am not a criminal and never been in jail before I was caught at work not sumggling drugs or stealing, I spent a lot of years in the USA even learned english and studied,but for some stupid law against people from Nicaragua I bacame "Ilegal allien" now that I am back to my country I see a lot dirty backpackers around drinking,smoking pot and having what they call "fun", I think that sometimes Daniel Ortega is right lets kick them gringos out of our land
Unfortunately, most of the facts and figures in this video are completely wrong. People need to understand immigration law and the full scope of the subject before commenting. ICE, BP, CBP, et al, deport thousands of illegals (i.e. breaking the law) everyday, including criminal aliens. They are accorded all rights & have the option to see an immigration judge with legal counsel and translators. You think tax evasion is ok? Oh right, taxes pay for social services. BTW, illegals don't pay taxes.
UNFORTUNATELY there's a lot of IGNORANT people out there, The proper term for an"ILLEGAL" is indocumentated alien.There are no illegal human beings.Most of those people pay their taxes every year with a thing called itin number that you can get when you don't have a social security number,besides,on every paycheck they withdraw certain amount of money for social security.If you don't claim it at the end of the year...Who the hell keeps that money? .Investigate before giving your opinion.
It seems as though whenever there is an economic downturn in the U.S. there is increased anti-immigrant sentiment but during times of economic prosperity immigrants are tolerated or actively recruited by businesses. Immigrants are exploited then blamed for the nation's problems. Kind of a bad situation.
THis is what we're going to have to do in mass throughout the entire country. The privatized police forces are starting to run some small towns in the country totally displacing the local police force. Soon it will go national. Check out Alex Jone's cocerage on Hardin Montana.
It is a very sad thing to see a person write that a demeaning racial slur is funny, but only shows how ignorant that person is. You are an embarrassment to the Latino race. Educate yourself and find ways to help those who are from your racial descent. Do you think that when you are walking down the street people will not label you as well, just by the color of you skin and facial features? HA how stupid you are, to laugh at this when you are a reflection. Tienes el nopal en el frente!!!
First i wanna point out the statue of liberty we should tare it down. "We welcome all" BS i can see if they have criminal background. Not for wanting a better life also for the same reason starting a war to FREE PEOPLE in Iraq when we can't even free people that want a better life here. America was founded off immigrants and there hard work but now where turning them down and opressing them we should not call ourselves the land of the free. Because more and more i see no freedome for people.
who gives a fuck, we are all slaves to the illuminati, they control everything, mexicans should smile and thank the US for giving them a free ticket to freedom.
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