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The detention center is operated by the GEO Group on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [1] The NWDC's current capacity is 1575, making it one of the largest detention centers in the United States. [2] Numerous hunger strikes have been launched by inmates of the NWDC to protest the Center's poor conditions.
Willem van Spronsen (1950–2019) was a carpenter and a resident of Vashon, Washington, [6] [1] who had been arrested previously during a demonstration at the same ICE detention center in June 2018. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] In the earlier incident, he had a physical altercation with a police officer during an effort to free a protester who was detained.
At least 200 detained immigrants at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington engaged in a hunger strike and/or work stoppage, releasing a statement stating that they were "acting with solidarity for all those people who are being detained wrongfully," and standing against separation of families. [17]
GEO Group guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center took the measure after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorized “non-lethal use of force” in response to a confrontation ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that immigrants detained in the United States are not entitled to a bond hearing, a decision that means that the thousands of people with open immigration ...
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Outside of an ICE building protesters created a rotating group protest outside the facility to call for the abolishment of the facility and an end to the immigration detention center on June 27. [17] The activists stated they took inspiration and networked with other #OccupyICE groups, such as the groups in Portland and Philadelphia. [17]
The "zero tolerance" policy [5] introduced by the Trump Administration in spring 2018 was the immediate catalyst for the Families Belong Together mass mobilization in June 2018, as media outlets began reporting on children being held in cages and in detention facilities after having been separated from their parents or guardians after crossing the border.