Category: News and Current Events

Earlier this week we represented a 17 year old girl at her individual hearing before an immigration judge. From the time she was five until she was thirteen her family was persecuted by the country’s security forces, suffering death threats, beatings and rape. Her parents fled to the US with [...]

You have probably been reading or hearing about the thousands of asylum seeking families who are being separated and detained by our government. KIAC is working with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project to recruit volunteers who can help these moms and dads prepare for their asylum interviews – the first [...]

by Heidi Groover • Jun 7, 2018 at 3:19 pm || The Stranger The Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, where immigration lawyers say asylum seekers are being held. FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS The Trump administration’s latest crackdown on immigrants has reached the Northwest. Seattle area immigration lawyers say the Department of Homeland Security may [...]