14 with ties to WA deported to ‘third countries’ and Guantánamo Bay

SEATTLE — As the Trump administration lines up ever more countries to accept deported immigrants, a report to be released Thursday documents Washington has more extensive ties than previously known to migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador, the U.S.’s detention camp in Guantánamo Bay and South Sudan.

The report, written by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, says documents obtained through public disclosure laws appear to show the federal government expelled 14 immigrants with Washington connections to those locations. They lived in the state, were held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, began their deportation journey on chartered flights out of Boeing Field or were expelled via a commercial flight from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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