Under Trump, Northwest immigration detainees are traveling farther from families, legal help ^65.2%

KUOW Public Radio - By Troy Brynelson, OPB - 12/23/2025, 10:13 PM

The Trump administration has sent five times more people at least 1,000 miles compared to the last year of former President Joe Biden’s term. Carmen Paniagua’s phone had sat silent all day, and she began to worry. It was early December, and her brother-in-law was supposed to call. He was being held at the U.S. Immigration and Customs... more