Litigation grinds on over WA’s power to regulate immigrant detention center • Washington State Standard

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Litigation grinds on over WA’s power to regulate immigrant detention center • Washington State Standard

Northwest ICE Processing Center. (Grace Deng/Washington State Standard)The Washington attorney general’s office last week asked a federal appeals court to restore a state law regulating the federal immigrant detention center in Tacoma, calling conditions there “abhorrent.” It was the latest chapter in a legal fight between Washington and the company operating the facility over whether the state should be able to conduct inspections and other ove…