‘Like a jail cell’: Family of six detained at Washington state border facility for more than three weeks

‘Like a jail cell’: Family of six detained at Washington state border facility for more than three weeks

A family from southwestern Africa that was living in Washington state while seeking asylum said they were detained by immigration officials for nearly a month in a windowless cell.The family had feared deportation and tried to cross from Blaine, Washington, into Canada. They then spent 24 days from April 26 to May 20 — in a single holding room.OPB talked with one adult female member of the family, the mother of four children who is also in the t…