Washington immigrant in limbo amid challenge to Trump’s ‘third country’ deportations

Washington immigrant in limbo amid challenge to Trump’s ‘third country’ deportations

SEATTLE – The family of a man who grew up in Tacoma and has become one of the faces of President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport immigrants to countries where they have no ties is urging Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson to intervene.Tuan Thanh Phan, a Vietnamese national, was detained in March by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents immediately after he was released from a state prison, having finished serving a 25-year sentence for first-deg…

Hard-working, tax-paying third country national poised for deportation

“I need to be released from here,” was the last message received by the Cyprus Mail from Katina Baird, the Larnaca restaurateur (owner of Katina’s Tasty Food Caribbean restaurant) who finds herself in Menoyia migrant detention centre, awaiting deportation. Her detention is completely illegal, according to Baird’s lawyer Elias Christou…