The Brief
- On Father’s Day, community members rallied outside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma to support detained fathers, marking the 11th annual event organized by La Resistencia.
- The demonstration highlighted the case of “Kuya Max,” a Filipino father and green card holder allegedly misprofiled as a gang member and placed in isolation.
- Speakers, some sharing their own experiences of family separation due to detention, called for the release of all migrants and condemned the injustice of their incarceration.
TACOMA, Wash. – On Father’s Day, community members rallied in front of ICE’s Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, to remember the fathers that are being detained there.
Supporters of immigrants and immigrant rights gathered Sunday outside the Northwest Detention Center to honor fathers detained there.
Maru Mora, a volunteer with La Resistencia. led the rally Sunday.
“This is the 11th annual Father’s Day that we do here at the Northwest Detention Center. We started back in 2014. La Resistencia has been there every day since,” said Mora. …