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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Thursday, August 21st. The University of Washington's Center for Human Rights is warning that federal immigration action has crossed a new boundary, breaking international humanitarian law.

Gustavo Segreiro has more. The report zeroes in on 16 cases where

people have been arrested by federal agents and held for extended periods of time without access to a

lawyer. There's a legal term for it called an enforced disappearance. What I'm talking about is cases

where days, even weeks go by that families still don't know where their loved one is.

That's researcher Angelina Godoy. She says all of these cases have connections to Washington

State. Some were residents here. Others were deported from Tacoma's ICE detention center.

Most are cases of people deported to third countries, some to a prison in En Salvador in violation

of a federal court order.

The level of secrecy is what's different in these cases.

While the federal government manages immigration enforcement,

Gaudoi adds local governments managing public airports and prisons also play a role in alleged

enforced disappearances.

Gustavo Sagero, K-U-O-W news.

Hot and dry conditions are coming to the Puget Sound region.

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