Concerned citizens keep tabs on immigration court
"Tammy Fitting entered the courtroom promptly at 8:30 a.m. Before the immigration judge sat down, she looked around the windowless room inside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.
There wasn’t much to see. It was a standard Monday hearing. Eighteen detainees filled half the seats. Across the aisle, the pews were bare – except for Colleen Waterhouse.
Waterhouse, the chairwoman of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tacoma and Pierce County, has sat in the same spot in the back corner most Mondays over the past three years. She listens, takes notes and fills out stacks of surveys for the National Lawyers Guild’s court watch program."
SCOTT FONTAINE in the News Tribune.