Tell Governor Ferguson: Stop Sharing WA DOL Data with ICE

A few weeks ago, a report from the UW Center for Human Rights confirmed what immigrant communities already knew: across our state, federal immigration agents are using drivers’ private data – checking their license plate numbers in the Washington Department of Licensing (DOL) database – to carry out immigration arrests on our streets and highways.

Many of these arrests are warrantless; many are violent; and many bear the classic hallmarks of racial profiling. State law prohibits these practices, and specifically bars the DOL from sharing drivers’ data with federal agents for purposes of civil immigration enforcement. Yet this is exactly what the agency is doing, once again.