Feds say Wash. immigration guards weren’t checked (The Charlotte Observer)
Feds say Wash. immigration guards weren’t checked (The Charlotte Observer)
A privately run immigration lockup in Tacoma hired security guards without required preliminary background checks and then lied about it, according to authorities. Sylvia Wong, a human relations specialist with GEO Group Inc., the private contractor that runs the Northwest Detention Center, was charged in U.S. District Court on Tuesday with lying to federal investigators when she claimed in …