Know Your Rights

I am absolutely outraged by reports of ICE indiscriminately apprehending people in Issaquah and Sammamish today. If you encounter ICE, please report it to the WAISN deportation defense hotline at 1-844-724-3737 and to the Issaquah PD by calling 911.

Additionally, for everyone in our community, it’s important to know your rights if you encounter ICE. You have a right under the First Amendment of the Constitution to record or take photos in public view of law enforcement and ICE so long as you don’t interfere with an arrest. You should try your best to obtain important information about what you witnessed (names, phone numbers of any witnesses, badge numbers, etc.).

I’ve included a few images below from the ACLU explaining our constitutuonally protected rights in English, Spanish, and Chinese.

I will continue to share additional resources as they become available. In moments like these, our duty as elected officials is not only to follow the law, but, more importantly, to preserve our humanity. We must show up with moral clarity and do everything in our power to ensure the safety and well-being of every single one of our community members.