🧵 THREAD: The Northwest Immigration Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, WA, is built on polluted land that the private GEO Group acquired. Read the story: themargin.us/features/lic...

🧵 THREAD: The Northwest Immigration Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, WA, is built on polluted land that the private GEO Group acquired. Read the story: themargin.us/features/lic...

🧵 THREAD: When Alfonso Figueroa returns home to Winchester Heights, AZ, and looks around, he sees his community in disrepair: “My place back in Oaxaca seemed better than here. I thought this was an abandoned town.” themargin.us/features/deserted-at-the-border

When a tip comes in about poisoned air or another environmental disaster threatening a community, we can't wait. We start reporting immediately—getting journalists on the ground, fact-checkers verifying, data teams analyzing. the-margin.fundjournalism.org/donate

🧵 THREAD: We’re halfway through our Fall Issue 🍂 So far, our stories have revealed three major risks facing frontline communities in Arizona, Washington, and Alaska that the federal government has largely let slide. Keep scrolling for each one 👇

In two previous investigations by The Margin, we’ve documented how a detention center in Tacoma, Washington was built in a heavily industrialized area, allegedly exposing immigrants to numerous sources of pollution.

The Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda has targeted immigrant communities across the United States. Masked ICE agents raid neighborhoods and workplaces daily. Now, ICE is exploring the use of warehouses near airports to “increase efficiency” in deportations, NBC News reports.

🧵 After Hurricane Helene made landfall in Georgia in 2024, a BioLab chemical warehouse in Conyers caught on fire, sending toxic smoke through neighboring towns. Teresa Ervin-Springs was living nine miles away at the time of the explosion. themargin.us/features/bre...

Our latest by @ricomoore.bsky.social Licensed to Contaminate: from city permits to state acquiescence and federal contracts, how every level of government enabled toxic detention at the Northwest Immigration Processing Center in Tacoma, WA themargin.us/features/lic...