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Maru Mora Villalpando, an organizer with the group La Resistencia, which opposes detention of undocumented immigrants, said the 911 records released to the UW center “shows the level of desperation is way higher than we can ever imagine, or that we were aware of.”

“They all played dumb,” said Maru Mora Villalpando of the immigrant rights group La Resistencia.

La Resistencia, the local immigrant rights group, responded by pressuring King County officials to set up a viewing area.

Coordinating their efforts along with La Resistencia’s Maru Mora Villalpando is Stan Shikuma, a 70-year-old retired nurse and the co-president of the civil liberties group Tsuru for Solidarity.

The activist group La Resistencia, which opposes immigrant detention and deportation and has scathingly criticized conditions at the Tacoma facility, raised questions about a possible suicide.