TACOMA, Wash. — An Everett woman is fighting to get her husband released from ICE custody. Will Castillo Rivas, originally from Venezuela, has been at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for the past seven months.

Like many detainees' stories, Will's started similarly.

"We were going to go to Denver so he can meet my family," Will's wife Karri Castillo said. "He was going to provide [ICE] with our travel documents and that day he called me at noon and he was in a panic. I was at work, he said, 'I just got arrested I don't know what's going on.'"

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Her husband fled Venezuela facing extortion, assault, and death threats for protesting against the government. He had been told

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