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Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Monday, July 7th. We'll start today with an update about immigrant detentions. Last month,

dozens of people held at an ice facility in Tacoma were sent to a jail in Alaska, where they

were held for about three weeks. The move drew criticism and questions from

immigrant advocates and congressional lawmakers. Now, the remaining immigrants that were being

kept in Alaska have been moved again. KNKX's Mitch Borden reports. Most of the 35 immigrants

that were still being held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex are believed to have been sent back to the Tacoma facility, according to the ACLU of Alaska.

Cindy Woods is with the Civil Rights Organization. She says the immigrants faced a lot of challenges while being detained at the Alaska jail, including being pepper sprayed at one point.

She says this has been difficult for everyone involved.

The amount of frustration that it has caused to state officials, to ICE officials,

to the families and loved ones of those detained,

and to the detainees themselves who have been subjected to, you know, cruel treatment.

The ACLU of Alaska is demanding the state no longer take custody of ICE detainees

longer than 72 hours unless it improves the conditions they are held in.

I'm Mitch Borden reporting.

In Education News, the state superintendent of public instruction says the Trump administration is still withholding $137 million in federal education funding from Washington state.

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