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Seattle Now

Monday Evening Headlines

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

News, Daily News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

UW lab tech detained by ICE in Tacoma, USPS workers protest job cuts, and we remember former Washington House Speaker Frank Chopp. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Tonvin, host of Seattle Eats, a food podcast from the Seattle Times in K-O-W.

0:07.8

Did you know Washington State grows 98% of the frozen raspberries, so to United States?

0:15.3

On the latest episode of Seattle Eats, we sample food made with these raspberries and learn how it all happens.

0:22.8

Listen to Seattle Eats on the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:32.6

Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom.

0:35.5

This is Seattle now.

0:36.9

I'm Patricia Murphy. Coming up, we'll remember

0:39.2

former state lawmaker Frank Chop. Washington's longest serving speaker of the House died Saturday

0:45.2

at the age of 71. That's in a few minutes, but first, here's a roundup of today's top news. It's Monday,

0:51.7

March 24th. A green card holder who's lived in the U.S. for more than 50

0:57.2

years was detained on her way back home to the Seattle area and sent to the immigration detention

1:02.7

facility in Tacoma. Ilish O'Neill has more. Louellin Dixon is a 64-year-old lab tech at UW Medicine.

1:10.7

On February 28th, she was coming home from visiting family in the Philippines when she was detained at CETAC Airport.

1:17.1

Benjamin Osorio is her lawyer.

1:19.3

She was probably operating under the understanding that because she traveled before, she didn't really have any issues.

1:24.6

But we're in sort of a maximum enforcement environment.

1:28.1

Dixon was detained because of a nonviolent conviction from 2001 for embezzlement.

1:33.3

Osorio says, green card holders with certain kinds of criminal histories are deportable,

1:37.9

but Dixon does not meet those criteria.

1:40.7

He says Dixon has been eligible for citizenship for decades, but had not yet applied because she wanted to keep some family property in the Philippines.

1:48.6

ICE declined to comment on her case.

1:51.1

Ilish O'Neill, KUOW News.

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