Saturday Special: Graduation season for mixed immigration status families, a lack of state funding closes a day center for disabled adults, and how improv helps with early-stage memory loss

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🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Today, we’re bringing you the best from the KUOW newsroom… KUOW Immigration Reporter Gustavo Sagrero re-visits a high school senior near Bellingham, whose dad came to the U.S. without authorization about 20 years ago and was deported earlier this year. A day health center for disabled adults in Snohomish County is closing this summer – it’s the last facility of its kind in the entire county. And a theater program in Washington state is helping people with early-stage memory loss let loose with improv.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Monica Nicholsberg, co-host of KUOW's economy podcast, Booming.
0:06.0	Microsoft President Brad Smith's favorite catchphrase of the moment is,
0:09.6	AI is the electricity of our age.
0:12.1	The next great general purpose technology.
0:15.0	So what does that mean for all of us?
0:16.9	On the latest episode, I spoke with a tech historian to find out what lessons we can learn from the last time a truly revolutionary technology took over the world.
0:25.5	Listen to booming on the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today we're bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom.
0:40.4	It's graduation time for students across the state. Some are from families with mixed immigration
0:46.2	status whose lives recently changed as a result of ramped up immigration enforcement.
0:52.4	Gustavo Segreiro revisits a high school senior near Bellingham, whose dad came to the U.S.
0:58.1	without authorization about 20 years ago and was deported soon after President Donald Trump
1:03.8	returned to the White House.
1:06.2	Here's Gustavo.
1:23.5	The band of Mount Baker High School warms up a crowd here to watch around 40 students graduate,
1:25.1	the class of 2025.
1:29.3	The celebration is held on the football field in Deming with a clear mountain view. A banner shows off students' portraits, and right near the center is one for Alex Guerrero Villarro.
1:35.3	He's got dark curly hair and a close smile.
1:38.3	I didn't think it'd be like this, but it feels amazing.
1:41.3	It genuinely feels amazing.
1:43.3	That's him, thinking about this big milestone.
1:46.0	The crowd cheers as the students parade to their seats.
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