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Good afternoon. From the KOWW Newsroom, this is Seattle now I'm Paige Browning coming up as

immigration enforcement ramps up under President Trump we'll find out how some people in

the Seattle area are taking extra precautions we'll go in depth in a few minutes right

after our roundup of today's top stories it It's Thursday, January 30th. Before we get started

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Our top story today, a legal challenge is expected any day to oppose President Donald Trump's move to suspend legal help for immigrants in deportation proceedings.

Elish O'Neill explains.

Local organizations hold workshops for groups of people facing deportation.

It's a program that Congress has been funding for more than 20 years.

Matt Adams is the legal director for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project,

which ran these workshops at Tacoma's Detention Center.

These are programs that target people who don't have an attorney

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