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From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now. I'm Paige Browning with our roundup of today's top stories. It's Tuesday, March 11th.

Late off employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs say the cuts to the agency are already impacting veterans care.

The department's planning to let go of more than 80,000 workers nationwide,

according to an internal memo leaked last week. Christian Helfrick says he was fired from his

Seattle VA job on February 12th after about 20 years managing research there. He says the cuts are

causing damage that cannot be easily undone.

What's going on right now? Isn't a two-way door where you can tear down the VA and then see what

happens. And if you don't like it, go back to the way it was. This is a one-way door. If we

tear it down now, it is going to take years or decades to build back. Hellfrick spoke during a press event organized by U.S. Senator Patty Murray.

The Washington Democrat accused President Trump and his ally Elon Musk of putting veterans'

health care in, quote, grave danger.

In immigration news, a 28-year-old British tourist is in custody at the ICE Detention Center in Tacoma

after officers arrested her at the U.S.-Canada border. Her alleged offense, chores in exchange for a

place to stay. Dyer Oxley reports. Rebecca Burke's family in the UK is now pleading for government officials to step in. In January,

Burke took a break from her life as a London-based comic strip artist to go backpacking through

North America. She likely used an online platform that connects travelers with host families,

with the arrangement that they pitch in with chores.

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