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From the K-U-O-W Newsroom, this is Seattle now.

I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Wednesday, February 18th.

Starting with immigration news, the Department of Homeland Security is looking to expand its presence in Washington State.

But as Gustavo Sugerro reports, some cities are hoping that won't happen.

Seattle and Spokane are two big cities that have just started thinking about bans on detention facilities in the jurisdiction,

but one of the first cities to actually do it is in the suburbs.

City of C-TAC's Joe Vincent was one of the council members that voted to pass its detention

facility moratorium last week. With what land the city has, he wanted to make sure building

homes is the focus instead of federal priorities over locking up immigrants.

The city of CETAC has historically always lobbied for local control and has done its best to

advocate for our community, for our residents.

Vincent says many of the residents of CETAC are right share and other gig workers.

Over half the population of CTAC are people

born in a different country who later became citizens of the U.S. The moratorium expires in early

August of this year. Gustavo Sagero, KUOWW News. Also at the city level, the Seattle City Council

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