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Weekend Listen: Inside Tacoma’s ICE Detention Center

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

Daily News, News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re bringing you a special documentary from the KUOW Newsroom… The public is rarely allowed entry into Tacoma’s immigration detention center. The prison-like facility has rapidly filled to capacity… A new era of ICE enforcement is gaining steam and reshaping the experience for those locked inside detention.  KUOW reporter Liz Jones' documentary "Inside ICE Detention" follows the story of one woman who’s trying to navigate her way out.

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0:32.3

Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today we're bringing you a special

0:38.8

documentary from the KUOW Newsroom. The public is rarely allowed entry into Tacoma's

0:44.9

immigration detention center. The prison-like facility has rapidly filled to capacity. A new

0:50.9

era of ice enforcement is gaining steam and reshaping the experience for those locked inside.

0:57.4

KUOW reporter Liz Jones' documentary Inside Ice Detention follows the story of one woman who's trying to navigate her way out.

1:06.5

Here's Liz.

1:09.1

Four days before her wedding, Espinoza started her morning shift, as usual.

1:14.7

She clocked in at the factory where she'd worked for 20 years.

1:18.4

Her job was to supervise a team that fixes the machinery.

1:21.8

She's good at fixing things.

1:24.0

A video captures how her last day there ended.

1:30.8

An immigration attorney stands in the parking lot, recording on his phone.

1:35.4

Wind whips against the microphone.

1:38.5

The image is fixed on a white bus next to a loading dock.

1:42.2

The door opens, and three agents and flack jackets and face masks

1:45.6

begin to walk people out. They start with the men, nine of them. The first two look young,

1:52.9

maybe 20. Their heads hang low, shoulders hunched forward. Their wrists and ankles chained in shackles.

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