Pentagon's Office of Public Affairs said in a statement that quote there was insufficient evidence to support any fighting of misconduct on the part of Gen Hayden She added that heightened has quote proven himself to be a principled and dedicated patriot who cooperated with the investigation the Pentagon did not disclose what the specific charges were against him David Wolman n.p.r. News Washington the mother of a toddler who died after being detained by immigration and customs enforcement last year he's speaking out about conditions inside migrant detention centers N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports on her testimony Wednesday on Capitol Hill Yasmin Juarez told a House committee that she and her daughter Mari a fled Guatemala last year seeking a better life in the u.s. Instead she watched Mari a die of a respiratory infection a few months short of her 2nd birthday obviously a come. I'm here to put an end to this if she said so that we don't allow any more children to suffer and die why as says her daughter got sick at an ice family detention center in Texas but the medical staff there didn't take her concerns seriously after they were released warez rushed to an emergency room she spent the last 6 weeks of her life in hospitals Juarez is now suing the federal government for wrongful death and she told the committee that migrant detention centers are treating children like quote animals Joel Rose n.p.r. News Washington you're listening to n.p.r. News from Washington it's 504 this is News I'm Suzanne Watley 6 members of the l.a.p.d. As internal affairs group have settled a lawsuit with the city of Los Angeles they allege they were wrongfully reprimanded because a deputy chief was worried they would support a colleague who complained about alleged unlawful activities of nepotism by the command staff according to the lawsuit a sergeant at internal affairs made a series of complaints about misconduct in the department including criticism of former Chief Charlie back the terms of the settlement were not made public Trona is one of the small Mojave Desert. Towns near the epicenter of last week's 2 powerful earthquakes so how's the recovery going k.p.c. Was at a town hall meeting for the community yesterday hundreds packed trone as high school gym to get enough data on the recovery effort from county and state agencies most have gone days without running water now water is flowing to most homes in the San Bernardino County town but the area is still under a boil notice you guys have water today under very high. Water that wasn't the only thing to check there were no deaths or serious injuries no fires damage assessments are almost done and so far just 5 commercial buildings and 8 homes are damaged beyond repair San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon thanked trying a residence for their resilience he also set the record straight on earlier reports of looting there were no injuries there's no sign that we're aware of. Everybody. Resident daycares soon showed up to thank responders more than a day they've had our roads open within days the waters interest or unimpressed one ongoing concern the closure of the local chemical plant which is the economic lifeblood of the area no word yet on when it will reopen intro to a marriage track a prolonged heat wave begins to date and in the Coachella and Antelope Valley as that means triple digit heat a high pressure system is weakening the ocean's onshore flow spiking temperatures for at least 6 days in the high desert communities of l.a. County Alexandria Arnel is with the National Weather Service Lancaster and Palmdale are forecasted to be the hottest and so on Saturdays actually forecast to be the hottest with Lancaster reaching $107.00 and then Palmdale reaching $106.00 even hotter in the cook chela Valley where highs are predicted to be around $114.00 the valleys of sand Gabriel San Fernando and Santa Clarita should prepare for weekend temperatures in the mid ninety's today coastal valleys will range from the mid eighty's to mid ninety's and in Riverside after new temperatures are forecast to range from 96 to 0. A $102.00 the heat is expected to ease up after Tuesday this is news 507 support for n.p.r. Comes from Dr maker of remote p.c. Providing real time access to P.C.'s Macs and servers from anywhere for use when telecommuting or for remote management learn more at remote p.c. Dot com slash n.p.r. And the ne e. Casey Foundation reports of immigrant children being held in squalid conditions at a border patrol station and Clint Texas has provoked public outrage and condemnation from federal judges on the next fresh air we talk with Caitlin Dickerson national immigration reporter for The New York Times about the impact of the trumpet ministrations immigration policies join us. Weekdays at noon on $89.00. This is Morning Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Rachel Martin in Washington d.c. And I'm Noel King in El Paso Texas all this week I've been reporting from the Us Mexico border I'm looking into a trump administration policy called migrant protection protocols or remain in Mexico what the policy means is that people who cross into the u.s. Seeking asylum are sent to Mexico to wait for their day in u.s. Immigration court now there are thousands of people anxiously waiting on their dates some of them told us that date is the only thing keeping them from giving up and just going home but then this week we went to the immigration court in El Paso and it made us wonder if their hope is misplaced because what we saw looked a lot like a legal crisis I'm standing outside of the El Paso immigration court so this is a building that we've been hearing about all week because so many of the people that we've been talking to you are looking to have their asylum cases heard in this forum one of them is a family from Honduras Tania her husband Joseph and their 3 little kids Tawny is one of those people who smiles all of the time even when she's stressed out and right now she is very stressed out I met her and her family in a shelter in Ciudad Juarez that's the city just across the border from El Paso they were sent there after they crossed into the u.s. They're among the thousands of people who are waiting in Mexico until their court date the only time that Tonya's smile fades is when she talks about what brought her family to the border this is the story she told us earlier this week when we 1st met her she says that back in Honduras her mom like a lot of people was targeted by the m.s. 13 gang Tanya's lawyer asked us not to say exactly why because it could affect on us court case but eventually m.s. 13 got to Tanya's mother I mean I mean if I don't remember it they don't know my mom was shot you know I'm tired and even after the murder they weren't satisfied with having killed her. Her body was dumped on the ground and they ran over her with a motorcycle in the. Time you watched all of this completely helpless I said a little bit in my thoughts it's very hard to watch a mother get killed right before your eyes and not do anything about it so she decided to do something about it she went to court she testified against the gang members she says she tried to hide her identity but the gang found out who she was Tom his sister in law was a witness in that same case the gang kidnapped tortured and killed her and then left her infant daughter in a dumpster after that they came for Tonya to Ca You know they had a law that I'm quoting to single maneuver they told her basically you're next she says they left a note on her front door it said you have 45 minutes to leave sincerely m. S. 13. That family has an awful story but they also have something that a lot of people don't they have a lawyer who heard that story and said I'm going to take your case so on the day of the court hearing the lawyer Linda Rivas leads Tanya and her family into the courtroom I'm not allowed to record while I'm in there but Linda walks in looking like she knows what's up the judge jokes with her he says hey it's been a while and the other migrants look at them and to me it looks like they're thinking oh that family gets to go 1st because they have a lawyer they get to sit in chairs in front of the judge he's going to talk directly to them Linda the lawyer tries to get Tanya's family out of Mexico she tells the judge this is a true story time he's 3 year old daughter has a heart condition she's had a heart attack the judges eyebrows shoot way up he says the child yes this is what having a lawyer gets you a chance to tell your story but then after the hearing outside of the courtroom Linda Rivas this confident lawyer lets her guard down and she tells us that she has been wondering how much longer can we have to think as and. Are we really making a difference the problem in El Paso is this there are too few immigration lawyers too few Linda Rivas says for 9000 migrants who are stuck in Ciudad Juarez alone she is so overwhelmed right now this is what makes it so bizarre to then run into another lawyer who's buzzing around the courthouse openly saying hey I'm here to help for free it's a woman named Taylor Levy she knows this courthouse really well Taylor used to be part of something called the Know Your Rights Program she would walk in here and talk to migrants before their court hearings and make sure that at the very least they knew their basic rights but she says recently she was told to stop doing this the Justice Department ended this court's know your rights program it's ridiculous I'm here to help people for free they're going to be here all day there's a free attorney willing to talk to one in to help people and we're being told that we are not allowed to speak to them so instead of legal advice she's now bringing crayons and coloring books in fact I watched as a security guard told her she couldn't come into the courtroom we asked the Justice Department why they ended know your rights in that opacity courtroom and they told us in a statement that they want to make sure migrants aren't being misled or confused about their proceedings or otherwise taken advantage of but it is not just that program that's ending Linda Tanya's lawyer said for some reason she is also being given less access in this court even to her own clients today didn't even let me in to the waiting room there were guards that were visibly standing at the waiting room is and I was not even allowed into the waiting room of a court an immigration car that I've been practicing before for 5 years the people without lawyers which is mostly everyone look confused or bored or anxious or all 3 they're given forms in English even though everyone has said Espanol when asked what language they speak. One man raises his hand and says to the judge I can't find a lawyer and the judge seems sympathetic his advice appears to be you should keep trying at the end of the hearing every migrant in that room is in the same boat including tiny and her family they will likely be held by immigration authorities for a few days and then they'll be sent back to Mexico to wait some more the judge tells them I will see all of you again on August 15th for a 2nd hearing by that date Linda Rivas the lawyer says she will have an asylum application prepared for Tonya and her family but everyone else in this room who hasn't found a lawyer and most of them probably won't they will sit in that courtroom on that day with no one at their side making a case for them until they show we also talk to an immigration judge about what this legal crisis is like for her and her colleagues on the bench. President Trump will make an announcement later today about a controversial citizenship question that his administration wants to add to the 2020 census last month the Supreme Court blocked that question from the census for now but President Trump said he's considering taking executive action to get the question back on N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang covers all things census related and joins us now hi Hanzi Good morning Rachel are we expecting the president to say I'm doing this by executive action it's possible he's been saying that in recent days that he is considering taking executive action in the form of executive order or memorandum some directive that's among the routes that he was considering was considering is considering we will see exactly what this pathway is that he may announce today and we have to remember this is again the question is is this person a citizen of United States this Supreme Court has blocked this from being added So I mean how can an executive order get around the Supreme Court's decision. The Supreme Court did leave open a window for the ministration to make a new argument for this question because if found the ministry Asians original stated reason for the question to better in force part of the Voting Rights Act specifically the part that would better protect the voting rights of racial and language minorities majority the court found that reasoning to appear to be contrived but it did open this up possibility for another case to be made in court and the troubling astray should they be trying to do that we'll see what reasoning they can come up with at this point a big question is whether or not that reasoning will be held up in court because there is a very extensive record of internal e-mails memos and public comments by President Trump as well as other officials that do not match up with wanting to add it for Voting Rights Act reason right we should just remind people that the administration's justification for this is that they believe that the question is actually going to expand voting rights and what are the what's the problem with that. This the Voting Rights Act Section 2 of it has been enforced with existing government data on citizenship there are 80 is citizenship data from the American Community Survey the troubling situation tried to make the argument that that data is not sufficient but Voting Rights Act experts in lower courts have agreed that there's no issue here Voting Rights Act can still be enforced with this data but another issue here is that the Census Bureau has concluded that if indeed this trumpet integration wants more detailed citizenship data from a census question about citizenship that any and citizenship question is not the best way to get that information if you want to know exactly who in the country is an is not a u.s. Citizen and asking people to self report that information on the census form will not produce accurate information will be an expensive way to do that they're already on our existing government records that the Census Bureau has actually already been compiling at the direction of the conversation Terry who oversees the Census Bureau these are records from the Social Security Administration These are records from Department Homeland Security as well the State Department those records are ready to go since your officials say they can release that anonymized without identifying individuals and be more accurate and actually tell the president who actually is and who isn't a citizen in the country meanwhile as we keep saying at the end of these conversations with you the thing has already gone to press has it not the census is being printed. That's what the Justice Department Commerce Department officials have said printed with out this question and any changes at this point to the census forms could really d. Rail this constitutionally mandated headcount there are very strict deadlines the Census Bureau has to deliver population counts for every state by the end of 2020 that may seem very far off away for most people but this is a very very elaborate process it's the largest peacetime operation in the country and any changes at this point could derail the whole census All right N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang thanks Ozzie You're welcome. And coming up later today on All Things Considered on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission more countries than ever are racing to the moon their lunar ambitions are driven by advances in technology and a desire to prove themselves in that space so to speak listen to that story by asking your smart speaker to play n.p.r. Or your member station by name. This is n.p.r. News on 89.3 k.p.c. See it's 519 California is not on track to reach its goal of 5000000 cereal emission vehicles by the year 2030 so lawmakers are considering a financial incentive to motivate you to go green on the road Capital Public Radio's Randall White explains San Francisco Assemblyman Phil ting wants to use a tax credit model that worked for rooftop solar but shift it to the auto industry to sell more clean cars he says 80 percent of California's transportation emissions come from passenger vehicles so it's time to jump start the transition he asked very aggressive greenhouse cash. And we're doing great and restructure the transportation to says the rebate would ramp down annually nudging consumers at 7500 today to 6000 well that may make me. A little bit weak Stanford professor Sally Benson has mental. Lot of time studying California's climate goals she says at the current rate we won't see 5000000 emission vehicles on the road by 2030 big increase you know we haven't seen a lot of increases in recent years actually we've been pretty flat bill just passed the Transportation Committee and next heads to appropriations all bills must get to the governor by mid September in Sacramento I'm Randall White there is a single hurt on the 91 freeway eastbound passed Kramer the carpool and 3 left lanes are closed due to a cement truck on its side the backup is to the $57.00. Mantle next time on air talk one of the American conservatism small prominent voices George Will his new book The conservative sensibility but I assure you to talk about his 1st love baseball talk. Here on 80 9 43 pm see some. Support for n.p.r. 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And I'm Rachel Martin Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is defending his role in the plea deal that protected financier Jeffrey Epstein from sex trafficking charges more than a decade ago in a press conference yesterday Acosta declined to apologize to victims for crafting that deal that gave Epstein just 13 months of confinement and kept victims in the dark we now have 12 years of knowledge and hindsight and we live in a very different world today's world treats victims very very different now some of those alleged Florida victims and their representatives are speaking out Spencer Craven is litigation director at the Law Offices of crag golden farm in West Palm Beach Florida and he represented 3 victims in the original case against Epstein He joins us now thanks so much for being with us My pleasure thank you for having me do the victims you represented back then feel vindicated now in light of the Epstein indictment and charges in New York. I can tell you that recently speaking with at least one of those victims she is very ecstatic that he's now behind bars but also very frustrated at how things played out those many years ago and she feels that Mr cost as office really did not care for the victims as much as he seems to be leading on to now what should we understand about the case against Epstein in 2008. Back in 2008 they had over 40 women that we kno