80 and 8081 new which is 89 point one w d w f m Stamford at 88.5 w. Our ally Southampton at 91.3 that easy s. Will minutes ago 90 point one w 25880 stores at 99.5 m. W. Npr dot org It's 6 o'clock. Good morning Hong Kong's chief executive took another step back in the face of protests after millions of people marched in the streets she now says an extradition bill is dead It's Morning Edition from n.p.r. News. I'm Rachel Martin I'm Steve Inskeep and I'm Noel King in El Paso Texas as the United Nations blasts a humanitarian crisis for migrants we look at the lives of asylum seekers who are being told to wait in Mexico. Also how long have immigration authorities been running driver's license photos through facial recognition software it is Tuesday July 9th 5 years ago today in 2014 President Obama began a visit to Texas he conferred with state officials over unaccompanied minors were crossing the border back out of. The news is next. Line from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm core of a Coleman Attorney General William bar says the Trump administration has found a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census the Supreme Court has currently blocked that question from appearing on the form Barr did not give details Meanwhile the Justice Department is asking federal judges to approve a full turnover in the legal team defending the tribe administration's efforts to include the citizenship question N.P.R.'s Hansi Lo Wang reports the move would switch out every single career Justice Department attorney who had been defending efforts to add the question is this person a citizen of the United States former d.o.j. Attorney Sam I'll go Friedland says changing the legal team at this point is highly unusual I suspect that it is a move of a Department of Justice that is serving our client it is asking them to do something that they are finding very difficult to do within the bounds of sex and within the bounds of law attorney general William bar says administration has found a quote pathway to adding to citizenship question after the Supreme Court ruled last month that keep it off for now any new census changes could derail preparations for the constitutionally mandated headcount and the long n.p.r. News New York Democratic presidential candidate tells me Gabbert says President Trump was right to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong un although she remains critical of many of Trump's foreign policy moves as N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports Gabbert is the most isolationist of the Democrats seeking the presidency the whole white congresswoman defended her controversial 2017 meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad in an interview with the n.p.r. Politics podcast and New Hampshire Public Radio she said this when asked whether she thought President Trump should do the same I think that the leader of this country should meet with whomever is necessary in the pursuit of peace and the safety of the American people this is why I think it's important that President Trump took that step to meet with Kim Jong un Gabbert argued though that trumps ability to negotiate with. Cam has been undermined by his more antagonistic approach to the leadership in Venezuela and Iran Tamara Keith n.p.r. 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News Good Morning I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin Hong Kong's chief executive says she is giving up an extradition Kerry Lamb had previously suspended the measure protesters though who had taken to the streets weren't satisfied with us so now Lamb says the bill is dead so is it a win for protesters N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy has been covering the story and joins us now Julie what do you make of it how significant a shift is this well I think taken as a whole Rachel it's it's really sounds like a kinder gentler way of saying no to the protesters and their demands and this in the face of the biggest challenge to the Beijing controlled Hong Kong government in decades lamb sounds as if she's trying to heal the rift she wants to stop the turmoil she's under a lot of pressure to do that which she admits her government started when it pushed this extradition measure here's what she said today about the fate of that bill acknowledging there's a trust problem there are still lingering doubts about the government's sincerity always whether the government will we stop the process in the Legislative Council. So I reiterate here there is no such plan the bill is stacked Now it sounds unambiguous but not to the ears of protesters know what why I mean why why doesn't that feel like a victory to them Well it's a matter of semantics the demonstrators said today the word dead or suspended in other words lamb uses has no legal meaning in the Legislative Council which is Hong Kong's parliament withdrawal does have meaning so use it and when lamb spoke in Cantonese she used the idiom meaning to die in one's bed at a ripe old age referring to what's going to happen to this bill and the implication is that it will not be revived in this year's session and therefore will simply die by the start of next years now a prominent protester Joshua Wong said stop the word. Play if you're sincere you'll withdraw it completely now beyond the extradition Bill Lann rejected all of their other demands today all of the other demands like what. Well the demonstrators want amnesty for the protesters who've been arrested Alam says no the Department of Justice has to take its own course and they'll be no interference the demonstrators want authorities to retract the word riot to describe the protests Lam says she didn't refer to the protesters that way and the demonstrators demand an independent inquiry into allegations of the police used excessive force Lam says a fact finding by the Police Complaints Commission is good enough and the demonstrators say that body has no power to call witnesses so it's not adequate but it sounds like this entire episode has as lamb even admits just created this massive trust gap between the government and and the residents who took to the streets there in Hong Kong I mean where what happens now and she's not answering these grievances right and she's under which she's also under a great deal of pressure from Beijing to rein in the social upheaval it looks bad and is bad for business in Hong Kong which means it's bad for China and it looks like it's headed back to the streets the protesters have a determination and a unity that won't be easily turned back it's in some ways a perilous moment for Hong Kong one legislator told me the world needs to be watching because if it is looking at Hong Kong it has a better chance to be safe. Is China is the is main land China the government there saying anything about this. The the government is denouncing these demonstrations they are calling they are they're calling them out last Monday when the Legislative Council here the parliament was stormed you heard fury coming out of Beijing and there is a sense that order is order is being disrupted and that's the last thing the cheeping wants to have happen in Hong Kong N.P.R.'s Julie McCarthy thanks Julie We appreciate it thank you. The Affordable Care Act is back in court today Texas vs the United States is hardly the 1st lawsuit against President Obama's signature law the Supreme Court has upheld Obamacare in the past but the plaintiffs in this case have an advantage that others did not they are basing their case on a way that Obamacare recently changed Here's N.P.R.'s Selena Simmons stuff and think back to 2017 President Trump had just come into office Republicans had their chance to kill the Affordable Care Act They tried for months and months and by September it looked like repeal and replace efforts had finally really failed we are disappointed so both Republicans then just before Christmas congressional Republicans passed their tax overhaul announced in the Senate by Vice President Mike Pence the tax cuts and Jobs Act is passed that law made the penalty for not having health insurance part of the individual mandate 0 dollars a few months later Texas lead a coalition of 20 states in suing the federal government their argument in 2012 the Supreme Court found the a c. a Was constitutional because Congress has the power to make a new tax the penalty for not having insurance Chief Justice John Roberts wrote is essentially a new tax so it is constitutional now Texas argued if the penalty is 0 dollars that is not a constitutional tax so the whole law should get tossed then this past December unexpected news the law that brought health care of the millions of Americans has been struck down by a u.s. Judge u.s. District Judge Reed O'Connor agreed with Texas and the other plaintiffs that is 0 dollar penalty is not a constitutional tax then he wrote this unconstitutional part can't just be broken off or severed from the rest the whole law has to go the next day in the reign of President Trump called it a great ruling that was a big big big. A highly respected judge states led by Democrats appealed that decision that's the hearing happening today here are the stakes the a c. a Has been law for 9 years now nearly everything in our health system has been changed by it who can buy insurance how you buy insurance who is covered by Medicaid whether your employer has to offer insurance and much more if the law went away some 20000000 people could lose their health coverage one weird thing about the case Texas 1st is United States United States is no longer on the defending team a few months ago the Federal Department of Justice joined with the plaintiffs in arguing the whole is unconstitutional that leaves on the defending side California 20 other states and the Democratic led House of Representatives regardless of the decision that comes out of the hearing today the losing side will almost certainly appeal to the Supreme Court so in essence deafen n.p.r. News navigating the last few days of life for a loved one is impossibly difficult we all need help in those moments and we often turn to hospice care hospices are supposed to help in relieving pain and providing emotional and spiritual support but 2 new government studies released just this morning find that the vast majority of Hospices have sometimes failed to do that and there's no easy way for consumers to distinguish the good hospices from the bad ones Here's N.P.R.'s Ina Jaffe these studies are the government's 1st look at hospice deficiencies nationwide they found that from 2012 to 2016 health inspectors cited 87 percent of hospices for deficiencies and 20 percent had lapses serious enough to endanger patients Katherine Harris deputy regional inspector general in the Department of Health and Human Services recalls the patient who had untreated bed sores or pressure all servers on both heels and these all sorts rapidly worsened and the patient developed gang grew. Gain and needed a leg amputation in the drawing terminology of government reports this is called poor care planning and having plans of care developed in conjunction with the patient in his or her family is a fundamental requirement of hospice says Harris So when we discover that hospices are not doing them there is reason for concern for example there's the case of Karen Bishop Collings and her 85 year old dad Dean bishop last winter he was hospitalized for pneumonia when he was transferred to a residential care facility to recuperate he began receiving hospice services which was a surprise to his daughter we only agreed to previous assessment of his condition to even see if he qualified for Hostis or palate of care she's shared some of her father's medical records with n.p.r. They verify her account the hospice never held a meeting with Dean bishop or the family to establish a care plan so Karen Bishop Collins was shocked when hospice workers gave her father 2 new medications morphine and the anti-anxiety drug at a fan we knew something distressing had happened his whole physicality and mental capacity was completely altered Dane bishop died a couple of days later it was hospice had previously been cited for deficiencies Karen Bishop Collings would have had a hard time finding out the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or c.m.s. Doesn't make that information available on its website for consumers call the hospice compare even though they have the power to post at least some of it says Harris we don't even think about booking a hotel without checking it 3 things and reviews so why do we demand less of hospices the reports also highlight the few options that c.m.s. Has for disciplining hospices they can drop them from the Medicare program altogether but they lack the legal authority to assess finds it would take an act of Congress to give. In that power and response to the reports c.m.s. Issued a statement saying that the agency has 0 tolerance for abuse and mistreatment of any patient and that it has added consumer feedback to the hospice compare website Katherine Harris thinks that's not enough there are a lot of great hospices out there there are a lot of highly skilled committed professionals who are dedicated to helping others leave this life and comfort and with dignity and the public should know about that the amount of money that Medicare spends on Hospice services has roughly doubled since 2006 but Harris says this isn't just a matter of taxpayer dollars you're all going going to die once she says it's important that things go right I know Jaffe n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. 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Without legal status to obtain a driver's license now researchers have found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with the f.b.i. Have been running databases filled with driver's license photos through facial recognition software looking for immigrants of interest Jake La Perouse is here to talk about this he is senior counsel at the Project on Government Oversight an independent group that focuses on corruption and abuse of power Welcome to the program Hi Thanks much for having me how did these things come to light while this most recent revelation came from fire requests through the church on center on