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Chicago Police May Not Facilitate ICE Raids, Mayor Lightfoot Says

5:07am July 02, 2019

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Chicago's new mayor Lori Lightfoot, who says the city has taken steps to support immigrant communities, including terminating ICE's access to Chicago Police databases.

Genero, a migrant from Guatemala, walks through the pedestrian entrance at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on his way to immigration court in El Paso, Texas.

Fear, Confusion And Separation As Trump Administration Sends Migrants Back To Mexico

9:03pm July 01, 2019

The "Remain in Mexico" program is a key part of the Trump administration's plan to turn back a crush of migrants at the southern border, and it's a historic shift in how the asylum system works.

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Oregon's Legislature passed a bill that would allow duplexes, like this one in Portland, in areas zoned for single-family housing in cities with more than 10,000 people.

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Oregon Legislature Votes To Essentially Ban Single-Family Zoning

8:18pm July 01, 2019

by Laurel Wamsley

The bill makes duplexes allowable in cities over 10,000 people, and quadplexes legal in the Portland metro area. It's part of a growing change to zoning policy amid a national housing crisis.

The campaign for restoring voting rights to felons was resoundingly approved by Florida voters last November.

ACLU Sues Over Florida Law That Requires Felons To Pay Fees, Fines Before Voting

6:46pm July 01, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

The ACLU says the new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis creates "two classes of returning citizens: those who are wealthy enough to vote and those who cannot afford to."

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Final Arguments Heard In Trial Of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher

5:57pm July 01, 2019

by Steve Walsh

Attorneys made final arguments in Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher's war crimes trial. The case is now before a military jury.

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Yellow Jackets Have Built Massive Nests In Alabama This Year

5:39pm July 01, 2019

Alabama residents are reporting sights of massive yellow jacket nests that can house thousands of wasps and can be several feet long.

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NIH Director On Why He Is Declining To Speak On Panels That Exclude Women

4:45pm July 01, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, about his decision to decline speaking on what he calls "manels" — panels that exclude women.

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Trump Administration To Put $3 Billion Into Network Of Shelters For Migrant Children

4:45pm July 01, 2019

by John Burnett

The Trump administration is pumping $3 billion into shelter network for migrant children after reports of kids held in squalid Border Patrol cells. But critics don't want these kids confined at all.

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Advocates Worry About A Growing Alternative To Pre-Trial Jailing

3:13pm July 01, 2019

by Carolina Hidalgo

In St. Louis, people ordered into pretrial monitoring programs must pay $30 to $450 a month — if they can't make the payments, they can be sent back to jail.

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A youth stands Sunday by the border fence that separates Mexico from the U.S., where candles and crosses stand in memory of the father and daughter who died during their journey toward the U.S.

Border Community Remembers A Father And Daughter Who Drowned Crossing The Rio Grande

12:15pm July 01, 2019

by Reynaldo Leaños Jr.

On Sunday evening, vigils took place in border towns to remember a father and daughter who died last week attempting to cross over to the United States rather than waiting in migrant camps in Mexico.

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