How her 19monthold child died after being jailed in an Ice Detention Center in dilley, texas most of this comes as the Trump Administration is threatening to launch nationwide immigration raids on sunday. We will speak with california congressmember Nanette Barragan, who visited a migrant child jail in texas last week. Then to the u. S. Womens National Soccer team. R rights1 equal pay amy chance of equal pay during their victory celebration in new york. We will look at what the world cup win means for the equal pay movement and the future of title ix. Places dish a acosta faces calls to resign, he is also facing racism for cutting the budget to fight International Sex trafficking by 80 . We will get the latest. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Labor secretary Alexander Acosta defied calls by congressional wednesday leaders to resign over the lenient plea deal he gave to 2008 serial child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein when acosta was the u. S. Prosecutor in florida. The plea deal saw epstein serve a 13month prison term, though he was allowed to leave jail six days a week to work from his private office. He would be picked up by his private chauffeur in return in the evening. It has been described as one of the most lenient deals for a serial child sex offender in history. The case drew renewed attention this week when epstein was charged in a Manhattan Federal Court with sexually assaulting and trafficking dozens of underage girls between 2002 and 2005 at his homes in manhattan and palm beach, florida. Hes pleaded not guilty. Earlier this year, a federal court ruled secretary acostas team violated the crime victims right back by failing to inform epstein survivors about the nonprosecution deal of 2008. Speaking to reporters for nearly an hour wednesday, secretary acosta did not once apologize to epstns ctims andefended his handling of the case. We belilieve we proroceeded appropriately, that basesed on e evidence and not just my opinion but based on the evidence, there was value to getting a guilty plea and having them register. Lookok, no regretsts is a very d question. Amy this comes as another woman, Jennifer Araoz, told nbc she was recruited by epstein when she was just 14 years old and she said he raped her in his new york city townhouse when she was 15. She was interviewed by savannah guthrie. In your mind, did you use the word rape . Did you recogngnize it then . No, i dont the guy did. I just thought, like, it is my fault. Like thats obligated, is just what y youre supupposeo do. Amy on wednesday, Jennifer Araoz asked a new York City Court for help in identifying the woman who first recruited her to epsteins mansion. On capitol hill, house lawmakers heard heartwrenching testimony wednesday from the guatemalan mother of a toddler who died after she became sick in an ice jail near the u. S. Mexico border. Yasmin juarez says her 18monthold daughter mariee was healthy when she brought her to the u. S. In march seeking political asylum. But one week after the pair were jailed at the south Texas Family Residential Center in dilley, texas, the girl developed a cough, diarrhea, and vomiting, with a fever that spiked at 104 degrees. Juarez says her daughter received inadequate medical care in a clinic set up in the centers gymnasium. After their release, juarez rushed her daughter to the emergency room. She e spent sisix weeks in h hol before she died of complications from a deadly lung infection. All of the hard work of these dodoctors came too late. My mariee died on mothers day, that a day on my city in my country we celebrate mothers day. When i left the hospital that day, all i had with me was a piece of paper with her handprints in pink paint that the staff i created for me. It was the only thing that i had left. Just her handprints. It theses had made previous day as a mothers day gift. Amy juarez has filed a 60 million lawsuit against the United States for the wrongful death of her daughter mariee. She was one of seven children to die in u. S. Immigration custody, or shortly after a release from custody, over the past year. Before last year, no child died in u. S. Immigration custody in over a decade. Wednesdays house hearing on immigration jails came as one of the House Oversight committees most prominent members, new yorks alexandrdria ocasiocort, called for the department of Homeland Security y to be dismantled. Speaking with the new yorker radio hour, ococasiocortetez repeated h her call for thee ababolition of ice, immigratin and customs enforcrcement. Host David Remnick asked ocasiocortez if she would get rid of the department of Homeland Security as well. I think so. I think we need to undo a lot of the egregious a lot of the egregious mistakes the bush and administration did. Afeel like we are at qualified and supportive position, at least in terms of evidence and in terms of being able to make the argument that we never should have created the dhs in early 2000. Amamy this comes as unnnnamed currenent and former Homeland Security officials told reportrters that ice is preparig to arrest thousands of undocumented immigrants in sweeps scheduled to begin sunday. Officials say they will arrest any immigrants they find common colluding socalled collateral deportations. Many local officials have promised to resist the ice raids. Meanwhile, mother jones is reporting that ice has opened three new immigration jails in the deep south as part of an effort to circumvent a congressional limit on the number of people in u. S. Immigration detention. Among them is the adams county correctional center, a mississippi prison operated by corecivic, a forprofit prisison corporation. That center has been plagued by reports of inadequate medical care, staff mistreatatment, anad rotten food, and was home to a prison riot in 2012 that left a guard dead. Ice is currently holding some 54,000 people in its jails an alltime high, and far more than a target of about 40,000 people set by congress. In philadelphia, Police Arrested six immigrant rights activists wednesday as they held a sitin protest at joe bidens 2020 campaign headquarters. The protesters are demanding that biden apologize for the roughly 3 million deportations that occurred while he served as Vice President under barack obama. Theyre also seeking a commitment by biden to end immigration detentions and deportations on his first day in office. Freshman democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of minnesota is calling on advertisers to boycott Tucker Carlson after the fox news host targeted her in a racist attack on his Program Tuesday night. During a threeminute monologue, carlson blasted omar one of the first two muslim women ever elected to the u. S. Congress as a living fire alarm and dangerous. After eveverything americicas done for omar anand for h her fafamily, she e hates thisis coy momore than ever. She is living proof the way we practice i iigration has b bome dangerous to thihis countrtry. She aiving firere alarm, aa warning to t the rest of us we betterer change our immigration system immediately or else. Amy ilhan omar tweeted in response fox news is now giving a nightly platform to white supremacist rhetoric. Its dangerous. Advertisers should not be underwriting hate speech. Tucker carlson has a history of racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic comments. He recently said immigration makes america poorer, and dirtier, and more divided and in 2006 called iraqis semiliterate, primitive monkeys. The Trump Administration is welcoming rightwing media stars to the white house today for a forum billed as a social media summit. Among those invited to attend are bill mitchell, a self described member of the trump train whos embraced the farright qanon conspiracy theory, and ali alexander, a farright activist whose recent tweet smearing senator Kamala Harris as not an american black was retweeted, then deleted, by donald trump jr. Also joining will be james okeefe, a discredited rightwing activist known for targeting planned parenthood and acorn. Okeefe was famously arrested in texas for trying to wiretap the office of the former u. S. Senator from louisiana, mary landrieu. A federal Appeals Court in virginia has dismissed a lawsuit against President Trump arguing he broke the constitutions anticorruption clauses by profiting from his Hotel Business in washington, d. C. A threejudge panel of the u. S. Court of appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that trumps continued ownership of the Trump International hotel did not violate the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses of the constitution. All three judges were nominated by republican president s. The Trump Organization has canceled plans to host a Charity Golf Tournament cosponsored by a miamiiarea strip club. B. Wednesdays move by the Trump National doral golf resort to scrap the planned event came a day after the Washington Post reported plans to have dancers from the shadow Cabaret Strip Club work as socalled caddy girls to vip guests paying 450. The planned event was to benefit a basketballthemed Childrens Program called miami all stars, which is not registered as a charity in florida. And when attention was drawn to it yesterday, they pulled out saying they did not want the money. The fbi on wednesday arrested six people on corruption charges related to puerto ricos recovery from hurricane maria, including two top officials in the administration of governor ricardo rossello. A 32count indictment charges the officials, including the former head of puerto ricos Health Insurance administration and the islands former education secretary, with illegally funneling federal funding to politically connected contractors. Following wednesdays arrests, Arizona Democratic congressmember raul grijalva, who chairs the House Committee that oversees puerto rico, called on governor rossello to resign. In louisiana, floodwaters from heavy rains have left much of new orleans and parts of the gulf coast underwater, as Tropical Storm barry churns offshore ahead of its predicted landfall as a category 1 hurricane on saturday. The storm spawned a waterspout over lake pontchartrain wednesday and left new orleanss famed bourbon street underwater. A Senior State DepartmentIntelligence Analyst has resigned in protest after the Trump Administration blocked parts of his written testimony to congress about the dangers of climate change. In june, analyst rod schoonover was permitted to appear before the House Intelligence Committee to testify about the National Security risks posed by Global Warming, but the white house barred him from submitting peerreviewed scientific Journal Articles and intelligence reports as evidence to back his claims. Part of his censored testimony to Congress Read absent extensive mitigating factors or events, we see few plausible future scenarios where significant possibly catastrophic harm does not arise from the compounded effects of climate change. This comes as a new nasafunded study published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Found rising Global Temperatures from human activity have pushed west antarcticas thwaites glacier to a Tipping Point that will likely see meltwater from the massive glacier raise global sea levels by about 50 centimeters, or more than a footandahalf. The process could takeke as lite as 150 years. And thousands gathered in Lower Manhattan yesterday to celebrate the u. S. Womens National Teams historic fourth world cup soccer championship at a raucous ticker tape parade. Megan rapinoe, alex morgan, rose lavelle, and their teammates rode floats through new york citys canyon of heroes as supporters chanted usa and equal pay the parade ended at city hall where new york city mayor bill de b blasio hosted a c ceremonyo celebrate the teamams second consecutive world cup win and awarded the athletes with keys to the city. Cocaptain Megan Rapinoe address the crowd with a message to the teams fans and the country. We have to listen more, and talk less. We have to know that this is everybodys responsibility. Every Single Person here. Every Single Person who is n not here. Every singlele person who does t want to be here. Every Single Person who agrees and doesnt agree. It is our responsibility to make this world a better place. I think this team doeses an incredible j job of takingng thn our shoulders and understanding the position that we have and the platform that we have within this world. Amy after the ceremony in new york city, the u. S. Women S Soccer Team flew to los angeles to attend the espy awards where they were honored with the best team award. Well have more on the u. S. Womens team and their figight r gender e equity later inin the broadcdcast. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Nermeen and im nermeen shaikh. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. The New York Times is reporting the Trump Administration is preparing to launch nationwide immigration raids beginning on sunday to target members of undocumented families. Officials told the times that immigration n and customoms enforcement agents will target at least 2000 immigrants. The raids are expected to take place in at least 10 major cities. The times reports authorities may detain immigrants who might be on the scene eveven thoughghy were n not targets of the rarai. Presesident trump first publicly threatened t to carry out the nationwide raids in june but then postponed them. This comes as trumps immigration policies are coming under international criticism. The u. N. High commissioner for rights, michelle bachelet, has condemned the didire conditions i in which jailed migrants are being held in the u. S. And the ongoing separation of children from their families. She warned that the detention of Migrant Children may constitute cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment that is prohibited by international law. Amy meanwhile, congressional lawmakers have decried the conditions where Migrant Children are being held. The New York Times and the El Paso Times recently revealed there has been an outbreak of scabies, shingles, and chicken pox at a Border Patrol station in clint, texas, where hundreds of Migrant Children have been held without access to sufficient food, water, beds, or medical care. We go now to washington where we are joineded by democratic congresswoman Nanette Barragan of california. Last week, she took part in a congressional delegation that vivisited that Border Patrol facility in clint, texas. Welcome to democracy now it is great to have you with us. We just got this news of the outbreak of scabies and shingles and chickenpox at that very facility that you visited. Can you describe what you saw . , well, amy, there are cells much like youve seen the advertisements of the Border Patrol am a five or six cells were they are holding children. When we went, they locked the doors so we cannot talk to these children. These are basically prison cells. They are concrete floooors. Theyey are bringing in nylonlooking bunkbeds. Maybe you get a blanket. But yoyou are locked i in a roo. If you go to a s separate area n the back after you leave the cell area, theres a place thatt looks almost like a warehouse. It is hot in there. There are more of these nylylon bunkbeds. And there is a whole stack of mats ready for children. When we w went, amy, there weree only 25 and 30 children. At the height, they had 700 children. And reports of children who could not sleep and could not find a place to even lay down. Completely unacceptable. Nermeen congressmember, were you able to speak to the children or any of the people who are being detained . No. When we got there, we clearly were told you cannot speak to t