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Says more people will be able to afford safer cars critics warn the new rules we can all efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions N.P.R.'s Nathan Rott reports California plans to sue over the federal government's latest rollback California has a waiver under the Clean Air Act that allows it to set stricter air standards and those set by the feds more than a dozen other states follow California's lead but the Trump ministration is coming after that too with his proposal calling for California's waiver to be revoked California Governor Jerry Brown calls a trumpet ministrations proposal to freeze fuel economy standards until 2026 reckless and the State's Attorney General's Office says it plans to lead in $1000.00 States in a lawsuit against the administration Nathan Rott n.p.r. News home Francis is directing the Vatican's theological watchdog to declare the death penalty inadmissible in all cases N.P.R.'s Sylvia Poggioli reports previous church teaching did not exclude capital punishment it was the only possible way to effectively defend human lives Francis has several times called for a worldwide ban on capital punishment a Vatican statement said the death penalty is inadmissible because it's an attack on the in viability and dignity of the person the change to the catechism this summary of church teaching was triggered the statement said by an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of more serious crimes also the state and set a new understanding has emerged of the significance of the penal sanctions imposed by the state the statement said The church is working with determination for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide a move likely to be opposed by Catholics in the us and other states where capital punishment is legal Sylvia Poggioli n.p.r. News Rome it's expected to take months or years. To complete the difficult process of analyzing remains from the Korean War handed over by North Korea at a Pentagon briefing coming McCabe head of the u.s. Agency that tracks down the remains of those lost on foreign battlefields says forensic analysis has begun understandably reactions from the families of the 7700 still missing from the Korean War is palpable because this is an opportunity for more of them to get long sought answers the u.s. Scientists are seeing the remains contained in 55 boxes a said they are consistent with being Americans remains arrived in Hawaii yesterday President Trump has publicly thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong un for filling a promise he made during the Paris summit meeting in Singapore to return American war remains stocks after getting off to a weak start move higher primarily on strong gains in the tech sector in the now it's been Apple's become the world's 1st trillion dollar company the Dow is down 7 points the Nasdaq closed up 96 points today you're listening to n.p.r. . China is vowing to retaliate if the u.s. Puts in place tear of hikes on $200000000000.00 in Chinese imports the threat from Beijing comes on the heels of the Trump administrator his announcement it intends to boost tariffs from 10 to 25 percent on a wide range of imported goods from China u.s. Has accused China and other countries were exploiting u.s. States and global trade demanding Beijing make a host of concessions the wife of an Iraq war veteran with 2 American children are scheduled to be deported tomorrow N.P.R.'s Quil Lawrence reports she entered the u.s. Illegally 20 years ago a 100 white as has been married for 18 years to tame a white as a former u.s. Marine who later served in Iraq with the National Guard their 1st daughter was born while he was in combat the 2nd was born after his deployment both daughters are u.s. Citizens Alexander has no criminal record she was not considered a priority for deportation before the Trump administration's 0 tolerance policy Florida congressman Derren Soto has written a bill to protect military spouses and even another bill specifically to stop $100.00 quote as from being deported to no effect her husband wrote a letter to President Trump hoping that as an Iraq that he might get a reprieve Quil Lawrence n.p.r. 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Are housed by private companies and the Trump administration is looking for space for thousands more each of these new beds is money to the companies that run these centers our co-host Ari Shapiro wanted to know more about the economic impact of immigration detention so we went to a small town in south Texas that depends on the private prison industry where a new immigration detention center is chest opening up. The long time General Myers bakery is known for having the best donuts in Raymond Felton axis and not just donuts the glass cases are full of Mexican pastries like pun duels say in pumpkin empanada as well as bakery opened in 1963 the city of Raymond Hill was thriving and downtown area was absolutely everything. That we had 3 theaters in town that had a thriving p. It was always busy and the restaurant it was a really neat going community George Laura took over the bakery from his father in 1974 back then agriculture drove the local economy in the decades a followed a lot of the businesses around Lars bakery closed down today Raymond Bill's historic movie theater is vacant even the Wal-Mart closed a few years ago they were but we were really just a bank right now the town's biggest employer is the school district and coming in at number 2 is the prison industry that tracings when they came into town. And really what it's for is that the economy can help quite a bit that was in the early 2000 today there are 3 prisons in town this is the story of one immigration detention center and its impact on a community and it's a story that's playing out in. Towns around the country right now the new center and Raymond Villa only got its 1st bus of immigrants a couple weeks ago but the place already goes by a few different names officially it's a detention facility or the valley an officially Some people call it written short for Raymond Ville get no others still call it Willacy because Willacy is the name of the detention center that stood on this site before inmates torched it in 2015. Site here in the Willacy County the trouble began on Friday when the prisoner seized 3 of the Centre's housing units setting fires and vandalizing the building prison is uninhabitable and you know all the damage that they caused for years immigrants at Willacy had complained about overcrowding rodents and physical and sexual abuse I think it was in a class of its own when it was running as an immigration detention facility I spoke with Mark Fleming who investigated Willacy almost a decade ago for the interim Eric and Commission on Human Rights he visits a lot of immigration detention centers and he says Willacy was worse than most it included a literal tent city each tent packed with bunk beds and when it was built was intended to be a temporary facility and soon temporary turned into a over 5 to 10 year slowly disintegrating situation the company that operated Willacy is the 3rd largest private detention business in the us it's called m.t.c. Or management and Training Corporation they deny that there was a pattern of abuse and we'll hear more from them in a moment when we'll see prison shut down after the riots Willacy County was tens of millions of dollars in debt for the cost of the center so the county sued m.t.c. For breach of contract accusing the company of quote abysmal management of the prison the county leader agreed to drop the lawsuit m.t.c. Bought the Willacy site from the county and paid off the county's debts in the bargain case closed prison closed until this summer. In early July protesters marched in the Texas summer heat in front of Willacy County Courthouse commissioners met inside to approve a new contract for m.t.c. To run a detention center on the same site where detainees burned down the old Willacy tent city judge oversaw the process and once the meeting wrapped up he made some remarks I have not had a single constituent come to me and tell me since February of 2015 which is when the right happened. To not consider reopening we requested an interview with the judge and with each county commissioner they all either declined or didn't reply we also filed a public records request for the new contract between the county and m t c And they haven't responded to that either Christina Pitino who was at the courthouse that day she's with a local group called the Equal Voice network to put money on the table and say if you lock up your brothers and sisters we will improve the quality of your street to position the wellbeing of you against the well being of the collective I think it is an absolutely false dichotomy that for many people living in Raymond still the most important thing about this prison is that it pays corrections officers close to $20.00 an hour or other jobs in town pay less than half that. Used to work as a guard at Willacy she quit because of working conditions that she says endangered her pregnancy and she says she wouldn't go back to work there again even though she could use the money when they said it was opening up a well you know what they did was a lot of people working there that were from Reno they need jobs are going to have to use the same time with people asked me if I didn't know through experiences that they were I've heard went through with them I I would not and I would recommend anybody like them to see told us they hope the new facility will have around 250 employees at full capacity the old will see prison had $400.00 David Korea Gomez is the economic development coordinator for the city of Raymond Phil this region for the most part is poverty stricken So in terms of jobs of employment it was critical that we use reestablish again the operations here and put our fine citizens and community back to work through them to give Raymond Villa the county will see any kind of reassurances that the things that went wrong last time wouldn't happen again this time not at the moment but we have an extreme amount of confidence in m.t.c. What gives you the confidence. Because they're highly reputable in the u.s. In terms of operations. But here we'll see county experience shows otherwise I mean here we'll see county things really went badly or well we again as you know we unfortunately have the right in 2015 and as a result we lost the operation but you know things happen things happen we put that to the man in charge of Corrections operations for m.t.c. Now Dan Joslin has been at the company about a year and a half after a long career with the Bureau of Prisons we're committed to Willacy County we've been doing business down there for several years and you know we feel like we're part of that community and our goal all along has been to bring a project back there John points out that when Willacy close it was a Bureau of Prisons facility so every immigrant there had a criminal record in many cases multiple border crossings ice parted ways with Willacy in 2011 because of the complaints about abuse and poor conditions so when the riots happened in 2015 Johnson says it was a more dangerous population of immigrants I think the primary lesson would be that the tents were probably not the appropriate structure housed the sentenced offenders those structures were not as secure as as a hard structure would being in the lawsuit it said that m.t.c. Had abysmally failed to fulfill the terms of the contract do you think that was just a reference to tense I think what it was was posturing just based on what happened in this instance that obviously led to the termination the contract that it had consequences for the county over time we clearly have that as well as the county that lawsuit the county filed also said m.t.c. Quote turned a blind eye to the enormous problems that plagued the prison from its inception flooding toilets rodents failure to provide basic services and overcrowding so bad that detainees were forced to stay in solitary confinement. I drove to see the new detention center now called l.v.a. It's right next. The u.s. Marshals Service jail that's also operated by m.t.c. And the 2 look identical so I asked the guard to point us to all vying that's this one here Ok thank you. There are 2 layers of fences with the holes in the barbed wire stacked at the base of the fence and on top of the fence. Sign saying No I'm authorized miracles beyond this point and then there's the big white and blue flag flying outside that says m.t.c. Management and Training Corporation a leader in social impact the tent city is gone now it's just low metal buildings and a big empty courtyard we asked m.t.c. For permission to go inside they said no and sent us a video that the company calls a virtual tour of its other facilities it shows detainees playing volleyball taking computer classes and getting medical care from a friendly looking doctor m.t.c. Staff are trained to treat detainees with great respect and dignity we call it up by Make Believe it or not I care approach here in Raymond Hill this debate is basically over the 1st buses full of immigrants arrived at l.v.i. In mid July in other parts of the u.s. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking new contracts for 3000 immigration detention beds near Detroit Chicago Minneapolis and Salt Lake City and ice has asked companies for information about a potential 15000 new beds for family lock ups private detention companies are looking for more towns like Raymond Ville that are eager to cash in on the growing demand. Tomorrow are reporting along the Us Mexico border concludes with a story of friends and neighbors whose jobs put them on opposite sides of the fight over immigration enforcement him in an immigration attorney Joel agent is such a small part of. Us living together next to each other that it's never. It's never a minute talk to me That's our co-host Ari Shapiro reporting to speak from south Texas. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Elsa Chang and this week in Zimbabwe there was a vote then accusations of vote rigging followed by street protests and a military crackdown at least 6 people died now finally we have results in Zimbabwe's 1st election since dictator Robert Mugabe was forced out in November what. Zanu p.f. Party is there for Julie declared elected president of the Republic of Zimbabwe with the fix from the 3rd of August 28th. That's the Electoral Commission announcing that the winner is Emerson Manning Gaga the man who ousted and replaced Mugabe late last year and p.r.s. Joins us now from Harare with the details Haider. Kyle sucked All right so this is the man who took Mugabe's place in November he's now won a full 5 year term can you tell us a little more about him. Yeah I think his nicknames will tell you a lot about him they call him the crocodile for sure the bodyguard the spy master and all of those are because of the services he provided to Robert Mugabe the former leader of this country in a lot of ways he was Mugabe his right hand man and he over the many years he was next to Mugabe he was implicated in some of the worst acts of violence in this country and then things changed pretty rapidly he got he was vice president and he was bumped from the vice presidency that forced into exile and then he convinced the military to push his former ally Robert Mugabe out of power and in November he took power and he really made some positive changes here you know he took the police off the street he you know Zimbabweans for the 1st time felt free to express themselves and he ran a campaign in which he presented himself as a brand new. As a softer version of. And when he was asked but you're the crocodile you're the enforcer he would often say I'm not soft as wool and so he is promising a new Zimbabwe was this the result that was expected and I can tell I'm hearing cheering and celebration the backgrounder more prot