Tromp administration to stop what it says is the unnecessary detention and forced medication of immigrant children cuties funny the job followed Romero reports the lawsuit was filed in federal court in l.a. On behalf of 5 kids who came to the us on their own they've been confined for as long as a year and a half in facilities contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement o.-r. Are now had to side with the National Center for Youth Law says that or are is acting arbitrarily and not releasing minors to relatives because they're helpless inflation because when you said roll their children in school before the child could be released but the actual 4 women rarely tell them less the child of present the plaintiffs ages 12 to 17 say they've been forced to take powerful psychotropic drugs that are says they fully comply with all applicable state child welfare laws and regulations the government has custody of about $10000.00 immigrant kids and Friday that. News meantime a small group of adults and children demonstrated outside a facility in Pleasant Hill today where 2 kids are being held after they were separated from their parents in the u.s. On the Us Mexico border cuties Michelle Wiley has more. Than the mom am for parents and children sing to calorific outside the southwest key facility and while they sing on the sidewalk some kids make cards for the 2 girls help inside the demonstration was put together by moms take action for immigrant family San Francisco a group formed through their mutual outrage at children being separated from their immigrant parents. Sima Patel proud her 2 daughters to the demonstration we hold our kids closer every day imagining what so many parents are going through right now the group plans to hold more demonstrations in the future the Trepan ministration has said it will end the practice of family separations at the border but will keep its 0 tolerance immigration policy I'm Michelle Wiley k.q.e.d. 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How will they prove they've actually deleted your information data is complicated it resides in a lot of different locations it is no easy thing to delete all the polls are showing strong support for more control and rights of a private information California's new law will go into effect in 2020 privacy advocates hope it will compel companies to change how they handle user data everywhere I'm saying k.q.e.d. News u.s. Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt was in San Francisco this morning for meetings with local agency staff and state air regulators. Peter John Shuler reports Pruitt's unannounced visit comes amid tension with the state over vehicle emissions standards California joined 16 other states in suing the e.p.a. Over federal attempts to rollback clean car rules here senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council Simon move this may be a last minute attempt by inserting a Pruitt to try to convince California to stand down. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary Louise Kelly And I'm Audie Cornish now to the latest news on the ongoing investigation of yesterday's deadly shooting at the capital has that newspaper in Annapolis Maryland 5 staff members are dead the suspect is being held without bond in turn Anthony Messenger was in the newsroom when the shooter stormed in in the early afternoon and in an interview with N.B.C.'s Today Show this morning messengered describes the scene initially I thought it was fireworks I heard a pop and I turned and looked over my shoulder toward the front of the room where the entrance I saw that the glass doors that open up into our office were blown out and then I heard a 2nd Pop I ran toward the back exit of the of the office messenger and others hid under desks and pled for help on social media and quietly called 911 N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady is in Annapolis where he's following the investigation into this shooting and Jeff What more can you tell us about what authorities have learned one bit of new information came from the Ana Rundle County State's Attorney Wes Adams he's the local prosecutor as part of his argument to a judge that the suspect in this case his name is Jared Warren Ramos that he should be held in jail without bond Adams told the judge that this was a coordinated attack targeted attack and that the suspect took steps to hurt as many people as possible Here's how Adam says he backed up that argument before the judge there were 2 entrances to the offices in which this attack occurred the rear door was barricaded and Mr Ramos then entered into the front door and worked his way through the office shooting victims as he walked through on there was one victim that had attempted to escape through the back door and was shot at that there. Police say the suspect is not cooperating with the investigation they even had to use Maryland's facial recognition software to figure out who he is so if they are. Getting cooperation from the suspect how is this affecting the case they have to follow other leads to figure out what happened investigators they they did find the suspects car near the Capitol because that office so they searched that but we don't know what they found in there They've also searched his apartment police say they found evidence there that shows the suspect planned the attack but they won't be more specific than that 30 say that the suspect used a 12 gauge pump action shotgun which was legally purchased about a year or so ago those guns aren't related under Maryland law just under federal law and we're learning more about the police response it was very quick within a couple of minutes and the police chief says officers did not fire any shots during the process of taking the suspect into custody they say it's clear the suspect acted alone and they don't think there's any more danger now that he's in custody some personal history that's come out this is fact it should or it filed a defamation suit against the Capitol Gazette for coverage in 2011 of his conviction in a criminal harassment case understand that lawsuit was dismissed and on the suspects Twitter feed he was critical of journalists what new information have we learned about this part of the story the chief of police in and around all county Timothy Ulta Mary says in May of 2013 the suspect me threatening comments online directed against the Capitol because that Chief Out to Mary says detectives spoke to the legal counsel at the Capitol does that then and held a conference call with several members of the staff on that conference call it was discussed that the capital project did not wish to pursue criminal charges there was a fear that doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation we haven't been able to reach the folks at the Capitol because that to confirm this or get a reaction to it so how are people in Annapolis responding to this attack on their community paper there's a community vigil tonight it's happening this evening and then near the office building where the shooting happened people are course dropping. Flowers I seen notes some look like little thank you cards addressed to the Capitol Gazette of sympathy cards around town I've heard people say that this is a newspaper they have a lot of respect for mostly because of its coverage of local politics and sports That's N.P.R.'s Jeff Brady in Annapolis Jeff thank you thank you Audie Jerry Jackson is a sports editor at The Baltimore Sun He used to work at the Capitol Gazette and that is where he hired a reporter named John McNamara Jerry Jackson joins me now hey there our you I'm all right thank you I want to start by asking how did you hear about the events unfolding about what was happening yesterday Well I actually was get right to go to work and my cell phone had several miss calls and it was from our offices in Baltimore telling us that there was an active shooter in Annapolis and they knew that you know I had had a long tenure there and knew a lot of people so I started immediately like any journalist started calling people to see if I could find some things in the 2nd plan call I made I found out that one of my dearest friends and I died and you know it was it was pretty rough. And this is John McNamara Yes Yes He and I worked together for more than 20 years our dest abutted one another. John was the rock of his family and he and I had a great deal in common we're both from big Catholic families he was the oldest The 71 on 9 so we just. Yeah we clicked immediately why did you hire him in the 1st place what you see in him well he was on our news desk 1st and he loves sports and we're always talking sports and he really wanted to write sports that was his passion and he was Love the University of Maryland and just was an absolute basketball freak and he took a job at a smaller publication because it was in sports and when we had an opening he was the 1st person I thought of not only because of his journalism abilities but because I knew what a good person he was and you know when you're going to hire somebody on a staff the size of ours which was back then about 5 to 6 people you need people that can get on with people and he was just a tremendous person everybody got along with him great and basketball was a particular passion is and he still played a couple times that we all really yes we used to have like a raid or something yeah yeah we played pickup ball we used to play a bunch of us at the paper played every Thursday and once before a few of us got a little too old. John continued to play in some form or fashion because the you know he just loved basketball Mary ask when you last talked to him. Just last week you know we work side by side for 20 some years and now I'm in a department 40 minutes away and we usually got together once a year to go to Oriel game and we were trying to decide on which day was best. Well unfortunately we hadn't gotten together on a date yet this year May I ask given you worked at the Capitol Gazette for 20 years yourself what went through your head when you saw the front page today I was just stunned I knew that the sun would put out a publication but I was just blown away that capital would still produce a paper you know just blows you away that that kind of dedication and commitment but now welcome. Jerry Jackson thank you no problem and I'm sorry for your loss thank you that is Jerry Jackson now of the Baltimore Sun formerly of the capital Gazette he was speaking there about his friend and colleague John McNamara who died yesterday. Occupy ice protests have spread from Portland Oregon to Detroit and New York unlike the Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality these protesters are targeting one government agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement and it's a growing movement a number of elected officials have called for the agency to be abolished even some agents inside ice say it may be time to radically reorganize N.P.R.'s Joel Rose reports protesters took to the streets outside ISIS headquarters in Washington d.c. This week said. To me I'm freaked or wanted to send a message to the agents on the frontline of the trumpet ministrations immigration crackdown I had it been acting this unacceptable violence on families and children and human being in New York ice had to cancel some immigration court hearings earlier this week when protesters block the entrance to its offices in Portland Occupy protesters succeeded in shutting down their local immigration office for days organizer Jacob rare roast laid out what the protesters want is the complete abolishment of I. Have not been around that long and it does not need to exist ice was created along with the Department of Homeland Security just 15 years ago and now a handful of Democratic lawmakers in Congress think it should be eliminated or reorganized to deport fewer immigrants Alexandria Kazi 0 Cortez made it a central plank of the campaign that led to her upset victory in New York's congressional primary this week she spoke to N.P.R.'s Morning Edition Well we're really talking about is reimagining immigration to be humane and in a way that is transparent and accountable immigration hardliners praise ice saying it's finally enforcing the laws on the books and not much is likely to change under President Trump here he is at a rally this week in North Dakota you know our ice officers that tough I got to say it is not nice with them leave me. But they have hard ice is a sprawling agency with $20000.00 employees divided into 2 main branches one that handles deportation and detention and another that handles criminal investigations against traffickers and drug cartels more than a dozen special agents from the 2nd branch recently sent a letter to the homeland security secretary arguing that splitting from the rest of ice would help morale and improve their ability to work in cities where Trump's policies are unpopular what you see what you read in the letter is accurate is something that's been going on for a while Jerry Robinette is a former special agent in charge of ice Homeland Security investigations in San Antonio he says the 2 branches have long competed for resources and you can see why some agents want to break up ice but I don't think the timing is correct right now just too many things going on all the rhetoric that you're getting from the left on dissolving high at a time like this Robin that says it's even more important for agents to focus on their mission Joel Rose n.p.r. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Mary the rescaling And I'm Audie Cornish now that President Trump has said he will no longer separate migrant families apprehended at the border his administration is preparing to lock them up the Defense Department is under orders to confine up to 12000 immigrant parents and children on military bases 2 installations in Texas plan to start putting up temporary housing after July 4th as N.P.R.'s John Burnett reports family confinement has had a troubled and litigious history in the u.s. And legal advocates for immigrants are preparing for a major battle ahead. Inside a ramshackle ranch house in the inhospitable brush country of South Texas a group of volunteers has been fighting family detention their 12 hour days could get even longer with recent moves by the trumpet ministration to expand the confinement of undocumented families seeking asylum Tarantella we have rattlesnakes we have scorpions and we spend most of our time working. As a volunteer with the care of family detention project she sits outside their office and home in a shady breezeway they've come here to provide legal advice to 2000 mothers and children who are confined in the gilded cage that is the South Texas Family Residential Center these are not criminals like in the end ministration wants people to believe this sprawling complex of portable buildings is located in the town of Dili an hour south of San Antonio it's the largest of 2 family detention facilities in South Texas operated by private for profit corrections corporations the problem for the White House is they're nearly at capacity Trump's Homeland Security Department favors detention saying detained immigrants cannot of Scotland and skip their immigration court hearings and this makes them easier to deport when it if they don't receive asylum the fly in the trunk is the floor of settlement the floor a settlement that kids can't be detained any longer than is necessary and right now . Lemonade at 20 days of this restriction was imposed by a federal judge in California 2 decades ago the Justice Department is currently working to overturn Flora's so that families can be detained longer until their court date comes up Meantime Flores says parents and children must be released after 3 weeks Trump tried to separate families but cancelled the practice after widespread public outrage Katie Merced says another ugly confrontation is brewing what th