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PROBLEM: We have some news now on how the Trump administration is pushing back against illegal immigration. The administration has for months talked about separating immigrant families at the border as a way of discouraging them from coming in the first place. A federal lawsuit filed on Monday says federal agents are increasingly doing that  and the idea has outraged activists. The plaintiff is an undocumented Congolese woman who's being detained in San Diego while her 7-year-old daughter is being held 2 000 miles away at a shelter in Chicago.  NPR's John Burnett  has the story.
 JOHN BURNETT   BYLINE: In recent years  the Department of Homeland Security has attempted to discourage asylum-seekers from coming to the U.S. Under Obama  they detained some unauthorized families in camps in South Texas rather than release them in the U.S. while their cases are heard. The Trump administration has gone even further. It has arrested immigrant parents in the U.S. who paid smugglers to bring their children across the border  and it wants to expand detention space. Now comes the most extreme measure yet  family separation.
 BURNETT : That's Lee Gelernt  deputy director of the ACLU's National Immigrant Rights Project. He's representing a 39-year-old mother who traveled from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Mexico with her 7-year-old daughter. They surrendered to immigration agents near San Diego in December. They said they were fleeing violence in Congo and asked for asylum. She's being held apart from her daughter. They're only able to speak by phone.
 BURNETT : A spokeswoman for Homeland Security declined to give a reason why the child was taken from her mother  saying only the agency does not comment on cases under litigation. The practice of separating undocumented families to discourage them from coming is not a formal stated policy of the administration  but immigrant activists say it's been quietly growing in frequency along the Southern border. Katharina Obser is with the Women's Refugee Commission.
 BURNETT : Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services has documented 53 incidents of family separation in the last nine months  mostly Central Americans. They say they're fleeing rampant gang violence. But the administration believes most of them are gaming the system  and it wants to stop the flow  first  because the trek is dangerous for young children. And  second  Matt Al Bent's  an official with ICE removal operations  told NPR...
 BURNETT : Immigration lawyers say the strategy could work. Mothers may drop their cases and go home to be reunited with their children. But is that a reasonable way to curtail illegal immigration? Dr. Lisa Fortuna  director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Boston Medical Center  is an expert on the impact of trauma on immigrant families. She's submitting an amicus brief in the ACLU lawsuit.
 BURNETT : The lawsuit claims that immigration agents violated the Congolese woman's constitutional right to due process. It asks the government  if it's going to detain a mother and child during the asylum process  at least allow them to be together.  John Burnett   NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR  Copyright NPR.

SOLUTION: To Curb Illegal Immigration DHS Separating Families At The Border

PROBLEM: Maryland Transportation Secretary Pete K. Rahn  dangled a $9 billion carrot Wednesday in front of more than 100 companies potentially interested in adding express toll lanes to the Capital Beltway  Interstate 270 and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
“It’s amazing ”  Rahn  quipped to more than 320 highway engineers  designers and builders in a ballroom at the BWI Airport Marriott in Linthicum. “You can get a lot of attention when you put a nine in front of a ‘B.’”
“I don’t want to just do something ”  Rahn  told the crowd. “I want to do something that delivers a ‘wow’” for traffic relief.
One big unknown: the cost of the tolls. After the meeting   Rahn  said  he  was aware variable rates on toll lanes that opened last week on part of Interstate 66 in Northern Virginia had soared to as high as $40.
“Obviously  that caught my attention ”  Rahn  said.
However   he  noted the I-66 toll has since peaked at about $14.  He  said Maryland will know the range of toll rates on its highways just before it chooses a winning proposal. Like Northern Virginia’s toll lanes  there will be no limit on how high tolls could go to keep traffic moving.
The state is not expecting to pay anything on the Beltway or I-270 projects   Rahn  said.
 Rahn  said the state will leave details of the design to bidders in hopes of receiving the most creative ideas. Maryland officials said proposals also will be judged on how the teams plan to build the lanes quickly  keep traffic moving during construction and limit impacts on adjacent homes and businesses.

SOLUTION: Maryland plan to build toll lanes on Beltway I

PROBLEM: According to Roll Call  the White House sent an email with the subject line  "Condolence Letters Since 20 January 2017" to the Defense secretary's office on the evening of the day  Trump  said  he  had reached out to all the families of soldiers who had been killed.
 Trump 's contact with Gold Star families came under fire this week  after The Associated Press reached out to 43 families and got responses from 20  nine of whom said they had heard from  Trump  and nine of whom said they had not  despite his remark that he had called the families of "virtually everybody" who had died in the line of duty.
Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida  who was present during the phone call  told the Miami ABC affiliate WPLG on Tuesday that  Trump  had told Myeshia Johnson her husband "knew what he signed up for  but when it happens  it hurts anyway."
Wilson said she was riding in the car with Johnson — who was on her way to the airport to receive her husband's body — when  Trump  called. She then told MSNBC on Wednesday morning that the soldier's widow was "crying the whole time" and that when she hung up the phone  she looked at Wilson and said  "He didn't even remember his name."
Though  Trump  blasted Wilson's account as "totally fabricated " the soldier's mother confirmed to The Washington Post that the congresswoman's account was accurate  adding that  Trump  had "disrespected" her family.
As the controversy continued to unfold  Gold Star families came out en masse to dispute the president's claims. That included Chris Baldridge  whose son  Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge  died in Afghanistan in June. Baldridge told The Post that  Trump  had offered  him  a $25 000 check  but did not follow through.
"I could not believe  he  was saying that    and I wish I had  it  recorded because  the man  did say this " Baldridge said. " He  said  'No other president has ever done something like this ' but  he  said  'I'm going to do it.'"

SOLUTION:
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