Spend time in any American city and you'll likely encounter someone with untreated psychosis.

Lost Patience is a new podcast examining our maze-like system for treating severe mental illness,

which loses patients to an endless loop between the streets, jail, and hospitals.

Does it have to be this way?

For the history, the reality, and hopefully some solutions.

Listen to lost patients from KUAW and the Seattle Times,

part of the NPR Network.

Live from NPR News in Washington.

I'm Jack Spear.

Texas is trying to convince a federal appeals court to allow the state's controversial immigration

enforcement law to go into effect.

The Texas newsroom fully on Aguilar reports today's hearing follows separate decisions

on the law, including one from the U.S. Supreme Court. Wednesdays hearing before hearing

Wednesday's hearing before the Fifth Circuit Court

of Appeals centered on whether to allow the legislation to go into effect

while a court case on the bill's legality is on appeal.

SB4 allows local and state police to arrest people, suspected of being in Texas illegally,

and authorizes local judges to order a migrant to return to Mexico, regardless of nationality.

These arguments came a day after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect, deferring

to an earlier decision by a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit.

But hours later, a separate appeals court halted the bill pending the appeal.

A hearing for that appeal is scheduled for early April.

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