from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, September 2nd.

Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend if you were off, and if you worked so that everyone else could play,

thank you. Thank you to the restaurant everyone else could play, thank you.

Thank you to the restaurant and other hospitality workers. Thank you to the porters and other building workers, the medical workers, the retail workers. So many stores are open, right? Thank you to

the bus and train and taxi workers and always to the first responders, ready for or actually

responding to emergencies.

Thank you.

Even to my media colleagues covering the news and keeping this and other outlets there for you

with information, entertainment, and the glorious weather forecast they were able to deliver

over the Labor Day weekend.

And I know I left people out just saying thank you to all of you for your labor on Labor

Day.

So we don't take you for granted on that of all holidays, right?

And on journalists being on duty this weekend, you know politicians have this pattern.

We've talked about it before of doing some of their most controversial things

on times like holiday weekends, hoping that most of the public won't notice. So here's a little

roundup of things, including things like that. I didn't need to look further than the New York

Times to come up with this much. President Trump, if you haven't heard this yet, tried to deport 600

unaccompanied children to Guatemala. And there was this whole middle of the night holiday weekend

legal drama that played out, playing on the tarmac, kids on the plane. And a judge ordered

a halt and the kids to be deplaneed, at least for now.

Also, the Times report, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would not issue visas to Palestinian

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