Three things that should be on your radar for July 2

The Daily 202's Big Idea

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Politics, News, Daily News

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🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Politics and investigations reporter Elise Viebeck fills in for James.

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0:00.0	The Power of
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0:05.2	Learn more at USBank.com slash Newsroom.
0:08.6	Good morning.
0:10.9	I'm Elise Feebck with the Washington Post and this is the Daily 202 for Monday, July 2nd.
0:17.0	James is on vacation this week, but I'll be here instead with the day's top headlines.
0:27.0	Number one, about 750 cities around the country held rallies over the weekend to protest
0:37.4	President Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy, which has split migrant children from their parents and detained families
0:45.1	crossing the US-Mexico border. On Saturday morning in Washington, thousands of
0:50.7	demonstrators gathered to march past the White House and the Trump International Hotel to the Department of Justice.
0:57.0	The Justice Department is currently navigating two different court edicts on immigration.
1:02.0	One is an injunction issued this week by a federal
1:06.2	judge in San Diego, which required the government to begin reuniting the roughly 2,000
1:11.7	migrant children who are still separated from their families.
1:16.1	The other is an older court settlement in Los Angeles that requires immigration agencies
1:21.5	to release minors in their custody if they are held for more than 20 days.
1:27.0	A new court filing from the Trump administration revealed that officials plan to hold families together in custody rather than release
1:34.8	them. The filing suggested that detentions could last longer than 20 days.
1:40.1	On Saturday in Washington about 50,000 people were expected to demonstrate
1:45.8	against the policy.
1:47.5	Speakers at the rally included a survivor of a US
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