Hi, this is Chris and this is Hannah and we are in Central Park everyone around us is asleep

And we are waiting online to get tickets to Shakespeare in the park this podcast was recorded at

318 p.m. On Thursday June 21st things may have changed by the time you listen to this. Okay, here's the show

Sound like they were whispering yeah, because everyone's sleepy what time of day was that you got to go early to get those tickets

Well, all right, well hey there. This is the NPR politics podcast and we are here with a weekly round up of the biggest political stories

Congress sort of votes on immigration the Supreme Court is out with the decision to end tax free shopping as we know it

Plus why the US is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council. I'm a smakhaleth political reporter

I'm Scott Detro a cover Congress. I'm a Shorosco. I cover the White House and I'm Dominican Montenoro political editor

Well, it has been a whirlwind of a week around immigration

We've actually already done two podcasts on the topic the first one about the Trump administration's policy

I've separating kids from their parents at the border and then we did another podcast on the reversal of that policy

But that means that a lot of immigration decisions are sort of being left in limbo

There's a lot that's still really undecided in Congress is I should say or was supposed to be voting on some measures that would offer some

clarity on that so Scott what happened you're up on the hill?

Yeah, the focus today in Congress is not as much on the family separation of it certainly hanging over everything and continues to

But on yet another attempt to pass a broad bill that provides some sort of permanent protection for people in the deferred action for childhood

arrivals program and also does a lot of the stuff that President Trump wants to see with any bill doing that a lot of money for a border wall and

Border security and big changes to legal immigration now as we talk right now the house just took up a very

Conservative immigration bill and it failed by a pretty wide margin

They were supposed to vote on a second bill

crafted with a house Republican leaders backed by President Trump that would do all of the things that the president wants to see

That vote has now been delayed until tomorrow

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