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Part One: We speak with Texas State Senator Jose Rodriguez from El Paso, about his holiday gift drive to ensure that each kid in the Tornillo child detention center gets a soccer ball for Christmas. Senator Rodriguez tells us a little bit about what this camp is like, how many kids are there, and what life is like for those children.
Part Two: Sharon Lerner from The Intercept joins us to talk about her latest piece, “Trump’s Attack on the Clean Water Act Will Fuel Destructive Pipeline Boom.” A new water rule will strip federal protections from an estimated 60-90% of US waterways. Streams that don’t run year round and many wetlands will be exempt from the Clean Water Act, which will give industry and polluters free reign
