State and reproductive rights attorneys are scheduled to be in federal court again today to argue whether Texas should make health providers cremate or bury fetal remains. Also in today's podcast, a Salvadoran mother and her 16-year-old daughter — separated by U.S. authorities in mid-May — were finally reunited in Corpus Christi Friday. Tears dissolved into smiles as the two walked out of the Bokenkamp Children's Shelter.

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The federal government completed its first round of family reunifications, but 45 percent of the children involved were not reconnected with the adults who brought them into the United States.

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Despite the federal government's Tuesday deadline, dozens of immigrant children under 5 years old remain separated from their families. Also in today's episode, professors with the University of Texas at Austin plan to argue before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on the effect that guns on campus have on free speech. Listen for more.

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At a federal court hearing in California on Monday, a government lawyer said that nearly half of the 100 migrant children the federal government plans to reunite with their families won't be reunited by the Tuesday deadline.

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It will be especially difficult to reunite toddlers with parents who may have been released into the interior United States or even deported back to their home countries, government attorneys argued.

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As the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border comes more into focus, Trump administration officials insist that there is a "right way" for families fleeing persecution to seek asylum in the United States: Come to an official port of entry. But such families are still finding themselves in a lot of trouble.

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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 64, had been running on an “anti-American campaign for a long, long time.”

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Poland and Texas have comparable populations, conservative governments and stringent anti-abortion policies. But they differ significantly in how health care is delivered for women — and in the role they allow midwives to play in the childbirth process.

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Many Rio Grande Valley residents have farmed land along the border fence for decades. On hot summer days, they mow their lawns and repair trucks, take care of ailing relatives and sip coffee at local convenience stores. What they don’t do, they say, is worry about a crisis at the border.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner turn over a copy of a sixth-grade health curriculum that includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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