Tender Age: Babies and immigrant children under the age of 12 are being held in four of what the government calls “tender age” facilities in South Texas, the Associated Press reports. Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children, the AP reports.

  An audio recording secretly made at a holding facility for immigrant children separated from their parents has also added heat to the opposition toward President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy for illegal immigrants.

The recording made by someone with legal access to a facility reveals crying refugee children asking for their mothers, fathers, and in one case, an aunt. Ten Central American children, some of them crying “Mami!” and “Papá!” are heard on the recording.

President Trump is evidently unmoved and, of all ironies, withdrew from the UN Human rights Council on the same day, claiming it’s biased against Israel.

Former CIA Director John Brennan, who’s become the conscience Trump doesn’t have, tweeted,  “It is the height of irony that the U.S. is withdrawing from UN Human Rights Council when the Trump Administration is perpetrating such cruel human rights abuses involving children on our border. The Trump Administration is ruining America’s reputation for compassion & justice.”

Last night Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled so loudly as she ate at a Mexican restaurant that she left.

Both the House and Senate are developing legislation to end the separation of illegal immigrants from their children but President Trump, who established the policy, is refusing to act on his own.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed a bill that would keep detained families and children together saying, “all of the members of the Republican conference support a plan that keeps families together.”

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Democrats will not be cooperating with any Republican legislation. “Anyone who believes this Republican Congress is capable of addressing this issue is kidding themselves,” Schumer said in a statement. “The president can end this crisis with the flick of his pen, and he needs to do so now.”

Nation: The Dow Jones fell 287 points yesterday on fears of a trade war with China.  — General Electric, the last of the original companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been de-listed. GE’s slogan used to be “We bring good things to life,” but it’s a shell of what it was. It’s being  replaced by the  Walgreens Boots Alliance drugstore chain. — The J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School in Richmond Virginia, named after the famous Confederate cavalry general, has a new name. The students are 90 percent black and the new name is the Barack Obama Elementary School. — FBI agent Peter Strzok, a frequent target of President Trump because he sent anti-Trump emails to a colleague during the presidential campaign, was escorted from the headquarters building Friday and sidelined pending an investigation.

Remains of the Day: Archeologists working at the site of the Second Battle of Bull Run in the Virginia, which on the day it was fought in 1862 was the biggest  fight of the Civil War, have discovered what they call a “limb pit” containing the bodies of two soldiers and assorted amputated limbs. One body identified as “Burial 1” still had a bullet embedded in a leg. The round came from a British Enfield rifle then commonly used by the Confederates.

The archeologists say the contents of the pit provide both a gruesome and fascinating look at the effects of combat in that war. Some of the bones are smashed, others clearly cut by a surgeon’s saw.

The Obit Page: Walter Bahr, the last surviving member of the American soccer team that beat England 1-0 in the 1950 World Cup, has died at age 91. He was considered one of the best soccer players the US ever produced. — The great Chicago blues man Matt “Guitar” Murphy, who was in a league with the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and Memphis Slim, has died at age 88. He was one of the best but sadly he gained his greatest notoriety as a member of the Blues Brothers, the band formed by “Saturday Night Live” comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

The Matrimonial Pages: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who divorced British rocker Chris Martin, is marrying movie producer Brad Falchuk at her Hamptons summer home. It’ll be a conscious coupling.

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