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Week In Review: Patrick's Child Aid Plan, BRA Audit, Haystack

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Zelda holds up a sign as she joins demonstrators outside the Mexican Consulate Friday, July 18, 2014, in Houston. Prospects for action on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis faded Thursday as lawmakers traded accusations rather than solutions, raising chances that Congress will go into its summer recess without doing anything about the tens of thousands of migrant children streaming into South Texas. (AP)
Zelda holds up a sign as she joins demonstrators outside the Mexican Consulate Friday, July 18, 2014, in Houston. Prospects for action on the U.S.-Mexico border crisis faded Thursday as lawmakers traded accusations rather than solutions, raising chances that Congress will go into its summer recess without doing anything about the tens of thousands of migrant children streaming into South Texas. (AP)

Governor Deval Patrick makes an impassioned plea today for the state to help the flood of children crossing over the U.S.-Mexico border. Plus, WBUR's Anthony Brooks and Sacha Pfeiffer talk with Radio Boston's week-in-review panel about the Boston Redevelopment Authority's books, and a controversial new parking app.

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Asma Khalid, WBUR reporter

Jim Stergios, executive director of The Pioneer Institute

Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe columnist

This segment aired on July 18, 2014.

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