[IMMIGRATION NEWS] Fact-checking Homeland Security Sec. Mayorkas' claims about the border situation

By artappraiser on Wed, 03/17/2021 - 9:16pm |

I found it educational to research the accuracy of claims Secretary Mayorkas made yesterday in his published statement about the situation at the border, so perhaps you will find the article educational: https://t.co/MObtJ86yEa
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 17, 2021

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/politics/fact-check-mayorkas-border-statement-mexico-migrants/index.html

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from November 24 at Bloomberg:

I kinda nailed this prediction.https://t.co/G7k6M5sUat
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/17/2021 - 9:19pm

“Except for a few months under Trump,” says @David_J_Bier, “this is one of the strictest border policies we’ve ever seen.” https://t.co/uZXAh2Goim
— reason (@reason) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 5:12pm

I wrote a thing for @ForeignPolicy on how Biden's medium-to-long term approach to managing the #border situation looks increasingly like the #EU's failed strategy since 2015. Takeaway: we need to stop externalizing #asylum & deal w/ our issues at home.https://t.co/M7Anuu6ssb
— Kelsey P. Norman (@kelseypnorman) March 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 5:23pm

A cottage industry of Biden worriers.
1) the US is not the EU, so the centralized Presidential actions are a lot more straightforward & deterministic than a compromise between 27 sovereign states + Brussels.
2) Biden is not Trump, nor Obama, so cataloguing the failures since 2014 probably isn't that helpful.
3) there's no Syrian War south of the border (nor LIbyan civil war/anarchy in the desert - just the usual cartels and such. So there's no existential crisis that we're solving, or that they're fleeing for the most part.
4) Biden's been in office what, a whole 8 weeks? chill the fuck out. Even whatever he does now shouldn't be considered his last move.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/18/2021 - 5:47pm

Jeebus! Number of migrant children in US custody passed 15,000: report

by Jordan Williams @ TheHill.com, March 20

The number of migrant children in U.S. custody has passed 15,000, CBS News reported Saturday.

Records reviewed by the network showed that the government has about 15,500 unaccompanied migrant minors in U.S. custody. Over 5,000 unaccompanied minors are currently held in a tent holding facility run by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other stations along the U.S.-Mexico Border as of Saturday morning.

Mark Weber, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed to CBS that HHS is housing nearly 10,500 unaccompanied minors in emergency housing facilities and shelters licensed by states.

The news outlet reported that unaccompanied migrant children are spending 136 hours on average in CBP custody, passing the legal time limit of 72 hours.

CBS further reported that border officials have encountered over 500 unaccompanied minors per day over the past 21 days. The number of encounters are expected to top the 9,400 minors that entered custody in February. [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 4:12am

There's a new kind of family separation happening at the border. U.S. agents are no longer tearing children from their parents, but Biden's policy of letting in only minors means parents are making painful decisions just on the other side of the border. https://t.co/OWeonkMoVk
— POLITICO (@politico) March 21, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 4:16am

It was obvious this would happen, no? People will exploit loopholes

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 03/21/2021 - 6:55am

ICYMI, yesterday-you can find numerous choices of coverage of story at this link

Vice President Kamala Harris will lead response to migrant issue

President Biden has asked Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the administration’s efforts to tackle the politically complex migrant issue, senior officials said Wednesday.

Interesting note today:

Senate Republicans literally running out of the Senate to catch their flight to the border
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 03/25/2021 - 3:53pm

as Everett warned above in his tweet, there are now 18 GOP Senators at the border giving press conferences:

It’s always frustrating to me that Democrats aren’t more imaginative and theatrical in terms of their efforts to drive attention to issues that they think they have the upper hand on.

This a dumb stunt, yes, but sometimes that’s what it takes https://t.co/N3PjBaPzlY
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 26, 2021

and then there's Senator Daines doing his best Trump imitation on home turf:

America’s hardworking meth manufacturers put out of work by foreign imports. Sad. https://t.co/2LuYa8Ybf6
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 03/27/2021 - 12:11am

Friday at almost 8:30 pm, Biden's DHS announces it will do a formal regulation for DACA (procedure has been at the center of the legal fight over it for some time) pic.twitter.com/OfYUelfLqX
— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) March 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 03/26/2021 - 8:25pm

More yikes!

The administration is projecting it will need more than 35,500 beds for migrant children and teenagers by the end of May, according to internal government documents.
https://t.co/wK3wzg0yMT w/ @mirjordan
— Zolan Kanno-Youngs (@KannoYoungs) March 31, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/31/2021 - 7:50pm

The data is clear: March did see an unusual surge in border apprehensions https://t.co/aKg6eKHbS2
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) April 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 2:56pm

Portland again. Trump or Biden, all the same to them. Looks like the plan is: attack federal ICE facility in Portland the same way every night for the rest of their lives?

Last night at Portland's ICE HQ around 100 protesters gathered outside the building with chants of "What's outrageous? Kids in cages!".

The anti-ICE protesters built a fire to block the HQ's main entrance and set plywood, built to protect the building from protests, ablaze.

1/3 pic.twitter.com/vyhrPkDXol
— Daniel V. Media (@danielvmedia) April 12, 2021

DHS officers responded after the plywood caught fire and pushed protesters back with pepperball rounds. Firefighters put out the flames at the building while officers kept the crowd back, occasionally firing pepperballs at protesters feet and threatening to use pepper spray.

2/3 pic.twitter.com/XRlNi1HJZN
— Daniel V. Media (@danielvmedia) April 12, 2021

DHS officers retreated back into the building as protesters yelled "Move back!". The damaged plywood was then ripped from the building and a glass door at the ICE HQ was shattered.
The crowd began dispersing after this.

There were no arrests.

Video coverage tomorrow.

3/3 pic.twitter.com/attF1PoWsA
— Daniel V. Media (@danielvmedia) April 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 04/11/2021 - 8:41pm

NEW: Biden will sign an order today to keep the number of refugee admissions this year at the historically low figure set by the Trump administration, walking back a campaign promise to raise the cap, a senior administration official confirmed to Axios. https://t.co/RMkPYkrl0A
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) April 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 1:19pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — After blowback from allies, White House says President Biden will move to lift Trump-era refugee caps next month.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) April 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 6:54pm

My understanding (not a defense but an explanation) of the refugee cap situation is that Dara's point here is key.

Raising the cap *this year* was not what the Biden campaign committed to, it surprisingly emerged in the early days of his administration.

Why does that matter? https://t.co/INXZSzMK1Z
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 16, 2021

Well Biden won't say this publicly but he feels that the flurry of immigration announcements made at the beginning of his administration went awry.

The people who advised that course of action burned their credibility, and the switch in refugee policy burned with it.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 16, 2021

It's not so much that there's a logical relationship between the two issues as that it all came out of the same transition portfolio, Biden feels that portfolio was mishandled, so now it's back to his earlier policy commitment.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 04/16/2021 - 8:31pm

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The intra-Palestinian meeting in Moscow has precedent

Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019

Russia has long lamented the US' "monopolization" of the peace process & tried to carve out a niche for itself: mediating among the disunited Palestinians/2
— Hanna Notte (@HannaNotte) February 29, 2024

Read the article at https://twitter.com/HannaNotte/status/1763116222256701787

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— Gareth Harris (@garethharr) December 28, 2023

Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/28/brazil-law-indigenous-land-rights-claim-time-marker?CMP=share_btn_tw

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

Location: U.S. Embassy and residential compounds

Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.

Actions to take:

Avoid the area;

Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;

Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and

If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.

Read the article at https://ht.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-port-au-prince-haiti-december-25-2023/

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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A mass expulsion of Afghan migrants could destabilize the region and fuel radicalization. The West should pressure Islamabad to change course.

Read the article at https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-08/pakistan-s-expulsion-of-afghan-refugees-risks-another-crisis

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

All eyes on #Chad right now
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Read the article at https://x.com/_hudsonc/status/1732891968709992511?s=20

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— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 4, 2023

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
It’s all about how for 75 years you have destroyed the future of generations of Palestinians, including my family.
My cousins in Arab countries are still not citizens - not even the… https://t.co/nv6anubGhc
— George Deek (@GeorgeDeek) December 2, 2023

Note 'Community Notes' attached to UNWRA's statement.

Read the article at https://x.com/GeorgeDeek/status/1731020551328579863?s=20

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submitted by artappraiser 11 months ago

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It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.

Could we have a war in South America?!?

"The people who live in Essequibo are largely… pic.twitter.com/QvMEjkkgwy

Read the article at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/world/americas/maduro-vote-essequibo-guyana.html

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submitted by artappraiser 12 months ago

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McCarthy: “You have [Rep. Matt] Gaetz, who belongs in jail…”

Gaetz: “Tough words from a guy who sucker punches people in the back. The only assault I committed was against Kevin’s fragile ego.”https://t.co/LctPuz6Pcf

Read the article at https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/29/divisions-leave-floridas-house-republicans-powerless-00129200

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By Martinn Pengelly in Washington DC for TheGuardian.com, Nov. 30

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Read the article at https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/30/squad-book-aoc-nancy-pelosi?CMP=share_btn_tw

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@ Reuters, Nov. 29

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submitted by artappraiser 12 months ago

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Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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