The immigration debate heats up in the U.S. as GOP governors send migrants north, Russia makes a counteroffer for the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, and Texas police arrest a doctor for allegedly tampering with hospital IV bags.
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LIAR..
VP HARRIS SAID THE BORDER IS SECURE. NOT UNDER CONTROL.
THE MIGRANTS
One deadly week reveals where the immigration crisis begins — and where it ends
In one week, thousands of migrants overwhelm the U.S. border. We reveal their dangerous journeys and the broken immigration system that awaits them.
USA TODAY Network
Published 9:03 PM EDT Sep. 23, 2019 Updated 3:58 PM EST Dec. 14, 2019
Both moments surfaced during a week when the USA TODAY Network launched a team of nearly 30 journalists to begin a comprehensive examination of the migrant crisis along the U.S. southern border. The unprecedented effort revealed an immigration system on the brink of collapse
Local governments scrambling at their own expense to feed and house migrants abandoned in their cities by the U.S government, with costs swelling into the millions. And, day after day, migrants staring down death and hardship in their search for a better life.
Previous U.S. presidents have grappled with waves of migrants who show up at the border. But the federal government's actions since President Donald Trump took office in 2017 – including limiting asylum requests and separating children from families – have left border officials ill-equipped to respond and have put migrants at unneeded risk, creating a scenario that serves no one well, according to local government officials, immigration lawyers, longtime border residents and immigration policy experts.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2019/09/23/immigration-crisis-migrants-us-mexico-border/2022670001/
Humanitarian and Security Crisis at Southern Border Reaches 'Breaking Point'
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Illegal Immigration Hits 12-Year High; More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in February
The U.S. Border Patrol is currently encountering illegal immigration at the highest rates since 2007, according to new data. In fact, in February more than double the level of migrants crossed the border without authorization compared to the same period last year, approaching the largest numbers seen in any February in the last 12 years, The New York Times reported.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/03/06/humanitarian-and-security-crisis-southern-border-reaches-breaking-point
I love the way the right call these people aliens and how disgusting that sounds. If warranted by all means call them illegal immigrants, but alien is again another way to feed the maga insurrectionis and the like. Were their parents and grandparents also aliens when they mention them.🤔
CAN'T DELIVER
Border Patrol agents are reportedly disappointed by the Trump era
JULY 15, 2019
Morale is low at Customs and Border Protection, Politico reports, and Border Patrol agents are apparently none too thrilled with President Trump.
In a deep dive published on Monday, Politico detailed the dysfunction that has plagued the Border Patrol for years. There was reportedly hope that a White House led by Trump, who ran a 2016 presidential campaign centered on being tough on the southern border, would give the agency its time in the sun.
Turns out, two years in, that's not the case. Workforce morale is reportedly terrible, as it always has been, and it's been difficult both to recruit new members and retain old ones. And, despite the president's promises, the Patrol has made no progress toward hiring 5,000 new agents. In fact, the Trump-era Border Patrol is actually smaller than it was during the Obama years. Their pilot ranks are especially depleted; since Trump took office, the agency has reportedly been unable to meet four out of five requests for helicopter assistance
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek.com/speedreads/852852/border-patrol-agents-are-reportedly-disappointed-by-trump-era%3famp
WHITE HOUSE
Trump administration takes unprecedented step to process border-crossers
By ANITA KUMAR
05/27/2019 08:17 AM EDT
The United States is for the first time sending illegal border-crossers to other cities for processing, transporting more than 3,000 each week from southern Texas and Arizona to other locations as the government struggles to deal with surging numbers of nearly 100,000 migrants a month crossing the southern border.
The Trump administration is flying migrants to San Diego and Del Rio, Texas, and busing them to El Centro, Calif., and Laredo, Texas, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official familiar with the plan. There, they are being processed — which includes photographs, health screenings, fingerprints and background checks — before they are often released and told to return for a court hearing at a later date.
UH…DUH..
YOU LIVE IN BORDER CITIES.
WHAT DO EXPECT?
SO FLORIDA TAX PAYERS ARE FED UP.
BUT NOT FED UP WASTING OVER $12 MILLION DOLLARS?
WHICH COULD HAVE ACTUALLY BENEFITED FLORIDIANS?
660,500
In Florida, 2,252,050 people are facing hunger – and of them 660,500 are children. face hunger. 1 in 6 children face hunger. People facing hunger in Florida are estimated to report needing $1,230,605,000 more per year to meet their food needs.
Florida’s Education Funding Fails Across the Board
Providing a quality education to all of Florida’s students is a core constitutional responsibility of state government and critical to economic growth. Yet, school districts in Florida are dealing with a crushing teacher shortage, bus driver shortage, and overall operating cost growth that has outpaced revenue. Florida’s average teacher pay ranked 49th in the nation in 2020. All these issues are directly tied to Florida’s ongoing underinvestment in K-12 public schools
https://www.floridapolicy.org/posts/funding-floridas-k-12-public-schools-inadequacy-breeds-inequity
DeSantis and Abbott Are Wrong To Treat Migrants as a Punishment
DeSantis’s favored news network, Fox News, was given prior knowledge, showing footage of the migrants’ arrival on Wednesday night as an “exclusive”