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(SAN DIEGO) — The Trump administration wants up to two years to find potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the border before a judge halted the practice last year, a task that it says is more laborious than previous efforts because the children are no longer in government custody.
The Justice Department said in a court filing late Friday that it will take at least a year to review about 47,000 cases of unaccompanied children taken into government custody between July 1, 2017 and June 25, 2018 — the day before U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw halted the general practice of splitting families. The administration would begin by sifting through names for traits most likely to signal separation — for example, children under 5.
The administration would provide information on separated families on a rolling basis to the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued to reunite families and criticized the proposed timeline on Saturday.
“We strongly oppose a plan that could take up to two years to locate these families,” said Lee Gelernt, the ACLU’s lead attorney. “The government needs to make this a priority.”
Sabraw ordered last year that more than 2,700 children in government care on June 26, 2018 be reunited with their families, which has largely been accomplished. Then, in January, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s internal watchdog reported that thousands more children may have been separated since the summer of 2017. The department’s inspector general said the precise number was unknown.
The judge ruled last month that he could hold the government accountable for families that were separated before his June order and asked the government submit a proposal for the next steps. A hearing is scheduled April 16.
Sheer volume makes the job different than identifying children who were in custody at the time of the judge’s June order, Jonathan White, a commander of the U.S. Public Health Service and Health and Human Services’ point person on family reunification, said in an affidavit.
White, whose work has drawn strong praise from the judge, would lead the effort to identify additional families on behalf of Health and Health and Human Services with counterparts at Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement. Dr. Barry Graubard, a statistics expert at the National Cancer Institute, developed a system to flag for early attention those most likely to have been separated.
The vast majority of separated children are released to relatives, but many are not parents. Of children released in the 2017 fiscal year, 49 percent went to parents, 41 percent to close relatives such as an aunt, uncle, grandparent or adult sibling and 10 percent to distant relatives, family friends and others.
The government’s proposed model to flag still-separated children puts a higher priority on the roughly half who were not released to a parent. Other signs of likely separation include children under 5, younger children traveling without a sibling and those who were detained in the Border Patrol’s El Paso, Texas, sector, where the administration ran a trial program that involved separating nearly 300 family members from July to November 2017.
Saturday marks the anniversary of the administration’s “zero tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute every adult who enters the country illegally from Mexico. The administration retreated in June amid an international uproar by generally exempting adults who come with their children. The policy now applies only to single adults.
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Should President Trump follow through on a proposal to release migrants in U.S. “sanctuary cities,” it would be a major departure from the way federal agencies are handling detainees. It could also be prohibitively costly and make it more difficult to deport migrants once they reach those cities.
The plan — which Trump tweeted Friday is under “strong consideration” — would have the Department of Homeland Security moving migrants from detention centers to cities scattered across the country in vans, buses and airplanes. It would require a massive investment in transportation infrastructure, something that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told the White House would be “an unnecessary operational burden.”
It also would mean placing those detainees in cities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, meaning it could be very difficult to arrest them again.
[White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities]
During the recent surge of Central American families crossing into the United States, most were apprehended at or near the southern border with Mexico. With a deficit of detention beds, the U.S. government mainly releases the families to shelters or bus depots. Detainees are sometimes released directly to the streets of border towns, allowing immigration authorities to focus staffing and funding on deportations and criminal operations.
Trump’s proposal, which government officials said is aimed at punishing Democratic strongholds for their positions on immigration policy, calls for sending the detainees to sanctuary cities, where they can live without fear of local authorities reporting them to federal immigration officials. There are hundreds of sanctuary jurisdictions nationwide, ranging from tiny rural counties to New York City and the entire state of California.
The idea, DHS officials said, seemed predicated on the belief that an influx of migrants would be a burden to sanctuary cities. Trump has long maintained that killers, rapists and drug dealers are streaming across the border and that releasing migrants into U.S. society is a security risk. In fact, studies show immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born citizens.
Mayors of such cities condemned the White House plan on Friday, with most dismissing it as an unrealistic political stunt. Some already have waged successful legal battles against the Trump administration’s threat two years ago to slash federal funding to sanctuary cities.
Libby Schaaf, the mayor of Oakland, Calif., called the plan “an outrageous abuse of power — using human beings to settle political scores.” San Francisco Mayor London Breed said it “is just another in a long line of scare tactics and half-baked ideas.”
Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone of Somerville, Mass.,which has a population of 81,000, said he would welcome any immigrants the government wants to send his way.
“Fine by me,” he said on Twitter, firing back at Trump. “But does he realize that the moment after people get ‘placed’ they’ll start moving to wherever they want to go? Every city has an open border.”
Homeland Security prefers to detain immigrants until they are eligible for deportation, but officials are releasing tens of thousands every year because of mass migration from Central America, rising numbers of families, limited detention space and legal restrictions on how long the government can detain children.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 103,000 migrants last month — double the number in March 2018 — including nearly 60,000 family members.
CBP typically transfers migrants to ICE for detention, though this year holding cells grew so crowded that border agents started releasing some families at the border. ICE can also release migrants on bond or ankle-monitoring devices after verifying their future address and handing them a notice to appear in immigration court. Unaccompanied migrants are sent to Health and Human Services shelters, where case workers find a parent or guardian for them to live with in the United States.
Congress has allocated billions of dollars for this system, and none of it involves transporting immigrants to sanctuary cities — which some say makes the president’s plan illegal.
“It makes no sense,” said John Sandweg, an acting ICE director in 2013 and 2014 in the Obama administration, adding that it would violate federal law by diverting money “for political purposes.”
“At a time like this, when ICE is just overwhelmed by the number of Central Americans arriving, having to divert further resources to send a political message is outrageous,” he said.
[Trump’s immigration policies fail time and again ]
Sandweg said the government “would pay big money” for the White House’s plan to deliver migrants to sanctuary cities. In addition to transportation costs, officials would have to assign immigration agents to escort them to their destinations. Currently, migrants usually buy their own bus or airline tickets.
“It’s ludicrous,” Sandweg said. “It’s meddling in operations at an extreme level.”
Matthew Albence, ICE’s acting deputy director, questioned the proposal in an email to the White House in November after it was first raised as a possibility, saying that arranging for transportation would strain the department and weaken its enforcement efforts.
“As a result of the influx at the border and the record number of aliens in detention, we have already had to decrease our interior operational footprint to manage these cases, resulting in less officers out on the streets making arrests of criminal aliens, public safety threats, fugitives, and other immigration violators,” Albence wrote in an email reviewed by The Washington Post. “Not sure how paying to transport aliens to another location to release them — when they can be released on the spot — is a justified expenditure.”
After heeding Albence’s advice not to pursue the idea, the White House went back to DHS in February to try again. Legal advisers rejected it.
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors less immigration, said the plan would give migrants a free ride to their destinations. Because sanctuary cities often refuse to turn over migrants arrested for crimes to ICE, sending them there could make it more difficult to apprehend for deportation later, she said.
Vaughan said White House officials who are new to immigration policy have likely overstepped in this case.
“There are a lot of immigration policy amateurs in senior positions at the White House, and some of them should stay in their lane — which is not immigration,” she said.
On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump said blocking funding for sanctuary cities would be a top priority, saying at the time: “Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.”
But Congress has not passed any such legislation, and Trump’s other efforts to stem migration have faced legal challenges. At least seven federal courts have blocked the Trump administration from broadly cutting off funds to sanctuary jurisdictions.
Vaughan said the Trump administration has conditioned some Justice Department crime-fighting grants on local cooperation with immigration enforcement. But generally that is limited to a provision in federal law that says local governments cannot prohibit communication between police and federal immigration agents.
The law does not require localities to detain immigrants after police have arrested them for an unrelated crime, but ICE can pick them up when a judge releases them from their criminal cases.
After Trump took office, sanctuary jurisdictions were initially fearful that he would restrict their federal funding for school lunches, fuel aid and other essential programs. But those fears faded as they prevailed in court.
Hundreds of localities have since strengthened their sanctuary policies, according to the San Francisco-based Immigrant Legal Resource Center. California passed a slate of new laws and the highest court in Massachusetts said local law enforcement cannot detain someone based solely on an immigration detainer.
Curtatone, Somerville’s mayor, said that the city is “always going to be a sanctuary and welcoming city for all” and that an influx of immigrants wouldn’t change much for cities such as his.
“Somerville has experienced a continuous wave of immigration now for well over a century of Europeans and those from the Caribbean and Central and South America,” he said in a telephone interview. “We speak more than 52 languages in our neighborhoods and our schools. We embrace it.”
Fred Barbash contributed to this report.
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Kavango East, Namibia (CNN)Syringa trees rise out of the Kalahari sand in the wild expanse of Kavango East, as the humid heat warns of afternoon showers. It’s easy to imagine this place has looked the same for a hundred years.
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State health officials could see from the data that a significant number of residents died after being transferred to hospitals. The state health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, had been aware as early as June that officials in his department believed the data was good enough to include in the report, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
But Dr. Zucker testified to lawmakers in early August that the department was still auditing the numbers and could not release them. State Senator Gustavo Rivera, the chair of the health committee, suggested during the hearing that the data was being withheld to improve the governor’s image.
“That’s a problem, bro,” Mr. Rivera told Dr. Zucker. “It seems, sir, that, in this case, you are choosing to define it differently so that you can look better.”
In a statement issued on Thursday, Gary Holmes, a spokesman for the Health Department, echoed Ms. Garvey’s words, disputing that the numbers had been ready in time for the report and saying said that, regardless, they would not have changed its conclusions.
Dr. Eleanor Adams was the Health Department’s lead on the report, but her draft was substantially rewritten by Mr. Malatras, now the chancellor of the State University of New York system. He was among a number of officials and former advisers temporarily recruited by Mr. Cuomo to assist with the pandemic response.
The back-and-forth went well beyond the usual process of the governor’s office suggesting edits to an agency report, and became “intense” at times, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
Health officials felt the governor’s office, whose opinion was conveyed by Mr. Malatras, wanted to simplify too much. They worried it was no longer a true scientific report, but feared for their jobs if they did not go along.
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EVANSTON, Ill. — The body of a woman found on the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston on Thursday has been identified as missing transgender rights activist Elise Malary, police confirmed.
Malary’s body was found on the shores of Lake Michigan in the 500 block of Sheridan Square at Garden Park, just blocks from her apartment. She was 31 years old.
Malary had not been seen since March 9 and was reported missing on March 15.
She was known as a prominent activist in the LGBTQ community in the area and had quit her job at the Civil Rights Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s office the day before she went missing.
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President Donald Trump renewed his call for a border wall threatened another government shutdown or emergency action if he does not get ‘fair deal.’ (Jan. 25)
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President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Friday to announce the end of the government shutdown.
In making that announcement, Trump restated several of the reasons he feels the country needs a border wall and improved border security.
“After 36 days of spirited debate and dialogue, I have seen and heard from enough Democrats and Republicans that they are willing to put partisanship aside,” Trump said during his speech.
Here is a look at five things Trump said and the context needed to fully understand the issues he brought up.
Statement: “I want to thank all of the incredible federal workers and their amazing families who have shown such extraordinary devotion in the face of this recent hardship. You are fantastic people. You are incredible patriots. Many of you have suffered far greater than anyone but your families would know or understand. And not only did you not complain but in many cases, you encouraged me to keep going because you care so much about our country and about its border security.”
Facts: The American Federation of Government Employees sued the Trump administration shortly after the shutdown began. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been furloughed or are on the job without pay during the shutdown.
“Our members put their lives on the line to keep our country safe,” said J. David Cox Sr., the union’s national president. “Requiring them to work without pay is nothing short of inhumane.”
Throughout the entirety of the shutdown, federal employees took to social media to criticize Congress and Trump for the shutdown and ask for an agreement to be reached.
On Friday, FBI Director Christopher Wray told his agents that the five-week government shutdown has been “mind-boggling” and “unfair” days after Adm. Karl Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard, released a video calling the shutdown “unacceptable” for forcing workers to rely on food pantries and donations.
A video released by Customs and Border Protection shows a group of migrants scaling the border fence near Yuma with the help of smugglers using a ladder.
Border Patrol
Statement: “They do work. No matter where you go, they work. Israel built a wall, 99.9 percent successful. Won’t be any different for us. They keep criminals out. They save good people from attempting a very dangerous journey from other countries, thousands of miles, because they think they have a glimmer of hope of coming through. With a wall, they don’t have that hope. They keep drugs out, and they dramatically increase efficiency by allowing us to patrol far larger areas with far fewer people. It’s just common sense. Walls work.”
Facts: Several instances of migrants going over existing wall structures or under the border came to light during the shutdown that was entirely about building a wall.
The most recent incident came this week, when a group of mostly Guatemalan asylum seekers breached the U.S.-Mexico border south of Yuma, Ariz., on Monday night, by using a ladder to scale the border fence.
Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday released security-camera footage of the incident on Wednesday involving 118 migrants. About 86 percent of them were families traveling together, the agency said.
The video was released about a week after the largest single group of migrant families and minors ever recorded in the Yuma area tunneled underneath a border fence and voluntarily turned themselves into U.S. Border Patrol agents.
A group of 376 migrants, composed almost overwhelmingly of Guatemalan families and children seeking asylum, breached the U.S.-Mexico border just before noon approximately 4½ miles east of the San Luis, Ariz., commercial port of entry.
That large group tunneled under the border a couple weeks before Mexican law enforcement officials released a video showing a newly discovered tunnel that was found along the border in the area of Nogales, Ariz. It was the third tunnel found in the past couple of months.
Statement: “Human traffickers, the victims are women and children, maybe to a lesser extent, believe it or not, children. Women are tied up, they’re bound, duct tape put around their faces, around their mouths. In many cases they can’t even breathe.”
Facts: During his speech, Trump delivered a winding tale of women being bound and gagged with duct tape while being ferried across unwalled sections of the border in vehicles. When asked about his story, the Department of Homeland Security declined to provide any examples of that happening, calling into question whether such situations have happened in real life.
There are some elements of truth behind the president’s claim. More than two thirds of all Central American migrants have reported being victims of some kind of violence on their journey, and nearly a third of migrant women have reported being sexually assaulted, according to a survey conducted by Doctors Without Borders. Migrants have also reported being kidnapped along the journey as smugglers demand more money from their families or friends.
Sometimes migrants are smuggled into the country through ports of entry in the back of tractor trailers, but recent cases don’t indicate that any of the migrants were bound and gagged. Instead, the trucks are often lined with sleeping mats, water, and ventilation pipes.
But no evidence exists that duct-tape bound women have been smuggled across the border in vehicles.
Statement: “Vast quantities of lethal drugs, including meth, fentanyl, heroin and cocaine are smuggled across our Southern border and into U.S. schools and communities.”
Facts: The majority of marijuana caught by U.S. officials along the southwest border is caught between ports of entry. But according to Customs and Border Protection data, the vast majority of hard drugs, such as methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl, which are more potent and deadly, are caught at ports of entry.
Former CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske told USA Today recently that those numbers accurately reflect successful smuggling runs, since cartels have better odds getting through busy ports of entry than the stretches of border in between patrolled by Border Patrol agents.
“It’s very clear that (drugs) come through the ports,” Kerlikowske said.
Trump talked about the ‘health crisis’ on the border
Statement: “The sheer volume of illegal immigration has overwhelmed federal authorities and stretched our immigration system beyond the breaking point. Nearly 50 migrants a day are being referred for medical assistance. They’re very, very sick, making this a health crisis as well. It’s a very big health crisis. People have no idea how big it is unless you’re there.”
Facts: Since a partial government shutdown began on Dec. 22, agents have spent nearly 19,300 hours in hospital visits, according to Customs and Border Protection.
Since Dec. 22, Border Patrol has transported 2,224 migrants they’ve apprehended to local hospitals along the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s roughly 5.3 percent of all apprehensions during that time period, according to the agency.
Customs and Border Protection said in its statement that the hospitalizations have strained Border Patrol resources, “severely limiting their ability to process the large group or respond to other border security duties.”
“Thus resulting in increased time in custody, delaying custody transfer coordination, and inhibiting response to other illegal cross-border traffic,” they added.
However, advocacy groups said the increase in hospitalizations has more to do with the mounting pressure on the Border Patrol after the deaths of Guatemalan children at the border last month.
Following their deaths, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials mandated secondary medical checks for children in the government’s custody.
Contributing: Louie Villalobos and Alan Gomez of USA TODAY; Josh Susong, Daniel Gonzalez, Dan Nowicki, Michael Squires, and Dennis Wagner of the Arizona Republic
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NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO PRESENTS:
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
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The leader of the United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), a militia group that filmed itself detaining asylum seekers near the U.S.-Mexico border last week, embraced the same rhetoric used by other far-right extremists, including allegedly saying his group was plotting to assassinate Hillary Clinton and George Soros, as well as making a reference to the sovereign citizen movement.
Larry Mitchell Hopkins was arrested by federal agents on Saturday after he was charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Hopkins’ group emerged into the limelight last week after footage emerged showing UCP members apprehending hundreds of migrant families at the border, all while heavily armed and despite having no authority to do so.
According to the criminal complaint, the UCP had previous run-ins with the law — including one 2017 incident after the FBI received a tip that the group was engaged in “militia extremist activity” in Flora Vista, New Mexico.
Before the tip was received, Hopkins allegedly said the group was “training to assassinate George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.” He claimed it was because the three prominent Democrats supported Antifa, according to the complaint. A month later, when FBI agents returned to talk with Hopkins, they observed at least nine firearms in Hopkins’ office, which he said were owned by his “common law wife.” The complaint added that Hopkins had previous convictions for firearms possession in 1996 and 2006, as well as an impersonating a police officer charge from 2006.
Hopkins’ reference to high-profile Democrats, as well as his use of the phrase “common law wife,” are common fixtures in some far-right circles. Both Soros and Clinton are villains in conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon. Soros and Clinton were also both targets of Cesar Sayoc, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump who sent homemade pipe bombs to several Democratic figures who criticized the president. According to The Daily Beast, Hopkins claimed that Trump had also personally asked him about “Muslim immigration” and produced a radio show that spread rumors about the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Hopkins’ use of the phrase “common law” is significant as it is often used by sovereign citizens, a fringe group who believe, in a nutshell, that the United States government is illegitimate. Sovereign citizens, as a result, often violently oppose authorities of the government.
It’s unclear why the UCP has been allowed to operate in a semi-legitimate fashion. The criminal complaint shows that the FBI has had evidence on Hopkins since 2017, but only took action this week. Likewise, although Border Patrol said it did not condone any assistance from the UCP, the vigilantes could be seen readily helping Border Patrol officers when the initial video emerged last week.
Law enforcement’s lackadaisical attitude towards these groups is a particular point of criticism for Peter Simonson, executive director of the ACLU of New Mexico.
“These people are putting innocent families in harm’s way and it would not take much for one of those incidents where they’ve detained hundreds of migrants to escalate into a violent encounter,” Simonson told ThinkProgress. “You can imagine someone reaching into their pocket and before you know you’re in the middle of a gun fight. [Border Patrol] has an obligation at the very least to tell vigilantes to cease and desist. I think they should have at least contacted the FBI.”
Simonson stressed that the ACLU did not take any issue with individuals organizing themselves to patrol the border, but that these groups were acting as though they had taken the law into their own hands.
He added that the anti-immigrant rhetoric routinely used by Trump and members of his administration has contributed to an increasingly tense environment. In the video from last week, for instance, a member of UCP referred to the asylum seekers as a “brand new group who’s invading.” Trump himself, as well as his supporters on Fox News, have also frequently referred to immigration as an “invasion.”
“The president has spared no opportunity to mischaracterize immigrants as threats to public safety, offering no evidence of such,” Simonson said. “Combined with other strains of rhetoric like access to guns it just sets the stage for something like this to happen, it incites people to anger so they they’re feel justified in taking matters into own hands and meeting out vigilante justice.”
According to a Justice Department release Monday, Hopkins remains in custody until his next hearings, scheduled for April 29. If convicted on the criminal complaint charge, he faces a maximum of 10 years imprisonment.
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Fuentes del Ejecutivo de Atenas señalaron que esta propuesta tendrá en cuenta “el resultado del referéndum, las posiciones comunes de los líderes políticos y las propuestas de las instituciones (la Comisión Europea (CE), el Banco Central Europeo (BCE) y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI)”.
Añadieron que en una reunión mantenida hoy antes de una cumbre de líderes de la eurozona, el primer ministro griego Alexis Tsipras, el presidente de la CE, Jean-Claude Juncker, la canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, y el presidente francés, Francois Hollande, discutieron “la hoja de ruta” a seguir para lograr resultados. Destacaron además que la propuesta griega está pensada para lograr un acuerdo “hasta finales de mes”, lo que no significa que no tome en cuenta “otras propuestas” con el objetivo de preparar “un gran acuerdo sostenible” a largo plazo, informó la agencia de noticias EFE.
Las citadas fuentes confirmaron además que los ministros de Finanzas del euro, o Eurogrupo, celebrarán mañana una teleconferencia para examinar esta propuesta, luego de que el foro se reuniera hoy y de que su presidente, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, dijera que era inminente la presentación de una propuesta griega.
Tsipras participaba hoy de la cumbre extraordinaria de líderes europeos convocada para tratar la situación de Grecia, tras el referéndum del domingo en el que el rechazo a la propuesta de las instituciones fue secundado por más del 60 por ciento de la población.
Al llegar a Bruselas para el encuentro, la canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, principal impulsora del ajuste neoliberal en Europa, afirmó que “no hay un camino posible” de salida de la crisis griega sin que el gobierno de Tsipras realice las reformas y ajustes que necesita. “No estamos hablando de semanas, sino de unos pocos días”, dijo la canciller alemana, que también subrayó que “tras el fin del segundo programa de rescate (el 30 de junio) y el más que claro ‘no’ del referéndum, aún no hemos retomado las negociaciones”.
En la misma línea se manifestó el primer ministro de Holanda, Mark Rutte, otro de los férreos críticos de las intenciones de Tsipras de poner fin con cinco años de ajustes impuestos por los acreedores que han sumido a Grecia en la pobreza y a su economía en recesión, y dispararon el desempleo hasta el 26 por ciento. “Atenas debe presentar propuestas ambiciosas para hacer frente a los problemas del país, ya que de lo contrario la negociación se acabará pronto”, resumió Rutte, minutos antes del inicio de la reunión.
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En las últimas horas se sumó un nuevo nombre al enorme espectro de entrenadores que maneja la comisión de Peñarol que se encargará de nombrar al sustituto de Jorge “Polilla” Da Silva.
Hasta el momento, han trascendido técnicos argentinos, Ariel Holan y Eduardo Domínguez ya fueron contactados por dirigentes aurinegros y en estas horas se hablará, seguramente, con Gustavo Alfaro y Miguel Ángel Russo.
Pero además de entrenadores argentinos, hay uruguayos en carpeta. Ya se habló con Guillermo Alamada y muy difícil que pueda llegar ya que el Barcelona le habría ofrecido renovar contrato por tres temporadas.
“No queremos contactar entrenadores que estén trabajando en el medio”, indicó Rodoflo Catino, cuando se consultó por la posibilidad de Leonardo Ramos, hoy en Danubio, o Mario Saralegui, en Liverpool.
También trascendió que podría conformarse en nuevo cuerpo técnico, pero nadie lo confirmó: ¿Jorge Giordano junto al profesor Esteban Gesto y Antonio Pacheco con ellos? Fue un rumor que ganó la calle ayer, pero hasta el momento, nada.
El que sí se sumó a la lista de factibles entrenadores es Diego López. Y “encaja” en el perfil que definió, por ejemplo Andrés Sanguinetti días atrás: “buscamos un entrenador moderno, aggiornado, que trabaje mucho en cancha, que cuente con nuevas metodologías y teconológía en el trabajo”, y el ex-entrenador del Cagliari y Bologna de Italia, además de tener 42 años, fue destacado por la prensa italiana como uno de los nuevos técnicos con enorme proyección de futuro.
Reconocido hincha de Peñarol, jugó en las formativas del club, antes de surgir en River Plate, tiene antecedentes de ser “tácticamente impecable”.
¿Será el uruguayo que nadie nombró? En los próximos días se sabrá.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case involving the Trump administration’s desire to exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case involving the Trump administration’s desire to exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count.
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At the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, skeptical justices questioned the Trump administration’s lawyer over a plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count — the first time unauthorized immigrants would not be counted for purposes of drawing new congressional districts.
While questioning Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, Justice Samuel Alito said excluding all the illegal immigrants present in the United States “seems to me a monumental task.”
“I would think you would be able to tell us whether that remains a realistic possibility at this point,” he said.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, noted that the fact that undocumented immigrants have never been excluded in the Census “really cuts against your position.”
Questioned repeatedly by justices both liberal and conservative, Wall could not say with certainty whether the Census Bureau would be able to send to the president reliable figures on even a small category of undocumented immigrants — those in ICE detention — for exclusion. With a Dec. 31 deadline looming, he said the situation is “fluid.”
That prompted most justices to look for an exit ramp that would allow a later challenge to whatever Trump decides to do.
But that too posed problems, with states waiting anxiously to start the process of drawing new congressional districts. If we wait, asked Chief Justice John Roberts, wouldn’t that be like “unscrambling the egg”?
Monday’s arguments before the Supreme Court come just days after a lower court in Washington, D.C., tossed out one of the multiple lawsuits over Trump’s memo calling for the census apportionment counts to be altered.
Three lower courts previously declared that memo to be unlawful. The three-judge panels in New York, California and Maryland unanimously found that it violates a federal law that requires the president to report to Congress each state’s number of seats in the House of Representatives based on the “whole number of persons” in each state as determined by the census.
But the panel in D.C., made up of mostly Trump-appointed judges, found that the case is not ready for a court to review. In a split decision, the court decided that it should not step in until after the president actually delivers the numbers to Congress.
That process is likely to take place after Trump’s presidency.
The Census Bureau recently concluded it cannot finish putting together the first set of census numbers by the legal reporting deadline of Dec. 31.
After finding “processing anomalies” in this year’s census results, the bureau’s career staff determined they need to run more quality checks until at least Jan. 26, almost a week after the end of Trump’s term.
That timing would mean the process for reapportioning House seats and Electoral College votes among the states takes place under the watch of President-elect Joe Biden, who has condemned Trump’s memo and said that “in America, everyone counts.”
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In a December phone call with the chief investigator in Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, former President Donald Trump insisted he won Georgia’s presidential election, telling the investigator “the country is counting on” an audit that was launched to determine whether the signature verification process for mail ballots was done properly in the state’s third largest county, according to a newly published audio recording obtained by The Wall Street Journal.
“This country is counting on it because it’s very interesting. … I won everything but Georgia, you know, and I won Georgia — I know that — by a lot, and the people know it, and you know, something happened there. I mean, something bad happened,” Trump told the chief investigator, Frances Watson, according to the recording of the six-minute call.
The former president goes on to tell Watson, “When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised. … People will say, great, because that’s — that’s what it’s about, that ability to check it, and to make it right because everyone knows it’s wrong.”
The existence of this new audio recording comes amid a criminal probe of Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the November election in Georgia, which he lost by 11,779 votes. At the center of that investigation, which was launched by the Fulton County district attorney’s office last month, is an hour-long phone call Trump had with Raffensperger on Jan. 2. In that call, Trump spewed baseless conspiracy theories and falsehoods about the election and pleaded with Raffensperger to “find” the exact number of votes he needed to win Georgia. Trump has denied wrongdoing, and his impeachment attorneys disputed he “acted improperly in that telephone call in any way.”
A spokesperson for Trump has not responded to ABC News’ request for comment.
Raffensperger announced on Dec. 14 that investigators in his office, in coordination with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), would conduct a signature match audit of absentee ballot envelopes, saying there were specific and credible allegations that signature matching wasn’t done properly by election officials in the June primary. A total of 15,118 absentee ballot oath envelopes, which is where voters sign, were randomly selected to be audited.
The audit was completed on Dec. 29, and investigators only discovered two ballots that should not have been accepted as they were and should have undergone the “cure” process. But the GBI director also made clear that neither of those two ballots were fraudulently cast.
According to the recording, Watson assured Trump that her team and the GBI are “only interested in the truth and finding, you know, finding the information that’s based on the facts.”
ABC News previously reported on this call’s existence in January. At that time, a source familiar with the matter said Trump had told Watson to “find the fraud” and that she would be a “national hero” for it. Those exact words are not spoken in the audio recording of the call. In a follow-up conversation, that source told ABC News that that was how Watson had interpreted the president’s words and how she described the call to this source.
When the call was first reported on, ABC News did not identify the investigator because the source sharing the call’s details asked Watson remain unnamed due to the threat environment election officials were facing. In this recording, however, Trump identifies her by name.
ABC News has reached out to Watson for comment about the call and audio recording, but has not heard back. However, ABC’s Atlanta affiliate, WSB, also obtained the recording and spoke exclusively with Watson.
“It is something that is not expected, and as I mentioned in the call, I was shocked that he would take the time to do that,” Watson told WSB’s Mark Winne.
She also said she didn’t feel she was being pressured and that the investigative agency had requested the phone call.
In a statement, Raffensperger’s spokesperson, Ari Schaffer, said, “This phone call is just one more example of how Secretary Raffensperger’s office’s public comments also reflect what was said in one-on-one conversations: We would follow the law, count every legal vote and investigate any allegations of fraud. That’s exactly what we did, and how we arrived at the accurate final vote tally.”
In the recording of the call, Trump references Watson meeting with his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and Watson indicates that happened a day prior to the call. ABC News previously confirmed Meadows was in Cobb County attempting to observe the audit taking place on Dec. 22. Raffensperger’s deputy, Jordan Fuchs, said at the time that she did not allow Meadows to enter the room where investigators were working, but did allow him to stand in the doorway.
Trump does much of the talking throughout this call, rambling at times about his electoral victories in other states, like Florida, Ohio, Alabama and Texas, implying those wins are evidence that his loss in Georgia was impossible.
“Whatever you can do, Frances, it would be — it’s a great thing. It’s an important thing for the country, so important. You have no idea, so important. And I very much appreciate it,” he said, according to the recording.
Near the end of the call, Trump asked Watson whether investigators will be working through Christmas, saying, “Because you know we have that date of the 6th, which is a very important day.”
Jan. 6 was the day Congress counted the electoral votes, the last step in the certification process of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s victory.
That morning, Trump told a crowd of supporters at a rally, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. … We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
It wasn’t long after that when a mob of Trump supporters and violent extremists descended upon the U.S. Capitol, overcoming police to infiltrate the nation’s seat of government, forcing lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence to seek safety as insurrectionists attempted to obstruct Congress and Pence from following through with their constitutional duty to affirm Biden’s win.
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The chorus of House Democrats calling to launch impeachment proceedings against President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill’s Morning Report – White House, Congress: Urgency of now around budget GOP presses Trump to make a deal on spending Democrats wary of handing Trump a win on infrastructure MORE is growing louder amid heightened White House stonewalling in the face of numerous probes into the administration.
Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D’Alesandro PelosiThe Hill’s Morning Report – White House, Congress: Urgency of now around budget GOP presses Trump to make a deal on spending Democrats wary of handing Trump a win on infrastructure MORE (D-Calif.) has, for years, sought to dampen talk of impeachment, fearing the backlash from a public that’s not yet on board with ousting the president. And her message has resonated widely within a Democratic Caucus that’s overwhelmingly supported her more cautious investigative approach.
But those same probes have been dogged by the administration’s refusal to turn over documents and allow witnesses to testify before committees, particularly in relation to special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE‘s sweeping report on Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
The latest episode came this week when former White House counsel Don McGahn announced he would follow the White House’s urging and defy a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee to appear Tuesday before the panel.
For a number of Democrats who have been treading carefully into the impeachment debate, McGahn’s recalcitrance seemed to mark the end of their rope.
Rep. David CicillineDavid Nicola CicillineThe Hill’s Morning Report – White House, Congress: Urgency of now around budget Top House Dem calls to launch impeachment inquiry if McGahn skips testimony FCC Republicans give green light to T-Mobile-Sprint merger MORE (D-R.I.), the head of the Democrats’ messaging arm, broke from Pelosi’s no-impeachment strategy Monday night in calling for the launch of an impeachment inquiry into Trump if McGahn did not testify Tuesday — and McGahn did, in fact, skip the hearing. And as scores of Democratic lawmakers filtered out of a closed-door caucus meeting in the Capitol basement Tuesday morning, many said the time has come to launch formal proceedings to oust Trump.
“Nobody gets elected to Congress, nobody runs for Congress, with the idea that, ‘I want to go there and start an impeachment.’ But I think that’s what it’s come to,” said Rep. Joaquin CastroJoaquin Castro Dems brush off unemployment rate, say Hispanics will reject Trump in 2020 Lawmakers renew push to create American Latino Smithsonian museum Joaquin Castro won’t run for Senate in Texas MORE (D-Texas), a member of the Intelligence Committee. “Obviously, all of us respect [Pelosi’s] perspective and her opinion. But I think, individually, each of us have a perspective of our own. And I think it’s time to start [impeachment].”
Others echoed that message, with some calling impeachment proceedings “inevitable.”
“I think it’s time, I do,” said Rep. John YarmuthJohn Allen YarmuthBudget chairs pick former Bush official to head CBO Dem leaders feel squeeze on Trump strategy Dems say NYT report on Trump’s business losses boosts need to see president’s tax returns MORE (D-Ky.), who is chairman of the Budget Committee and a de-facto member of Pelosi’s leadership team. “I think the sheer disregard for provisions of the Constitution [providing] checks and balances is enough reason to begin the inquiry — formally.
Democrats will hold a caucus meeting on Wednesday morning to discuss their oversight and investigations of the Trump administration, offering an opportunity for a longer discussion on impeachment.
“I think there’s a growing understanding that … the impeachment process is going to be inevitable. It’s just a question of when, not if,” Yarmuth added. “And if it happens this summer, that’s fine. If it goes into the fall or next year, I think that’s probably too late.”
Democratic leaders are also facing new pressure to consider impeachment now that Rep. Justin AmashJustin AmashThe Hill’s Morning Report – White House, Congress: Urgency of now around budget Buzz grows Rep. Amash will challenge Trump as a Libertarian House Freedom Caucus votes to condemn Amash’s impeachment comments MORE (R-Mich.) has repeatedly said in recent days that Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice.
Amash on Saturday became the first GOP lawmaker to say the president engaged in “impeachable conduct.” He later stood firm by those remarks amid a backlash from fellow Republicans.
It’s unclear just how many Democrats are eager to launch impeachment proceedings against the president, and Pelosi still has plenty of backing in the caucus she’s controlled since 2003.
At a leadership meeting Monday night, her top lieutenants — House Majority Leader Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerSenators say they’ve reached deal on Puerto Rico aid 5 things to watch as Trump, Dems clash over investigations GOP lawmaker: Trump has engaged in multiple actions that ‘meet the threshold for impeachment’ MORE (D-Md.) and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) — both joined her side when Cicilline spoke up in support of launching an impeachment inquiry. And many rank-and-file members also support her more cautious approach.
“We need to show the American public that we have whatever evidence there is, and make a decision based on that,” Rep. Tony CardenasAntonio (Tony) CardenasMORE (D-Calif.) said going into Tuesday’s caucus meeting.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), former head of the Congressional Black Caucus, is also not ready to launch impeachment — yet.
“I think we’re getting very, very close to that point,” Cleaver said. “I’m not there yet, but I think every time someone refuses to testify, every time the president blocks another civilian who’s not working for the federal government from testifying … then more and more people are saying, ‘You know, he’s pushing us to the edge.’ “
A crucial factor in the debate, Cleaver argued, is having Pelosi on board.
“The Speaker needs to be there,” he said. “You don’t elect a leader and then run off and leave her.”
Yet others seem more than ready to do so.
Rep. Al GreenAlexander (Al) N. GreenTop House Dem calls to launch impeachment inquiry if McGahn skips testimony Tlaib blasts arrests of pro-impeachment protesters on Capitol Hill The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Pass USMCA Coalition – Deadline approaches for 2020 Dems MORE (D-Texas), who’s emerged as the face of the impeachment push in the House, said he’s been encouraged by Cicilline’s new support for the effort, and predicted the issue will soon come to the floor.
“I am convinced that there will be a vote on impeachment, and I am convinced that people are starting to conclude that it should be sooner rather than later,” said Green, who has been threatening for months to force a vote. “My hope is that somebody else will [force the vote]; but if nobody else does, I will.”
Green then went to the House floor, where he called for Democratic leaders to launch impeachment proceedings immediately.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden denounced President Trump during remarks in Pittsburgh on Monday.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Monday forcefully pushed back against President Trump’s campaign message that voters wouldn’t be safe under a Biden administration.
“The simple truth is Donald Trump failed to protect America. So now he’s trying to scare America,” Biden said in remarks at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Biden called Trump power hungry and lambasted the president for what Biden sees as a lack of moral leadership — a common refrain from the former vice president on the campaign trail.
“We are facing multiple crises — crises that, under Donald Trump, keep multiplying,” Biden said. “COVID, economic devastation, unwarranted police violence, emboldened white nationalists, a reckoning on race, declining faith in a bright American future. The common thread? An incumbent president who makes things worse, not better. An incumbent president who sows chaos rather than providing order.”
Biden’s trip to Pennsylvania comes amid national protests in response to police violence and the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. That shooting has led to several days of unrest in the city, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two people, allegedly by an armed vigilante. In Portland, Ore., a man was fatally shot during a night of confrontations between Trump supporters and counterprotesters.
“[Trump] can’t stop the violence because for years he has fomented it,” Biden said. “He may believe mouthing the words ‘law and order’ makes him strong, but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is.”
Trump, who will travel to Latrobe, Pa., on Thursday for a campaign event, apparently watched Biden’s remarks and tweeted that in his view, Biden is “blaming the Police far more than he’s blaming the Rioters, Anarchists, Agitators, and Looters.”
Just watched what Biden had to say. To me, he’s blaming the Police far more than he’s blaming the Rioters, Anarchists, Agitators, and Looters, which he could never blame or he would lose the Radical Left Bernie supports!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2020
Trump continues to present himself as a “tough on crime” president, a message that was front and center during last week’s Republican convention.
In a statement after Biden’s remarks, Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign communications director, said: “As predicted, Joe Biden today failed to condemn the left-wing mobs burning, looting, and terrorizing American cities.”
But Biden indeed double down on an earlier statement condemning violence that’s come out of various protests, saying on Monday: “Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. Setting fires is not protesting. None of this is protesting. It’s lawlessness, plain and simple.”
He added that those who loot and burn buildings should be prosecuted.
“You know my heart,” Biden added in Pittsburgh. “You know my story, my family’s story. Ask yourself: Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? Really? I want a safe America, safe from COVID, safe from crime and looting, safe from racially motivated violence, safe from bad cops.”
Biden said Trump looks at instances of violence as his “political lifeline.”
“He keeps telling you if only he was president, it wouldn’t happen,” Biden said. “If he was president, you’d feel safe. Well, he is president, whether he knows it or not. And it is happening. It’s getting worse and you know why? Because Donald Trump adds fuel to every fire.”
Biden argued he would be able to unite the country and foster healing, saying he would abandon the divisive language Trump uses and get both police and those fighting for racial justice to the table to bring about lasting change.
Biden then seemingly tried to use Trump’s tactics against him, saying the real fear Americans feel comes from the destabilization that has happened because of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his plans to undermine Social Security programs and his relationship with leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Never before has an American president played such a subservient role to a Russian leader. It’s not only dangerous, it’s humiliating and embarrassing for the rest of the world to see. It weakens us,” Biden said.
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