Daily Archives: February 11, 2021

2021-02-11: News Headlines

Greta Anderson — Dave Parsons (2021-02-11). Of Mexican Wolves and Their Habitat. counterpunch.org The Arizona Game and Fish Department has been busy promoting recently published research which documents ample habitat for Mexican wolves in Mexico. This supports the recovery criteria in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's official recovery plan and the Department's desire to assume management of Mexican wolves, which will occur when the delisting criteria have been met. It

RT (2021-02-11). Los Alamos lab, birthplace of the atomic bomb, STILL under threat from wildfires despite repeated major incidents. rt.com Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb and critical US nuclear weapons production facility, remains under threat from wildfires despite several high profile, expensive blazes in recent decades. | A recent

Online News Editor (2021-02-11). Archbishop blesses immigration sculpture in Miami. laprensalatina.com Miami, Feb 10 (efe-epa).- Miami Archbishop Thomas Wensky on Wednesday blessed the "Angels Unawares" sculpture dedicated to immigration, which will remain in a city park until April 8 to inspire compassion and awareness about the needs of migrants and refugees. The story of humanity is the story of immigration and also of this city, said …

mgrochowski (2021-02-10). Quienes somos y qué queremos los Socialistas Democráticos. dsausa.org El Grupo de Trabajo por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes de DSA los invita a un seminario web en español: "Quienes somos y qué queremos los Socialistas Democráticos." Escuche a algunos de nuestros miembros sobre su trabajo en DSA y en sus comunidades. Zoom Información de registro en instrucciones y respuesta. Join…

commondreams (2021-02-10). Beyond Nuclear Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump Targeted at Texas/New Mexico Border. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Vanessa Meraz (2021-02-10). All Undocumented Americans Deserve a Pathway to Citizenship. commondreams.org Years of advocacy have made DACA the floor of what's possible, not the ceiling. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/shutterstock_49320484.jpg

Real Progressives (2021-02-09). UBI and Immigrants: Lessons from the Pandemic. realprogressives.org This article was written by This post is part of our Does universal basic income have a role to play in a more just political economy? It is by now fairly well appreciated that, on the level of individual countries, much depends on the framing and design of t…

Staff (2021-02-09). Immigrants Shouldn't Have to Sacrifice Themselves to COVID for Basic Rights. truthout.org During the election campaign that led him to the White House, Joe Biden

Alan Macleod (2021-02-09). From Concentration Camps to Overflow Facilities: With Biden in Charge, Media Forgets Kids in Cages. mintpressnews.com The lack of critical coverage of Biden's new announcement suggests that corporate media will no longer be as concerned about "kids in cages" now their preferred candidate is in the White House.

Ralph Nader (2021-02-09). Democrats Disarm Themselves Before Trump's Senate Impeachment Trial. counterpunch.org Donald Trump, has with luck, eluded the consequences of being a failed gambling czar with no respect for the law. But his luck has reached a new level with Congressional Democrats refraining from holding him accountable for breaking the law and violating the Constitution as regularly as the rising and setting of the sun for

Naureen Shah (2021-02-09). This is Biden's Chance to End ICE's Abuses — For Good. aclu.org President Biden's 100-day deportation moratorium, announced late last month, was a monumental achievement for immigrant justice activists and immigrant communities. Less visible but potentially groundbreaking: The Department of Homeland Security's promise to conduct a top-to-bottom review of programs and policies governing the arrests and deportations of immigrants in the United States. | While a Texas court temporarily enjoined the deportation moratorium (the ACLU has

Tan I, Tan C, Hsu L, et al. (2021-02-09). Prevalence and Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Migrant Workers in Singapore. jamanetwork.com This study examines the prevalence and outcomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection among migrant workers in Singapore.

Online News Editor (2021-02-09). Flow of migrants, deportees growing in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez. laprensalatina.com By Guadalupe Peñuelas Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb 9 (efe-epa)- The flow of migrants in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and their attempts to illegally cross the frontier into the United States have increased in the last few weeks since the inauguration of Joe Biden and given that immediate return policies are still in …

teleSUR (2021-02-08). Mexico: AMLO Reappears in Public After Overcoming COVID-19. telesurenglish.net President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said: "We are here to continue fighting." | The president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, resumed his official activities this Monday in his morning conference after recovering from COVID-19, with which he was diagnosed on January 24. | RELATED: | "Here we are to continue fighting, also to thank many friends from abroad and all the people of Mexico, women, men, who expressed their desire for…

teleSUR (2021-02-08). 11 Women Were Deported to Mexico With Their US-Born Children. telesurenglish.net The Fuller Project and The Guardian on Monday presented an investigation showing that at least 11 migrant women were deported to Mexico in 2020 without birth certificates for their U.S.-born children. | RELATED: | A 23-year-old Haitian woman, who was nine-months pregnant when she crossed into the U.S., was sent back to a Mexican town after giving birth at a California hospital. | "She was dropped on a desert road at the San Di…

Online News Editor (2021-02-08). Mexican president makes public appearance after recovering from Covid-19. laprensalatina.com Mexico, Feb 8 (efe-epa).- Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador resumed public duties on Monday following two weeks of isolation after contracting Covid-19. "We are here to continue fighting. I want to also thank many friends abroad and everyone in Mexico: the women and the men that expressed their desire for me to recover well," …