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Immigration, Prince Philip, U.F.O.s: Your Weekend Briefing
Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories.
April 11, 2021
crush of young migrants
arriving at the border. The flow is only expected to increase in coming weeks.
The numbers are daunting. More than 20,000 children and teenagers are in the custody of a government system that is already overstretched. In March, border agents encountered nearly 19,000 children at the border the largest number recorded in a single month most of them fleeing poverty and violence in Central America. Above, La Joya, Texas, last month.
By June, there could be more than 35,000 migrant children in need of care, according to government projections obtained by The Times a prospect that one former senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services called “terrifying.”
A Teacher Marched to the Capitol. When She Got Home, the Fight Began.
Kristine Hostetter was a beloved fourth-grade teacher. Then came the pandemic, the election and the Jan. 6 riot in Washington.
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April 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. Word got around when Kristine Hostetter was spotted at a public mask-burning at the San Clemente pier, and when she appeared in a video sitting onstage as her husband spoke at a QAnon convention. People talked when she angrily accosted a family wearing masks near a local surfing spot, her granddaughter in tow.
Even in San Clemente, a well-heeled redoubt of Southern California conservatism, Ms. Hostetter stood out for her vehement embrace of both the rebellion against Covid-19 restrictions and the stolen-election lies pushed by former President Donald J. Trump. This was, after all, a teacher so beloved that each summer parents jockeyed to get their children into her fourth-grade class.
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A Victorville gym owner known for defying the state’s lockdown orders during the COVID-19 pandemic was arrested Tuesday on suspicion that he was part of the violent incursion into the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Trump.
Jacob Lewis faces two felonies: entering the Capitol’s restricted grounds, and violent entry and disorderly conduct. After his arrest at his home Tuesday morning, a U.S. magistrate judge authorized Lewis’ release on a $50,000 bond and required him to wear an electronic monitor while he awaits future court appearances. Lewis was captured in several photos taken during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in which Trump supporters stormed the building seeking to block Congress from certifying President Biden’s victory over Trump in the November election, according to the criminal complaint. Photos showed him moving through the building’s corridors and passing through doors into Senate’s wing of the building, prosecutors alleg