Gov. Greg Abbott: We’re Going to Start Jailing Border Crossers in Texas
As Texas border counties struggle to contain the overwhelming surge of illegal immigrants, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced his administration is putting a stop to it through a disaster declaration: “We’re going to start arresting.”
“I don’t think this has ever happened before where a disaster declaration was made for border counties because of the influx of people coming across the border,” Abbott said on Fox News Wednesday. “But I did because we are about to change the way that Texas addresses the challenges on the border, and we are going to start by helping these 34 counties respond by increasing arrests. We’ve got a new game in the state of Texas that’s going to begin next week, and that’s we’re going to start arresting.”
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Toxic legacy, part 2: Fighting for justice after chemical warfare in Vietnam June 3, 2021 11:24 AM CDT By Amiad Horowitz
Two patients suffering with injuries caused by Agent Orange who are cared for at the Center for Nurturing and Treatment of Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims near Hanoi. | Photo courtesy of Bùi Vũ
The following article is the second in a two-part series on U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam. The first part, which can be read here, dealt with the history of Agent Orange and its use by the U.S. military in Southeast Asia. This installment covers the stories of the victims and their battle for justice.
noun
“the emancipation of feminist ideas”
the freeing of someone from slavery.
“the early struggle for emancipation from slavery”
Another June is upon us. While the rainbow flags begin to unfurl across the country and Pride gatherings get penciled onto calendars I’d be remised to not think about where we were just a year ago. We were four months into a global pandemic. In the United States we had 2,177,888 total positive COVID-19 test results accompanied by 112,172 total U.S. COVID-19 deaths. We were a few weeks into the summer of civil unrest that was sparked by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. Here in the Twin Cities, by early June 2020 there had been nearly 604 arrests, and upwards of $500 million in damage to approximately 1,500 properties. These figures made this the second-most destructive period of civil unrest in United States history after the Los Angeles riots of 1992 (interesting I lived through both of these).