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it’s impossible to keep up with all the news.  At least for me it is!

It's Impossible To Keep Up

I had no idea that Title 42 was being lifted until commenter Josie sent me an article – was everyone aware of that but me?

Governor Greg F. Abbott (the F. stands for Fucking) is doing his best to gum up the works.  No surprise there.  I cannot believe we don’t have a tag called Republican fuckery.  I had to settle for Jump, You Fuckers!

Josie knew about it because Beto wrote to her:

Dear Josie,

You have probably been following the news about the surge of migrants and asylum seekers who have been arriving in El Paso recently as well as the court battles around Title 42 and our country’s immigration and asylum policies.

While we can’t control the outcome in the courts, there is something we can do this holiday season to relieve the suffering these families — many of whom have traveled thousands of miles by foot to escape crushing poverty, brutal violence or political repression — are going through.

Our local independent online newspaper, El Paso Matters, has put together a list of opportunities to help meet the demand we have in our community. There are many ways to help, from giving money to volunteering (and volunteers are in high demand right now).

Please take a moment to learn more and find a way to contribute.

My best to you and your family over the holidays,

Beto

From the article:

El Paso’s humanitarian organizations need help as they aid migrants who are passing through El Paso, and with border crossings expected to rise next week when public health policy Title 42 lifts, community leaders are predicting a situation that will require all hands on deck.

One of the biggest unauthorized border crossings in El Paso history occurred this past weekend when thousands of migrants waded across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez. For most migrants – who hail mainly from Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic – El Paso is a temporary stay until they can depart for their intended destination. People continued to cross the border throughout the week, but since shelters are at capacity, federal agents are releasing migrants into the streets, including nearly 200 people today, according to a city dashboard.

Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing tonight. An encampment has formed outside the Greyhound bus station, where individuals are bringing water, food, blankets and other supplies, including a mattress. After reports of limited access to public restrooms, the city set up several portable toilets in a nearby parking lot.

On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the state’s attorney general to investigate nongovernmental organizations which he claims are helping migrants illegally cross the border near El Paso. In his letter, Abbott did not provide any evidence supporting his allegations and local nonprofits accused the governor of trying to criminalize groups for providing humanitarian aid to migrants.

Despite the governor’s language, NGOs in El Paso are calling on people to support their work. Here are ways you can help.

There’s much more in the article if you are interested in volunteer and donation opportunities to help in El Paso.

What is Title 42 and what could its end mean for the border and migration?

Bottom line, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to stop using Title 42 by Dec. 21, stating that it was “arbitrary and capricious.” The ruling followed a lawsuit from families seeking U.S. asylum.

The administration had tried to stop using Title 42 sooner, but was blocked by a federal court in Louisiana. Other legal wrangling is ongoing, including an effort by several Republican-led states to keep Title 42 in place, arguing that an increase in migration would harm them.

 

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  1. 1.

    bbleh

    Last I read, Roberts (as Supremo to whom emergency appeals from the DC CA are assigned) temporarily blocked the lifting, but response from the administration was due TODAY, which to me (IANAL) suggests it was pro forma and the fix is in unless the red states really pull a rabbit out of their hats.

  2. 2.

    Old School

    Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday put a temporary hold on the termination of a controversial Trump-era immigration policy known as Title 42 that was set to end on December 21, leaving it in place for now.
    But in a brief order Roberts signaled that the court wants to act quickly and asked the Biden administration to respond by 5 p.m. ET Tuesday to an emergency appeal filed by a group of Republican-led states.
    The brief order from Roberts means the policy that allows officials to swiftly expel migrants at the US border will stay in effect at least until the justices decide the emergency application. The order does not necessarily reflect the final outcome of the case.

  3. 3.

    CaseyL

    Am I remembering correctly, that for a while the Biden Administration used Title 42 as a response to RW-GOP-MSM screeching about Biden letting “illegals” in without screening them for Covid?

  8. 8.

    bbleh

    @WaterGirl: @CaseyL:  I think also (1) they couldn’t just rescind it because it was statutory law, and it took time to work that through the courts, and (2) it also bought time for them to start fixing the immigration/asylum system, which the Trump people deliberately damaged as badly as they could

    (The irony that Republicans angrily supported a public health measure aimed at COVID presumably goes without stating.)

  9. 9.

    David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch

    Anyone notice how the endless media stories about “crime”, “inflation”, ‘gas prices” vanished after the “red wave” fizzled out?

    It’s as if the media was trying to help the gop at the ballot box with…. dare I say it… fake news.

  11. 11.

    bbleh

    @David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch: sadly, I think it’s also testament to the comparative effectiveness of the two parties’ publicity machines.  The Republican Puke Funnel is just much more efficient and responsive.  And of course the media by nature resist walking back anything they’ve previously said, even if it’s proven conclusively to them that they were led by the nose into promulgating total falsehoods.

  17. 17.

    Qrop Non Sequitur

    @WaterGirl: Must be but at first I thought I was looking at black sand up close, with maybe a pebble in the middle. But the pebble turned out to be an obelisk

    @Ruckus: The news was real, it was just devoid of useful context and heavily promoted in ways specifically tailored to assist Republicans.

  19. 19.

    Lapassionara

    I wish someone would do some stories on the benefits of immigration. I saw a piece about a motel owner in Topeka, KS who cannot find enough employees to help clean rooms, etc. I have seen stories about some communities that have benefitted from immigrants settling there. Also, there should be some stories about the causes of the waves of migration from South America.  As I understand it, many of the people crossing now are from Cuba. I thought we gave Cuban migrants “special status,” but I hear nothing about those issues in the press.

    All the Republicans have to say is “look, more scary brown people,” and it makes headlines.

  20. 20.

    Starfish

    El Paso is overwhelmed by the number of migrants right now and has been sending them to other cities that have capacity. Denver is one of the cities that took about 100 migrants. There are temporary jobs for bilingual English/Spanish speakers to help the people who were sent to Denver. Here is one story that was requesting stuff for the migrants.

    When there were first stories of migrants, it was not clear if people were being dumped here due to the earlier Abbott and DeSantis stunts.

    Later, we learned that El Paso just did not have the resources for the number of people. There is a scaremongering thing in the New York Post saying that there are at least 20,000 waiting to cross into the US once Title 42 expires.

  21. 21.

    rebelsdad (fka texasboyshaun)

    Petition to add a new tag called “Lone Star Fuckery,” because the fuckery from Texas Republicans is galaxy-brained level compared to standard GOP fuckery.

    On a related note, has anyone else seen that AG Paxton asked the Texas DPS for a list of the 14,000+ Texans who have received a gender change on their state licenses/IDs? I’ve been sounding the alarm about their cruel intentions for years now but so many other Texans, even liberals, told me I was paranoid.

  26. 26.

    David ⛄ 🎅The Establishment🎄 🦌 🕎 Koch

    @Old School: ​
      This!

    Updated estimates saying FIVE MILLION people are at Argentina’s World Cup victory celebrations in Buenos Aires.

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    annmarie hordern @annmarie 31m

    President Zelenskiy is expected to travel to Washington tomorrow to address Congress, people familiar tell @JenniferJJacobs. and @emrwilkins. Zelenskiy’s visit would be his first trip outside Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24. First reported by PunchbowlNews

  36. 36.

    Qrop Non Sequitur

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Typically the anti-immigration folk I hear from make an exception for highly educated professionals.

    I’d like us to get to the point where migrant farmers don’t need to justify their existence in the minds of bigots.

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    President Zelenskiy is expected to travel to Washington tomorrow to address Congress, people familiar tell @JenniferJJacobs. and @emrwilkins. Zelenskiy’s visit would be his first trip outside Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24. First reported by PunchbowlNews

    I think they just said on MSNBC that this is still tentative, details being finalized. I imagine the reporting makes it harder

  41. 41.

    Qrop Non Sequitur

    @Gin & Tonic: Well there you have it

    I’d hope they had him securely in Poland before the announcement or a secure route where Russia won’t reach him.

  43. 43.

    Anne Laurie

    I cannot believe we don’t have a tag called Republican fuckery.

    Ahem: Republican Venality. All-purpose & much used!

  45. 45.

    Scout211

    Have we heard an update from Humboldt Blue yet?

    Latest from the earthquake area is that at least two people have died due to medical emergencies during or after the quake and at least 12 people are injured. 70,000 people are still out of power and there has  already been over 80 aftershocks.  More aftershocks are predicted and residents are told to be prepared for a possibility of a large aftershock of 5 or higher magnitude.

  47. 47.

    piratedan

    in AZ, where Kari Lake still has a pending lawsuit in play alleging election shenanigans….

    the judge threw out 7 of her 9 claims as frivolous, meaning she has two outstanding where the judge essentially informed her legal team, show up with something resembling proof or I will toss the remaining two counts…

    Neither of the two claims allowed by the judge has to do with Arizona Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, whom Lake had accused of malfeasance in her role as Arizona’s secretary of state.

    Apparently confused in regards to what constitutes proof, Lake continued to insist that she was going to have the actual Governor elect testify… and now, Lake’s team has rescinded the subpoena issued to Hobbs… probably as a twofer, they would have gotten the truth and the Judge would have eviscerated her for bringing Hobbs in to testify….

  49. 49.

    NotMax

    Down Amir’s way.

    A northeastern state in Malaysia earlier this month updated its Shariah code with several amendments, one of which now prohibits “women acting like men” and wearing men’s clothing, the Malaysian government’s new agency Bernama reported.

    Citing politician Satiful Bahari Mamat, the chairman of the committee responsible for the Shariah code, Bernama reported that authorities in the state of Terengganu can now punish people for violating four new changes to the law:

    Women acting like men
    Women becoming pregnant or giving birth out of wedlock
    Practicing witchcraft or sorcery
    Attempting sodomy
    Source

    Retrograde to da max. Witchcraft? Oy vey.

  52. 52.

    Roger Moore

    @Qrop Non Sequitur:

    The news was real, it was just devoid of useful context and heavily promoted in ways specifically tailored to assist Republicans.

    It highlights the difference between truthfulness and honesty.  It’s possible to use 100% truthful stories to give people a dishonest impression of reality.  It’s not enough that the news media present information that’s factually correct; they need to provide context.  If they deliberately focus on just a few things and ignore others, people will get a distorted view of what’s happening.

  53. 53.

    Dan B

    @Scout211: I’m worried because the quake was at the southern end of the Juan de Fuca plate.  You know, the one that could cause a magnitude 9 quake off the Washington and Oregon coasts.  We stay at a resort a few miles from where evidence of the quake and tsunami that caused the tsunami in Japan memorialized in the painting The Great Wave of Kanagawa.  That quake caused the ocean floor to drop 60 feet and the coast to drop so much that the ocean flooded a mile in the Copalis River drowning a forest.

  56. 56.

    zhena gogolia

    I’d love to see Putler get his just deserts, but I really want to see Margarita Simonyan get hers.

  57. 57.

    Dan B

    @Mike in NC: Howler Baboons Lauren, Marge, and Paul G presumably will howl.  They’ll discover that Zelenskyy has skills from years as a comedian and a degree in Law.

  59. 59.

    lowtechcyclist

    When they say “Title 42,” they don’t mean the whole shebang, because it covers all sorts of stuff, from Federal flood insurance to solid waste disposal.

    Any of you legal eagles know which particular section of 42 U.S.C. they mean by “Title 42”?

  60. 60.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @bbleh: Right. I had the same reaction. “Sp let me see if I understand. TFG was simultaneously telling us COVID was basically the flu, no big deal, and would be gone by Easter, and also declaring a public health emergency that would require closing the southern border?”

  62. 62.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: ​
     

    “Sp let me see if I understand. TFG was simultaneously telling us COVID was basically the flu, no big deal, and would be gone by Easter, and also declaring a public health emerge that would require closing the southern border?”

    Depends on which stance was best at a given moment for owning the libs or sticking it to some other group they dislike. It’s not like they have any real policy preferences beyond that.

  64. 64.

    TriassicSands

    @Qrop Non Sequitur: Obviously we need tags for every nuance of Republican misdeeds.

    Um, you are aware of the concept of “infinite,” aren’t you?

    It is simply not possible to have a tag for every possible “nuance of Republican misdeeds.” We’d need servers with more capacity than crypto has sucked up in all its years of existence.

  65. 65.

    TriassicSands

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    Yes, but sadly, the Committee only reached those people willing to watch and listen. That included virtually none of the people who desperately needed to be reached.

    We see that constantly in comment sections, where RWNJs continue to call the Committee’s work a partisan witch hunt. The stupidity of those comments is appalling, but predictable.

    I consider the televised January 6 Committee hearings to be the best use of television in my lifetime.

  68. 68.

    Amir Khalid

    @NotMax:

    Terengganu is one of two states (the other being its neighbour Kelantan) where the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) always wins statewide elections. PAS is a fundamentalist party, the only one in Malaysia, and it has never had anything to offer its voters but pietistic bullshit. Like these new rules, like mandating gender-segregated checkout lines at the supermarket, and things like that.

  69. 69.

    Geminid

    I finally got around to reading the Sunday Washington Post’s Metro section and saw that Virginia “Jinx” Holton died. In 1970, she and her husband Linwood Holton Jr., the new Governor of Virginia, made national news when they enrolled their three oldest children in Richmond public schools.

    Technically, the Governor’s mansion is not part of the city Richmond and they could have sent their kids to a private school, or to one over the Henrico County line where Richmond’s white elite had fled to avoid desegregation. Instead they decided that it was a good time to set a good example, and it was.

        That September, the governor escorted their eldest daughter, Tayloe, to a predominately Black high school- a moment captured by a photo on the front page of the New York Times.

    Mrs. Holton, befitting her lower profile and her early career as a CIA intelligence analyst, made a less publicized but no less brave stand against segregation. She accompanied their younger daughter, Ann, and their son Linwood III to a mostly Black middle school. Another son, Dwight was still in preschool.

    Born in 1925, Virginia Harrison Rodgers originally wanted to be a lawyer, but her attorney father argued against it, joking that she was already argumentative enough and needed no further training. So when she graduated from Wellesley College in 1946 Ms. Rodgers completed a French-English secretarial course in New York and went to work at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels.

    Homesick, she returned to Virginia and worked at CIA headquarters. Then in 1953, on a trip back to her hometown of Roanoke, Ms. Rodgers met her future husband on a blind date.

    While Virginia Holton never made it to law school, her daughter Ann did. Ann Holton practiced family law in Richmond and ended up Chief Judge of Richmond’s Domestic Relations Court. She resigned from the bench in 2005 when her husband, Tim Kaine became Governor. Since then Ann Holton has taught law, and served as Virginia’s Secretary of Education from 2014 to 2016.

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur
    News: Ways & Means Committee votes 24-16 to release Trump’s tax information to the full House.

    Chairman Richard Neal authorizes staff to redact “sensitive personal identifiable information” like Social Security numbers and street addresses so that those aren’t made public.

  71. 71.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln 20h

    Ketchup‘s definitely decking the halls of Mar-a-Lago tonight.’

    just noticed the timestamp– I wonder if he’ll add mustard and mayo to his redecorating

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