$4.25 NZD (>25%) in 4 years is modest? The increase alone is almost 200% of the USA $2.13 minimum wage.
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That one’s more about the In your end o.
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Migrants freed without court notice — sometimes no paperwork
This story released one hour ago by the AP.
The overwhelming administrative incompetence being demonstrated under Biden’s oversight is even more worrying when you consider he is in control of the ENTIRE executive branch, and his party is in charge on the legislative side. Thus we are faced with galloping incompetence throughout the Federal government at this point. And it REALLY shows, virtually everywhere.
Trump got results. Biden brings only chaos. It is a sad day for America.
MISSION, Texas (AP) — Overwhelmed and underprepared, U.S. authorities are releasing migrant families on the Mexican border without notices to appear in immigration court or sometimes without any paperwork at all — time-saving moves that have left some migrants confused.
The rapid releases ease pressure on the Border Patrol and its badly overcrowded holding facilities but shifts work to Immigration and Customs and Enforcement, the agency that enforces immigration laws within the United States. Families are released with booking records; only parents are photographed and fingerprinted.
The Border Patrol began the unusual practice last week in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has seen the biggest increase in the number of migrant families and unaccompanied minors crossing the border. Last week, the agency added instructions to report to an ICE office within 60 days to adults’ booking documents.
But some got no documents at all, including dozens at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in the Texas border city of Mission, where about 100 migrants released by U.S. authorities had been arriving each night to sleep on mats in classrooms in a shuttered elementary school.
Carlos Enrique Linga, 27, waited at the shelter for a week without documents along with his 5-year-old daughter, hoping to join a friend in Tennessee. His wife is still in Guatemala with their 2-year-old twin daughters and a 3-month-old.
Linga was unwilling to leave the shelter until he got documents and was asking Catholic Charities of Rio Grande Valley for help.
“We hope they can help with our papers so that we can move on, work and send (money) to my family,” said Linga, whose home in Guatemala was destroyed by storms in November. “The church has told us that there are mistakes sometimes. Because there are so many people, they forget.”
Customs and Border Protection, which oversees the Border Patrol, said it stopped issuing court notices in some cases because preparing even one of the documents often takes hours. Migrants undergo background checks and are tested for COVID-19.
The agency didn’t answer questions about how many migrants have been released without court notices or without documents at all.
Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of Rio Grande Valley, knows of 10 to 15 families released without any paperwork since last week, an issue that has cropped up before when there are large increases in new arrivals.
“It’s a problem, it’s a situation we need to resolve, to make sure we follow up,” she said.
Migrants will be issued notices to appear in court at their 60-day check-ins with ICE, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans have not been made public. It is unclear how widespread the practice has been, but it is very common in Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings.
Preparing a court appearance notice can take an hour to 90 minutes, said Chris Cabrera, spokesman for the National Border Patrol Council, a union that represents agents. He welcomed the change.
“Honestly, from my end, I think it’s good because it’s less paperwork for our guys,” said Cabrera, who works in the Rio Grande Valley.
An uptick in the number of people crossing the border, especially children traveling alone and families, has filled up federal holding facilities. The U.S. has been releasing families with children 6 and under and expelling families with older children under pandemic-related powers that deny an opportunity to seek asylum.
Immigration attorneys had mixed reactions to people being released without court notices or paperwork, particularly the requirement to check in with ICE. They advise migrants to apply for a different route to asylum — one that’s only for people already in the country. In that option, they meet a Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officer in a less adversarial environment and if denied, can appeal to an immigration judge, advocates say.
“It’s a whole different tone,” said Charlene D’Cruz, director of Lawyers for Good Government’s Project Corazon legal aid program. And if they fail, they get “a second bite at the apple” before a judge.
Initially, U.S. authorities didn’t even require the ICE check-in when it began releasing families without court notices over the past two weeks. But they shifted course. D’Cruz said ICE could potentially issue a notice to appear in court, expel people from the country or do nothing.
“There are so many different options, and I don’t know what’s going to happen,” D’Cruz said.
The immigration courts, with a backlog of 1.3 million cases, is ill-prepared for a large increase in new asylum claims.
At the shelter in Mission, a city of about 85,000 people bordering Mexico with a large park known for birdlife, migrants who have booking records closely guarded them. Along with their proof of a COVID-19 test, the documents are kept in large yellow envelopes that say, “Please help me. I do not speak English.”
Information on the booking form is sparse: name, nationality, gender, date of birth. Some forms say they are eligible for “prosecutorial discretion,” a designation that signals they are not a priority for deportation.
Jose Sansario waited at the shelter for a week after coming from Guatemala with his wife, Kimberly, and their 3-year-old daughter, Genesee. They had difficulty finding flights to Richmond, Virginia, their final destination.
They left their homeland in early March because a gang threatened to kill him if he didn’t hand over money from his auto repair business. He said he heard the Biden administration was friendly to immigrants, despite repeated statements from the president and top aides that the border is not open.
“We didn’t know what was true, but we had faith — faith that God would help us and that faith would allow us in,” Sansario said.
Alba Urquia of El Salvador waited for a week at the shelter because she was released without any documents after crossing the Rio Grande with a large group of migrants, including her 4-year-old daughter. She plans to help her father with his car repair shop in Los Angeles.
“I can’t leave,” she said, sitting on a bench in the shuttered school’s playground. The shelter has since closed. “Our fear is that they return us to Mexico or to our country.”
“That would be a nightmare,” said Alexi Sarmiento of Honduras, who came to the U.S. with her 6- and 9-year-old daughters and was released without documents.
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Quite a read!
What Biden is doing (not doing) is a disgrace. Neither he nor Harris have visited the border yet.
When I observed the happening along the border fence during the night, was honestly just pitiful. Those men tossing 2 young girls over the fence, practically babies (age 2 & 5). Any parent could imagine their own children at that age left out in the dark, terrified & alone, would be disparate.
I heard this morning that President Biden could solve this crises at the border in 2 hours. (if he wanted)
The crisis at the border is shameful.
The children may have been 3 & 6 yr. The story is real life happening right now.
Those private prisons Trump got built to house people? Their contract means they get paid whether the beds are full or not, because Trump is a master negotiator.
So true!!
If President Trump was leading the USA now, there would be no problem on the border Illegals would be waiting in Mexico to be ushered into the USA in a legal manner. The border wall would be near completion… The northern pipe line would be continuing & hundreds if not thousands of Americans would still have their high paying jobs.
One more thing our children would still be going to school 5 days a week. Our country would not be schooling illegal children instead of our own. Our taxes would not be shooting up to the sky,
We would all be so happy. Now all you see & talk to are frustrated Americans.
Yertle would like you to know that Republicans all support the Infrastructure bill, but they all voted against because they were too dumb to realize it applied to this year.
Took a bit to track back down… but here is Fox lawyers successfully arguing you cant believe a word Tucker says.
Is this true? Does that change the Senate count to 51 R? 
Or April Fool?
Bummer!! I fell for it, so happy for a couple minutes. Please say it isn’t so.
Gaetz is being accused of rape (she was under the age of consent), human trafficking (across state lines), child porn (he showed his Republican colleagues pictures and video), child prostitution (he denied their being photos of him with child prostitutes, which was something he wasnt being asked about) and revenge porn (those women probably didn’t consent to having their pics and video shown). And all this came about during an investigation of another Republican politician for the same things.
McCarthy said if all that stuff is true, he will remove Gaetz from his committees though.
Prostitutes and drug use by Gaetz.
The Gaetz story has grown so much if it were a person he wouldn’t be interested in them any longer.
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When does the media cover horrific crimes? Only when the perps are white:
by Amber Athey
What makes a tragic death a major news story? The races of the perpetrators and the victims, of course. As the media goes all in on critical race theory, many journalists have decided to only provide obsessive coverage of horrific crimes when they can be used to advance the idea — as so eloquently explained by NBA star LeBron James — that minorities are being ‘literally hunted’ by evil white people.
Proof of this phenomenon has never been so clear as in the past several weeks.
It all started when a white man was charged with killing eight people — including six Asian women — at three different massage parlors in the Atlanta area. The shooting capped off weeks of media outlets reporting that hate crimes against Asian-Americans were skyrocketing, spurring the hashtag #StopAAPIHate. The media blamed this trend on President Trump because he had called COVID-19 the ‘China virus’ or ‘Wuhan virus’ and white supremacy. Most journalists ignored the fact that the majority of suspects in hate crimes against Asian Americans are other minorities. Also brushed aside was the fact that the Atlanta shooter claimed his motivation was not about race, but anger stemming from his own sex and pornography addiction. When a law enforcement official tried to relay the shooter’s alleged motivation to the public, Vox reporter Aaron Rupar selectively edited a video to spark outrage at the officer. How dare he suggest this was anything but a race-based crime?
Just a few days later, another mass shooting occurred in Boulder, Colorado. Initial videos from the incident showed a light-skinned individual being detained by police, so writers and activists rushed to blame ‘white men’ and insisted that the suspect would’ve never been taken alive if he were a minority. The shooter was later identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a Syrian immigrant, who friends and family say was bullied for his Middle Eastern name and was often paranoid about being attacked because of his race. Still, some found a way to double down and blame whiteness, including Kamala Harris’s niece, who wrote, ‘I made an assumption based on his being taken into custody alive and the fact that the majority of mass shootings in the US are carried out by white men.’ In any other context, her remarks would have been roundly condemned as prejudice. Even when white men are not the suspects, they are still somehow the culprits.
Both of these shootings received wall-to-wall coverage. Meanwhile, a shooting that saw eight people injured and two dead in Virginia Beach was hardly touched on cable news. The suspects are black, so the liberal outrage machine did not kick into gear.
Finally, this week in Washington DC, an Uber Eats driver was murdered after two teenage girls tried to hijack his car. The girls allegedly tased Mohammad Anwar, a 66-year-old Pakistani immigrant, before trying to drive away as Anwar was still hanging out of the driver’s side of the car. He was killed when the vehicle crashed. The video is horrifying, particularly as one of the suspects expresses more concern for her phone being left in the car than she does the man she just killed. This story, which caps off a year of skyrocketing carjackings in the DC area, should be top news. However, the two teenage girls are black. So instead, we got CNN referring to Anwar’s death as an ‘accident’ in which he was ‘fatally injured’. DC mayor Muriel Bowser sent out a scheduled tweet telling residents they can prevent auto theft by locking their cars and avoiding parking in unsafe areas.
Yahoo News! reporter Hunter Walker accused conservatives of highlighting Anwar’s death because the girls were black. It is sad that terrible crimes are now merely pretexts for ugly media posturing. But it is right to point out the glaring double standard that so many in the media deploy to advance anti-whiteness. The events of the past few weeks have only cemented this vile tendency toward desperate and divisive race-baiting.
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It’s the classic hunt for the Great White Defendant, more in fact now than the original Tom Wolf fiction.
Here’s a bit more on the focus on black deaths and white killers.
we must admit that the media focus rather rabidly on black people getting killed by cops rather than whites. The black cases spread rapidly from the city where they occur and become national news for weeks or months. The white cases are briefly aired in local news cycles and then forgotten. It’s true – these are the over 60% of cop killings that are of white people. It’s hundreds and hundreds, year after year, about which we hear nothing.
For almost every well-aired case of a black person killed by cops, there is a white equivalent and often several. John Crawford killed for waving a BB gun at a Walmart? Look up Daniel Shaver, killed for the same thing out a motel window. Walter Scott was shot in the back and killed running from a cop; so was white Andrew Thomas. Sam DuBose was killed trying to drive away; white Michael Parker suffered the same fate. Philando Castile was shot dead reaching under his waistband; white Dylan Noble was killed in the same way. Alton Sterling was shot dead in front of a convenience store while being detained for unruly conduct – as was Brandon Stanley, white, except he was in the store. There are white equivalents to the Breonna Taylor tragedy as well.
Then, as to the disproportion in how many black people are killed, there is something to remember: almost no one who is appalled at cop killings of black people is thinking about that statistical matter. To most people, it simply seems that the cops kill black people who they would just discipline if the person was white. The reason they think this is that they never see the white people being killed on television and on line. They have no reason to know that such things ever happen, much less that they happen to white people much, much more.
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The hunt goes on as yet another pro-Trump white supremacist attacks the nation’s capital. Another senseless killing of a black man by the police, praise Floyd and ready the murder 1 charges.
Unlike the insurgents, it looks like this guy really did kill a cop.