At the Border, All the Choices Are Miserable

Adam Serwer: The real border crisis In practice, administering these laws is thankless work that presents an endless set of miserable, heart-wrenching choices. The Trump administration did not maintain enough shelter beds for children arriving at the border, so where to relocate children languishing in Border Patrol lockups? Building new […]

The Hill’s 12:30 Report – Presented by Facebook – What’s happening on the US border

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Texas Guard Deployed as Migrants, Some in Biden T-shirts, Flood Border States

After President Joe Biden signed executive orders ending several “zero-tolerance” anti-immigration policies instated by former Republican President Donald Trump, a surge of immigrants have begun arriving along the U.S. southern border. Some wearing t-shirts that read, “Biden Let Us In.” In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has deployed the Texas […]

Germany tightens border checks to keep out virus variants

Bavarian governor Markus Soeder, speaking at Schirnding on the Czech border, said that “not taking the (virus) mutations seriously would mean significant consequences.” Soeder, whose state contains half the German-Czech border and the entire German-Austrian border, noted that districts on the Czech border have particularly high infection rates. “On top […]

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Government scientists predicted border wall construction could harm wildlife refuge | Haaland nomination generates excitement in Native American communities | Trump officials wrongly awarded Alaska grant in bid to open Tongass

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