Daily Archives: March 17, 2020

2020-03-17: News Headlines

The Canary (2020-03-17). Red squirrel population in Scotland remains stable — report. thecanary.co The red squirrel population across Scotland has remained stable in the last year, according to the latest survey report.Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels has published its most recent figures which also indicate a continuing decline in grey squirrel territory in the north east.In the south of Scotland — Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Borders and parts of Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire — the number of survey sites reporting red squirrels remained between 51-52%. | However, the number of sites with grey squirrels fell from 60% to 51% in the 2019 survey and the number of sites with only red squirrels in…

RT (2020-03-17). Duterte makes surprise visit to checkpoint after putting Philippines under quarantine. rt.com President Rodrigo Duterte made a surprise inspection of a government checkpoint at the Valenzuela-Meycauayan border early Tuesday. He visited the checkpoint manned by uniformed personnel to monitor the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, Manila Bulletin reported, citing his spokesperson, Salvador Panelo. | Duterte arrived after 4am and reportedly directed the troops to help stranded commuters who could not cross the border because of the quarantine. Panelo said the president was "setting the example" of rising to the challenge amid these dangerous and difficult times. | On Monday, Dut…

RT (2020-03-17). Leaders of Turkey, Germany, France, UK discuss Syria & migration crisis in videoconference. rt.com Turkish, German, British and French leaders discussed the Syria crisis and migrant issue as well as joint action against coronavirus in a videoconference, Turkish presidency said on Tuesday. | It issued a statement saying that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also discussed methods of humanitarian aid to Syria's northwestern Idlib province, Reuters reports. | A summit was planned after Ankara opened its borders to migrants trying to enter the bloc, but the leaders decided to switch to a video call.

RT (2020-03-17). Cash-strapped global airlines seek billions in government bailouts to survive. rt.com The airline industry is in crisis because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Italian government announced on Tuesday it plans to re-nationalize the bankrupt Alitalia airline under an emergency economic rescue plan. | Three of the biggest international airline alliances are calling for government support and US carriers are asking for more than $50 billion in assistance, as the industry faces "unprecedented challenges" over the Covid-19 outbreak. | The pandemic has hit the aviation industry hard, as it has forced governments to impose travel bans and close borders. While the crisis does not seem to have an "end i…

RT (2020-03-17). It took Italian doctors days & an emergency to check her cough, and she still doesn't know if she has Covid-19. rt.com As the EU belatedly recommends member nations seal their borders, Italy is on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus. RT talked to a student in Milan who became a witness — and almost a collateral victim — of this fight.

WSWS (2020-03-17). ICE officials running unchecked facial recognition searches on Maryland drivers. wsws.org Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been accessing Maryland state driver's license photos for years to catch undocumented immigrants given licenses by a special state program.

WSWS (2020-03-17). New Zealand cabinet minister Shane Jones continues to stoke racism. wsws.org Jones' anti-immigrant salvos are a sign of the extreme right-wing, nationalist agenda on which the September election will be contested by all the major parties.

Labor Video Project (2020-03-17). ILWU & Migrant Organizations Defend Grand Princess Crew & US Workers. indybay.org The Bay Area ILWU and migrant rights organizations joined together to support the Grand Princess crew health and safety as. well as the health and safety conditions of longshore workers and all port workers. They also discussed the fight of all working people to defend and protect their health and safety rights.

WSWS (2020-03-17). As coronavirus cases surge in Canada, Trudeau prioritizes tougher border controls. wsws.org Although the number of confirmed coronavirus cases more than doubled in the past two days to 425, Trudeau offered nothing in the way of additional support for the already overstretched health care system.

sputniknews (2020-03-17). European Shares Start to Rise After Coronavirus Panic Sends Them to Historic Low. sputniknews.com The accelerating spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has forced governments across the globe to shut borders and businesses to close their doors. The panic has affected global supply chains and, hence, stock markets, which are suffering their worst time in years.

yenisafak (2020-03-17). Coronavirus care: Northern Irish supermarket prioritises older shoppers. yenisafak.com A Northern Irish supermarket opened one hour early on Tuesday to allow older customers to shop safely and avoid coronavirus-related panic buying, sparking similar moves south of the border in Ireland.The west Belfast store of the Iceland chain of supermarkets will continue to open at 0800 GMT each day, reserving the first hour for elderly customers, after worried shoppers began rushing to grocery stores last week jostling to buy essentials that have flown off shelves.Older shoppers, some with family members to help and one carrying a walking stick, queued up next to each other at the Kennedy shopping centre befor…

John Washington (2020-03-16). 'That First Night in America, I Couldn't Sleep'. thenation.com 'That First Night in America, I Couldn't Sleep'

John Washington (2020-03-16). Hear From Immigrants and Refugees in Their Own Words. thenation.com Hear From Immigrants and Refugees in Their Own Words…

Staff (2020-03-16). Headlines for March 16, 2020. democracynow.org Coronavirus Pandemic Death Toll Tops 6,500 Worldwide, About 170,000 Confirmed Cases, U.S. Coronavirus Cases Reach 3,600 as True Number of Infections Continues to be Unknown, Trump Tests Negative for Coronavirus After Being in Contact with Brazilian Official Infected with COVID-19, States Across U.S. Ramp Up Measures to Control Spread of Coronavirus, Including Massive School, Business Closures, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Rule That Would Have Thrown 700,000 People Off Food Stamps, AOC Confronts ICE Agent at LaGuardia Airport as 6 Migrant Children Detained in Texas Were Relocated to New York, Sanders, Biden Faced Of…

teleSUR (2020-03-16). Isolation, Bans on Travels, Border Closures as COVID-19 Spreads. telesurenglish.net The World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to test all suspected cases and described the coronavirus pandemic as a "defining global health crisis of our time." | The United States (U.S.) and European countries closed schools, bars, restaurants and all but essential services, in an effort to halt the spread of the virus. | States in Latin America and across the world are limiting travels and closing borders to curb the movement of people. | More cases are now being reported outside China, where the COVID-19 first emerged in December than inside. | Globally, More than 182,400 people worldwide have been…

teleSUR (2020-03-16). Young Pregnant Woman Dies After Falling From US Border Wall. telesurenglish.net A 19-year-old pregnant Guatemalan woman died last Wednesday, a few days after she fell from the border wall that divides Mexico and the United States, local sources reported recently. | RELATED: | Miriam Estefany Girón Luna, seven months pregnant, was trying to cross the border between the two countries when she fell from the six-meter high border wall. | When she was located, the Border Patrol transferred her to the "

Julia Conley, staff writer (2020-03-16). Applauding Release of Prisoners in Ohio Due to Coronavirus Threat, ACLU Calls on Officials Nationwide to Do the Same. commondreams.org "In normal circumstances, ICE has proven time and again that it is unable to protect the health and safety of detained people. These are not normal circumstances." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/immigrants_prisons_0_0.jpg

Rami Almeghari (2020-03-15). Gaza's Border Crossings Closed. imemc.org All Gaza crossings have been reportedly indefinitely closed, Sunday, said Palestinian and Israeli sources. In Gaza, local authorities in the Israel-besieged territory announced that the Rafah Egyptian-Palestinian crossing terminal, sole outlet to the world for Gaza's 2-million residents, will be closed for two weeks, for travelers on both sides of …

Staff (2020-03-13). Headlines for March 13, 2020. democracynow.org Coronavirus Infections Around the Globe Reach 135,000 People, Nearly 5,000 Dead, U.S. Coronavirus Infections Rise to 1,650 as Actual Number Believed to Be Higher | , Dow Jones Plummets 10% in Biggest Drop Since 1987 | , Trump Administration Faces Backlash for Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak, Testing | , Brazilian President Bolsonaro's Aide Tests Positive for COVID-19 Days After Meeting with Trump, Philippines President Duterte Orders Lockdown in Manila Amid Coronavirus Pandemic | , Advocates Afraid of Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak in Immigration Jails Plagued by Medical Neglect, Democratic Presidential Debate Relo…

Ashley Gorski (2020-03-12). The Government Has a Secret Plan to Track Everyone's Faces at Airports. We're Suing. aclu.org U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration are putting us on an extraordinarily dangerous path toward the normalization of face surveillance. But because key facts about this surveillance are still secret, the public lacks the information it needs to hold these agencies to account. We're

Staff (2020-03-10). Immigrants in WA Detention Center Demand Protection from Coronavirus, Not Posters in English. democracynow.org As the world responds to the COVID-19 outbreak, we look at how the Trump administration's immigration policies may put everyone at risk. We go to Seattle, Washington, not far from the Life Care Center in the suburb of Kirkland, which was the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. In nearby Tacoma, Washington, our guest says she saw posters in English only when she went to visit immigrants held in the Northwest Detention Center, which is run by private prison company GEO Group. We speak with Maru Mora-Villalpando, an activist and undocumented immigrant with the groups La Resistencia and Mijente, who issued a…

Chelsey Birgisdóttir (2020-03-10). San Diego Police Stop Black People at a Rate 219 Percent Higher Than White People. aclu.org "They did what human beings looking for | freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left." | These | are the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson in her book, "The | Warmth of Other Suns." The book | follows the story of three Black Southerners and their journey escaping racial | violence — a sharecropper's wife who | left Mississippi in the 1930s for Chicago, an agricultural | worker who left Florida for New York City in the 1940s, and a doctor who left Louisiana in the early 1950s. | Their | journey was part of the Great Migration that occurred between 1916 and 1970,…

Naureen Shah (2020-03-05). Trump is Sending Special Forces-style Agents into Pro-Immigrant Cities. aclu.org As part of its governments that choose not to collaborate with Immigration and Customs | Enforcement (ICE), Trump administration officials have confirmed plans for two new tactics in their anti-immigrant | agenda. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will deploy Border Patrol's | special forces-style unit, known as BORTAC, and other Customs and Border | Protection (CBP) agents — dressed in plainclothes [m…

splcenter (2020-03-03). Deportation is a death sentence, and our government's hands are bloody. splcenter.org Deadly violence is inescapable for hundreds of returned Salvadoran migrants. This small, Central American country is the murder capital of the world.

Hannah Gais (2020-02-28). Knowingly or Unknowingly, CIS Newsletters Promote the Work of White Nationalist Kevin DeAnna. splcenter.org Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), has attempted to distance his organization from the far-right actors he has cited over the years to promote CIS's anti-immigrant agenda.