(2021-09-16). US Monthly Encounters on Southern Border Exceed 200,000 for Second Straight Month – CBP. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The monthly number of asylum-seeking migrants apprehended on the US southern border in August reached more than 200,000 for a second consecutive month, but the total was slightly lower compared to July, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed.
(2021-09-15). PMU Convoy Struck By Unknown Aircraft On Syria-Iraq Border, U.S. Denies Involvement. southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On September 14th, a Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) convoy came under attack by unknown aircraft at the Qasem border crossing between Iraq and Syria. | Sabereen News, a Telegram news channel associated with the PMU, said the attack targeted three vehicles carrying infrared monitoring equipment in the town of al-Bukamal in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr. | Unidentified war je…
(2021-09-15). Russian Warplanes Hammer Militant Positions In Greater Idlib With Guided Bombs (Video, Photos). southfront.org 
An Su-24 taking off from Hmeimim air base in 2015. IMAGE: Russian Ministry of Defense | On September 15, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out more than 12 airstrikes on militants' positions in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib. | The Russian airstrikes hit positions located near the towns of Zurzur, al-Hammammah and Darkush in the western countryside of Idlib. The three towns are situated a few kilometers away from the border with Turkey. | ÿßÿ±ÿ®ÿπ ÿ…
(2021-09-15). Not a Nation of Immigrants. orinocotribune.com 
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz — Sep 12, 2021 | The thrust of American struggles has been to deracialize but not to decolonize. A deracialized America still remains a settler society and a settler state. | On George Washington's birthday, 2018, the Donald Trump administration's director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, L. Francis Cissna, changed the agency's official mission statement, dropping the language of "a nation of immigrants" to describe the United States. The previous mission statement had said the agency "secures America's promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and usefu…
(2021-09-15). 20 Years Later, Undocumented Immigrants Who Aided 9/11 Recovery & Cleanup Efforts Demand Recognition. democracynow.org 
Following the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, advocates are calling for lawmakers to establish a pathway for legal residency for as many as 2,000 immigrant responders and cleanup workers at ground zero. An estimated 6,000 undocumented immigrants took part in the recovery efforts after 9/11, but many didn't seek medical help or went uncounted for their symptoms because they feared deportation. Undocumented workers exposed themselves to toxins and "sacrificed their lives" to assist with the cleanup, and, 20 years later, still lack recognition and medical aid, says Rosa Maria Bramble Caballero, a licensed clin…
(2021-09-15). California Votes No: Governor Gavin Newsom Survives Republican-Led Recall Effort. democracynow.org 
Californians overwhelmingly rejected a Republican-led recall effort against Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday that cost close to $300 million in taxpayer funds. The failed recall was seen as a battle against the far right and a referendum on several key issues ahead of the 2022 midterms, including the pandemic, immigrant rights, the climate crisis and the related unhoused crisis. California voters cast their ballots in the recall because "as attention started being focused nationally on this election, people started realizing what was at stake," says Sasha Abramsky, "Left Coast" correspondent for The Na…
(2021-09-15). Migrants in Mexico demand solution to migration and refugee crisis. peoplesdispatch.org For the past two days, Central American and Haitians migrants stranded in Mexico and migrant rights activists have been carrying out an indefinite hunger strike in the Tapachula municipality to demand authorities respect their rights…