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Biden Turns His Back on Venezuelans at the US Border
With a rising number of Venezuelans arriving at the US-Mexico border as the November midterm elections approach, Joe Biden has sought help from an unlikely source: Trump’s playbook.
Two years ago, Democrat Joe Biden slammed President Donald Trump’s immigration policies for inflicting “cruelty and exclusion at every turn,” even against those leaving Venezuela’s “brutal” socialist government of socialist Nicolas Maduro.
Last week, Biden utilized Title 42, a Trump-era law that his own Justice Department is challenging in court, to deny Venezuelans leaving their crisis-torn country the right to seek asylum at the border.
The measure, first implemented by Trump in 2020, claims emergency public health power to bar people from requesting asylum at the border, citing the need to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Venezuelans who walk or swim across America’s southern border will be deported, and any Venezuelan who unlawfully enters Mexico or Panama will be ineligible to enter the United States. However, up to 24,000 Venezuelans would be allowed to enter the United States through airports, similar to how Ukrainians have been admitted since Russia’s incursion in February.
According to a Mexican official who was not authorized to address the topic publicly and spoke anonymously, Mexico has requested that the US admit one Venezuelan on humanitarian parole for every Venezuelan it expels to Mexico. So, if the Biden administration paroles 24,000 Venezuelans to the United States, Mexico will only accept 24,000 Venezuelans ejected from the United States.
The Biden policy represents a sharp departure from the White House, which had chastised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, both Republicans, for transporting Venezuelan migrants “fleeing political persecution” a few weeks ago to Democratic strongholds.
“These were children, mothers fleeing communism,” stated White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Immigrant advocates have quickly criticized Biden’s new proposal, with many pointing out Trump comparisons.
Venezuelan migrants have returned to Mexico.
“Rather than restoring the right to asylum decimated by the Trump administration,” Jennifer Nagda, from the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, said, “the Biden administration has dangerously embraced the failures of the past and expanded upon them by explicitly allowing expulsions of Venezuelan migrants.”
According to the government, the program is intended to provide a “lawful and orderly” pathway for Venezuelans to join the United States.
Why the abrupt change from Joe Biden?
After assuming office in January 2021, Biden deferred to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which utilized its authority to maintain the Trump administration’s conclusion that a public health concern existed, necessitating the expedited expulsion of asylum seekers.
Members of Biden’s own party and activist groups had expressed concern about the public health justifications for keeping Title 42 in place, especially since COVID-19 was spreading more broadly in the United States than abroad.
After months of internal deliberation and planning, the CDC announced on April 1 that it would lift the public health order and resume routine border processing of migrants, providing them the opportunity to seek refugee status in the United States.
Homeland Security authorities were bracing for an increase in border crossings.
According to top administration sources, officials inside and outside the White House were divided over eliminating the power since they believed it effectively reduced the number of people crossing the border illegally.
According to an Associated Press source, a court order in May that kept Title 42 in place owing to a challenge from Republican state authorities was met with quiet satisfaction by some in the administration.
The recent increase in migration from Venezuela, caused by political, social, and economic instability, dashed officials’ hopes of finally seeing a pause in the mayhem that had defined the border region for the previous year.
Venezuelans were the second-largest nationality coming at the US border after Mexicans by August. Given that the United States’ relations with Venezuela meant that migrants from the country could not be readily returned, the situation became increasingly difficult to manage.
So an administration that had rejected several Trump-era initiatives geared at keeping migrants out sought to make the asylum procedure easier, and boosted the number of refugees permitted into the United States, went to Title 42.
It arranged for the Venezuelans to be sent to Mexico, which has already agreed to receive migrants expelled under Title 42 if they are from Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador.
Meanwhile, Justice Department lawyers continue challenging a court decision that maintains Title 42. They are fighting Republican attorneys general from more than 20 states, who say Title 42 is “the sole safety valve stopping this Administration’s already terrible border control tactics from devolving into an utter disaster.”
Under Title 42, migrants have been ejected from the United States more than 2.3 million times after crossing the country’s land borders from Canada or Mexico, while the majority attempt to enter through Mexico.
Beginning May 23, the administration declared that it would cease removing migrants under Title 42 and return to detaining and deporting migrants who did not qualify to enter and remain in the United States – a lengthy process that permits individuals to seek asylum in the United States.
“We are deeply alarmed by the apparent acceptance, codification, and expansion of the use of Title 42, an irrelevant health order, as a cornerstone of border policy,” Witness at the Border’s Thomas Cartwright stated. “One that revokes the legal right to seek refuge.”
A rival lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union is also attempting to eliminate Title 42, which could render the administration’s proposal ineffective.
“Anyone has the right to seek asylum regardless of where they came from, how they arrived in the United States, or whether they have family here,” said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.
NEW YORK – After a month of criticizing the proceedings from afar, former President Donald Trump returned to his civil business fraud trial as a spectator on Thursday.
After more than two months of testimony, the Republican presidential candidate for 2024 arrived to hear an accounting professor testify about financial issues relevant to the case.
Trump is slated to testify for the second time on Monday.
Even as he campaigns to retake the office and fights four criminal charges, Trump focuses heavily on the New York lawsuit. Outside the courtroom, he’s been a dissatisfied bystander, a combative witness, and a furious pundit.
“This is a witch hunt, and it’s a very corrupt trial,” Trump remarked as he entered the courtroom on Thursday.
The case is putting his net worth on trial, probing his real estate empire, and threatening to bar him from doing business in his home state.
Trump Is Back At His New York Civil Fraud Trial As Testimony Nears An End
In the claim, New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses Trump, his corporation, and some officials of defrauding banks and insurers by providing them with financial statements that overstate the value of trademark properties such as his Trump Tower penthouse and Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club where he now resides.
The statements were submitted to assist in secure deals, such as loans with low-interest rates available to the ultra-wealthy, and certain loans required fresh statements every year.
Donald denies any wrongdoing and claims that the figures in the statements understated his wealth. He has repeatedly minimized the value of the documents in closing agreements, stating that lenders and others should conduct their analyses.
And he argues that James and Judge Arthur Engoron, both Democrats, abused their power in the case.
Eli Bartov, an accounting professor at New York University, testified in Trump’s defense on Thursday.
Trump Is Back At His New York Civil Fraud Trial As Testimony Nears An End
Bartov rejected the attorney general’s assertions that Trump’s financial statements violated basic accounting principles in a report written before his hearing. According to the professor, such statements are merely a starting point for recipients to do their own assessments in the accounting and financial world.
Trump has frequently lamented the situation on his Truth Social platform.
Going to court in person provides him with a microphone —several of them, thanks to the press cameras stationed in the hallway. He frequently expostulates and casts various developments as wins on his way into and out of the proceedings, which cameras cannot record.
When Engoron ruled Trump had breached a gag order that forbids trial participants from publicly commenting on court staffers, he penalized him $10,000 on Oct. 26. Trump’s lawyers are challenging the gag order.
James has not gone unchallenged, frequently — but not on Thursday — showing up to court when Trump is present and making her statements on social media and on the courthouse steps. Lawyers in the case have been instructed not to make press remarks in the hallway, but the former president has been permitted to do so.
Trump Is Back At His New York Civil Fraud Trial As Testimony Nears An End
“Here’s a fact: Donald has been committing financial fraud for years.” “Here’s another fact: There are consequences when you break the law,” her office tweeted this week on X, formerly Twitter.
While the non-jury trial focuses on allegations of conspiracy, insurance fraud, and manipulating corporate documents, Engoron previously concluded that Trump and the other defendants committed fraud. He appointed a receiver to take charge of some of Trump’s properties, but an appeals court has stayed that order for now.
During the trial, James seeks more than $300 million in penalties and a ban on Donald and the other defendants doing business in New York.
It is unclear when the testimony will conclude, although it is expected before Christmas. Closing arguments are slated for January, and Engoron hopes to reach a verdict by the end of the month.
SOURCE – AP
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Wikipedia, Wrapped. Here Are 2023’S Most-Viewed Articles On The Internet’s Encyclopedia
NEW YORK – Remember what you were looking for in 2023? Wikipedia, on the other hand, has the receipts.
According to data provided Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, openly edited online encyclopedia, English Wikipedia received more than 84 billion views this year. The most popular piece was on ChatGPT (the AI chatbot that appears to be everywhere these days).
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has flown into the public eye since its inception just over a year ago, as the technology makes its way into schools, health care, legislation, and even religious preaching. The chatbot has also contributed to developing arguments regarding the possible benefits and risks of generative AI, most of which are detailed on its Wikipedia page.
Here Are 2023’S Most-Viewed Articles On The Internet’s Encyclopedia
The annual list of fatalities was the second most-read article on Wikipedia in 2023, after taking the #4 and #1 rankings in 2022 and 2021, respectively. Individual entries for important figures who died this year drew much attention, notably those for Matthew Perry and Lisa Marie Presley.
Meanwhile, the highly anticipated 2023 Cricket World Cup came in third place — along with three other cricket-related entries in Wikipedia’s top 25 this year, including the Indian Premier League at #4, marking the first time cricket content has made the list since the Wikimedia Foundation began tracking in 2015.
“Barbenheimer,” Taylor Swift and others also appeared to influence our internet-reading habits in 2023. Here are this year’s top 25 English Wikipedia articles.
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, this top 25 ranking was constructed using English Wikipedia statistics as of November 28. The charity plans to update full-year figures on January 3, 2024.
The United States (33.2 billion) and the United Kingdom (9 billion), along with India (8.48 billion), Canada (3.95 billion), and Australia (2.56 billion), are the top countries that accessed English Wikipedia globally in 2023, according to Wikimedia Foundation data shared with The Associated Press.
Here Are 2023’S Most-Viewed Articles On The Internet’s Encyclopedia
1. ChatGPT: 49,490,406 pageviews
2. Deaths in 2023: 42,666,860 pageviews
3. 2023 Cricket World Cup: 38,171,653 pageviews
4. Indian Premier League: 32,012,810 pageviews
5. Oppenheimer (film): 28,348,248 pageviews
6. Cricket World Cup: 25,961,417 pageviews
7. J. Robert Oppenheimer: 25,672,469 pageviews
8. Jawan (film): 21,791,126 pageviews
9. 2023 Indian Premier League: 20,694,974 pageviews
10. Pathaan (film): 19,932,509 pageviews
11. The Last of Us (TV series): 19,791,789 pageviews
12. Taylor Swift, 19,418,385: pageviews
13. Barbie (film): 18,051,077 pageviews
14. Cristiano Ronaldo: 17,492,537 pageviews
15. Lionel Messi: 16,623,630 pageviews
16. Premier League: 16,604,669 pageviews
17. Matthew Perry: 16,454,666 pageviews
18. United States: 16,240,461 pageviews
19. Elon Musk: 14,370,395 pageviews
20. Avatar: The Way of Water: 14,303,116 pageviews
21. India: 13,850,178 pageviews
22. Lisa Marie Presley: 13,764,007 pageviews
23. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 13,392,917 pageviews
24. Russian invasion of Ukraine: 12,798,866 pageviews
25. Andrew Tate: 12,728,616 pageviews
According to the Wikimedia Foundation, this top 25 ranking was constructed using English Wikipedia statistics as of November 28. The charity plans to update full-year figures on January 3, 2024.
The United States (33.2 billion) and the United Kingdom (9 billion), along with India (8.48 billion), Canada (3.95 billion), and Australia (2.56 billion), are the top countries that accessed English Wikipedia globally in 2023, according to Wikimedia Foundation data shared with The Associated Press.
SOURCE – (AP)
Are you adept at flirting or chatting up possible partners? If this is the case, you may already have rizz and be unaware of it.
Young folks utilize the Oxford word of the year, internet slang for romantic appeal or charm.
It was one of eight words chosen from a shortlist to define the mood, ethos, or preoccupations of 2023.
A public poll was used to narrow down the list before Oxford lexicographers made the ultimate selection.
Swiftie, Beige Flag, and Situationship were among the other contenders.
If you are not a member of Generation Z, the term may be meaningless to you.
However, it is widely utilized online, with billions of views of the hashtag “rizz” on TikTok.
Rizz Named Word Of The Year 2023 By Oxford University Press
It is described as style, charm, or attractiveness, as well as the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner, by Oxford University Press [OUP], which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary [OED].
The word “charisma” is assumed to be a shorter variant of “charisma.”
It can also be used as a verb, as in “to frizz up,” which means “to attract, seduce, or chat up someone.”
It’s essentially a modern version of the “game,” described as skill, proficiency, and the capacity to sexually entice people through one’s charm.
What do the shorlisted words mean?
Beige flag (n.): a character feature that indicates that a partner or possible partner is boring or lacks creativity; (also) a quality or habit, especially of a partner or potential mate, that is very distinctive but not good or bad. [proposed definition]
A situationship (n.) is a romantic or sexual relationship that is not formal or established.
Swiftie (n.): a devoted follower of Taylor Swift. [proposed definition]
Prompt (n.): a command issued to an artificial intelligence program, algorithm, or the like that affects or influences the content it generates [draft definition]
De-influencing (n.): the activity of deterring individuals from purchasing specific things or pushing people to consume less material goods, particularly through social media [draft definition]
The Oxford University Press emphasized that lexicographers are writing a draft definition “for the Word of the Year campaign” and that terms without draft definitions are already in the OED.
Rizz Named Word Of The Year 2023 By Oxford University Press
The rest of the words will be included in dictionaries “after assessment of their longevity, frequency, and breadth of usage,” according to the statement.
Kai Cenat, a Twitch streamer and YouTuber is widely credited with popularizing the term rizz, which he used with his buddies.
The word’s popularity has grown this year, and in June, actor Tom Holland was asked by Buzzfeed about the secret to his frizz.
Holland responded, “I have no rizz at all.” “I have limited rizz,” he says before detailing how he won his fiancée Zendaya over by playing the “long game.”
Another slang term characterizing “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy” behavior that was last year’s Oxford word of the year was “goblin mode.”
Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Languages, stated that while “goblin mode” was popular following the epidemic, “it’s interesting to see a contrasting word like rizz come to the forefront.”
He speculated that the word referred to “a prevailing mood of 2023, where more of us are opening up after a challenging few years and finding confidence in who we are.”
Mr. Grathwohl said that the increased use of the word frizz demonstrated that words and phrases derived from online culture “are increasingly becoming part of the day-to-day vernacular.”
The language specialists at Oxford University Press chose the selection of eight words.
This list was then subjected to a public vote in late November, narrowing the field to four finalists before the experts decided.
Collins Dictionary revealed “artificial intelligence” as the word of 2023 in November.
SOURCE – BBC
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