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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The U.S.’s Long History of Mistreating Haitian Migrants</strong> - The current tragedy at the border is just the latest fallout from the U.S.’s failed policies toward Haiti. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uss-long-history-of-mistreating-haitian-migrants">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>On the Internet, We’re Always Famous</strong> - What happens when the experience of celebrity becomes universal? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/on-the-internet-were-always-famous">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>It’s Too Early to Consign Joe Biden to the Ash Heap of History</strong> - But not too early for Democrats to start panicking. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/its-too-early-to-consign-joe-biden-to-the-ash-%20heap-of-history">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Partial Portfolio of Literary Luminaries</strong> - Any resemblance to actual persons is purely coincidental. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/blitts-kvetchbook/a-partial-portfolio-of-literary-luminaries">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What COVID Booster Shots Can and Can’t Do</strong> - The epidemiologist Céline Gounder discusses Pfizer boosters and the latest science on additional doses. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-covid-booster-shots-can-and-cant-do">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Why America keeps turning its back on Haitian migrants</strong> -
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As US immigration authorities begin to deport immigrants back to Haiti from Del Rio, Texas, thousands crossed the river back into Mexico to avoid deportation. | John Moore/Getty Images
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The Biden administration is continuing a long history of exclusionary policy against Haitian asylum seekers.
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The images left many sickened and outraged: Border Patrol agents on horseback hounding Haitian migrants near the US-Mexico border, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/us/haitian-migrants-texas-camp.html">more than 14,000</a> of whom were camped under the Del Rio bridge on September 19. The uniformed men swung their long horse reins — which many interpreted as whips — to keep the migrants from crossing into Texas. In one photo, an agent grabbed the T-shirt of a migrant, while another shouted in a video, “Get out now! Back to Mexico!”
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Condemnation of the agents’ behavior was swift, with advocates drawing parallels to slave patrols, or the white men on horses who whipped enslaved people in cotton fields. But inhumane treatment of Black migrants, particularly Haitian migrants, is not new; it’s closely linked to the history of immigrant detention in the United States.
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<pre><code> <img alt="A white man on horseback grabs the shirt of a black man on foot." src="https://cdn.vox-</code></pre>
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A US Border Patrol agent tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment in Del Rio, Texas, on September 19. Outrage over the image was swift, with some advocates drawing parallels to slave patrols.
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Much of the current wave of Haitian migrants, more than 10,000, left Haiti after experiencing crises including an earthquake, a tropical storm, and the July assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
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The US has been deporting thousands of migrants back to Haiti to deadly circumstances.
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Haitians have sought asylum at US borders for decades, but every presidential administration since the 1970s has treated Haitians differently than other migrant groups, rejecting asylum claims, holding them longer in detention, and making it harder for them to settle down in safety. In the early 1990s, for example, when the United States detained more than 12,000 Haitian refugees at Guantanamo indefinitely, Immigration and Naturalization Services <a href="https://theconversation.com/us-turned-away-thousands-of-haitian-asylum-
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seekers-and-detained-hundreds-more-in-the-90s-98611">denied the vast majority of them asylum</a>.
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According to Carl<strong> </strong>Lindskoog, the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Detain-Punish-
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Refugees-Immigration-Detention/dp/1683401263"><em>Detain and Punish: Haitian Refugees and the Rise of the World’s Largest Immigration Detention System</em></a>, the United States’ inhumane treatment of Haitian refugees, whom the country has often cast as criminals, unskilled, diseased, and poor, has been a central part of the immigration detention story.
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“Policies were specifically designed to deter Haitians from coming in. These policies became the prototype for what became a global system of migrant incarceration,”<strong> </strong>says Lindskoog, a professor of history at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey.
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The current wave of Haitian migrants is fleeing a country that has experienced compounding crises.<strong> </strong>This summer, Haiti suffered a magnitude 7.2 earthquake and tropical storm that killed an estimated 2,200, with thousands more missing or injured. The July assassination of President Jovenel Moïse worsened violence and instability.
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Haitians are still reeling from the January 2010 earthquake that affected 3 million people, causing irreparable damage to homes and infrastructure. Gangs have<strong> </strong>since risen in power, leading many Haitians to live in fear for their lives and families.
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Migrants, many from Haiti, at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas on September 21. Some Haitian immigrants at the border had not found asylum elsewhere after the 2010 Haiti earthquake that devastated the country.
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As Lindskoog says, what Haitians are experiencing is the kind of calamity that asylum was designed for in the period following World War II: “It is their legal right to seek asylum.”
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However, some migrants hoping for asylum are instead being chased down and shut out at the border — <a href="https://apnews.com/article/port-au-prince-haiti-c01b09afb49c4586fdd718031d32402a">images show</a> them being removed from airplanes in Port-au-Prince with their belongings scattered on the airport’s tarmac — while <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/us/politics/biden-haitian-migrants-texas.html">an undisclosed number are being allowed into</a> the United States.<strong> </strong>Biden’s decision to fly Haitians back to deadly circumstances, under a Trump-era policy,<strong> </strong>underscores the United States’ longstanding animus toward Black migrants.
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I talked to Lindskoog about the history of Haitian migrant detention in the US and why America has consistently rolled out harsh policies for Haitians, without displaying compassion for immigrants from the embattled Caribbean nation. Our conversation has been edited and condensed.
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Fabiola Cineas
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This week, images and video of Border Patrol agents mounted on horseback rounding up Haitian migrants at the southern border sparked national outrage. The images depicted officials using horse reins, which many likened to whips, to control the movement of the Haitians. Can you tell me what came to mind when you saw those images?
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Carl Lindskoog
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The images are horrible. I agree with everyone who said it was so terribly resonant of the long history of anti-Black racism and racial violence. Those images bring a lot of strands of history together, from why the Border Patrol was created, to how violent that institution has been, to how our modern policing system comes from the enforcement of slavery. And then there is how our immigration system has been criminalized and merged into our criminal justice system, both of which have anti-Black elements. What’s happening at the border is horrifying and fits into the long intersecting history of anti-Black, anti-immigrant sentiment and anti- Haitian exclusion.
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Let’s talk more about the Border Patrol’s racist history, which <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/the_legacy_of_racism_within_the_u.s._border_patrol.pdf">has been well documented</a> and began with its formation in the early 1920s as a kind of brotherhood with KKK members and racist Texas Rangers. Can you tell me more about how these origins were likely at play in Del Rio with Haitian migrants?
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Carl Lindskoog
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There is a really good book about this by Kelly Lytle Hernández called <em>Migra! A History of The U.S. Border Patrol, </em>in which she describes how the creation of the US Border Patrol in 1924 happened amidst a much broader anti-immigrant moment. There was the national <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-
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act#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20Act%20of%201924%20limited%20the%20number%20of%20immigrants,of%20the%201890%20national%20census.">Immigration Restriction Act of 1924</a> that placed new racist immigration quotas and exclusions as part of American immigration policy.
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It was the gatekeeping mechanism at the time for keeping out who we don’t want to come across on American shores. [Author’s note: For example, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2015/09/28/chapter-1-the-nations-immigration-laws-1920-to-today/">the law</a> favored migration from Northern and Western European countries and decreased the annual immigration cap from 350,000 to 165,000.]
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“Aliens” apprehended by the Border Patrol await questioning in Brownsville, Texas, in September 1984.
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Simultaneously, the Border Patrol — which evolved out of a longer history of anti-migrant, anti-Mexican white supremacist violence along the US borderlands — was introduced to police to control the movement of Mexican migrants in particular, but also other people who might cross the southern border.
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Yes, many people tend to only think of Mexican migrants trying to cross the southern border. But there are people from Caribbean countries taking long, arduous treks across water and through numerous nations and terrains to seek American asylum. For example,<strong> </strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/21/haiti-migrants-texas-border/">reports have suggested</a> that many of the more than 14,000 Haitian migrants who were camped under the Del Rio International Bridge had actually left Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and had stopped in places like Brazil and Chile but have been on the move to Mexico due to various circumstances. What kinds of conditions have these migrants faced in the past 10 or so years?
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From what I’ve learned from organizations like the Haitian Bridge Alliance and from reporters who have gone down to places like Brazil to report on conditions, especially after the economic downturn and other crises in Brazil, is that they couldn’t stay there. So they went to Chile and didn’t have the greatest reception there and sometimes faced a harrowing journey through jungles and across borders.
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There’s a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/03/world/americas/mexico-migration-
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conditions.html">gigantic immigration detention facility in southern Mexico</a>, where Mexico does a lot of the dirty work of the United States by detaining people who’ve crossed the border with Guatemala. If they got out of there, and were able to make it through the dangerous terrain up to the US-Mexico border, that is a major act of survival because of everything that they had to face in coming so many miles and facing so many police forces, prisons, and natural challenges. And then to see the images and read the reports that they’re living in that large encampment now, and just trying to get food and water and then to face that violent reprisal by the US Border Patrol — it’s just unimaginable.
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And how does this modern-day situation compare to the kind of treatment Haitian migrants have traditionally received over the past couple of decades, whether they’re entering through the southern border or trying to get to Florida’s shores by boat?
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They have, for most of history, been met with exclusion. During the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, most Haitians were coming on student visas or tourist visas, and then if they didn’t have authorization to stay, they were overstaying their visa. There were also a number of political exiles. So they weren’t really on the radar and seen as a big problem. They were establishing themselves in neighborhoods in New York primarily, and in Boston and elsewhere in Canada.
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It’s really in the early to mid-1970s when the so-called “boat people,” which is a different demographic — more working-class, urban, displaced Haitians — started to come by boats and ships, trying to make it to American shores. When they tried to put in asylum claims was when they started to be more on the radar of American authorities.
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That triggered this racist backlash, especially in South Florida, because it was at a moment when there was already a racist backlash to the civil rights movement. So to have all these poor unauthorized migrants who don’t speak English, that are Black, showing up, there’s this really racist reaction.
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Haitians refugees arrive at Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1976. They had been adrift in an 18-foot boat for five days.
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South Floridians started to put pressure on their local officials, who then turned to Washington, and there was a very concerted effort to keep Haitians out. The Carter administration <a href="https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3495&context=facpub">introduced something called the Haitian Program</a> — a punishing set of policies designed to deter Haitians from coming in. And if they were already here, it tried to keep them out of the mainstream population. That meant putting them in detention facilities and local jails, basically denying them carte blanche their asylum claims and just sending them back.
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There was a big legal challenge in 1980, <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-
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courts/FSupp/503/442/1467096/"><em>Haitian Refugee Center v. Civiletti</em></a><em>,</em> where Haitian migrants and their advocates got a federal judge named James Lawrence King to recognize in a ruling that this practice was not only discriminatory but also racist. Haitians were being excluded because they were Black and because they were Haitian. King overturned the Haitian Program, but the Carter administration worked to circumvent it like subsequent administrations would.
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When the Reagan administration came into power, they introduced a new Haitian detention program and the policy of interdiction, in which Coast Guard cutters would intercept boats of Haitian asylum seekers before they could even reach land and send them back, often to violence and death in Haiti. That process continued throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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The Biden administration’s mass denial of asylum claims, which they’re doing by invoking <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/8/4/22605595/biden-immigration-border-
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title-42-deportation-mexico">Title 42</a> — a 2020 Trump administration coronavirus policy that has been used to expel more than a million migrants without hearings before an immigration judge — is not something new. This is something that both Republican and Democratic administrations have done, and it very much fits with the long history of the US government denying the legitimacy of Haitians’ asylum claims and sending them to a dangerous and often deadly situation.
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It seems presidents of all backgrounds and in both parties have engaged in harm toward Haiti and Haitian migrants. US involvement in Haiti has often led to periods of instability there, but then the US has at times in the past turned around and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-says-it-is-not-sending-haiti-migrants-border-
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guantanamo-2021-09-23/">interned Haitians at Guantanamo</a>.
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The coup d’état against Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, happened when George H.W. Bush was in power, and he <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-mar-04-oe-sachs4-story.html">sort of paid lip service to the illegitimate military government</a> that was ruling after Aristide was put out of office. But Bush refused to accept Haitian asylum seekers and did everything the US government could to keep Haitians from being able to seek safe haven, even though the human rights atrocities after the coup were well-documented.
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There was another set of legal challenges and legal battles in the courts to give Haitians asylum, some of which were somewhat successful, but that’s the period when Guantanamo was first established as an offshore prison to try to serve as a buffer for people whom you don’t even want to allow to get to American shores to seek asylum. And Haitians were the first Guantanamo detainees.
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When Bill Clinton was running for president and trying to defeat George H.W. Bush, he promised to reverse that. A lot of Americans and people around the world were indignant about the Bush administration’s treatment of Haitians.<em> “</em>Of course we’re gonna let Haitians in,” Clinton said. But after he was elected, he reversed course and turned his back on the Haitians and said, “Well, we don’t want to trigger another humanitarian crisis by taking people because then more people will go out on this perilous journey across the ocean<em>.” </em>He was trying to invoke humanitarian reasons for still denying people the right to seek asylum.
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Meanwhile, more Haitians filled up Guantanamo, some of whom were HIV positive and had AIDS. That began another chapter in what one scholar calls the carceral quarantine of Haitians for medical reasons. This was similar to what’s happening today because Title 42 is built on the basis of public health mandates to exclude people. While many people were forcibly returned from Guantanamo to Haiti, a number of those Haitians who remained at Guantanamo were able to make it to the United States after intense political and legal struggle.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">cdn.com/thumbor/rygZxVvbLQXKnW0XpE0S8pNgeoE=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox- cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22873411/AP9112050118_copy.jpg" /> <cite>Chris O’Meara/AP</cite></p>
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Haitian refugees lined up in cots in the McCalla hangar in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in 1991.
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Fabiola Cineas
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There’s historically also been a difference between how Cuban migrants and Haitian migrants have been treated,<strong> </strong>which many scholars point out is based on skin color. Is it useful to compare the plight of various migrant groups trying to make it into the United States?
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Carl Lindskoog
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I think it is useful. I think there are a lot of interesting polarities in the experience of Haitians and Cubans in how they come to the United States. The best example of course was the summer of 1980 when more than 100,000 Cubans came by boat seeking asylum, and so did approximately 15,000 Haitians.
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The Refugee Act of 1980 had just passed, but it didn’t have clear instructions for how to treat vast numbers of asylum seekers, so initially, both Cubans and Haitians were placed in refugee camps on military bases across the United States. But pretty quickly, Cubans, for the most part, were released and allowed to be with family members and the Cuban community. Haitians languished in detention much longer.
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For the Haitians that came after, a special piece of legislation was passed to adjust their status known as the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-
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bill/7978#:~:text=Cuban%2FHaitian%20Entrant%20Act%20of,exclusion%20or%20deportation%20proceedings%20as">Cuban-Haitian Entrant Act of 1980</a>. But the Haitians that came after the act were again treated just like the ones that came before — excluded and barred. Cubans never suffered the same kind of exclusion or mass detention that Haitians did, despite the fact that they’re both coming from Caribbean nations and seeking asylum.
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Fabiola Cineas
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How do these exclusionary policies translate to how Haitians are treated once in America?
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<h4 id="xDYBbC">
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Carl Lindskoog
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For the Haitian community and Haitian migrants in particular, they’ve repeatedly been targeted as disease carriers, which historically has also been a racialized notion not only of the foreign-born but especially of the nonwhite foreign-born. In the 1970s, their incarceration exclusion was sometimes justified on the basis that they were carrying tuberculosis. In the 1980s and especially in the 1990s, it became the notion that they were carrying AIDS. But Haitians said all along that singling them out is discriminatory because they aren’t any more likely to be diseased than other people. It is racialized stigmatization.
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The same thing goes for criminalization. The <a href="https://baji.org/">Black Alliance for Just Immigration</a> has documented how Black immigrants are much more likely to be incarcerated, how they spend much more time in detention, and how their asylum cases, deportation cases, and immigration appeals are much more likely to be denied. That’s part of how immigration enforcement blends into the criminal justice system and policing — now that there’s a criminalized racial immigration system, often a migrant’s first point of<strong> </strong>contact in this country is with law enforcement.
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A lot of municipalities and localities have an agreement between their local law enforcement in the immigration system that they will refer any unauthorized or undocumented person or someone with some kind of immigration issue over to the immigration system. They then get put into the immigration system based on some racialized reading about who they are and are disproportionately likely to be detained or deported.
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<h4 id="9J6Ab6">
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Fabiola Cineas
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="trRi0e">
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So it’s clear that Haitian migrants are particularly demonized and criminalized, but I also think another element to their story is erasure. It feels like not many people know about this history. Even in the past decade or so, conversations about immigrants tend to leave out Black immigrants in general. Research from the nonprofit organization RAICES <a href="https://www.raicestexas.org/2020/07/22/black-immigrant-lives-are-under-attack/">found that 44 percent of families</a> that ICE locked up during the pandemic last year were Haitian and that this information was underreported.
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A February 2021 <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/files/research/the_legacy_of_racism_within_the_u.s._border_patrol.pdf">report</a> from the American Immigration Council stated that at one detention center in 2020, nearly half of the families threatened with family separation were Black and originated from Haiti, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, and Afro-Latino communities in Latin America. What does the erasure signify?
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<h4 id="EiD64G">
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Carl Lindskoog
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="xnfTFi">
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Black migrants, Black immigrants, and Black asylum seekers are often left out of discussions of immigration, immigrant rights, and immigrant justice. In the media, when we are having these big national debates, we tend to think more about Central Americans and other Latin Americans, not the Caribbean so much. And, of course, in recent years, there were large numbers of displaced people coming from Central America — and that’s part of why that drew the attention.
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But it’s also true that Haitians only appear from time to time in conversation, and it’s not understood that their experiences track really closely to a lot of other asylum seekers.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-
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Haitians have sought asylum at US borders for decades, but presidential administrations since at least the 1970s have practiced exclusion against them.
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<h4 id="dj6n0I">
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Fabiola Cineas
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Even with the current attention being paid to the treatment of Haitian migrants, it’s still unclear how the United States is going to decide which Haitians they allow in and which they don’t. The Biden administration’s initial response was to schedule seven flights a day to send Haitians at the border back. But then the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-united-states-texas-el-paso-del-
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rio-3a8146cbcb47b9df7a31a19594df3ec6">reported</a> that Haitians were being released to El Paso, Texas; Arizona; and other places for 60 days before they’d have to appear at an immigration office. There’s not much transparency about how these decisions are being made.
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<h4 id="bv4kEY">
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Carl Lindskoog
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</h4>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="XSfq1k">
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The Biden administration is under intense political pressure from different sides and from different interests, just as previous administrations have been. The administration is trying to maintain its image as being very different from the Trump administration, especially when it comes to racism and anti-immigrant nativist xenophobia, but I don’t believe that his policies have yet proven to be very different.
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[Vice President] Kamala Harris can stand there and say she is horrified, and [press secretary] <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-says-images-border-
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patrol-whip-obviously-horrific-n1279663">Jen Psaki can say the same</a>. But the whole reason the inhumane treatment of Haitians is happening is because the Biden administration is continuing the Trump administration’s illegitimate and unjustified use of Title 42, which is a way of denying the asylum process to which Haitians and all other people are entitled, by both our own federal law and international law.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="2kb57R">
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US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorcas made a strong statement to migrants saying that if they come here illegally, they’re going to be removed, that they are going to fail. But it’s not illegal to claim asylum. It is a legal right to claim asylum. Migrants have to have a legitimate fear of past or future persecution in their home country on the basis of a number of categories — if they can prove that, then they’ve proven their asylum case and are supposed to be allowed to stay.
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<h4 id="lpDq49">
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Fabiola Cineas
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Many activists have used the phrase “<a href="https://twitter.com/f_bott/status/1440344188717912067">Haitians are owed</a>.” There’s this idea that the world owes Haiti<strong> </strong>and has played a role in its plight. What do you think about this in the context of what took place at the border this week?
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<h4 id="TLaWQF">
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Carl Lindskoog
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="8x606s">
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We do all owe Haitians for the Haitian Revolution, which successfully ended in 1804 and was the most sweeping human rights revolution in all of human history. Haitian liberation, first from slavery and then from colonialism and achieving independence, was a victory for all enslaved, oppressed people, including Black Americans.
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In many ways, Haitians, sadly, because they’ve so often been targeted by racism and injustice, have kept fighting in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s in this country and in others. Their determination to liberate themselves and other people they’ve struggled alongside continues to be a model for how all incarcerated, enslaved, and otherwise abused people can find their liberation. That’s one major reason we owe a debt of gratitude to Haitians.
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That’s even more reason to fight alongside them for justice today at the US-Mexico border and wherever they encounter racism and discrimination.
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<ul>
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<li><strong>The new guidelines for Covid-19 booster shots, explained</strong> -
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<img alt="A sign outside an outdoor vaccination site reads, “Free Covid-19 vaccine event here.”" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0VMVF7rGsj-NlGxfDgCjmuVpGzM=/0x0:4060x3045/1310x983/cdn.vox-
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The FDA and CDC have both endorsed providing Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to some Americans at higher risk from the coronavirus. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
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Why some people might need a booster shot right now — and some might not.
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The Biden administration has settled on its initial plan for <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22675485/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot-fda-approval">Covid-19 vaccine booster shots</a>.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="lzaAg2">
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In the last week, the FDA and CDC have both endorsed providing booster shots to some — but not all — Americans who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Their approval finally gives the Biden White House the authority it needs to start rolling out and promoting booster shots, a month after President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?514148-1/president-biden-remarks-booster-shots">announced</a> a plan to start administering additional doses.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="yXk3Bv">
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The president had originally said all Americans would receive a third shot — and that may still prove to be true, experts say. But the booster plan for now is more narrow, focused on the populations most likely to develop severe symptoms from Covid-19 and those who face more exposure because of their work.
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<a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-booster-dose-
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pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-certain-populations">The FDA’s approval</a> and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0924-booster-recommendations-.html">the CDC’s recommendations</a> differ slightly in scope. But generally speaking, federal officials have signed off on booster shots for the following groups, with the third dose to be given at least six months after the person’s second shot:
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All people over age 65 and all nursing home residents who received the Pfizer vaccine
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Younger people who received the Pfizer vaccine and have <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-
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with-medical-conditions.html">medical conditions that raise the risk of severe Covid-19 symptoms</a> (which could include cancer, diabetes, heart conditions, etc.)
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Younger people who received the Pfizer vaccine and whose occupation puts them at higher risk of contracting a serious Covid-19 infection
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The process that led to those recommendations was laden with controversy. Two FDA officials <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/31/biden-booster-plan-fda-508149">stepped down</a> after Biden’s announcement and later signed a public letter that the scientific case for boosters was narrower than the president had indicated.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="WOCxSv">
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Pfizer had asked the FDA to approve booster shots for all Americans over 16 who had received its vaccine, but the agency’s scientific advisers balked and instead recommended a narrower approval, to which the FDA adhered. The CDC’s own advisers did not formally support a recommendation that people with occupational risk be given a third dose, but CDC Director Rochelle Walensky <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/world/covid-
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boosters-vaccine-cdc-director.html">decided to include those people in the agency’s final recommendation anyway</a>, overruling the advisory panel — an unusual move that kept the CDC in lockstep with the FDA.
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After all that, the new federal guidance matches what <a href="https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1437714676767502337">many</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1437596362153988096">experts</a> have <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-covid-booster-shots-can-and-cant-do">said</a> is appropriate, based on the scientific evidence. There is some sign of the Pfizer vaccine waning in effectiveness over time and against the delta variant. But the protection that it provides against hospitalization — the metric that is most closely watched by public health experts — remains strong for most people.
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The notable exceptions are older people, who have seen a greater drop in efficacy over time, and people with compromised immune systems, for whom the vaccines are often not as effective to start with. That’s why they are the focus of the new booster guidelines, along with workers in higher-risk settings.
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This likely won’t be the last word on booster shots, however. For starters, Moderna has <a href="https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-highlights-new-clinical-data-its-
|
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covid-19-vaccine">signaled</a> it also believes a booster may be necessary for people who received its vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine was always somewhat less effective than the Moderna and Pfizer shots, and recent data confirmed its lower effectiveness against hospitalization. That company has also been <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/21/1039168781/johnson-johnson-booster-shot-provides-increased-protection-from-
|
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covid">testing additional doses</a> for people who received its vaccine.
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Some experts have also told me that, though there hasn’t been much waning against hospitalization for younger and healthier people, it may end up being necessary for most people to receive a third dose to lock in a longer-term immunity.
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But those experts don’t view getting booster shots to young and healthy people as the priority right now, when one in four eligible Americans still hasn’t received any dose of the vaccine at all and much of the world is still far behind the US and Europe in their vaccination rates. More people getting vaccinated, for the first time, is still the best way out of the pandemic, they say.
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“I’d argue that it’s more important to get vaccines to unvaccinated populations and offer boosters to high-risk people for now than it is to get a third booster six months out for all,” Angela Rasmussen, a research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, told me over email last week.
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Why the federal government is recommending booster shots for some, not all
|
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</h3>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="SGqbaR">
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A group of 18 scientists, including the two FDA officials who stepped down, outlined their position on booster shots in a letter published in <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02046-8/fulltext"><em>The Lancet</em></a> just a few days before the FDA’s advisers reviewed the evidence for themselves.
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“COVID-19 vaccines continue to be effective against severe disease, including that caused by the delta variant,” they wrote. “Current evidence does not, therefore, appear to show a need for boosting in the general population.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom" id="wlX6gO">
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One <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22630979/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-delta-variant">CDC study</a> analyzed new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations from early May to late July in New York state. The study covers the transition from the “alpha” variant to <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22630979/covid-19-vaccine-
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booster-shots-delta-variant">the delta variant</a>, which had become dominant by the start of July.
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The Covid-19 vaccines became somewhat less effective in preventing any illness as the delta variant took over, the CDC researchers concluded. Back in May, vaccines had an estimated 90 percent effectiveness at preventing new infections. But by mid-July, the estimated effectiveness had dropped to just under 80 percent. By that point, vaccinated people were more likely to get infected and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/8/11/22611272/what-breakthrough-
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<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e2.htm?s_cid=mm7034e2_w">Another CDC study through July</a> examined national data on whether the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are becoming less effective at stopping severe illness over time. Like the New York study, it found vaccines are extremely good at their most important job. They did not detect a meaningful decline in protection against hospitalization almost six months after patients received a second dose of the vaccine.
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<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7038e1.htm">A newer CDC study</a> did detect some <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/health/covid-moderna-pfizer-vaccines.html">divergence between the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines</a> in preventing severe illness over time, with the former performing better than the latter. But overall effectiveness for both vaccines remained high for most people.
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<a href="https://khub.net/documents/135939561/338928724/Vaccine+effectiveness+and+duration+of+protection+of+covid+vaccines+against+mild+and+severe+COVID-19+in+the+UK.pdf/10dcd99c-0441-0403-dfd8-11ba2c6f5801">Research out of the United Kingdom</a> has reached generally the same conclusions: modest waning in effectiveness against any symptomatic illness but little (if any) against the worse outcomes for most people.
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The exceptions to those broad findings have been for people who have serious medical conditions, people who are otherwise immunocompromised, and people who are older.
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A different <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e3.htm?s_cid=mm7034e3_w">CDC study</a> evaluated vaccine effectiveness for nursing home residents, a population particularly vulnerable to Covid-19 and one of the first groups to get vaccinated last winter. That study did find a significant decline in vaccine effectiveness over time against any illness for those Americans, from 75 percent pre-delta to about 50 percent post-delta. So they enjoyed less protection than younger people did from the start, and that protection declined much more than in their younger counterparts.
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Likewise, the new UK study found that the most significant drop in the vaccine’s effectiveness against hospitalization was among people 80 years and older, from about 95 percent two to nine weeks after becoming fully vaccinated to about 70 percent more than 20 weeks after. For younger age groups, that protection against severe illness stayed above 90 percent over the study period.
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With that in mind, “I think you can make the argument that people who are high risk for severe Covid-19 would benefit from a booster given at least six months after completion of their initial vaccine regimen,” Rasmussen said.
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We may end up in a situation where everybody eventually receives a third dose, with more data rolling in that suggests a longer interval between doses does lead to more robust protection. Giving people that third shot could “lock in” long-term immunity, Rasmussen said.
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crafting/9781250095633">The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting</a><em> and </em><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/knit-a-hat-a-beginner-s-guide-to-knitting/9781419740657">Knit a Hat: A Beginner’s Guide to Knitting</a><em>. She lives in Brooklyn and frequently collaborates with Aude. </em>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>England players had no role in ECB’s decision to cancel Pakistan tour, says union</strong> - New Zealand returned home from Pakistan after abruptly abandoning their tour minutes before the opening fixture in Rawalpindi, citing a security alert</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>75 programmes on Parliamentary democracy across nation, announces LS Speaker Birla</strong> - There would be programmes on increasing the participation of youth and women in Assemblies, Parliament and other democratic institutions</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ECI awaits Law Ministry nod to deregister inactive parties</strong> - It raises concern over possible misuse of I-T exemption by those that don’t contest elections</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Centre to soon announce new cooperative policy, says Amit Shah</strong> - Government is working on setting up cooperative common service centres, national database besides a national cooperative university, he added</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Germany elections: Merkel backs ‘bridge-builder’ Laschet as successor</strong> - The outgoing leader strongly endorses her party’s candidate Armin Laschet in an unusually tight poll race.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>La Palma volcano: Visual guide to what happened</strong> - A series of maps and charts explaining what happened after an eruption in the Spanish Canary Islands.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Canary Islands: Firefighters retreat as volcano intensifies</strong> - Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands displaced since the volcano erupted on Sunday.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Switzerland to hold referendum on same-sex marriage</strong> - Voters in Switzerland go to the polls this Sunday to decide whether to allow same-sex marriage.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ros Atkins On… Germany’s election explained</strong> - Ros Atkins explains how Germany’s election works, the candidates and the issues at stake.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The 2022 Kia Carnival is a handsome minivan, but it needs a hybrid option</strong> - Despite Kia’s expertise with electrification, the Carnival only comes as a V6 for now. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798244">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A new formula may help black patients’ access to kidney care</strong> - Algorithm made it harder for Black patients to qualify for transplants, other treatments. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798361">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back</strong> - DeSnake apparently eluded the takedown of AlphaBay and now plans to resurrect it. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798352">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>As Florida punishes schools, study finds masks cut school COVID outbreaks 3.5X</strong> - Universal masking prevents some school outbreaks and lowers case rates. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798388">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Old coal plant is now mining bitcoin for a utility company</strong> - Bitcoin is breathing new life into another ailing power plant. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1798372">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>My first ever dirty-ish joke I ever heard, still makes me laugh….. A man is visiting his elderly father in a care home</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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The man asks how his father is settling in.
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“Oh, it’s wonderful son, I’ve made some great friends, I’m well rested and at night the nurses give us a hot chocolate and a viagra before bed every night”.
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When, leaving, curious to know about the viagra, he asks a nurse.
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“Excuse me, my dad told me that you serve him hot chocolate and a viagra before bed every night, why?”
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The nurse replies, “Oh, the hot chocolate is to help them fall asleep.”
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“And the viagra is to stop them rolling out of bed”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Smidday90"> /u/Smidday90 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/puvrnq/my_first_ever_dirtyish_joke_i_ever_heard_still/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/puvrnq/my_first_ever_dirtyish_joke_i_ever_heard_still/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Two men are riding the subway in a big city, when one looks over to the other and says, “Say, how did you get those scratches all over your arms and face?”
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The second man says, “Oh, these? I have an asshole cat who won’t stop scratching me, but I’m about to rehome him to a friend. I’m actually here in the city to get a new pet. I want a rooster, I’ve always liked birds more than felines anyway.”
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The first man nods and replies, “Ah, I see we’re here for the same reason, then.”
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The second man is surprised. “Do you have an awful pet, too?”
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The first man thinks about it. “I guess you could say that. It’s never done anything but cause me pain and make a mess, it doesn’t smell too great, and it’s pretty needy.”
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The second man sympathizes. “Sorry to hear it. I guess you’ll be getting off the train soon, then, if you’re going to the animal shelter for a new pet.”
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The first man shakes his head. “Actually, I’m going to the hospital for my sex reassignment surgery.”
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The second man is taken aback. “Well good for you, but why did you say we came to the city for the same reason?”
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The first man answers, “Because just like you, I hate my pussy and came here to get a cock.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thundermarchmello"> /u/thundermarchmello </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/puzc0e/i_was_told_my_joke_belonged_on_this_sub_original/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/puzc0e/i_was_told_my_joke_belonged_on_this_sub_original/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>A wizard doesn’t finger his wife…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Elixir
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/knotshir"> /u/knotshir </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/puxrcv/a_wizard_doesnt_finger_his_wife/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/puxrcv/a_wizard_doesnt_finger_his_wife/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>How do you get the attention of a pervert? [NSFW]</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thatonedude9090"> /u/thatonedude9090 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/pv2qam/how_do_you_get_the_attention_of_a_pervert_nsfw/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/pv2qam/how_do_you_get_the_attention_of_a_pervert_nsfw/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>Kim Jong-un walks into a school in North Korea.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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He asks a student "Who is your father?
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The student replies “The Supreme Leader, infinite in wisdom and kindness, provider and protector of the Koreans, he is our only father.”
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Kim Jong beams. “Excellent. Now tell me who is your mother?”
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The student doesn’t hesitate. “The Land of True Korea, outstanding in her beauty, international superpower, and redeemer of all civilisations, she is our only mother.”
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Kim Jong applauds. “What a diligent student you are. What do you want to be when you’re older?”
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The student replies “An orphan.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ExtraSure"> /u/ExtraSure </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/pukxiu/kim_jongun_walks_into_a_school_in_north_korea/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/pukxiu/kim_jongun_walks_into_a_school_in_north_korea/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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