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Bloomberg
10-07-2025
- Health
- Bloomberg
Extreme Heat Is Killing European Workers Despite Government Efforts
Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30pm on June 28. The Spanish city was under alert for high temperatures amid a brutal heat wave that brought record temperatures for that time of the year across the country. She was responsible for sweeping one of the hottest, dirtiest and more touristic areas — the Raval district. At the end of the shift, at around 9:30pm, she walked back home and asked her elderly mother to prepare dinner because she wasn't feeling well. She also messaged a friend and told him she felt cramps in her arms, chest and neck, her brother-in-law Manuel Ceacero told Bloomberg Green.
CBS News
04-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
As news of immigration court arrests spread, some migrants weigh self-deporting
As the Trump administration continues to adopt new tactics to reform the U.S. immigration system, conditions have grown increasingly inhospitable for migrants in the country illegally, even those in court proceedings to earn legal status. It's led some asylum-seekers to reconsider whether they want to continue with their court cases or voluntarily leave. A young Venezuelan mother attending a check-in at Dallas' immigration court Monday said her fear right now is that she'll be deported, and her five-year-old son will be left to fend for himself. "El juez dijo que mi próxima cita en la corte es el primero de octubre de 2025 y que vendré sola. Si ese día me ordenan deportarme, ¿dónde quedará mi hijo, en manos de quién?" "The judge said my next court date is the first of October 2025, and to come by myself," she said in Spanish. "If that day I'm ordered deported, where will my son stay, in whose hands?" As she walked into the courtroom on Monday, the woman was stopped by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in plainclothes. He was there as part of an operation to detain two other migrants that morning, not her. But the experience still left her nervous and validated her growing fear that coming to this country the way she did wasn't worth it. ""Es mejor no venir. Todos esperamos tener mejor suerte, pero no todos podemos venir. Es demasiado complicado". "It's better not to come," she said. "We all hope for better luck, but we can't all come. It's too complicated." When her court date arrives in four months, she said she plans to have already self-deported. The new tactic: Immigration court arrests Two weeks ago, the Trump administration began carrying out its latest tactic aimed at fast-tracking deportations and clearing the immigration court backlog. Under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE attorneys are now dropping cases against some migrants who have arrived in the U.S. in the past two years, removing their temporary protected status, and making them immediately eligible for arrest and deportation. The migrants are then arrested as they leave their hearings and detained for expedited removal from the U.S. ICE agents in plainclothes arrest a migrant at the Dallas federal courthouse moments after an immigration judge dropped his asylum case. CBS News Texas While expedited removals are nothing new, some legal experts said this way of carrying them out is. "This is really unprecedented that you have this coordination between the immigration court, between the ICE attorneys, between ERO to dismiss these cases for the purpose of putting people in expedited removal procedures and removing them quickly," said immigration attorney Paul Hunker, who formerly served as chief counsel for ICE in Dallas." Expedited removal has historically been applied to migrants caught near the border, not long after entering the country. But in January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order expanding its scope. "Constitutionally, it's premised on a procedure for an arriving alien, somebody who just got here and doesn't have ties," Hunker said. "The longer someone's been here, the more ties they have to the country, the better argument they have that the expedited procedure doesn't give them their due process." Hunker said if he had been asked in his former role if expedited removal should be expanded in this way, he would have said the big problem with this tactic is it applies expedited removal to people that it really wasn't meant to be applied to. He said "I would say it's a bad idea because there's a significant risk courts are going to say that's illegal to do," Hunker said. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has stated this move is an attempt to reverse the former administration's so-called "catch-and-release" policy that it says allowed "millions of unvetted illegal aliens to be let loose on American streets." In an emailed statement, a senior DHS spokesperson emailed CBS News Texas: "Most aliens who illegally entered the United States within the past two years are subject to expedited removals. Biden ignored this legal fact and chose to release millions of illegal aliens, including violent criminals, into the country with a notice to appear before an immigration judge. ICE is now following the law and placing these illegal aliens in expedited removal, as they always should have been." The statement goes on to say that migrants with valid, credible fear claims will be allowed to continue immigration proceedings. But as news spreads of these courthouse arrests, immigrant advocates say more migrants will choose to skip their court check-ins, leading to them receiving automatic removal orders. "Which might be part of why the Trump administration is doing this," Hunker said. "Because once a person has a removal order, it's much easier for ICE to pick them up and remove them."
Washington Post
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Mother of arrested Salvadoran lawyer says daughter is innocent and calls for her release
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The mother of a human rights lawyer arrested in El Salvador said Tuesday she was able to see and speak with her daughter more than 24 hours after her arrest and declared her daughter's innocence in what critics say was government retaliation for her work.
News.com.au
10-05-2025
- General
- News.com.au
‘I gave birth in Italy – here is why it is a wildly different experience than Australia'
The anaesthetist finally arrives, a young woman with an assistant. She is memorably attractive; high, sharp cheekbones, almond obsidian eyes, nicotine scent. She looks at my husband incredulously. 'Tu,' she flicks her perfectly polished fire red nails at him. You. He utters a bewildered, ' si?'. ' Devi uscire ', she says nonchalantly. You must leave. 'Uscire?', he asks bewildered. Leave? 'Dobbiamo fare l'epidurale. Signore, perché non va al bar e prende una brioche e cappuccino?' We must do the epidural. Why don't you go to the bar and get a brioche and cappuccino? Amid arguably one of the most pivotal moments in our life, my husband is invited, in true Italian fashion, to take ' una pausa'. He is not the only one, other stunned and overtired fathers to-be are also being bossed out of their delivery rooms, already reaching for the cigarettes in their back pockets as they scurry quickly from the ward. This country does not let birth get in the way of a coffee, food or a smoke break. It takes a village to raise a child. What if that village is culturally different, diverse? They don't speak the same language; the milieu and nuances are foreign and the methodology and practice behind raising and birthing a child is somewhat at odds with what you perceive to know? Childbirth abroad is daunting, so is motherhood. Yet, I had chosen to give birth in Italy, a country that valued the 'Madonna', pleasure and children above all else. Surely, it would be, ok? Italy is a country defined by its women, and most importantly, its mothers. The 'Madonna and Child' are the crux and nucleus of their Catholic faith, the Holy Trinity a profound and sacred union, their image adorns shops, cafes, street corners and bars. Despite being an Australian, I knew I would be in safe hands giving birth to my first child in a country which placed high prominence on these values. The process around pregnancy, and then childbirth is meticulous, precise and ordered. In Italy, nothing is left to chance. Out of hospital births are rare and usually by accident. You cannot elect to have an epidural unless you have first completed an electrocardiogram. In my third trimester, I had a prenatal appointment every week with an obstetrician, and, at every appointment, I had a scan. I knew a lot about my baby, her movements and peculiarities. As a first-time mum, this not only offered me a lot of comfort, but joy. During my entire pregnancy, I had weekly blood tests, check-ups, courses, exams. Alongside this explicit grain of rules, there was a strong undercurrent of superstition and faith. I went into labour during a full moon, the hospital had rostered on extra staff to accommodate. A full moon meant more babies. My Italian hospital delivered on average, three babies per day. With the full moon, they delivered 20 babies. Wheeled into the sala parto (delivery room), I am halted by an imperious and impatient dinner lady. She waves a piece of white paper in front of me. ' Signora deve scegliere il menu, ' she says officiously. You must choose the menu. 'Scusi? ' I exclaim. Sorry? 'Il menu per la settimana,' she explains. The menu for the week. Mid contraction, I groan. ' Perché non può scegliere dopo? ' My husband asks exasperated. Why can't she choose it later? She shakes her head. It must be now. 'Broccoli o spinaci? ' My husband starts. I growl. ' Risotto o pasta? ' He continues. 'I don't care about the f**king food,' I suddenly yell in English. Big mistake. My husband panics and chooses white rice and pasta with red sauce for the week. He neglects the Lombardian delicacies of cotoletta alla Milanese, polenta with gorgonzola, risotto funghi or pizza. Instead, my first meal after giving birth will be an unappetising plate of white rice and anaemic, mangled broccoli. What was the point in giving birth in Italy if the food was going to be so unappetising and sad? Childbirth and motherhood are a good indicator of a country's cultural position, approach and perception of their women. In Italian pre and post-natal care, there is a heavy emphasis on the mother. The mother must eat (the imperious dinner lady and her insistence on the food), the mother must rest (in the hospital, newborns are often taken away during the evenings to the nursery, so the mothers can sleep), visitors and partners are not allowed to stay overnight at the hospital, everyone must leave by 8pm, and partners are asked to leave during any medical interventions in labour, for example, an epidural. Compared to Australia, this attitude may shock or surprise. I was told that my husband wouldn't be allowed to accompany me if I had to have a caesarean, for example (he would have to wait outside), but it is also an example of a country that places their idea of motherhood at their centre, no matter how old fashioned this interpretation may seem. Suddenly, there is a commotion in the corridor. My husband runs and opens the door. A flurry of doctors and nurses saunter past gossiping. I spot the hospital priest in black casual robes. He looks excited. What could it be now? A famous Italian footballer is about to have his fourth child, his wife is preparing, and he is prowling the corridors. ' Mamma Mia! ' It seems nothing gets in the way of Italians and their football. Neither religion, mothers, food nor babies. And certainly, above all else, childbirth.
