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Sept. 19
Top Headlines
Washington Post, U.S. will fly migrants who have streamed into Texas back to Haiti, officials say- New York Times, How Hope, Fear and Misinformation Led Haitians to the U.S. Border
- Washington Post, Opinion: Biden’s Entire Presidential Agenda Rests on Expansive Spending Bill
- Washington Post, Afghan family ravaged by U.S. drone strike mistake wants headstones for the dead — and possible new life in America, Sudarsan Raghavan
- New York Times, Pentagon Says Drone Strike That Killed 10 in Afghanistan Was Mistake
Virus Victims, Responses
- New York Times, They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment
- Washington Post, Covid hospital bills arrive as insurers restore co-pays and deductibles
- Washington Post, Pandemic marks another grim milestone: 1 in 500 Americans have died of covid-19, Sept. 19, 2021 (print ed.).
- Washington Post, Rationing care becomes a reality as covid-19 patients crowd hospitals in some areas
Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 690,714- Washington Post, 211.5 million U.S. vaccinated
Jan. 6 Trump Insurrection Probes
- Proof via Substack, Investigation: January 6 Was a Violent Nationwide Insurrection—Not One Attack on One Building in Washington, Seth Abramson
- Washington Post, Court hearings, guilty pleas belie right-wing recasting of Jan. 6 defendants as persecuted patriots
- Proof via Substack, Investigative Commentary: A Secretive Summit That Trump Attended in December of 2020 May Explain Both Trump's Role in the January 6 Insurrection and Why Both CJCS Milley and China Feared Trump Would Start a War, Seth Abramson
- Washington Post, Justice for J6 rally sees a sparse crowd and tight security
- Washington Post, A one-time Trump aide finds the spotlight he sought — if not broad support — with today’s Jan. 6 rally
U.S. Governance, Politics, Elections
Washington Post, Analysis: Senate Republicans say they will vote to allow debt default, leaving Democrats scrambling for plan to avert economic crisis- Washington Post, Opinion: The debt-ceiling debate is out of control. Here’s how to stop the madness, Allan Sloan, Sept. 19, 2021 (print ed.).
- New York Times, Editorial: Joe Manchin Got the Voting Bill He Wanted. Time to Pass It
U.S., China, Australia, France
- New York Times, Secret Talks and a Hidden Agenda: Behind the U.S. Defense Deal that France Called a ‘Betrayal’
- New York Times, France Recalls Ambassadors to U.S. and Australia
- New York Times, The Sharp U.S. Pivot to Asia Is Throwing Europe Off Balance
U.S. Courts, Crime, Justice
Washington Post, Opinion: The Senate knew about Kavanaugh’s partisan history. It confirmed him anyway, Jackie Calmes
More On Afghanistan
- Washington Post, Political battle lines harden after general’s testimony that he advised keeping some troops in Afghanistan
World News
- New York Times, The Iranian Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted Weapon That Killed Him
- Washington Post, First all-amateur space crew splashes down in the Atlantic off Florida
- Washington Post, As France escalated its submarine dispute, it decided to go a bit lighter on Britain. Here’s why
- Washington Post, Australia says France knew it had ‘deep and grave concerns’ about its submarines before U.S. deal
- Washington Post, How an intelligence officer’s disappearance in Somalia has ripped the government apart this week
U.S. Auctions, Entertainment, Media
- Proof via Substack, America's Video Game Scandal Continues: More Evidence of Deception By Grading Company WATA, Seth Abramson
Top Stories
Washington Post, U.S. will fly migrants who have streamed into Texas back to Haiti, officials say, Nick Miroff, Sept. 19, 2021 (print ed.). The deportations, expected to start as soon as Sunday, are aimed at discouraging more border-crossers from coming to a South Texas camp.The Biden administration is preparing to send planeloads of migrants back to Haiti starting as soon as Sunday in a deportation blitz aimed at discouraging more border-crossers from streaming into a crude South Texas camp where nearly 14,000 have already arrived, according to five U.S. officials with knowledge of the plans.
Homeland Security officials are planning as many as eight flights per day to Haiti, three officials said, while cautioning that plans remained in flux. The administration was preparing to announce the flights Saturday, said two of the officials, who were not authorized to discuss the plan.Haitian authorities have agreed to accept at least three flights per day, but Biden officials want to maximize deportations to break the momentum of the massive influx into the Del Rio, Tex., camp, one official said.
Another U.S. official involved in the planning insisted that the flights were not a targeted measure aimed at Haitians, but the application of U.S. immigration laws allowing the government to swiftly return border-crossers who arrive illegally.
“This isn’t about any one country or country of origin,” the official said. “This is about enforcing border restrictions on those who continue to enter the country
illegally and put their lives and the lives of the federal workforce at risk.”The Biden administration continues to use a pandemic enforcement measure known as Title 42 to rapidly “expel” border crossers to Mexico or their home countries. Officials said some of the flights to Haiti would probably be expulsion flights relying on the public health authority of the Title 42 provision.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from using Title 42 to expel migrant families but stayed the order for 14 days. The Biden administration appealed the ruling Friday.
The administration’s preparations to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti was first reported Friday by the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press.
By announcing its intent to deport the Haitians before launching the flights, Biden officials also appeared to be hoping some in the camp would abandon their attempt to enter the United States and return to Mexico. Migrants arriving to the camp have been given numbered tickets by the Border Patrol as they await a turn to be formally taken into U.S. custody, the first step in starting the process of requesting U.S. asylum or some other form of protection from deportation.
Some Haitians seeking to avoid deportation could abandon the Del Rio camp and attempt to remain in the United States illegally, or return to Mexico, two U.S. officials acknowledged.
Many of the migrants crowded under the highway bridge are part of a larger wave of Haitian migrants that arrived in Brazil, Chile and other South American nations following their country’s devastating earthquake in 2010.
Migrants walked across the Rio Grande carrying food and other supplies to a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas (Photo by Verónica G. Cárdenas for The New York Times).- New York Times, How Hope, Fear and Misinformation Led Haitians to the U.S. Border, James Dobbins, Natalie Kitroeff, Anatoly Kurmanaev, Edgar Sandoval and Miriam Jordan. Some left to find work. Others to escape violence or racial discrimination in other countries. But many believe “there is nothing to go back to.”
- Washington Post, Thousands of Haitian migrants wait under bridge in South Texas after mass border crossing
Washington Post, Opinion: Biden’s Entire Presidential Agenda Rests on Expansive Spending Bill, Jim Tankersley, Sept. 19, 2021 (print ed.). No president has ever packed as much of his agenda, domestic and foreign, into a single piece of legislation as President Biden has with the $3.5 trillion spending plan that Democrats are trying to wrangle through Congress over the next six weeks.- No president has ever packed as much of his agenda into a single piece of legislation as President Biden has with the $3.5 trillion spending plan.
- The bill tackles the economy, education, immigration and more. It binds disparate Democratic lawmakers, but risks sinking under its own weight.
The bill combines major initiatives on the economy, education, social welfare, climate change and foreign policy, funded in large part by an extensive rewrite of the tax code, which aims to bring in trillions from corporations and the rich. That stacking of priorities has raised the stakes for a president resting his ambitions on a bill that could fail over the smallest of intraparty disputes.
If successful, Mr. Biden’s far-reaching attempt could result in a presidency-defining victory that delivers on a decades-long campaign by Democrats to expand the federal government to combat social problems and spread the gains of a growing economy to workers, striking a fatal blow to the government-limiting philosophy of President Ronald Reagan that has largely defined American politics since the 1980s.
But as Democrats are increasingly seeing, the sheer weight of Mr. Biden’s progressive push could cause it to collapse, leaving the party empty-handed, with the president’s top priorities going unfulfilled. Some progressives fear a watered-down version of the bill could fail to deliver on the party’s promises and undermine its case for a more activist government. Some moderates worry that spending too much could cost Democrats, particularly those in more conservative districts, their seats in the 2022 midterm elections, erasing the party’s control of Congress.
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