On Politics: Sick Migrants Can Now Be Deported

2019年8月30日星期五

On Politics: Sick Migrants Can Now Be Deported

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August 30, 2019

Morning Edition

Good Friday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.

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• Without notice, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services eliminated a program this month that had allowed immigrants to avoid deportation while they or their relatives were undergoing lifesaving medical treatment. Called “deferred action,” the program had provided a form of humanitarian relief from deportation for at least 1,000 applicants every year.

• House Democratic aides were blocked from spot visits to 11 detention facilities on the Mexican border, but even with the inspections they got, they heard complaints of toddlers and an infant eating age-inappropriate burritos, eating soup off the floor and living in soiled diapers.

• A new policy that denies automatic citizenship to some babies born abroad to federal workers will affect few families, but the political backlash has been fierce, especially from United States service members.

• As Hurricane Dorian plowed toward the Florida coast on Thursday, the predictions became more dire, the preparations more urgent, the disruptions more immediate.

• Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama apologized on Thursday for her role in a racist skit from her time as an Auburn University student, after an audio recording of a radio interview emerged this week that described her as wearing blue coveralls and with “black paint all over her face.”

• Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York ran for the Democratic presidential nomination as the champion of feminism, but her message did not break through in a field with six women. With little money left and no place on the debate stage, she decided to drop out.

• While plenty of voters chalk up their support for former Vice President Joe Biden to strategizing about electability rather than explicit enthusiasm for him, others at his events across the country just want to give him a hug. It’s an act of support — and defiance.

• President Trump’s whiplash-inducing China pronouncements have some companies scrambling to adjust their strategies based on his latest whim.

• The former F.B.I. director James Comey violated policy by disclosing memos about his interactions with Mr. Trump to people outside the bureau. The department’s inspector general said Mr. Comey had set “a dangerous example” by releasing them.

• The president wants a Space Force equipped with “warriors,” raising questions about what he means by treating outer space as a “war fighting” frontier.

• The Democratic National Committee is planning to cancel a phone-based “virtual” caucus in Iowa next year over fears that such a system could be hacked.

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Today’s On Politics briefing was compiled by Isabella Grullón Paz in New York.

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