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  1. Apr 2023
    1. Vilma Carrillo, who was separated at the Arizona border from her American daughter, Yeisvi, then 11, recalled watching as immigration officials near the detention center in Georgia where she was housed called one mother after another to reunite them with their children. She was never paged.

      narrative

    1. Rap music and vulgar movies corrupt the youth, they argue, while big government and the welfare state sap individual initiative, enervate the impulse for local self-help and pre-empt the role of mediating institutions. Prune the shade tree of big government, they insist, and families, neighborhoods and church-based charities will flourish in the sun and space now crowded out by the overgrown tree.

      partisan motives

    1. espite the thick layers she put on top of the planting beds, they inevitably thinned out after a few months. I poked around beneath the mulch and noticed that the surface of the soil had changed to a milk-chocolate hue, no longer the light-colored dirt I remembered initially digging into. Now, a thin, dark layer at the interface of the soil and the mulch made it hard to say really where the mulch ended and the soil began.

      is this a good thing?

    1. ve of crime, we have forgotten that they have a motive — they get federal grants and state grants and funding that basically grow their organization, not on the actual rate of crime but on the perception of crime because it’s political. Public policy changes based on public perception of crime, and the press becomes an arm of the law enforcement public relations industry when they don’t critically challe

      MONEYY

  2. Mar 2023
  3. Feb 2022
    1. Tokyo newspapers denounced the segregation as an insult to Japanese pride and honor. The Japanese government wanted to protect its reputation as a world power. Government officials became aware that a crisis was at hand, and intervention was necessary to maintain diplomatic peace.[9]

      Japan didn't want to be treated as inferior!

      should i look for said tokyo newspapers?

    2. On February 15, 1907, the parties came to a compromise. If Roosevelt could ensure the suspension of Japanese immigration, the school board would allow Japanese American students to attend public schools. The Japanese government did not want to harm its national pride or to suffer humiliation like the Qing government in 1882 in China from the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Japanese government agreed to stop granting passports to laborers who were trying to enter the United States unless such laborers were coming to occupy a formerly-acquired home, to join a parent; spouse; or child, or to assume active control of a previously-acquired farming enterprise.[10]

      dis is it

    3. At the time, there were 93 Japanese students spread across 23 elementary schools. For decades, policies segregated Japanese schools, but they were not enforced as long as there was room and white parents did not complain. The Japanese and Korean Exclusion League appeared before the school board multiple times to complain. The school board dismissed its claims because it was fiscally infeasible to create new facilities to accommodate only 93 students. After the 1906 fire, the school board sent the 93 Japanese students to the Chinese Primary School and renamed it "The Oriental Public School for Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans." Transportation was limited after the earthquake, and many students could not attend the Oriental Public School.[8]

      look for newspapers on this

  4. May 2021