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San Francisco Chronicle
9 hours ago
- Health
- San Francisco Chronicle
Idaho doctor and patients sue over new law halting public benefits to immigrants in US unlawfully
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho doctor and four residents are challenging a new state law that halts some of the few public benefits available to people living in the U.S. unlawfully, including a program that provides access to lifesaving HIV and AIDS medication for low income patients. The ACLU of Idaho and the National Immigration Law Center filed the federal lawsuit Thursday night on behalf of Dr. Abby Davids and four people with HIV who are not named because they are immigrants without lawful permanent residency. They want a judge to bar the state from requiring immigration status verification from people who receive the federal HIV treatment benefits while the lawsuit moves forward in court. The complaint says the new law is vague, contradicts federal law and makes it impossible for health care providers to determine exactly what kind of immigration status is excluded and how to verify that status for patients. They want a judge to grant them class-action status, expanding any ruling to other impacted people. 'We are still reviewing the lawsuit and will respond in court after we have had a chance to fully review the complaint and other documents filed,' Damon Sidur, the communications director for Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador, said Friday in an email to The Associated Press. The lawsuit names Labrador as well as several officials in the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Dozens of patients treated by one Boise-area clinic stand to lose access to HIV and AIDS medication under the law, according to the complaint, including several cared for by Davids. 'Withdrawing HIV treatment from her patients will not only have devastating consequences on their health, it raises the public health risk of increased HIV transmission,' the ACLU wrote in the lawsuit. 'When her patients are undetectable, they cannot transmit the virus. Without HIV treatment, however, they cannot maintain an undetectable viral level and therefore are able to transmit the virus to others.' The new Idaho law takes effect July 1, and appears to be the first limiting public health benefits since President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to enhance eligibility verification and ensure that public benefits aren't going to ineligible immigrants. The law requires people to verify that they are legal U.S. residents to receive public benefits like communicable disease testing, vaccinations, prenatal and postnatal care for women, crisis counseling, some food assistance for children and even access to food banks or soup kitchens that rely on public funding. Federal law generally prohibits immigrants in the U.S. illegally from receiving taxpayer-funded benefits like Medicare, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Social Security. But there are some exceptions for things like emergency medical care and other emergency or public health services. Idaho's law still allows for emergency medical services. But in a June 18 letter to health care providers, Idaho Division of Public Health administrator Elke Shaw-Tulloch said HIV is a long-term condition and not an emergency — so people must verify their lawful presence in order to get benefits through the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The HIV patients challenging the new law include a married couple from Columbia with pending asylum applications, a man who was brought to the U.S. when he was just 4 years old and has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status until next year, and a man from Mexico who has been living and working in Idaho since 2020. One of the patients said she and her husband were diagnosed with HIV in 2019 and immediately started antiretroviral therapy, receiving the medications at no cost through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The medication has lowered the viral load in her body enough that it is now undetectable, she wrote in a court filing, ensuring that she won't transmit the virus to others. 'My medication protected my daughter while I was pregnant because it prevented me from transmitting HIV to her during pregnancy,' she wrote. The treatment allows her to be with her child, watching her grow, she said. Davids has been trying for weeks to get clarity from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare about exactly what kind of verification her patients will have to show, and exactly which kinds of immigration status are considered 'lawful.' But the state has yet to provide clear direction, according to the complaint. 'I am really scared about what this means for many of our patients. Their lives will now be in jeopardy,' Davids wrote in a May 30 email to the Department of Health and Welfare.
Time of India
18 hours ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Most Americans think undocumented immigrants should stay
Academy Empower your mind, elevate your skills Bloomberg Bloomberg Bloomberg For more than a decade, President Donald Trump has been scapegoating immigrants, decrying them as criminals and vermin and vowing to deport them by the American people, by and large, aren't buying it, nor should they.A new Pew Charitable Trust poll shows that 65% of Americans support having undocumented immigrants stay legally if certain requirements are met. About half of those say a green card should be possible, and the rest say a path to citizenship should be available. The poll also showed that majorities oppose suspending most asylum applications, curtailing the Temporary Protected Status program, and conducting workplace raids — all actions the Trump administration has reality is that Trump is out of step with Americans on this issue. After years of pounding away at immigrants, he has failed to persuade Americans that they are an invading force threatening their jobs and safety. When asked whether there should be a national effort to deport undocumented immigrants, only 31% of Americans replied Shah, who leads the American Civil Liberties Union's immigration policy work, told me that 'people are questioning the disconnect between Trump's rhetoric on public safety and what's happening on the ground.''You're seeing ordinary communities subjected to these violent, scary ICE operations,' she said. 'This is not what people signed up for and it's starting to show up in poll numbers.' ACLU polling shows 56% of Americans oppose deploying troops to quell protests, as Trump has done in Los although Americans want strong border security, they have little taste for an indiscriminate approach that sweeps up legal immigrants and citizens border czar Tom Homan, enforcement in the early months of Trump's second term focused heavily on immigrants with criminal records and pre-existing deportation orders. Homan, who had performed a similar duty for the Obama administration, knew that while the numbers would not be huge, the impact would meet with public was openly dissatisfied with the results. There just aren't enough criminals to come anywhere close to the numbers Trump wants. For that, you need to go after everyday workers — the line cooks, construction workers, farmhands and landscapers that fill myriad jobs across the late May, Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigration policies, dressed down ICE's top field directors. One official told the Washington Examiner that 'Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. 'Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?'' the official said. Instead of the 660 arrests they'd been averaging daily, the new goal was 3, broader, far more brutal enforcement that followed has exposed to Americans the ugly reality of mass deportations. They don't like what they see: A recent Fox News poll shows that 53% now disapprove of Trump's immigration approach just doesn't work in an age of social media, which now is flooded daily with up-close videos of what on-the-street enforcement looks like. One recent video shows the middle-aged father of three Marines arrested at his landscaping job and beaten about the head and neck by masked agents. One of his sons, Marine veteran Alejandro Barranco, said his father, Narciso Barranco, 56, had lived in California since the '90s without legal status, but also without any criminal record. 'He always taught us to respect, to love our country, to always give back,' the younger Barranco said, adding that he feels 'betrayed.'Polls also have some tough realities for Democratic leaders. The number of voters who support a border wall has been ticking up, the Pew survey found. Trump introduced the notion of a border wall (that Mexico would pay for) in his first campaign and has continued to extol it. Now, 56% of Americans favor it — a 10 percentage point increase from are not the same as votes and should not dictate public policy, but they can reveal some elements of a long-needed overhaul of immigration practices. That would require both sides to look past their talking having succeeded at dramatically lowering border crossings, should shift his focus back to criminal removals. It would also serve him well — particularly among his modest but growing support among Hispanic voters — to create a limited path to legal status for those who have worked in the US and stayed on the right side of the should acknowledge the legitimate strains imposed on border states and ports of entry during the Biden years, the public's growing desire for a wall, and the need to find effective ways of dealing with visa overstays, which are responsible for a significant share of those here of failure to hammer out a functional immigration policy have led to where we are today: masked agents snatching anyone suspected of being here illegally, National Guard soldiers putting down protests, fields empty of workers, and raids that can leave lasting wounds in a community left wondering who will be taken next. That's bad enough; our elected leaders shouldn't wait to see what's next.
Scoop
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Richard Russell's - Everything Is Recorded Release New Album
Richard Russell's collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded today announce and release Solstice Equinox - a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at The Copper House, Russell's West London studio. Solstice Equinox is the fourth Everything Is Recorded album and comes four months after the third, Temporary. Each session took place on a solstice or equinox — the Summer and Winter Solstices, and the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes. Across these four days, a revolving cast of musicians, peers, and longtime collaborators gathered for fully improvised sessions. Words about the seasons were written on the studio walls; otherwise Russell gave the players no instructions. After the sessions, he edited and mixed the recordings into the four distinct selections of ten tracks each that collectively form Solstice Equinox. The lineup blends longtime collaborators with fresh voices, including Alabaster DePlume, Jah Wobble, Ibeyi, Samantha Morton, Laura Groves, Jack Peñate, Roses Gabor, Mary In The Junkyard, Georgia,, Sampha, Florence Welch, Yazz Ahmed, CASISDEAD and more. Each session was uploaded to Bandcamp and SoundCloud as soon as it was completed. The Solstice Equinox album further edits and compiles the four groups of ten tracks into one coherent album consisting of the forty songs, at a running time of one hour forty minutes. Solstice Equinox will be released digitally, and on limited edition vinyl. Each LP comes in a bespoke, screen-printed sleeve, hand-crafted at XL Recordings' west London headquarters. They are available to buy straight away via Everything Is Recorded's Bandcamp and the XL Recordings store. The Solstice Equinox sessions came towards the end of a prolific five-year period for Russell, capped by the release of Everything Is Recorded's critically acclaimed third album Temporary in February 2025. The album features an extraordinary roster of collaborators including Sampha, Florence Welch, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, and many of the artists involved in Solstice Equinox.
Miami Herald
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Miami Herald
ICE detains Venezuelan ex-political prisoner after immigration case dismissal
A Venezuelan political prisoner who spent more than three years incarcerated under Nicolás Maduro's regime has been detained in the United States after an immigration judge dismissed his asylum claim. He now faces possible deportation to the same country he once fled, where he was tortured. Gregory Antonio Sanabria Tarazona, now in his early 30s, was just 20 and studying computer engineering when he was arrested on Oct. 7, 2014 in Táchira, a western state in Venezuela and then moved to a prison in Caracas. He had taken part in La Salida ('The Exit'), a nationwide civil disobedience movement led by opposition figures Leopoldo López, María Corina Machado, and Antonio Ledezma, aimed at removing Maduro from power. Sanabria Tarazona entered the United States via the southern border in early 2023 and passed a credible fear interview, according to Renzo Prieto, a former National Assembly member and fellow political prisoner in Venezuela. He settled in Dallas, where he worked in construction and air conditioning installation. According to Prieto he was also granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a deportation protection designation first granted to Venezuelans in 2021 under the Biden administration. He received protection in 2023 after the protection was expanded. However, the Trump administration recently rescinded it, placing him, and more than 350,000 Venezuelans, at risk of deportation. On Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Sanabria Tarazona in Texas. According to ICE records, he is currently being held at the Montgomery Processing Center in Conroe. 'Severe beating' La Salida in 2014, marked by widespread unrest and the construction of makeshift barricades known as guarimbas, was fueled by skyrocketing inflation, rampant shortages of food and medicine, insecurity, and political persecution. While the movement ultimately failed to unseat the regime, it left dozens dead and led to the imprisonment of numerous activists. Following Sanabria Tarazona's arrest, he was subjected to brutal treatment. According to Venezuelan media reports, he was physically and psychologically tortured: interrogated with a bag over his head, shocked with electricity, and beaten and bitten by Venezuelan security agents. He spent more than three years behind bars, including in El Helicoide, the notorious headquarters of Venezuela's political police, SEBIN. Upon his release on parole in 2018, he was hospitalized. Doctors confirmed moderate cerebral edema and injuries requiring surgery, including a broken nose. That same year, the United Nations Human Rights Office condemned the 'severe beating' he endured and called for an investigation into the use of torture and mistreatment of prisoners at El Helicoide. 'Life in danger if deported' The Herald searched public records in Dallas and found no criminal history for Sanabria Tarazona in the United States. Although current policy generally protects individuals who have been in the country for more than two years from expedited removal, like Sanabria Tarazona, the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is shifting that interpretation. Immigration authorities are increasingly placing residents into removal proceedings, regardless of how long they have lived in the U.S.. Several legal challenges to this practice are now pending in federal courts. The Herald requested comments from Homeland Security and ICE regarding the charges against Sanabria Tarazona but has not received a response. Venezuelan opposition leaders have remained silent about the fate of Sanabria Tarazona following news of his arrest in the U.S. and possible deportation, which could put his life at risk. While Maria Corina Machado defended Sanabria Tarazona during his imprisonment in Caracas—when he was beaten by guards—she has remained silent now that he faces deportation. The Herald requested comments from Comando con Venezuela in Miami, which represents Machado in Florida, but has not received a response. While Sanabria Tarazona's family has remained silent out of fear Prieto has publicly denounced his detention and urged U.S. authorities to reconsider. In a post on X wrote: 'Gregory is one of the young people who fought for democracy in Venezuela,' the message reads. 'He was imprisoned, tortured, and persecuted by the criminal gang that holds power in our country hostage. His cause was shared by leaders like Antonio Ledezma, as well as numerous students and opposition activists.' 'Gregory Sanabria needs and deserves international protection' said Prieto. 'His life is in danger if he is deported to Venezuela.'
Hindustan Times
12-06-2025
- Climate
- Hindustan Times
Claro Fire evacuation updates and road closures as blaze burns 40 acres near Carlsbad and San Marcos
A wildfire known as the Claro Fire broke out near Carlsbad and San Marcos, California, on Thursday afternoon. The fire has since burned more than 40 acres, prompting evacuation warnings and road closures in the area. Zones SDC-0917 Zone SDC-0918 Zone SDC-0848 Zone SDC-0850 According to San Diego Sheriff, the Temporary Evacuation Point is set up at Stagecoach Park, located at 3420 Camino De Los Coches, Carlsbad. Eastbound San Elijo Road at Rancho Santa Fe Road Westbound San Elijo Road near the old dump (1601 San Elijo Road) Southbound San Elijo Road at the intersection with Melrose Drive Residents are advised to avoid these areas.
