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- WorldNBC News
Record coronavirus case rises reported as U.S. faces stark death toll projection
Japan, Philippines, Poland all report spikes as countries clamp down on social distancing.
- CelebrityINSIDER
Lea Thompson backs up Brad Garrett's claim that Ellen DeGeneres treated people 'horribly': 'True story'
The "Back to the Future" actress responded to the comedian's claim that it's "common knowledge" that DeGeneres mistreats people.
- WorldAFP
Record spikes in Asia as WHO issues grim virus warning
Southeast Asian countries reported record rises of new coronavirus cases on Saturday as the WHO warned the effects of the pandemic would be felt for decades and the scramble for a vaccine heated up. Six months after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 680,000 people and infected more than 17.5 million, according to an AFP tally. As countries across Western Europe announced new lockdowns and reported historic economic slumps, the World Health Organization said the pandemic was a "once-in-a-century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come."
- U.S.The Week
The most damning inside portrait of the Trump administration yet
It is a testament to the turbulence of this presidential administration that there seems to be a new bombshell tell-all announced every month. Yet for attempts by the White House to suppress and discredit Michael Wolff's Fire & Fury, Bob Woodward's Fear: Trump in the White House, Mary Trump's Too Much and Never Enough, or John Bolton's The Room Where It Happened, there have been few revelations that have done more than merely corroborate that the White House staff is dysfunctional, and the president thin-skinned and erratic.Netflix's Immigration Nation is the rare look at the administration that the White House is actually right to be terrified of. The six-part documentary series, out Monday, began back in 2017 with the cooperation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); the idea was for filmmakers Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz to document the way the agency evolved under President Trump. Three years on, the administration has since attempted to censor the documentary, or at least block its release until after the November election. They're smart to have tried: Immigration Nation is a bombshell that actually lands, not just because it contains more than idle gossip, but because it devastatingly undermines Trump's tough-on-immigration message by showing the inhumanity and unconscionable cruelty of his agency's tactics.When Trump descended down his golden escalator to announce that he was running for president back in 2015, he opened with a famously vitriolic and racist speech: "[Mexico is] sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems," he said. "They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people." The language stoked Trump's base, but relied on stereotypes of Latin America that aren't based in truth; today, the "vast majority" of people in ICE custody have no prior criminal record, federal numbers published by Syracuse University show. Only one out of five detainees has committed what ICE classifies as a felony, although the agency's definition is broad and includes crimes like "selling marijuana," which is decriminalized or legalized in many states. Still, under Trump, ICE has been empowered not only to sweep up "collaterals" — random law-abiding and often tax-paying undocumented immigrants they stumble on while searching for their target — but have also adopted a dangerous and unsuccessful policy of "deterrence," with the objective of making life so horrific for immigrants, including their young children, that word supposedly travels back to where they're from and stops more migrants from coming. "The administration has changed, and we are finally able to do our job," brags one agent in the doc.Part of what makes Immigration Nation so eye-popping is, quite simply, the stupidity — or perhaps arrogance — with which the ICE agents speak and act in front of rolling cameras. It is sickening to watch agents gleefully celebrate breaking apart families with their arrests, or mocking their detainees as the fathers, mothers, children, and grandparents sob in holding pins. Other footage is even more incriminating: agents lie to immigrants in order to gain entry into their homes and arrest them, and at one point, an officer even illegally picks a lock with a knife to enter a building during a raid. Bryan Cox, an ICE spokesman, ghoulishly discusses ramping up ICE arrests as retaliation against a county that votes out a sheriff who was more friendly to the agency, and admits to inflating the number of criminal arrests. Many of the interviewed agents complain about being compared to Nazis, but turn around and justify their actions by saying "I'm just doing my job." One of the most alarming moments comes when the filmmakers are riding along with an agent who has previously expressed his uneasiness about arresting collaterals; the agent's boss calls him and on speaker phone, knowing full well cameras are present, insists "I don't care what you do, but bring at least two people in."But immigrants aren't collectables in a video game. Over the course of Immigration Nation, you watch as an El Salvadorian police officer who fled to the U.S. after informing the NYPD on gang activity, thereby making him a target to be killed, gets deported after dutifully showing up for his ICE meeting. A 63-year-old grandmother who sought asylum after protecting her 12-year-old granddaughter from a forced marriage to a gang member is deported after over a year in detention, returning to Honduras where people are actively hunting to kill her. A father is separated from his young daughter, who had witnessed her mother get murdered back home; the girl later recounts agents taunting her by saying she would never see her dad again. A teenager whose father remains in detention stares dead-eyed off into space while saying, "I used to dream about growing up. I wanted things. But I don't think the same way anymore. It's changed." Another father explains through tears that "even the best man cries about being separated from his child." Most of the time, though, the parents are unable to rub the tears out of their eyes because of the way they are awkwardly cuffed. The cruelty is not only unjustified, it seems to have no bounds.And those are the immigrants who still have a voice to speak to their interviewers. Immigration Nation's final episode (which comes after an infuriating episode about migrants attempting fruitlessly to enter the country the "right way") illustrates how desperation leads to the deadly desert crossings most Americans think of when they hear about so-called illegal immigrants. This, too, though, is a part of our cruel immigration system: because of the bad optics of having immigrants jump fences in places like San Diego, border patrol "reroute[d] migrants away from highly trafficked and relatively safe urban crossing zones and into remote and perilous stretches of scorching, waterless desert," The New York Times has previously reported. One agency document from 1997 that's included in the film even details how an increase in deaths on the border would be a favorable sign indicating that border patrol's strategy was "successful;" 2019, notably, was one of the deadliest years on record. "We thought that if enough people died, they would stop coming, but clearly that has not been the case," Jason De León, a UCLA anthropologist studying Latin American migration, emotionally explains. Deterrence, just like the supposed proliferation of "rapists and murderers," is exposed as a political lie used by the administration to validate violence and psychological trauma that has only been paralleled in the darkest chapters of human history.What's truly remarkable about Immigration Nation is that it gives ICE ample and even-handed opportunities to speak their part — and they still manage to come out in the clear moral wrong. Regardless of how you feel about immigration policy, we have duties, as human beings, to treat others with compassion and empathy, and to mitigate suffering, to not be a passive cog in a machine of hurt.The bitter conclusion of the series, though, is that there is a dearth of such sentiment among the leadership of this country, which is exposed as being at its abhorrent peak under Trump but has been perpetuated by Democratic presidents as well. "We're going to continue doing what we're doing until someone stops us from doing it," an agent announces at one point, and though it's meant as a boast, it's hard not to hear as a challenge.More stories from theweek.com The housing crisis is here 5 brutally funny cartoons about Bill Barr’s brand of justice The Lincoln Project celebrates Portland's Wall of Moms. The Wall of Moms is splintering.
- CelebrityCosmo
Kim Kardashian just shared NSFW wedding dress fitting photos
Of course, this wasn't any ordinary fitting 🔥
- WorldThe Telegraph
Ghislaine Maxwell granted stay of execution by US court, delaying release of incriminating court papers
The release of court documents said to incriminate Ghislaine Maxwell has been delayed after a US court granted the British socialite at the heart of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal a stay of execution, it has emerged. Papers including her deposition statement will be kept under wraps in what her legal team will view as a welcome victory. The decision by judges sitting in the Second Circuit of the US Court of Appeals was announced in a two-page order published yesterday. The documents, said to contain the 58-year-old British socialite denying any knowledge of sex-trafficking for the multi-billionaire financier, were due to be unsealed on Monday. Prosecutors have claimed the April 2016 deposition suggests Ms Maxwell had perjured herself by claiming not to know about sex-traffcking. It is claimed she is recorded saying while under oath: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
- CelebrityTODAY
'Deadliest Catch' deckhand Mahlon Reyes dies at 38: 'Strongest guy we knew'
Reyes became a fan favorite after he started appearing on the reality show in 2012.
