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In the weeks he spent flat on his back in his Brook-lyn bunk,
wracked with pain and struggling to breathe, Axayacatl Figueroa
could think of nothing but the small town and the family he had
left behind in Mexico.
Each month, he had sent $300 or $400 to his wife and son in San
Jerónimo Xayacatlán. The money was hard earned: For more than a
decade, he cleaned pork, cut meat and boned chick-ens in the
basement kitchen of a Vietnamese restaurant.
But now, Figueroa had COVID-19. There was no work, and there was
no money to send home.
“I felt desperate. I couldn’t do anything,” he said.
For as long as Mexicans have gone north to find work, money has
gone in the opposite direction. These remittances from expatriates
working in the United
States and other countries have been the life blood of places
like San Jerónimo, a village of nearly 4,000 people in central
Mexico.
But these days, fear accompanies the money that crosses the
border. And it travels both ways.
Those who went to live in New York
and other Amer-ican cities are worried about how to keep
supporting their families. They also send home warnings about the
terrors of a virus that many in Mexico still don’t believe is
danger-ous.
Those who live in San Jerónimo and other towns and cities in
Mexico fear for their rela-tives in the north, watching from afar
as they lose their
jobs, fall sick alone or without the docu-ments that would allow
them to move around freely -- and, too often, die in a foreign
land.
The impact of COVID-19 has many questioning whether the years of
struggle, absence and badly paid work were worth it.
Figueroa still believes it is. His son, a nursing student he
left behind 15 years ago, is not so sure.
“I would have preferred to have him here,” said Ariel Juan
Figueroa, though he knows that won’t happen anytime soon. His
father is as persistent as he is.
“He won’t be back until he retires or can’t work,” said the
son.
The World Bank and United Nations estimate that remittances to
Latin Amer-ican countries will fall nearly 20% this year, but
Mexico appears to be holding on. Mexican migrants sent home a
record $4 billion in March. After a dip in April, numbers were
strong again in May.
Duncan Wood, director of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson
Center, says much of that money came from emigrants who received
unemployment benefits in the U.S.
Emigrants from San Jerónimo typically work off the books and are
paid in cash, so they receive no benefits and did not receive
stimulus payments, Wood said.
He predicted that Mexico will feel the pain in coming months,
when unemploy-ment benefits run out. The country has long depended
on that money; remit-tances bring in more money from over-seas than
oil exports or tourism.
IMMIGRATIONVirus means Mexican emigrants send fewer dollars to
hometown
Axayacatl Figueroa, who recovered aft er suff ering from
COVID-19, walks by a food stand in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday,
July 6, 2020.
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IMMIGRATION: Virus means Mexican emigrants send fewer dollars to
hometown
STATE: Activists want Seattle police held in contempt of
court
NATIONAL: Virus vaccine put to final test in thousands of
volunteers
LATIN AMERICA: Child abduction, forced labor scandal widens in
south Mexico
POLITICS: Democratic group looks to remedy lack of enthusiasm
for Biden
IMMIGRATION: US won’t accept new DACA applications
DEMOGRAPHICS: The importance of being counted in the 2020
Census
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SEATTLE, Washington (AP)
Activists who won a U.S. court order restricting the Seattle
Police Department’s use of chemical weapons for crowd control say
the department should be held in contempt of court for violating it
in a “vengeful outburst” over the weekend.
In June, U.S. District Judge Richard Jones issued an order
forbidding Seattle police from using “chemical irritants or
projectiles of any kind” against people demonstrating peacefully.
But in a motion filed Monday, the Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union
of Wash-ington and other groups representing Black Lives Matter
Seattle-King County said that on Saturday, the department shot
pepper spray and blast balls indis-criminately into a crowd after a
small number of protesters engaged in prop-erty destruction.
“Two days ago, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) ambushed
peaceful protesters with a level of violence that surpasses that
seen in early June,” the
motion said. “Protesters were indiscrim-inately hit with blast
balls, pepper spray, and blunt force objects. Journalists were
trampled. Medics were maced for attend-
ing to patients. Legal observers were shot at close range. The
injuries were exten-sive.”
Seattle police said they declared the
demonstration a riot after several people set fire to the
construction site of a new youth detention center and set off
explosives at the department’s East Pre-cinct building. They
arrested 47 people and said 59 officers suffered injuries including
scrapes, bruises and burns.
The department did not immediately respond to an email seeking
comment.
The judge’s order allowed individ-ual officers to take
“necessary, reason-able, proportional, and targeted action” to
protect against specific threats, but it added: “To the extent that
chemical irritants or projectiles are used in accor-dance with this
paragraph, they shall not be deployed indiscriminately into a crowd
...”
The motion for contempt cites the accounts of several protesters
who say they were marching peacefully when they were hit by
flash-bangs, pepper spray or other munitions. Some suffered
burns.The police also clearly targeted journal-
ists and legal observers with blast balls or pepper spray, the
motion said.
STATEActivists want Seattle police held in contempt of court
Police pepper spray protesters, on Saturday, July 25, 2020, near
Seattle Central Community College in Seattle, Washington.
NATIONAL
(AP)
The world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway Monday
with the first of 30,000 planned volunteers helping to test shots
created by the U.S. government -- one of several candidates in the
final stretch of the global vaccine race.
There’s still no guarantee that the experimental vaccine,
developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc.,
will really protect.
The needed proof: Volunteers won’t know if they’re getting the
real shot or a dummy version. After two doses, sci-entists will
closely track which group experiences more infections as they go
about their daily routines, especially in areas where the virus
still is spreading unchecked.
“Unfortunately for the United States of America, we have plenty
of infections right now” to get that answer, NIH’s Dr. Anthony
Fauci recently told The Associ-ated Press.
Moderna said the vaccina-tion was done in Savannah, Georgia, the
first site to get underway among more than seven dozen trial sites
scattered around the country.
In Binghamton, New York, nurse Melissa Harting said she
volunteered as a way “to do my part to help out.”
“I’m excited,” Harting said before she received a study
injection Monday morning. Especially with family members in
front-line jobs that could expose them to the virus, “doing our
part to eradicate it is very important to me.”
Several other vaccines made by China and by Britain’s Oxford
Uni-versity began smaller final-stage tests in Brazil and other
hard-hit countries earlier this month.
But the U.S. requires its own tests of any vaccine that might be
used in the country and has set a high bar: Every
month through fall, the government-funded COVID-19 Prevention
Network will roll out a new study of a leading can-didate — each
one with 30,000 newly recruited volunteers.
That’s a stunning number of people needed to roll up their
sleeves for science. But in recent weeks, more than 150,000
Americans filled out an online regis-try signaling
interest, said Dr. Larry Corey, a virologist with the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Insti-tute in Seattle, who helps oversee
the study sites.
“These trials need to be multigen-erational, they need to be
multieth-nic, they need to reflect the diver-sity of the United
States population,” Corey told a vaccine meeting last week. He
stressed that it’s especially important to ensure enough Black and
Hispanic participants as those populations are hard-hit by
COVID-19.
It normally takes years to create a new vaccine from scratch,
but sci-entists are setting speed records
this time around, spurred by knowledge that vaccination is the
world’s best hope against the pandemic. The coronavirus wasn’t even
known to exist before late December, and vaccine makers sprang into
action Jan. 10 when China shared the virus’ genetic sequence.
Virus vaccine put to fi nal test in thousands of volunteers
Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of
Harp-erville, New York, an injection as the world’s biggest study
of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National
Institutes of Health and
Moderna Inc., gets underway on Monday, July 27, 2020, in
Binghamton, New York.
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MEXICO CITY (AP)
A scandal involving the abduc-tion and exploitation of young
children in a colonial Mexican city popular with tourists widened
Wednesday when prosecutors released additional evidence that an
adult appar-ently used other children to help kidnap a missing
2-year-old boy.
The search for Dylan Esaú Gómez Pérez led prosecutors in
southern Chiapas state, on the Guatemalan border, to a house in San
Cristobal de las Casas where 23 abducted children were being kept
in deplorable conditions and forced to sell trinkets and
handicrafts in the street.
But Dylan, who turns 3 in November, was not among them.
Reviewing surveillance cameras, state prosecutor Jorge Llaven
said that a boy and a girl, both apparently around 12, were seen
talking to a woman who is a suspect in the June 30 abduction.
Llaven identified the woman as only as “Ofelia,” and offered a
$13,500 reward for infor-mation about the location of her or
the
missing boy.In photos from cameras, the boy
and the girl enter the public market where Dylan’s mother worked
in the colonial city. Dylan appears to follow the boy, and then the
girl takes Dylan by the back of the jacket and walks out of the
market with him. The girl is later seen returning alone, apparently
having handed the missing boy over to someone else.
Llaven said Tuesday that a search carried out Monday, apparently
related to Dylan’s disappearance, had revealed a house where
children — most between 2 and 15 years old, but three infants aged
between 3 and 20 months — were forced to sell things on the
street.
“Moreover, they were forced to return with a certain minimum
amount of money for the right to get food and a place to sleep at
the house,” Llaven said.
San Cristobal is a picturesque, heavily Indigenous city that is
popular among tourists. It is not unusual to see children and
adults hawking local crafts like carv-
ings and embroidered cloth on its narrow cobblestone
streets.
But few visitors to the city suspected that some of the kids
doing the selling had been snatched from their families.
The Chiapas state prosecutors’ office said in a statement the
children “were forced through physical and psycho-logical violence
to sell handicrafts in the center of the city,” adding the kids
showed signs of “malnutrition and precarious
conditions.”According to video pre-
sented by the prosecutors, many of them slept on what appeared
to be sheets of cardboard and blankets on a cement floor. Three
other women have been detained in that case and may face human
trafficking and forced labor charges.
Dylan was with his mother, Juana Pérez, at the market on the day
he was snatched.
Pérez, who traveled to Mexico City to ask President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador to help find her son, works at the
market selling fruit and vegetables. She said her son would
sometimes wander off to play, but that no children had ever been
snatched from the market before.
The boy’s father emigrated to Califor-nia to find work, and thus
Pérez, 23, has had to care for Dylan and his sister by herself.
LATIN AMERICAChild abduction, forced labor scandal widens in
south Mexico
Juana Perez, whose 2 year-old son Dylan is missing, holds a
poster of him outside of the presidential palace that asks for
President Manuel Andres Lopez Obrador to help her fi nd him, in
Mexico City, on Wednesday, July
22, 2020.
POLITICS
NEW YORK (AP)
President Donald Trump may be losing, but that doesn’t
mean Joe Biden is winning.At least that’s the concern of
a pro-Dem-
ocrat super PAC embracing a new strategy backed by $15 million
in online ads to help close the nagging enthusiasm gap between the
Republican president and his Demo-cratic challenger. The strategist
leading the super PAC known as PACRONYM warns that Biden is leading
many polls “by default” and may lose his advantage unless Democrats
give key groups of voters better reasons to get excited about their
nominee.
“We really think that Biden’s enthusiasm gap could be a
vulnerability,” said PACRO-NYM founder and CEO Tara McGowan.
Beginning in August, the group and its sister nonprofit will
begin pumping mil-lions of dollars into online ads targeting a
group of roughly 1.7 million “low-informa-tion” left-leaning voters
— largely women of color under 35 — spread across Michi-
gan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Caro-lina, Arizona and
Georgia who don’t know much about Biden and probably wouldn’t turn
out to vote without a push. The strat-egy represents a significant
shift away from a broader group of “persuadable” voters in swing
states who have been the over-whelming focus of more traditional
politi-cal groups.
Recent polls suggest that much of Biden’s support comes from a
coalition of voters united far more by their disdain for Trump than
their affinity for Biden. There is also agreement between the
campaigns that many voters don’t know Biden or his plans very well,
despite his lifetime in Washing-ton.
Biden’s team has largely dismissed the issue, pointing to the
intensity with which many voters oppose Trump. But sensing
opportunity, Trump’s campaign has been flooding swing states with
anti-Biden attack ads trying to scare away would-be Biden
supporters or at least persuade them not to vote at all.
Democratic group seeks to remedy lack of enthusiasm for
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INMIGRACIÓNEE.UU no aceptará nuevas solicitudes
para el programa DACAWASHINGTON (AP)
El gobierno del presi-dente Donald Trump no aceptará nuevas
solici-tudes para los llamados “dream-ers” y reducirá las
renovaciones de dos años a un año, a pesar de los reveses
judiciales que mantu-vieron vivo al programa promul-gado por el
gobierno de Barack Obama para proteger a los jóvenes inmigrantes de
la deportación.
Un funcionario de la Casa Blanca confirmó el anuncio el martes.
Las nuevas solicitudes se sus-pendieron cuando el gobierno de Trump
tomó medidas para terminar el pro-grama Acción Diferida para los
Llegados en la Infancia (DACA) en septiembre de 2017, pero se han
mantenido las renova-ciones cada dos años, las cuales actual-mente
cubren a unas 700,000 personas.
El mes pasado, la Corte Suprema falló
que Trump no siguió los procesos de elaboración de normas cuando
intentó poner fin al programa, pero mantuvo abierta la posibilidad
de que lo volviera a intentar. La Casa Blanca ha estado anali-zando
el fallo y concibiendo planes para otra vez tratar de finiquitar el
programa DACA, aunque de momento no estaba claro si la medida se
llevaría a cabo antes de la elección de noviembre.
DEMOGRAPHICSThe importance of being counted
in the 2020 Census
The Census Bureau continues efforts to count all people living
in the United States regard-less of their place of origin or
immigra-tion status. The 2020 Census response rate in Benton County
is 71.5% however, Granger (35.6%), Pateros (35.4%), Chelan (34.3%),
Brewster (30.2%), Mattawa (25.5%), Bingen (15.7%) are below the
state level (67.9%). Today more than ever we need all households to
respond to have a complete and accurate population count.
The distribution of hundreds of bil-lions of dollars in federal
funds, grants, and support to states, counties, and com-munities is
based on census data. Com-munities not included in the count risk
losing funding for health clinics, medical care, schools, public
transportation, hospitals, emergency services, school lunches, and
other programs on which many Hispanics depend. Washington state can
lose millions of dollars without
a full and accurate count and that directly affects
Hispanics.
Now with the coronavirus pandemic, filling the census has become
even more important. It should be noted that you can respond in
Spanish and that for the first time the census can be completed
online in 2020census.gov. It can also be completed by phone in
Spanish by calling 844 468 2020 or by mail. People have until
mid-August to respond on their own. If they do not, Census Bureau
employees will visit the homes of people who have not responded to
collect their responses and help them complete the census.
En esta fotografía del 15 de agosto de 2012, inmigrantes llenan
formularios para inscribirse en el programa DACA
en el Muelle de la Armada, en Chicago, Illinois.
IMMIGRATION
WASHINGTON (AP)
The Trump admin-istration will deny new applications for
so-called “Dreamer” immigrants and cut renew-als to one year from
two years, despite reversals in court that kept alive the Obama-era
program to shield young people from deportation.
A White House official confirmed the announce-ment Tuesday. New
appli-cations were put on hold when the Trump adminis-tration moved
to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in
Sep-tember 2017 but two-year renewals have continued, with about
700,000 people currently covered.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that Trump failed
to follow rule-mak-
ing procedures when he tried to end the program but kept a
window open for him to try again. The White House has been studying
the ruling and devising plans to try again to end DACA — though it
was not immediately clear whether the politi-cally sensitive move
would be undertaken before November’s election.
US won’t accept new DACA applications
In this August 15, 2012 photo, immigrants fi ll out forms to
enroll in the DACA program at the Navy Pier in Chicago,
Illinois.
La Oficina del Censo continúa los esfuerzos para contar a todas
las personas que viven en los Estados Unidos independientemente de
su lugar de origen o estatus migratorio. La tasa de respuesta del
Censo del 2020 en el condado Benton es 71.5% sin embargo, Granger
(35.6%), Pateros (35.4%), Chelan (34.3%), Brewster (30.2%), Mattawa
(25.5%), Bingen (15.7%) entre otros, están por debajo del nivel
estatal (67.9 %). Hoy más que nunca necesitamos que todos los
hogares respon-dan para tener un conteo completo y preciso de la
población.
La distribución de cientos de miles de millones de dólares en
fondos federales, subsidios y apoyo a los estados, condados y
comunidades se basan en los datos del censo. Las comunidades que no
se incluyen en el conteo corren el riesgo de perder fondos para
clínicas de salud, asistencia médica, escuelas, transporte público,
hospitales, ser-vicios de emergencia, almuerzos escolares, y otros
programas de los cuales muchos de los hispanos dependen. El
estado de Wash-
ington puede perder millones de dólares sin un conteo completo y
preciso y eso afecta directamente a los hispanos.
Ahora con la pandemia del coronavi-rus, el llenar el censo se ha
vuelto aún más importante. Cabe destacar que se puede responder en
español y que por primera vez el censo se puede completar por
internet en 2020census.gov. También se puede com-pletar por
teléfono en español llamando al 844 468 2020 o por correo postal.
Las per-sonas tienen hasta mediados de agosto para responder por su
cuenta. Si no lo hacen, los empleados de la Oficina del Censo
visitarán los hogares de las personas que no hayan respondido para
recolectar sus respuestas y ayudarles a completar el
censo.
DEMOGRAFÍALa importancia de hacerse contar
en el Censo del 2020
