Half of Americans — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to a new Axios Vibes survey.

And 30% of Democrats — as well as 46% of Republicans — now say they'd end birthright citizenship. axios.com/2024/04/25/tru…

#BREAKING New York court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 sex crime conviction, orders new trial

VIDEO Rancher John Ladd, whose cattle farm runs right up against the wall that separates Mexico and the United States, says the migrant border crisis threatens his whole way of life

A la frontière américaine, le ras-le-bol des éleveurs face à la crise migratoire - Par Paula Ramón/ AFP News Agency (@LEXPRESS).- 'Pendant l'année fiscale 2023, 2,4 millions personnes ont été interceptées à la frontière avec le Mexique, un chiffre record'. lexpress.fr/informations/a…

في مزرعته في #أريزونا بجنوب غرب الولايات المتحدة، يؤكد مربي الماشية جون لاد إنه سئم رؤية المهاجرين من #المكسيك المجاورة يتعدون على أرضه ولم يعد يفكر سوى بحماية نفسه.

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✍️ Paula Ramón

John Ladd is a rancher from a family that arrived in Arizona when the border with Mexico was just a line on the map.

Now he views that frontier - and the thousands of people who spill across it daily - as a threat to his way of life.

🖋️ Paula Ramón

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Thousands voted to elect Raul Urena to Calexico council, hoping for a fresh approach to the city's unemployment, crime and deprivation. But when Urena started pushing ideas popular with progressives across the US, some voters changed their minds.
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Having roots and losing them: writing about the crisis in Venezuela through memoir

Paula Ramón is my guest on Let’s Talk Memoir

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Listen to this wonderful interview with Venezuelan journalist Paula Ramón and Ronit Plank on the #LetsTalkMemoirPodcast . Paula's memoir, MOTHERLAND, was released in the fall from #amazoncrossing .

STORY: Texas immigration law blocked again, just hours after Supreme Court allowed state to arrest migrants
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NEW: in response to SCOTUS decision, DHS said its agencies do not have the authority to assist Texas with the enforcement of the SB4 law & DHS will only conduct deportations with federal orders (not state) wapo.st/43mbaEF Story via Ann Marimow Arelis R. Hernández

Department of Homeland Security spokesman Luis Miranda tells CBS News that SB4 will 'throw immigration enforcement into chaos,' saying federal officials 'do not have the authority' to help Texas enforce this law.

“Mexico will not accept, under any circumstances, any repatriations from Texas,” says Mexicos Foreign Affairs agency.

In Dec, when Gov. Greg Abbott was asked what TX would do if Mexico refused to accept migrants Texas tried to deport, he said they would try again

BREAKING: Mexico says it won’t accept migrants sent back under Texas’ new immigration law apnews.com/article/suprem…

Celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki won his second Oscar with 'The Boy and the Heron' -- the Studio Ghibli co-founder's first film in a decade, and potentially his last. By Natsuko Fukue u.afp.com/5fjr
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We are live at the #Oscars in Hollywood. Follow along for the fashion, winners and any surprises.

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Rita Moreno arrived in a voluminous gown complete with gloves and a short kitten wig, intended as a tribute to the late Chita Rivera, who played “West Side Story” ’s first Anita on Broadway before Moreno took over the role in the first film version: nyer.cm/ZQC6pbU

Lights, cameras and #Oscars red carpet action: Hollywood's biggest night gets underway in a few hours, with atomic blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' tilted to win big
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Iris Apfel, the beloved fashion icon and interior designer whose eccentric style inspired individuality, creativity and joy, has died. She was 102. latimes.com/entertainment-…

“Ramón writes with a journalistic eye for detail about Venezuela’s rise and fall during the Chávez years (…) but it’s her personal story that makes her memoir timely at this moment when populists are winning elections and family members find themselves on opposing sides.”