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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Persistent high surf and flooding threats along California’s coast had residents on high alert a day after a major storm was blamed for one man’s death and the partial collapse of a pier , which propelled three people into the Pacific Ocean. The National Weather Service on Christmas Eve warned of dangerous, large-breaking waves of up to 35 feet (10.7 meters). Its latest high surf warning will be in effect until 6 p.m. Tuesday. “Large waves can sweep across the beach without warning, pulling people into the sea from rocks, jetties and beaches,” the weather service said in a Christmas Eve bulletin. In Santa Cruz, where a municipal wharf under construction partially collapsed on Monday, most beaches were cordoned off as they were inundated with high surf and debris. Residents received an alert on their phones Tuesday morning notifying them to “avoid all beaches including coastal overlook areas such as rocks, jetties or cliffs.” It warned powerful waves could sweep entire beaches unexpectedly. Local officials said there could be further damage to the wharf, but no more pieces broke off overnight. The wharf collapsed and fell into the ocean midday Monday, taking three people with it. Two people were rescued by lifeguards and a third swam to safety. No one was seriously injured. Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley said in the weeks and months ahead officials will have to assess long-term solutions for protecting the coastal city from the impacts of climate change . “Hallelujah that no one was hurt in this, which could have been orders of magnitude worse in terms of any injuries to human beings and damage to property onshore and offshore,” he said at a media briefing Tuesday. “But I think we have somewhat of a question mark as we move through time,” he added. “And I don't think we're by ourselves. I think this is what coastal communities around the world are probably dealing with.” The structure was in the middle of a $4 million renovation following destructive storms last winter about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of San Francisco. “It’s a catastrophe for those down at the end of the wharf,” said David Johnston, who was allowed onto the pier on Monday to check on his business, Venture Quest Kayaking. Tony Elliot, the head of the Santa Cruz Parks & Recreation Department, estimated that about 150 feet (45 meters) of the end of the wharf fell into the water. It was immediately evacuated and will remain closed indefinitely. Some of the wharf’s pilings are still in the ocean and remain “serious, serious hazards” to boats, the mayor said. Each piling weighs hundreds of pounds and is being pushed by powerful waves. “You are risking your life, and those of the people that would need to try and save you by getting in or too close to the water,” the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office said on the social platform X. Building inspectors were looking at the rest of the pier’s structural integrity. Some California cities ordered beachfront homes and hotels to evacuate early Monday afternoon as forecasters warned that storm swells would continue to increase throughout the day. In Watsonville along the Monterey Bay, first responders were called to Sunset State Beach, a state park, around 11:30 a.m. Monday for a report of a man trapped under debris. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office believes a large wave pinned him there. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital. The storm’s high surf also likely pulled another man into the Pacific Ocean around noon Monday at Marina State Beach, nearly 13 miles (21 kilometers) south of Watsonville, authorities said. Strong currents and high waves forced searchers to abandon their efforts roughly two hours later as conditions worsened. The man remained missing Monday evening. Further south in Carmel Bay, a man remained missing as of Tuesday afternoon after reports that someone was swept off the rocks into the ocean at Pebble Beach on Monday, local emergency responders said. The U.S. Coast Guard will "transition to a recovery search as ocean conditions improve in the coming days,” officials said in a statement. In a post on X, the National Weather Service office in Portland, Oregon, said, “It will likely go down as some of the highest surf this winter.” Dazio reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Sophie Austin in Sacramento and Jaimie Ding in Los Angeles contributed.Aston Villa denied last-gasp winner in Juventus stalemate
Aston Villa denied last-gasp winner in Juventus stalemateDEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops stormed one of the last hospitals operating in northern Gaza on Friday, forcing many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather , the territory’s health ministry said. The army denied claims it had entered or set fire to the complex and accused Hamas of using the facility for cover. Kamal Adwan Hospital has been hit multiple times over the past three months by Israeli troops waging an offensive against Hamas fighters in surrounding neighborhoods, according to staff. The ministry said a strike on the hospital a day earlier killed five medical staff. Israel's military said it was conducting operations against Hamas infrastructure and militants in the area and had ordered people out of the hospital, but said it had not entered the complex as of Friday night. It repeated claims that Hamas militants operate inside Kamal Adwan but provided no evidence. Hospital officials have denied that. The Health Ministry said troops forced medical personnel and patients to assemble in the yard and remove their clothes. Some were led to an unknown location, while some patients were sent to the nearby Indonesian Hospital, which was knocked out of operation after an Israel raid this week. Israeli troops during raids frequently carry out mass detentions, stripping men to their underwear for questioning in what the military says is a security measure as they search for Hamas fighters. The Associated Press doesn’t have access to Kamal Adwan, but armed plainclothes members of the Hamas-led police forces have been seen in other hospitals, maintaining security but also controlling access to parts of the facilities. The Health Ministry said Israeli troops also set fires in several parts of Kamal Adwan, including the lab and surgery department. It said 25 patients and 60 health workers remained in the hospital. The account could not be independently confirmed, and attempts to reach hospital staff were unsuccessful. “Fire is ablaze everywhere in the hospital,” an unidentified staff member said in an audio message posted on social media accounts of hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya. The staffer said some evacuated patients had been unhooked from oxygen. “There are currently patients who could die at any moment,” she said. Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, denied the accusations. “While IDF troops were not in the hospital, a small fire broke out in an empty building inside the hospital that is under control,” he said Friday night. He said a preliminary investigation found “no connection” between military activity and the fire. The Israeli military heavily restricts the movements of Palestinians in Gaza and has barred foreign journalists from entering the territory throughout the war, making it difficult to verify information. “These actions put the lives of all of these people in even more danger than what they faced before,” U.N. spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay told journalists, and noted colleagues' reports of “significant damage” to the hospital. It should be protected as international law requires, she added. Since October, Israel’s offensive has virtually sealed off the northern Gaza areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and leveled large parts of them. Tens of thousands of Palestinians were forced out but thousands are believed to remain in the area, where Kamal Adwan and two other hospitals are located. Troops raided Kamal Adwan in October, and on Tuesday troops stormed and evacuated the Indonesian Hospital. The area has been cut off from food and other aid for months , raising fears of famine . The United Nations says Israeli troops allowed just four humanitarian deliveries to the area from Dec. 1 to Dec. 23. The Israeli rights group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel this week petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice, seeking a halt to military attacks on Kamal Adwan. It warned that forcibly evacuating the hospital would “abandon thousands of residents in northern Gaza.” Before the latest deaths Thursday, the group documented five other staffers killed by Israeli fire since October. Israel launched its campaign in Gaza vowing to destroy Hamas after the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel in which militants killed around 1,200 people and abducted some 250 others. Around 100 Israelis remain captive in Gaza, around a third believed to be dead. Israel’s nearly 15-month-old campaign of bombardment and offensives has devastated the territory’s health sector. A year ago, it carried out raids on hospitals in northern Gaza, including Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and al-Awda Hospital, saying they served as bases for Hamas, though it presented little evidence. Israel’s campaign has killed more than 45,400 Palestinians, more than half women and children, and wounded more than 108,000 others, according to the Health Ministry. Its count does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. More than 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians have been driven from their homes, most now sheltering in sprawling tent camps in south and central Gaza. Children and adults, many barefoot, huddled Friday on the cold sand in tents whose plastic and cloth sheets whipped in the wind. Overnight temperatures can dip into the 40s Fahrenheit (below 10 Celsius), and sea spray from the Mediterranean can dampen tents just steps away. "I swear to God, their mother and I cover ourselves with one blanket and we cover (their five children) with three blankets that we got from neighbors. Sea waters drowned everything that was ours,” said Muhammad al-Sous, displaced from Beit Lahiya in the north. The children collect plastic bottles to make fires, and pile under the blankets when their only set of clothes is washed and dried in the wind. At least three babies in Gaza have died from exposure to cold in recent days , doctors there have said, and the Health Ministry said an adult — a nurse who worked at the European Hospital — also died this week. Khaled and Keath reported from Cairo. Associated Press writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Narions contributed to this report.Projected Lineup: November 21 at New Jersey - NHL.com
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to begin “the largest deportation program in American history.” How exactly he plans to carry that out, and how many he ultimately intends to deport, remains unclear. Although Trump puts the number of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally at more than 20 million ( without providing backup ), the Pew Research Center estimates the number at 11 million as of mid-2022, based on the latest Census data. Trump has occasionally said that all of them will have to leave and apply to legally get back in. At other times, when pressed about how he will accomplish that, Trump has said he plans to initially target immigrants in the country illegally who have committed crimes and immigrants whose asylum bids were denied by the courts, but who have still not left the country. Philadelphia news 24/7: Watch NBC10 free wherever you are “On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program of criminals in American history,” Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania the day before the election. “We’re going to get them out. We have to. Dwight Eisenhower has the record. ... But we’re going to unfortunately beat the record.” Trump was referring to a program under President Eisenhower in 1954 dubbed “Operation Wetback,” a federally led effort to remove Mexican immigrants illegally living in the U.S. (The term “wetback” is a slur applied to Mexicans who swam or waded across the Rio Grande.) The federal government claimed to have forced as many as 1.3 million people to return to Mexico. Historians have dispu t ed that figure, but nonetheless it is the benchmark that Trump has vowed to exceed. Immigration experts warn, however, that there are many logistical hurdles, including budget constraints and legal challenges. But to the extent he is successful — and contrary to Trump’s assertions — many economists warn mass deportations will likely hurt the economy, drive up inflation and reduce employment and wages for native-born workers. We’ll explain Trump’s proposal , what experts say about it and how it compares to statements he made in 2016. Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world. What Is Trump Proposing? The GOP platform says Trump will “begin the largest deportation program in American History,” including “the millions of illegal Migrants who Joe Biden has deliberately encouraged to invade our Country” and starting with removing “the most dangerous criminals and working with local Police.” “All of the illegal migrants that [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] has dumped into your small towns will be going home,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Michigan in October. “You’re going to have to go home. I’m sorry. Because it’s not sustainable, and it’s going to be very hard to do. It’s a very hard thing to do.” Trump’s appointment of Tom Homan as border czar and Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff — both hardliners on immigration — suggests he intends to follow through with an aggressive approach to deportations. “Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Miller told the New York Times in November 2023, adding, “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.” According to the New York Times, “To increase the number of agents available for ICE sweeps, Mr. Miller said, officials from other federal law enforcement agencies would be temporarily reassigned, and state National Guard troops and local police officers, at least from willing Republican-led states, would be deputized for immigration control efforts.” On Nov. 18, Trump responded “True” to a post that speculated the Trump administration was “prepared to declare a national emergency and will use military assets to reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.” In remarks at the Heritage Policy Fest in July, Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017 and 2018, reiterated comments he made the week before, that if Trump is elected, “You ain’t seen nothing yet [on immigration]. Wait until 2025.” Homan has since clarified that the Trump administration will first target immigrants who have committed — or been accused of — crimes, a number he put at 1.5 million (though that appears to be too high). Homan said the Trump administration will also target for deportation the estimated 1.3 million immigrants whose asylum bids were denied, but who have still not left the country. But he pushed back on claims about a deportation force sweeping neighborhoods and businesses in search of immigrants. “People say, Trump’s threatening this historic deportation operations. He’s going to build concentration camps. He’s going to sweep neighborhoods. Let me be clear. None of that will happen,” Homan said at the Heritage Policy Fest. “We are going to have a historic deportation operation, because you’ve got a historic, illegal immigration crossing the southern border. If you look at immigration court data ... nearly 9 out of 10 of these people won’t get asylum because they don’t qualify. So they’re going to be ordered removed. They’ll get a federal order saying you must leave.” “So when they get due process at billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money and a federal judge says ‘You must go home,’ the Trump administration is going to make them go home,” Homan added . “And it’s going to require an historic deportation operation.” Nonetheless, Homan also would not rule out eventually deporting all other immigrants in the country illegally. “Bottom line is, under Trump he’s still going to prioritize national security threats and criminals,” Homan said. “But no one’s off the table. If you’re in the country illegally, it’s not OK. If you’re in the country illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.” As we said, there were an estimated 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally as of mid-2022. Jeffrey Passel , a senior demographer at Pew Research Center, told us “it’s safe to say the numbers have grown since mid-2022 and there are significantly more immigrants in the ‘quasi-legal’ group.” That “quasi-legal” group includes immigrants lacking permanent legal status who have temporary protection from deportation and may be authorized to work. That includes immigrants granted temporary protected status due to civil unrest, violence or natural disasters in their home country; immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, because they were brought to the U.S. as children; asylum applicants; and immigrants from Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela provided special “parole” protections. “They are not immediately deportable with their current status but their status could be revoked and they would become deportable if policy changes,” Passel said. Most of the immigrants living in the U.S. illegally or with temporary legal status have been in the country for years. “According to our estimates for 2022 (July 1), the median time in the US was 15 years and more than 6 of 10 (61%) had been in the country 10 years or more,” Passel told us via email. “In the case of unauthorized immigrants from Mexico (the largest group by far), the median time in the US was almost 22 years and more than 5 of 6 (84%) had been in the US 10 years or more.” While some immigration experts doubt that Trump will be able to achieve the mass deportations he has promised, his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, has said it will be done with a “sequential” approach. Vance likened the problem to “a really big sandwich ... you take the first bite and then you take the second bite, and then you take the third bite.” “Let’s start with the first million who are the most violent criminals, who are the most aggressive. Get them out of here. First prioritize them, and then you see where you are, and you keep on taking bites of the problem, until you get illegal immigration to a serviceable point,” Vance said at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania in August. “You’ve got to do something with the people who are already here,” Vance said on ABC’s “This Week” on Aug. 11. “And I think that you take a sequential approach to it. You are going to have to deport some people. If you’re not willing to deport a lot of people, you’re not willing to have a border when there are 20 million illegal aliens in our country.” Aside from trump and Vance inflating the number of people who have come to the country illegally during the Biden administration, Trump and Homan appear to be inflating the number of immigrants in the country illegally who have been charged or convicted of crimes. In September, ICE Deputy Director Patrick J. Lechleitner reported to Congress: “As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket. ... Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.” That includes more than 125,000 convicted of or facing traffic offenses. Another 92,000 are on the list for immigration offenses. The Biden administration already prioritizes the removal of those who pose a danger to public safety or national security. The number of deportations dipped in Biden’s first two years (see table 39 of the Department of Homeland Security’s 2022 Yearbook ), but have increased since and are on pace to equal Trump’s deportation total. “I don’t want to diminish the impact that a Trump administration will have with respect to civil rights or aggressive immigration enforcement tactics,” John Sandweg, a former acting director of ICE in the Obama administration, to l d the Financial Times in October. “If his supporters believe that he’s suddenly going to come and magically deport a million people per year, he’s lying to them.” In order to “dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil,” Trump has promised to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. That’s a wartime authority extended to the president, “Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government.” In such a situation, the act allows the president to apprehend, detain and deport citizens of that hostile nation who are not naturalized citizens of the U.S. Some experts, however, question whether Trump could constitutionally invoke the law as he intends. Steven Camarota , director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports lower levels of immigration, told us in a phone interview that while he expects the number of removals by the Trump administration may rise to less than 400,000 a year (about a third more than the average in his first term), he believes a strict enforcement climate will encourage more immigrants in the country illegally to leave on their own, and fewer to attempt to come in. As a result, he expects that if the Trump administration “puts their money where their mouth is,” the immigrant population without permanent legal status — which he estimates to have climbed over the last two years to about 14 million — will decline by about 1 million per year over the next four years. The Cost Aside from the numerous legal hurdles that would threaten Trump’s mass deportation plan, immigration experts say it would be enormously expensive. The American Immigration Council, a nonpartisan advocacy group for immigrants, estimates a one-time mass deportation of all of the immigrant in the U.S. without legal status would cost $315 billion. A yearslong deportation program — which is more like what Trump and Vance have described — would cost nearly $1 trillion, which the AIC called a “conservative” estimate. “It’s enormously complicated and an expensive thing to decide to deport people who have been here years,” Laura Collins, an immigration expert at the George W. Bush Institute in Dallas, told the New York Times in July, adding that it would cost billions of dollars and would likely take 20 years. “Trump would need to triple the size of the immigration court to achieve anywhere near the numbers he is talking about,” Sandweg told the New York Times. “Even then, he would need funding to build new courthouses, hire support staff and train judges.” Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh , an associate policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute’s U.S. Immigration Policy Program, told us in a phone interview that at the current funding level, “I do not think that it would be possible to carry out deportation at the scale that Trump and his advisers are talking about.” Under the Biden administration, she said, ICE resources have been concentrated on deportations at the border. Trump is talking about interior enforcement, Putzel-Kavanaugh said, “And so that would mean taking ICE resources, as they currently are, away from the border, and refocusing them on the interior. And so at current resource levels, it would just require an immense amount more of staffing and more money, quite frankly, to be able to carry it out in the way that he’s describing.” With Republicans now in control of both the House and Senate, she said, “it is plausible that increased resources could be given to ICE through the appropriations process, but I’m not sure if they would be at the level needed to conduct something like this.” Adding to the cost is that the immigrant profile has changed in recent years, with more immigrants coming from outside Central America. Deporting migrants to countries in South America, Asia, Africa and throughout the Caribbean is not only more costly but may be complicated by the fact that many of those — such as Cuba and China– are considered “ recalcitrant ” countries because they refuse to accept migrants designated for return, Putzel-Kavanaugh said. Those uncooperative nations stymied Trump in his first term, as well. The Migration Policy Institute reported that just 20% of migrants who received removal orders were actually deported in 2020. “There are just some logistical constraints with carrying out those removal operations. They require a lot of resources, both to find people and then be able to apprehend them, but then also actually carry out their removals,” Putzel-Kavanaugh said. “So from start to finish, it is a huge logistical and resource-intensive endeavor.” Trump has said cost is not an issue. “It’s not a question of a price tag,” Trump said in a post-election interview with NBC News. “It’s not — really, we have no choice. When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag.” Economic Consequences In 2023, Miller told the New York Times, “Mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers, who will now be offered higher wages with better benefits to fill these jobs.” But many economists disagree. “Economists who have studied past large-scale deportations of immigrants from the United States have found those deportations to have been harmful to the U.S. economy and project that future large-scale deportations would also have negative impacts,” according to a review of the economic literature on the impact of mass deportations by Robert Lynch, professor emeritus of economics at Washington College, and Michael Ettlinger, the founding director of the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire, in August. “Negative effects include lower national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and reduced employment and lower wages for citizens and authorized immigrants. The research finds that negative labor market consequences are found across income and pay levels. Economists anticipate that in the event of future mass deportations prices would rise and U.S. tax revenues would decline.” Specifically, the authors wrote that researchers estimate that mass deportations would reduce the gross domestic product by 2.6% to 6.2% and the number of hours worked by as much as 3.6%. Studies of the economic impact of past mass deportations “have consistently found that deportation policies have not benefitted U.S.-born residents,” the authors wrote. In a working paper released in September, the Peterson Institute for International Economics modeled two possible scenarios: one in which Trump deported 1.3 million people, and another in which he deported 8.3 million. Both are expected to lower U.S. GDP, reduce employment and increase inflation. “The scenarios differ only by the degree of damage inflicted on people, households, firms, and the overall economy,” the authors of the paper wrote, saying the labor supply would be reduced by 0.8% or 5.1% under the two scenarios, respectively. “The Trump campaign assumes that employers would simply replace the deported workers with native workers, but the historical record shows that employer behavior is far more complicated than that,” according to a PIIE story about the research on Sept. 26. “Past experience with deportations demonstrates that employers do not find it easy to replace such workers. Instead, they respond by investing in less labor-intensive technologies to sustain their businesses, or they simply decide not to expand their operations. The net result is fewer people employed in key business sectors like services, agriculture, and manufacturing. In addition, those unauthorized immigrants aren’t just workers—they’re consumers too. Deporting them means less demand for groceries, housing, services, and other household needs. This lower spending in turn reduces demand for workers in those sectors. That reduced demand for workers in all types of jobs outweighs the reduction of supply of unauthorized workers. Contrary to the Trump campaign’s assumption that deporting workers increases domestic employment, removing immigrants reduces jobs for other US workers.” The researchers also warn, as did the authors of the literature review published by the University of New Hampshire, that mass deportations will spike inflation in the short term. “On the whole, unauthorized immigrants act as complements for US-born workers rather than substitutes for them,” Chloe East , an associate professor in economics at the University of Colorado and a non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution, told us via email. “My research has found that one of the last mass deportation episodes in the US, which deported about 400,000 people over 2008-2014, actually hurt the US labor market and job prospects for US-born workers. For every 100 people removed from the labor market because of deportations, 9 US-born people lost a job permanently. “This is because when unauthorized immigrants are removed from the labor market, US-born people do not simply slot into the jobs left behind,” said East, who is also faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. “Instead, those jobs generally go away and this hurts job prospects for US-born people. As examples, think about the construction industry—when there are fewer unauthorized immigrants in the US to work as construction laborers, the demand for construction site managers—jobs held mostly by US-born people—go down. Similarly, when there are fewer unauthorized immigrants in the US to work as dishwashers at local restaurants, the demand for waiters and waitresses—jobs held mostly by US-born people—go down. Additionally, unauthorized immigrants help to stimulate consumer demand, and this helps to create jobs for everyone including US-born people.” In Detroit on Oct. 18, Trump claimed that the “migrant invasion” under Biden is “devastating our great African American community” because “they’re taking their jobs.” He said people who immigrated illegally are “taking a lot of Hispanic jobs” as well. “We don’t see strong evidence that even US-born people with the lowest levels of education are helped as a result of mass deportations,” East told us. The economic disruption is true even when targeting criminals for deportation, East said. “The policy I have analyzed is called Secure Communities and was intended to only deport people who were arrested and found to be unauthorized after their arrest,” East said. ( Secure Communities was a federal program to facilitate removal of public safety and national security threats. Implemented during parts of the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Trump, it led to the removal of over 363,000 criminal aliens.) “However, even with this policy goal, the policy failed to target only criminals –17% of those deported were not convicted of any crime, 7% had a traffic violation as their most serious criminal conviction, and another 6% had an immigration violation as their most serious criminal conviction. And ... this policy, even though it was supposed to be targeted, had large, negative impacts on the labor market.” The American Immigration Council estimates that mass deportations would reduce the U.S. GDP by 4.2% to 6.8%. “Mass deportations would cause significant labor shocks across multiple key industries, with especially acute impacts on construction, agriculture, and the hospitality sector,” AIC wrote. “We estimate that nearly 14 percent of people employed in the construction industry are undocumented. Removing that labor would disrupt all forms of construction across the nation, from homes to businesses to basic infrastructure. As industries suffer, hundreds of thousands of U.S.-born workers could lose their jobs.” In an interview with CNN on Nov. 13, Lawrence Summers, who was an economic adviser to then-President Barack Obama and treasury secretary under then-President Bill Clinton, warned that the sum of Trump’s plans, including for mass deportations, would cause “an inflation shock significantly greater than the one the country suffered in 2021.” “I think every sensible American thinks we need to do more to secure our border,” Summers said. “But if you’re talking about deporting millions of people, that is an invitation to labor shortage and bottlenecks.” Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies, isn’t buying it. “It’s hard to make the argument that if you removed 2% of the workforce it’s going to have some big effect on the overall economy,” Camarota said, particularly since most of the immigrant workers are in low-wage jobs. “You’re just not going to get some big economic drop from reducing lots of low-wage workers.” It may have a significant short-term impact on some industries that rely heavily on immigrant labor, he said, such as construction or yard maintenance. He expects that to drive up wages in those industries, something he hopes will entice some U.S. citizens to rejoin the workforce. Trump Said Similar Things Back in 2016 In 2015, Trump also talked about deporting all of the 10 million-plus immigrants in the country illegally and then “expediting” the return of the “good people.” “In a Trump administration, all immigration laws will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Arizona in 2016. “But, unlike this administration, no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement — and ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to do their jobs. Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation — that is what it means to have laws and to have a country.” “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate. But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally. After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are going make a determination at that [time],” Trump told “60 Minutes” in November 2016. But the average annual number of deportations — defined as removals plus enforcement returns — went down under Trump compared with the number of deportations under Obama. They also dropped significantly in the first two years under Biden , but then dramatically increased and are on pace to match Trump’s deportation numbers. (In the first two years under Biden, when interior removals plummeted, the number of Title 42 expulsions soared. Trump began the use of Title 42, an emergency public health law that allowed the U.S. to turn away many immigrants at the border during the COVID-19 pandemic. The increase in the number of deportations under Biden began after Biden stopped the use of Title 42 in May 2023, when the federal public health emergency for COVID-19 ended .) “After nearly four years in office, the president’s record on immigration—while remarkably faithful to his campaign agenda—did not keep up in at least one regard,” according to a report from the Migration Policy Institute near the end of Trump’s presidency. “Immigration enforcement in the U.S. interior during the Trump administration has lagged far behind the president’s 2016 electoral promises as well as the record of his predecessor, Barack Obama. In fact, the Trump administration deported only slightly more than one-third as many unauthorized immigrants from the interior during its first four fiscal years than did the Obama administration during the same timeframe.” According to MPI, “the large number of deportations promised [by Trump] has remained elusive, mostly due to resistance from state and local officials who have advanced ‘sanctuary’ policies that limit cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).” This time around, Trump has vowed that he “will cut federal funding to sanctuary jurisdictions.” ( Sanctuary jurisdictions are those that limit the degree to which local police cooperate with requests from federal authorities to detain and turn over unauthorized immigrants.) That’s sure to draw legal challenge. During his first term, Trump cut off access to some federal crime-fighting grants to cities and states with sanctuary policies. When some cities and states sued, a federal appeals court ruled in the Trump administration’s favor. That decision was then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the appeal was withdrawn after Biden was elected and the Justice Department reversed the policy. Putzel-Kavanaugh, of the Migration Policy Institute, warned that Trump’s efforts to stem illegal immigration may face the same headwinds Biden did. She said migration in recent years has become “kind of a hemispheric and a global phenomenon” that is unlikely to change, “though we may, we may see ebbs and flows kind of depending on what’s happening in the world.” “I do think that many of the same challenges that the Biden administration has faced, the Trump administration is likely to face as well, including diversified nationalities, increases in families and more people sort of wanting protection,” she said. “It’s hard to know exactly what’s going to happen in terms of overall numbers. I think that in the next couple of months, we’ll certainly see an increase, and then once Trump comes into office, depending on what policies are put into place, we’ll likely see the similar patterns as we have before, which is sort of an initial decrease, and then it increases back up, and then maybe another decrease with another policy, and then numbers go back up. And that’s happened throughout the Biden administration too.” Putzel-Kavanaugh also expects Trump to face numerous legal challenges to his plans, such as his vow to revive Title 42. Trump has said the new version would be based on claims that migrants carry other infectious diseases. (That’s disputed by some health experts. “There is no evidence to show that migrants are spreading disease,” Dr. Paul Spiegel, who directs the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, told NBC News . “That is a false argument that is used to keep migrants out.”) Trump has also talked about ending DACA — which includes protections for qualified individuals who were brought to the United States illegally when they were children. And Trump has again vowed to end birthright citizenship, though as we have written , most legal scholars believe such a change would require a constitutional amendment. In his 2023 interview with the New York Times , Miller said Trump anticipates lawsuits challenging all of Trump’s proposed changes, but Miller “portrayed the Trump team’s daunting array of tactics as a ‘blitz’ designed to overwhelm immigrant-rights lawyers.” Editor’s note: FactCheck.org does not accept advertising. 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Laura Loomer has been kicked off lots of social media sites, including Twitter. After bought the service in 2022, he reinstated her, along with many others who had been booted by Twitter's previous management. Now, Loomer Musk's service has demoted her by stripping her account's "premium" blue-check status and other benefits. She says Musk made the move because she was criticizing his stance on immigration. You may be unaware of Loomer — described by Wikipedia as "an American , conspiracy theorist, and internet personality" — and/or the online rock fight about immigration and racism breaking out among different wings of Trump supporters. If so, that could mean you have a healthy relationship with the internet. Good for you. If you'd like to know more about the latter, my colleague Hasan Chowdhury has an . You could also, at your own risk, consult Twitter/X's own of the story. My point is, you don't need me to tell you about this. I simply want to remind you that — if Loomer's allegation is correct — this would be par for the course for Musk and his social media company. (Musk hasn't denied Loomer's charges, and has told his followers to ignore her because she's " ." I've asked her and Twitter/X for additional comment.) As I've noted before, the most consistent thing about at Twitter is his erratic, flip-flopping, inconsistency. Sometimes it's about relatively small stuff, like wooing to start a talk show on Twitter, and then canceling the deal before the show ever started. Sometimes it's about really big stuff — like agreeing to then spending weeks in court trying to buy it. In any case, the only way you can be surprised by stuff like this at this point is if you never paid attention. But I do think it's still worth pointing out. Because while Musk's management style at Twitter hasn't changed, his responsibilities have changed. He's no longer just the richest person in the world, who runs important companies like Tesla and SpaceX, in addition to Twitter. , given his importance to Donald Trump and his upcoming administration. There's , for starters. And the fact that he appears to be . And that he used Twitter to temporarily tank a this month. We don't know how long this arrangement is going to last, and what kind of impact Musk is going to have. But we do know that for now, a man with the power to affect the way the American government operates is the same man who can change the way he runs Twitter depending on how he feels at any given moment. We shouldn't ignore that. Read the original article onOTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says Canada didn't live up to its values on immigration over the last few years as it allowed more people into the country than it could absorb. Carney, who is currently a special adviser to the Liberal party, made those comments during an event in Ottawa held by Cardus, a Christian think tank. Carney says Canada let newcomers down by admitting more workers and students than it could provide for, including with housing, health care and social services. Earlier this fall, the Liberal government announced a plan to significantly reduced its immigration target for permanent residents and to dramatically scale back the number of temporary residents in Canada. Those changes came about after a period of strong population growth that led to mounting criticism of the Liberal government's immigration policies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged that the federal government did not get the balance right on immigration after the COVID-19 pandemic. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 27, 2024. Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian PressNumerous East Coast states are counting on offshore wind projects to power tens of millions of homes and to help them transition to cleaner energy. But putting wind turbines at sea requires the cooperation of a powerful landlord: the federal government. Soon, that government will be led by President-elect Donald Trump, who has frequently disparaged offshore wind and said he will “make sure that ends on Day 1.” In the eight states that have passed legal mandates to reach certain amounts of offshore wind power, Trump’s second term threatens those timelines. “This is absolutely going to create problems for how we’re going to meet our emissions goals and the energy needs for the state,” said Massachusetts state Sen. Jamie Eldridge, a Democrat who serves as vice chair on the legislative Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. For many East Coast states that lack a large land base for extensive onshore development, offshore wind in federal ocean waters is central to their plans for a power supply that doesn’t use fossil fuels. Lawmakers in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island and Virginia have established mandates requiring their states to produce certain amounts of offshore wind power in the coming years. Other states have passed laws to allow for offshore wind to be added to their grids or set nonbinding planning targets to prepare for the industry’s development. State leaders say they will continue to pursue offshore wind but realize there may be delays during the next four years. In the meantime, some say they will continue to build out the needed electrical grid and ports to get ready for turbines, in hopes of speeding up offshore wind once Trump’s term ends. Others say they may need to consider building more onshore energy projects, including wind and solar, in the next few years to meet near-term climate goals. “That’s something states will have to take into account,” said Dylan McDowell, executive director with the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, a collaborative nonpartisan forum for state lawmakers. “Is [offshore wind] still feasible, or do there need to be conversations about solar, [onshore] wind, geothermal, other energy sources that could be put into the mix to help meet those goals? There’s more questions than there are answers right now.” While a handful of offshore wind projects have already started construction or been completed, many more are in various stages of permitting or awaiting lease auctions held by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Industry experts say the Trump administration could deny permits, cancel pending leases and halt further auctions. It could also threaten the industry’s financing by denying clean energy tax credits. In an extreme scenario, the bureau could even side with opponents who have brought legal challenges against projects that already have been approved and retract permits issued under the Biden administration. Trump’s ability to unwind the moves made under President Joe Biden is “underappreciated,” said Timothy Fox, a vice president at ClearView Energy Partners LLC, an independent research firm. Trump has repeated claims that offshore wind turbines are a major cause of whale mortality — an assertion that scientists say is false. Many of the groups raising concerns about whales to oppose offshore wind are funded by oil and gas donors. Trump’s transition team did not respond to an interview request before publication. Offshore wind also has drawn local opposition from coastal residents who fear it will worsen their views and from fishermen who worry projects could block access to key fishing areas. Meanwhile, some Republicans have pointed to the wind industry’s recent financial struggles to argue that it will increase ratepayers’ bills. “[T]he business model for these projects has fallen well short of projections to the degree that those wind energy developers are either halting construction or asking the government for additional subsidies to make up for projected cost increases,” four Maryland Republican senators wrote to Democratic Gov. Wes Moore in April, unsuccessfully urging him to veto a financing package to boost offshore wind in that state. Counting on offshore wind States’ offshore wind goals were already facing difficulties. Numerous projects were canceled or delayed last year as inflation and supply chain issues raised costs dramatically. Now, political headwinds could cause greater delays. “Offshore wind might not be a viable option over the next four years,” said Fox, the energy analyst. “Unlike a lot of other resources, offshore wind is reliant on a federal review process because these projects are being deployed in federal waters.” Offshore wind turbines currently provide only a negligible amount of power to the United States. But a handful of projects currently under construction will soon raise that number to 4 gigawatts (1 gigawatt can power about 750,000 homes). And much more is on the way. Developers of other projects are working to finalize financing or permits, and wind companies are awaiting federal lease auctions that will open up new areas for development. In total, the project pipeline for offshore wind exceeds 80 gigawatts, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory— enough to consistently power more than 60 million homes. The incoming administration could thwart most of that production by denying development permits or leases in federal waters. East Coast states don’t have a viable way to meet their clean energy goals without that offshore production, said Maryland state Del. Lorig Charkoudian, a Democrat who authored a law last year that increased the state’s offshore wind targets. “We’ll continue to support the ongoing development of offshore wind until we have to make other adjustments,” she said. The Maryland law mandates that the state produce 8.5 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2031. Developers of a trio of projects off the state’s coast, totaling 1.7 gigawatts, are working to secure permits and financing, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. And the state is counting on future lease auctions by federal regulators to prompt more development. Charkoudian acknowledged that Trump could threaten those efforts, but she said the state remains committed to its offshore wind plans. She noted that Maryland is working to improve its electrical grid so that offshore wind projects can “land” their power, an effort that will continue. “Even if other things do get slowed down, this will make things move faster whenever it can get moving again,” she said. Nick Guariglia, outreach manager with the New York Offshore Wind Alliance, a network of industry and environmental groups, said that projects take many years to develop, a timeframe exceeding one presidential administration. He also noted that the maturing industry aligns with Trump’s goals of restoring manufacturing jobs and American energy independence. Members of Congress in both parties are seeing economic growth in their districts because of offshore wind, he said. “This industry has a lot of things to prove about why it’s here to stay,” he said. “Actions are much more important than rhetoric.” Regardless of what happens at the federal level, offshore wind backers will urge New York lawmakers to continue investing in infrastructure and workforce development to support the buildout of more turbines, he said Onshore work Like Maryland and New York, some states may need to focus their efforts for the next few years on developing transmission infrastructure and turbine-ready ports so that projects can hit the ground running once Trump’s term is over, experts say. “Opportunities exist to prioritize the onshore work necessary to prepare for future leases,” said Alissa Weinman, ocean program manager with the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, citing the extensive infrastructure needed to support offshore projects. And for now, states may need to look to other energy sources. In Massachusetts that could, for example, include expanding the installation of solar panels on industrial properties, said Eldridge, the state senator. Massachusetts law requires the state to produce 5.6 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035. State Sen. Julian Cyr, a Democrat who has promoted offshore wind in his district in the Cape Cod region, said it remains hard to predict what actions Trump would take. “But I do expect projects that are still in the permitting process to have at best a slower process, and they may not move forward in this administration,” Cyr said. In New Jersey, state leaders are working to construct 11 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2040. “[Trump] is a serious threat to New Jersey’s goals,” said state Sen. Bob Smith, a Democrat who chairs his chamber’s Environment and Energy Committee. Still, he noted that the country’s rapidly expanding energy needs, driven by data centers and artificial intelligence, could make it difficult for Trump to shut down any new sources of electricity. “Our economy will not function without that additional generation capacity,” Smith said. “Capitalism always finds a way.” Like Smith, many state leaders say they’re still in wait-and-see mode. “If [Trump’s administration] wants to keep us out of the ocean they’ve probably got the tools to do it,” said Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds, a Democrat who chairs the Commerce and Labor Committee there. “We’ll just have to cross that bridge when we get to it.” Virginia’s law calls for 5.2 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2034.
Report: Georgia QB Carson Beck out for CFP quarterfinalsPolice release new photos as they search for the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO NEW YORK (AP) — Two law enforcement officials say a masked gunman who stalked and killed the leader of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies on a Manhattan sidewalk used ammunition emblazoned with the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose." The official were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke Thursday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Police also released photos of a person they say is wanted for questioning in the ambush the day before of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The words on the ammunition may have been a reference to tactics insurance companies use to avoid paying claims. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are bringing Trump's DOGE to Capitol Hill WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s DOGE time at the U.S. Capitol. Billionaire Elon Musk and fellow business titan Vivek Ramaswamy arrived on Capitol Hill for meetings with lawmakers. The two are heading up President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, with its plans to “dismantle” the federal government. Trump tapped the duo to come up with ways for firing federal workers, cutting government programs and slashing federal regulations — all part of Trump's agenda for a second-term at the White House. House Speaker Mike Johnson said there's going to be “a lot of change” in Washington. Hegseth faces senators' concerns not only about his behavior but also his views on women in combat WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth has spent the week on Capitol Hill trying to reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Defense in the wake of high-profile allegations about excessive drinking and sexual assault. But senators in both parties have also expressed concern about another issue — Hegseth’s frequent comments that women should not serve in frontline military combat jobs. As he meets with senators for a fourth day Thursday, his professional views on women troops are coming under deeper scrutiny. Hegseth said this week that “we have amazing women who serve our military.” Pressed if they should serve in combat, Hegseth said they already do. Hamas official says Gaza ceasefire talks have resumed after weekslong hiatus ISTANBUL (AP) — A Hamas official says that after a weekslong hiatus international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he was hopeful a deal to end the 14-month war was within reach. Ceasefire negotiations were halted last month when Qatar suspended its talks with mediators from Egypt and the United States over frustration with a lack of progress between Israel and Hamas. But Bassem Naim, an official in Hamas’ political wing, said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press that there has been a “reactivation” of efforts to end the fighting, release hostages from Gaza and free Palestinian prisoners in Israel. Why the rebel capture of Syria's Hama, a city with a dark history, matters BEIRUT (AP) — One of the darkest moments in the modern history of the Arab world happened more than four decades ago, when then-Syrian President Hafez Assad launched what came to be known as the Hama Massacre. The slaughter was named for the Syrian city where 10,000 to 40,000 people were killed or disappeared in a government attack that began on Feb. 2, 1982, and lasted for nearly a month. Hama was turned into ruins. The memory of the assault and the monthlong siege on the city remains visceral in Syrian and Arab minds. Now Islamist insurgents have captured the city in a moment many Syrians have awaited for over 40 years. France's Macron vows to stay in office till end of term, says he'll name a new prime minister soon PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to stay in office until the end of his term in 2027 and announced that he will name a new prime minister within days. In his address to the nation on Thursday, Macron came out fighting, laying blame at the door of his opponents on the far right for bringing down the government of Michel Barnier. He said they chose “not to do but to undo” and that they “chose disorder.” The president also said the far right and the far left had united in what he called “an anti-Republican front.” He said he’ll name a new prime minister within days but gave no hints who that might be. 7.0 earthquake off Northern California prompts brief tsunami warning SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The National Weather Service has canceled its tsunami warning for the U.S. West Coast after there was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. According to the U.S. Geological Survey on Thursday, at least 5.3 million people in California were under a tsunami warning after the earthquake struck. It was felt as far south as San Francisco, where residents felt a rolling motion for several seconds. It was followed by smaller aftershocks. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury. Yoon replaces the defense minister as South Korea's parliament moves to vote on their impeachments SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president has replaced his defense minister as opposition parties moved to impeach both men over the stunning-but-brief imposition of martial law that brought armed troops into Seoul streets. Opposition parties are pushing for a vote on motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on Saturday evening. They hold 192 seats but need 200 votes for the motion to pass. Yoon’s office said he decided to replace Defense Minister Kim Yong Hyun with Choi Byung Hyuk, a retired general who is South Korea’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Kim earlier apologized and said he ordered troops to carry out duties related to martial law. The Foreign Ministry also worked to mitigate the backlash and concern over South Korea's democracy. The US government is closing a women's prison and other facilities after years of abuse and decay WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement. The agency informed employees and Congress on Thursday that it plans to shutter the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and its deactivate minimum-security prison camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. Staff and inmates are being moved to other facilities. The closures come amid an AP investigation that has uncovered deep, previously unreported flaws within the Bureau of Prisons. From outsider to the Oval Office, bitcoin surges as a new administration embraces crypto NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin burst on the scene after trust had withered in the financial system and Washington’s ability to protect people from it. Now, it’s Washington’s embrace of bitcoin that’s sending it to records. Bitcoin briefly surged above $103,000 after President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate Paul Atkins, who's seen as friendly to crypto, to be the Securities and Exchange Commission's next chair. The crypto industry, meanwhile, did its part to bring politicians friendly to digital currencies into Washington. It's a twist from bitcoin's early days, when it was lauded as a kind of electronic cash that wouldn’t be beholden to any government or financial institution.
Farmer went 8 of 15 from the field (3 for 8 from 3-point range) for the Penguins (6-5). Nico Galette scored 17 points while shooting 5 for 13 (3 for 8 from 3-point range) and 4 of 6 from the free-throw line and added 11 rebounds and seven assists. Juwan Maxey shot 4 for 9 (3 for 7 from 3-point range) and 5 of 5 from the free-throw line to finish with 16 points. Sam Lewis led the Rockets (6-4) in scoring, finishing with 21 points and eight rebounds. Sonny Wilson added 17 points, six rebounds and four assists for Toledo. Seth Hubbard had 14 points. Farmer put up 13 points in the first half for Youngstown State, who led 44-39 at halftime. Youngstown State used a 7-0 second-half run to break a 76-76 tie and take the lead at 83-76 with 3:14 remaining in the half before finishing off the victory. Galette scored 12 second-half points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer's comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government , weighed in, defending the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump's world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift, and his presidential transition team did not respond to a message seeking comment. Musk, the world's richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump's movement but his stance on the tech industry's hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry's need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent," he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump's own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump's businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country" and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country," he told the “All-In" podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump's budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes.WASHINGTON — Rep. Ann McLane Kuster wasn’t going to become one of those lawmakers accused of lingering too long in the halls of Congress. “I think people get into a comfortable pattern,” Kuster said this month, as she wrapped up 12 years representing New Hampshire’s 2nd District. She led the New Democrat Coalition, a powerful center-left caucus that managed to grow its ranks this election cycle. And she made many friends, like Democratic Whip Katherine M. Clark of Massachusetts, her longtime roommate while in Washington. But her belief that the party needs new blood, as well as partisan fatigue and memories of Jan. 6, 2021, guided her decision not to run again. “I had so many different factors going into it, but one of them is I’m trying to set a better example,” Kuster said. This interview has been edited and condensed. Question: Why did you decide to walk away now? Answer: I’ve always said I wasn’t going to stay forever. Congress, by being so focused on seniority, tends to cater to a much older population. I think the Democratic caucus can learn from the experience of the Republican caucus that if you have higher turnover, you bring in more people, you’ll be more effective. And then there is a part of it related to Donald Trump coming back. I was one of the last members of Congress in the gallery on Jan. 6, and as it turns out, we have the security footage that shows it was only 30 seconds from when I was able to evacuate that the insurrectionists were in that hallway hunting for us with zip ties and bear mace and who knows what else. I just felt like, he tried to kill me once. I’m not available for it again. I’m not prepared to be the gladiator, if you will, again for him, with his attack on women and undermining the social fabric. I’ve worked very hard on mental health and addiction treatment and on the environment. I’ve done a lot of work on tackling sexual assault and the whole “Me Too” era of protecting women in the military and in the workplace, and it appears his approach is to tear that all down. Q: What’s next? A: Elections are about change, and the majority of voters wanted change from the Biden administration. They wanted lower costs. They wanted to tackle immigration and the border and crime and safety. And there’s a lot of reasons that people had for their vote, but I don’t believe the approach of the Trump administration is going to fix those issues for them. I mean, just take tariffs. If he puts those on, the price of food is going to go way up. I think the consequences of his policies are going to result in a swing back in 2026 and in 2028. So I’m going to stay involved, but not on the ballot. I’m going to stay involved in the work I’ve done this cycle with the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund and raising resources, along with a group we call Elect Democratic Women — that’s a PAC that I was one of the founders of — and win back the majority. Q: Why do other members stay in Congress as long as they do? A: It tends to be people who don’t have difficult elections. I had really difficult elections. I’m in a swing district. It’s a red district that I turned purple, but it’s certainly not blue, and it was challenging every single time. And part of it is, I’m just literally exhausted from that, but the people who are in deep-blue districts don’t have to do the fundraising, they don’t have to do the campaigning, and it becomes much more comfortable for them. Q: What are some highlights of your time here? A: The biggest thing for me probably has been the increasing number of women in Congress and being involved in creating Elect Democratic Women, and also chairing the New Dem Coalition and helping bring new members to Congress. It’s made a tremendous difference. When I first came, women [made up] about 20 percent of the House. Now our Democratic caucus is probably 45 percent women. It’s amazing. Q: What are you going to miss? A: I’ll definitely miss my friends. Katherine Clark, our minority whip, is my roommate and has been for 10 years, and so that’s one of the reasons I want to stay involved, is to have an excuse to come back down and see them. We have this amazing group of friends that we call the “Pink Ladies,” with Lois Frankel, Katherine, Julia Brownley, Grace Meng and myself. And I’m sure there’s a part of it I will miss on the policy front, but right now that has gotten much more difficult in terms of the hyperpartisanship. These task forces I had, on addiction and mental health, on ending sexual violence, and even the ski and snowboard caucus, they were all bipartisan. Everything I did, I always told my team, don’t bring a bill to me without a Republican co-lead. But it has become so much more difficult to work in that bipartisan way. I’m ready to let somebody else take a shot at it. Q: From your perspective, what went wrong for Democrats in the 2024 elections? A: I think our party needs to reflect on how it felt to an entire generation of younger people that for a pretty long time, the face of our party has been octogenarians. I mean, Nancy Pelosi was an extraordinary speaker. I’m not in any way critical of her, but the transition that we made in the House was really important to Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, and I think we need to continue that process, because we somehow have missed the opportunity to connect with a whole generation of young people that we assumed, just by the laws of nature, would be more progressive and more close to our perspective. Now, what’s interesting, our New Dem candidates were successful, and we have 25 new New Dems coming to Congress, and we flipped several seats. So I think we needed that approach at the national level. Q: A lot of the postmortems have fixated on the divide between the progressive and more moderate wings of the party. A: To me, it’s not knee-jerk left or right, progressive or moderate. It’s listening to people and meeting voters where they are. It started with Tom Suozzi in his special election, but we hired Tom Suozzi’s campaign manager, a guy named Jon Gonin, to be the political director for New Dems, and we carried that message through. Our members and candidates that were endorsed by New Dems talked about immigration reform, securing the border, making people feel safer in their community and lowering costs. This is a message that works in my district and in purple districts all across the country, and we won them. We beat Republicans with that message. And I think maybe the [Democratic National Committee] and the party has gotten away from meeting people where they are. Q: Are you optimistic for the next cycle? A: I’m an optimist, and I think this was a swing election. I was very involved in Barack Obama’s first election, starting with the New Hampshire primary, and that was a change election — hope and change from George W. Bush. You look at 2016, and Trump was backlash from Obama, and then Biden was change from Trump. I just think these swings, and maybe this is social media, are coming much faster. People just wanted change, and they vote with their middle finger. This is the only lever they have, and all they can say is, “Hell, no.” It’s very hard to say, “Well, this isn’t perfect, but I think we’re headed in the right direction.” And people don’t follow it that closely, they just really don’t. And it’s too bad, because for Democrats in particular, we tend to be involved with policies that take a long time, to restore the economy after COVID, or to pass the biggest infrastructure bill. I just saw from DOT and [Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg a map of all these projects all across the country. And it’s like, where was that map during the election? People are going to be driving over brand-new bridges and new highways and cutting 45 minutes off their commute and getting home for dinner on time, and nobody’s going to say, “Oh, thank you, Joe Biden.” They’re probably going to say, “Thank you, Donald Trump,” because they don’t realize that it just takes so long.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer's comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government , weighed in, defending the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump's world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift, and his presidential transition team did not respond to a message seeking comment. Musk, the world's richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump's movement but his stance on the tech industry's hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry's need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent," he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump's own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump's businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country" and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country," he told the “All-In" podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump's budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes.None
RUGBY NEVER STOPS being a game about taking your chances. We saw that again tonight in Thomond Park as Leinster marched to a bonus-point win and Munster came away from their home festive inter-pro with nothing. Ian Costello, Munster’s interim head coach, summed up a feisty battle in the simplest terms possible. “They had five chances five metres out from the line, they took four,” said Costello after his side’s 28-7 defeat. “We had four quick taps and a five-metre lineout and converted one. Costello added that the Munster’s scrum was under pressure throughout, with five penalty concessions in that area. “If you’re off in any area against Leinster, unfortunately you can be on the end of a scoreline like that,” he said. “It’s pretty frustrating based on some of the positive elements of our performance, unfortunately.” It felt like a rather familiar night in Thomond Park, where Leinster made it six wins in a row against Munster. With a host of their Ireland international returning, the men in blue were powerful and punchy in contact while making big gains in the set-piece. Munster battered the Leinster tryline for a 15-minute spell in the first half to no avail, even with Leinster’s Tommy O’Brien sin-binned, before the visitors marched down the other end and scored their second try through out-half Sam Prendergast. Having trailed 14-0 at the break, Munster did manage to make a strong start to the second half as Tom Ahern crossed for what proved to be their only try but Leinster responded swiftly with a third score through Josh van der Flier. It was a key moment in the game. “Yeah, it was because I felt we counter-rucked it and had gotten the ball back,” said Costello. “So there’s a bit of confusion around that, it was a big swing. “To be fair to them, they brought a lot of power off the bench in the last 20 minutes, they were very, very strong, very impressive.” Costello was asked if Munster received feedback on that moment before van der Flier’s try when it appeared they had earned a turnover only for a Leinster player to pop the ball off the ground. “No idea,” said Costello. “It happened twice in the game, don’t know. We counter-rucked, new offside line, my understanding is you can’t pick the ball up and score, you know. Anyway, that’s just a moment or two in the game.” Indeed, Munster had no gripes about the outcome on a night where Leinster’s international quality showed. Costello was keen to point to a few positives but he wasn’t sugar-coating this defeat. “Last week [against Ulster], our ball retention was poor and some areas of our attack that are usually strong were off. I know we got four really good tries but we had 30% possession. “It was closer to 50% tonight and still made errors but I thought our intent was good. You would have seen that we looked to kick early and we looked to turn them, get the crowd into the game. We put a lot of emphasis on our kick chase and got some great return out of that. “Unlucky that one kick went dead but we had a particular change-up to the way we were playing and I suppose as positive as that was, if we don’t convert when we get within five metres of the line against a side like Leinster, then they convert when they’re five metres out, that can be immaterial.Huntsville committee hears where YWCA Muskoka has spent the town's donation dollars this yearStoke have sacked head coach Narcis Pelach after just 19 games - and fans have been quick to have their say on the decision. Pelach, who was appointed in September at the age of 36, won just three of the 18 league games for which he was in charge and departs after a 2-0 Boxing Day defeat at home by Leeds which left Stoke 19th place in the table, just three points clear of the relegation zone. The Catalan was only appointed in September after the sacking of Steven Schumacher , and his dismissal sparked an outpouring of anger from Stoke City supporters. Here is what some of them have been saying on social media... Dan Huntley: Surely Walters has to go as well? This has chronically backfired. Dean Watkins: Whose manager shall we pinch and ruin next? What a shambles we are on and off the pitch. Sam Hill: Ah, shame. He seemed a lovely, hard working bloke, even if he was a bit rubbish as a manager. Wish him all the best. SDK: I can see the appeal of the guy, he's obviously a very good coach, just wasn't as good a head coach as was expected. A harsh lesson for Walters who will learn a lot from this. We have to get the next appointment right. Please not Robins, we need someone of Prem standard. CJ: As much abuse as JW is getting, you have to credit him for acting quick. People talking about SS, but in all fairness he should have gone at the end of last season. JW took a risk which could have gone either way. Unfortunately it went bad. Rather than waiting too long like MH, NJ etc. Orbs: That’s 3 managers in 2 seasons. Just didn’t expect those 2 seasons to be autumn and winter. Midge: Part of me feels sorry for him because the job was too big for him. We need a manager not a coach, and I feel the players have also let him down. Dan Hyde: Thank God for that. Awful appointment. Adam Paul: One down, one to go - your turn to leave now Walters because this is all on you. Andy Stevenson: Where SJW is correct is that Pelach is a good coach BUT not the right coach for us at this time, which makes his initial appointment and the shoddy treatment of Schuey even more mind-boggling. It may already be too late to repair the damage of the last 3 months. Karl: He’ll make a good coach down the line but we needed experience, and he’s not got that. It’s on Coates and Walter’s not Pelach. MarkJ: How can we keep hiring managers and then getting rid so soon? Thought Schumacher dismissal was particularly harsh but this is almost as bonkers. Complete lack of time for yet again for the 'right person'.
Sarah Michelle Gellar cleared the air after she seemed to snub a reporter who asked about her former co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt . While at the premiere of her new series Dexter: Original Sin on Dec. 11, Gellar was asked if she knew whether Hewitt would be returning for the upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot movie. “I have nothing to do with that,” the actress said quickly before stepping away . The moment went viral online and resurfaced old rumors of an on-set feud between the two women as stars of the original 1997 slasher movie. On Friday, however, Gellar explained why she seemed so cagey in her Instagram stories, chalking up her behavior to not wanting to violate non-disclosure agreements after she accidentally posted photos from the project’s set several weeks prior. “Aspiring actors please note: this deer in the headlights reaction is perfect for when you are excited to see so many old friends in one project but have already stupidly forgotten what NDA means once this month,” she wrote. Ultimately, Hewitt also confirmed her return to the reboot on Friday captioning a photo on Instagram. “It’s never too late to go back. Julie James is returning. I know what you will be doing next summer!” A post shared by Jennifer Love Hewitt (@jenniferlovehewitt) World-famous cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason said he was forced to cancel a concert after Air Canada refused to give his 300-year-old, $3,200,000 -cello a seat he had booked for his flight. Kanneh-Mason is touring Canada with his sister, pianist Kanneh-Mason, and the two released a joint statement addressing the show, which was supposed to take place Wednesday in Toronto. “First we had delays, then a cancellation, and the day concluded by being denied boarding with the cello – despite having a confirmed seat for it – on a new, final flight into Toronto,” they explained in the statement . “We can only dream of a time when all airlines have a standardized, global and carefully considered approach to the carriage of precious instruments that are booked to travel in the cabin.” The airline addressed the incident in a statement to CBC. “In this case, the customers made a last-minute booking due to their original flight on another airline being cancelled,” a spokesperson said. “We are still reviewing what happened including why the cello was not successfully rebooked.” Kanneh-Mason rose to world renown after playing at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ’s wedding. 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The slashing, which occurred shortly after the Daniel Penny fatal chokehold incident, came about when Moncrieffe stepped in during an argument Lewis was having with another rider. “I said, ‘Look, somebody was killed on the train two weeks ago, they were choked out because someone proceeded to be aggressive,’” Moncrieffe told Lewis before being sliced down his face. One hundred stitches were needed to sew up the 8-inch wound. Shortly before assaulting Moncrieffe, Lewis had been arrested for choking and threatening his girlfriend with a knife. In the suit, Moncrieffe called the incident “foreseeable” and urged the MTA to stay on top of its banned rider policy along with other safety measures. Lewis was sentenced to seven years in jail for slashing Moncrieffe. TV icon Oprah Winfrey left her longtime best friend Gayle King flabbergasted after surprising her with a huge 70th birthday bash. The big reveal was captured on camera and posted to Winfrey’s Instagram. 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The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. “I am grateful that this chapter has successfully come to a close and is now something I can now put behind me...,” Abdul said in a statement. “I hope my experience can serve to inspire other women, facing similar struggles, to overcome their own challenges with dignity and respect, so that they too can turn the page and begin a new chapter of their lives.” Lythgoe continued to dispute Abdul’s accusations, claiming, “We live in a troubling time where a person is now automatically assumed to be guilty until proven innocent, a process that can take years,” in a statement. Abdul accused Lythgoe of groping her in an elevator nearly 20 years ago when she was a judge on American Idol. A decade later, when she was a judge on So You Think You Can Dance , she alleged Lythgoe invited her to his home and then attempted to forced himself on her. Lythgoe stepped down as a judge on So You Think You Can Dance in January after a second suit was filed accusing him of sexually assaulting two contestants on a different show. A third lawsuit was filed in March, accusing Lythgoe of sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2018. It’s been some 26 years since Jennifer Love Hewitt’s ‘final girl’ faced off with a vengeful killer fisherman in the I Know What You Did Last Summe r series. (That was in the film’s sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ; a third film is not considered canon by horror fans, while a related TV series aired in 2021.) But with filming on an official threequel—set for release, wait for it, next summer—currently underway, Hewitt confirmed Friday that she’ll be reprising her original role. “It’s never too late to go back,” Hewitt wrote in an Instagram caption confirming the casting news. Hewitt joins her former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. in the forthcoming film, alongside a lineup of young Hollywood talent who will near inevitably end up as roadkill . Perhaps unsurprisingly, Prinze Jr.‘s wife Sarah Michelle Gellar —who also starred in the first IKWYDLS movie—had previously confirmed she won’t be returning, because her character died . Fair enough! That hasn’t stopped the Internet from wondering if she didn’t really want to see Love Hewitt back either, with commenters reading deeply into an apparently shady red carpet moment . A post shared by Jennifer Love Hewitt (@jenniferlovehewitt) BBC reported that Apple’s new AI notification system sent a message from the outlet that falsely claimed Luigi Mangione shot himself. The new technology aims to group together notifications; however, it falsely wrote that the suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s Manhattan slaying had shot himself. 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Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson , known best to some for his past relationships with Kim Kardashian , Ariana Grande , Kate Beckinsale , and more famous women, now says he doesn’t want to be known as “this f---ing loser who just dates people,” in a new interview for W Magazine . to promote his new role as creative director for colorful sock brand Doublesoul, Davidson told the outlet his feeling that he was one of “a handful of celebs every couple of years” that the media “destroys,” after multiple run-ins with tabloids over his famous exes. “For some reason, I’m one of the people they chose to go after,” he said. But, he added, “It’s actually, in a way, a blessing, because it allowed me to take a step back and evaluate things. What do you want to be? Who are you?” Davidson said he only wants to be seen publicly “when it’s movie, stand-up, charity, or business ventures” and to focus on his stand-up career. “I’m someone who is from Staten Island, wanted to do stand-up, and if I got to do anything else because of stand-up, it was a miracle.” The iconic sitcom Malcolm in the Middle will hit screens for the first time in 18 years, with a limited run of four episodes set to premiere on Disney+ . Frankie Muniz, who will reprise his role as Malcolm, announced the reboot Friday, along with Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek, who play his parents. The original creator of the show will also return as a writer. The new series follows Malcolm returning home with his daughter for his parents’ 40th wedding anniversary, according to Deadline . Christopher Kennedy Masterson, who played the eldest brother Francis, and Justin Berfield, who played the middle child Reese, are likely to be asked to reprise their roles. 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