ICE narrowly frees three men convicted of molesting children
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) narrowly released three men convicted of sex crimes against children, in an apparent misapplication of new policies from President Joe Biden’s administration.
The three men were not released thanks to talks held in recent weeks between the state prison system and immigration authorities, he reported. NY Post.
However, the process of keeping them in custody raised alarms that ICE was refusing to detain the convicts, in violation of immigration law, officials said.
Jason Clark, chief of staff for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, expressed concern that ICE would withdraw the arrest requests against 26 convicted persons, after considering that there are individuals within the group who represent a “threat” to public safety.
According to state records, most of the 26 were convicted of drug charges or drunk driving offenses.
However, two of them were convicted of sexually assaulting an adolescent and a third was convicted of “indecent acts” against a child.
Immigration authorities issue arrests to local or state law enforcement agencies that hold a person who is potentially illegally in the United States.
When an undocumented person ends their sentence for a crime, ICE may try to take them into immigration custody.
The first day that Biden took office, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memorandum directing immigration agencies to focus their enforcement efforts on three categories.
Those include: threats to national security, threats to public safety, and immigrants who entered the United States without documents as of November 1, 2020.
However, people convicted of sexual offenses against minors are still subject to law enforcement. The memorandum defines threats to public safety as incarcerated persons “who have been convicted of an” aggravated felony, “as defined in a specific section of immigration law.
That section begins: “The term aggravated felony means … murder, rape or sexual abuse of a minor.”
Steve Yale-loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell University, said that a conviction for sexual abuse of a minor would normally qualify as an “aggravated felony,” and that “such individuals remain immigration enforcement priorities.”
ICE declined to comment on whether the arrest warrants for the men convicted of sex crimes were initially withdrawn.
Through a statement, the agency specified that it “makes arrest and custody determinations on a caseby-case basis, based on the totality of the circumstances and does so in compliance with federal law and agency policy.” express.
López Obrador propone que la futura vacuna mexicana se llame «Patria»
El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, sugirió este domingo que la futura vacuna mexicana contra el covid-19 podría llamarse «Patria», emulando el nombre de la vacuna Soberana desarrollada en Cuba.
«Con todo respeto, porque son iniciativas de Conacyt (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología), centros de investigación públicos pero también empresas privadas, vamos a sugerir que la vacuna nuestra se llame Patria. Ya apartamos el nombre», dijo el presidente en conferencia de prensa desde la sureña ciudad de Oaxaca.
El mandatario, del izquierdista Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), a propósito de las vacunas Soberana 01 y Soberana 02, que está desarrollando el Instituto Finlay de Vacunas de Cuba .
El secretario mexicano de Relaciones Exteriores, Marcelo Ebrard, explicó durante la conferencia de prensa diaria que la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (Celac) tiene registradas seis vacunas en fase clínica: dos cubanas, una mexicana, una chilena, una argentina y una brasileña.
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Alertan de dos ríos de lava por erupción del volcán de Fuego de Guatemala
GUATEMALA.- Las autoridades guatemaltecas alertaron este domingo sobre dos ríos de lava por la efusiva erupción que mantiene el volcán de Fuego, ubicado a unos 50 kilómetros al oeste de la capital, entre los departamentos de Guatemala, Escuintla y Chimaltenango.
El Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología (Insivumeh), informó que la actividad del coloso aumentó en las últimas horas y es alta y que uno de los ríos de lava, con una longitud de 1,3 kilómetros, se dirige hacia la barranca Ceniza.
El otro río de lava, de 500 metros de longitud, va en dirección a la barranca Seca.
El volcán de Fuego mantiene expulsión de material incandescente a una altura de 200 metros, acompañados de sonidos similares a las turbinas de los aviones debido a la alta liberación de gases.
Al frente de los dos ríos de lava se generan avalanchas de bloques que llegan a la orilla de la vegetación y se forman cortinas de ceniza a lo largo de su trayectoria, alertó.
El ente científico detalló que la columna de ceniza alcanza entre 4.500 y 4.800 metros sobre el nivel del mar, que se desplaza en dirección sur, sureste y suroeste del cono volcánico, y no descarta que la actividad se incremente en las próximas horas.
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Reino Unido inicia nueva fase de vacunación tras cumplir meta de 15 millones de vacunados
Londres.- El Reino Unido superó este domingo su meta de vacunar a 15 millones de personas prioritarias con al menos una dosis contra el coronavirus, tras lo que comenzará una nueva fase de la campaña de vacunación.
"Hoy hemos alcanzado una etapa importante en el programa nacional de vacunación del Reino Unido", celebró el primer ministro británico, Boris Johnson, citó AFP.
"Este país ha logrado una hazaña extraordinaria", dijo Johnson, en un mensaje de vídeo publicado en Twitter. "Ha sido un esfuerzo verdaderamente nacional, de todo el Reino Unido. Lo hemos hecho juntos", agregó.
Criticado en varias ocasiones por su lentitud y vacilación para enfrentar la crisis sanitaria, Johnson logró ahora cumplir el ambicioso objetivo de ofrecer una vacuna a las cuatro categorías prioritarias.
Las cuatro categorías son los mayores de 70 años, el personal sanitario de primera línea, los empleados y residentes de residencias de ancianos y los pacientes más vulnerables, que en su conjunto representan 15 millones de personas, de una población total de 66 millones de británicos.
Fossil fuel pollution was responsible for almost one in five deaths in 2018, according to a new study which has prompted calls for governments and businesses to do more to switch to clean energy.
More than eight million people died as a result of breathing in minute particulate matter from burning fossil fuels in 2018, according to research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the
University of Leicester and University College London.
They found that particulate pollution was responsible for 18% of deaths in 2018, almost twice the level previously estimated. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) put the global death toll from air pollution at 4.2 million.
We already know that more than nine out of 10 people live in areas where air pollution exceeds WHO safety levels. So how did the researchers arrive at such alarming figures for fossil fuel-related deaths?
The study took a new approach, using a 3D atmospheric modelling tool to pinpoint the greatest concentrations of fine particulate (PM2.5) pollution around the world, and combined that data with more accurate measurements of its effects.
As well as confirming that regions with the worst air pollution have the highest rates of mortality, the study, published in the journal Environmental Research, found that the number of deaths in these regions had been underestimated.
Although China has achieved a dramatic reduction in particulate pollution – numbers almost halved between 2012 and 2018 – the country still emerged with the highest death toll (3.9 million) followed by
India (2.5 million).
The study found that without its clean air initiatives, the death toll in China would have been even higher. As well as saving 1.5 million lives in China, the measures had also reduced deaths from particulate pollution outside the country by almost a million as well.
North America, Europe and Asia were also shown to suffer more deaths from particulates than previously thought. Overall, the study found higher mortality rates among people who suffered long-term exposure to fossil-fuel emissions, even at comparatively low levels.
“Our study adds to the mounting evidence that air pollution from ongoing dependence on fossil fuels is detrimental to global health,” said Professor Eloise Marais of University College, London, one of the report’s authors.
“We can’t in good conscience continue to rely on fossil fuels, when we know that there are such severe effects on health and viable, cleaner alternatives,” she added.
Harvard Professor Joel Schwartz, another of the report’s authors, said that often discussion of the harmful effects of burning fossil fuels focused on CO2 emissions and climate change and overlooked the damage to health from pollutants emitted along with greenhouse gases.
“We hope that by quantifying the health consequences of fossil fuel combustion, we can send a clear message to policymakers and stakeholders of the benefits of a transition to alternative energy sources,” he said.