Jeb Bush Visita la Frontera – The New York Times

It may be time to offer this forlorn candidate some free advice. Although if he really is the smarter Bush, he knows these things already:

1. He should never let himself say the words “anchor babies” ever again. He got in trouble for using that derogatory reference to the children of unauthorized immigrants in passing, in an interview, then dug himself a hole by defending his use of it. On Monday, he dug deeper. He tried to explain that he had been talking about “Asian people” who arrive on tourist visas through organized schemes to give birth to American babies on American soil.

Though the phenomenon is real, Mr. Bush was blasted by Asian-American groups for repeating the slur. And, astoundingly, he handed Mr. Trump the opportunity to send out tweets like this: “In a clumsy move to get out of his ‘anchor babies’ dilemma, where he signed that he would not use the term and now uses it, he blamed ASIANS.”

It was such an unnecessary battle to wade into — maternity tourism is not what Mr. Trump and his enablers on the restrictionist right are talking about. When they say “anchor babies,” they are talking about the browning of America, with its growing Latino population, and recasting it as a sinister plot by child-rearing Mexicans. They want to upend the 14thAmendment, and the country’s family-based immigration laws, to keep the population as white as can be. Maternity tourism by middle-class foreigners is a separate, much smaller issue; changing the Constitution to stop it, as one immigrant rights advocate once put it, is like killing a fly with an Uzi.

via Jeb Bush Visita la Frontera – The New York Times.

Bully and Bluster Politics at its worst! Jorge Ramos of Univision Is Snubbed, Ejected and Debated at Donald Trump Event – First Draft. Political News, Now. – The New York Times

Jorge Ramos, an anchor for Univision news shows based in Miami, was interrupted by Mr. Trump after standing and asking one of the first questions at the news conference. “Excuse me, you weren’t called,” Mr. Trump told him. “Sit down. Sit down.”

Mr. Ramos asked Mr. Trump about his call to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country and build a wall the length of the Mexican border.

“You haven’t been called on, go back to Univision,” Mr. Trump said.

As security officers approached Mr. Ramos, a Mexican-American, he said: “I am a reporter. Don’t touch me. I have a right to ask the question.”

Mr. Trump was silent as Mr. Ramos, an Emmy-winning journalist who was on the cover of Time magazine’s World’s Most Influential People issue, was removed from the room. Several other journalists asked Mr. Trump why he refused to take questions from Mr. Ramos. The billionaire real estate investor, who is leading in Republican polls for the presidential nomination, said it was because he had asked a question without being called on.

After about 15 minutes, Mr. Ramos returned and he and Mr. Trump engaged in a long back-and-forth about Mr. Trump’s immigration proposals, frequently talking past each other.

Mr. Ramos said that building a border would be futile because 40 percent of undocumented immigrants arrive by plane. “I don’t believe it,” Mr. Trump said.

“How are you going to deport 11 million?” Mr. Ramos asked.

“Very humanely,” Mr. Trump said.

At one point, Mr. Trump pressed Mr. Ramos to tell him how much he was suing Univision for, after the network dropped coverage of Mr. Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants because of his remarks about Mexican immigrants. Mr. Trump answered his own question: $500 million.

Mr. Trump insisted he would win the Latino vote. Mr. Ramos cited a poll saying that 75 percent of Latinos hold an unfavorable opinion of him.

via Jorge Ramos of Univision Is Snubbed, Ejected and Debated at Donald Trump Event – First Draft. Political News, Now. – The New York Times.

Call police for help? Think Three Times! – Family Releases Video Of Mentally-Ill Man Shot And Killed By Deputies: LAist

Chris Berry, a police officer himself, called the Lakewood sheriff’s station to request a mental evaluation team, but was told deputies would have to respond first. When the deputies arrived, they tried to get John Berry out of the car, but he refused. Chris Berry said that the deputies soon became aggressive, Tasering his brother four times, hitting him with batons and using pepper spray.

via Family Releases Video Of Mentally-Ill Man Shot And Killed By Deputies: LAist.

New immigration bill to make Britain ‘hostile environment’ for some migrants

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Amid rising migrant figures, the UK has announced harsher measures aimed at curbing the trend. But some critics say the government is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Samira Shackle reports from London.

via New immigration bill to make Britain ‘hostile environment’ for some migrants.

Desparate and drowning for attention: Jeb Bush says Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get a penny

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush continued his attack on Planned Parenthood on Tuesday during a town hall in Colorado, saying the women’s health organization shouldn’t get “a penny” because “they’re not doing women’s health issues” and that they were involved in something “way different than that.”

I’ll go ahead and assume that the “way different” thing Bush thinks somehow doesn’t qualify as a “women’s health issue” is the 300,000 abortions Planned Parenthood provides each year — no matter that insignificant organizations like, oh I dunno, the World Health Organization define access to safe abortion as a human right and public health imperative. That still leaves him on the hook for explaining why the 400,000 Pap tests and 500,000 breast exams provided annually by the organization don’t count as health care. There are also 4.5 million people who got STD tests and treatments and 3.7 million who got contraception services at Planned Parenthood last year who might be surprised to find out this wasn’t health care they were receiving.

via Quote of the Day: Jeb Bush says Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get a penny.

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo: Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago,…

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo:

Frederick C. Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL by Frank Lloyd Wright (1908-1910)

Hardly the best photos you’ll find of that gem of a building, I know, but I am still working with Apple’s dreadful ‘Photos’ app. Time to get PS again, I guess. Soon.