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IMMIGRATION: Immigrant crime LATIN AMERICA: Mexico launches POLITICS: “Every adult eligible victims hope for change to visas > 12 latest cable car line > 10 for vaccine by May 1” > 9 15 You Decide – A Bilingual Newspaper March 18th, 2021 STATE Table of Contents 15 STATE: Fans to soon return to Fans to soon return to stadiums as stadiums as Washington enters Phase 3 enters Phase 3 14 IMMIGRATION: FEMA to help OLYMPIA, Washington (AP) school and youth manage unaccompanied minors sports will start at US-Mexico border he Mariners, March 18, while the Seattle Sounders remainder will take 13 FINANCIAL LITERACY: Spring is Tand OL Reign will effect on March in the air, and what better way to soon be able to welcome 22, when all of the celebrate than with a credit card a limited number of fans state’s 39 counties spring cleaning! to the stadium when they will move to a newly open their seasons, as the created Phase 3. IMMIGRATION: Immigrant state prepares to move into Opening day for the 12 a third phase of a COVID- Mariners is April 1, crime victims hope for change to 19 economic reopening plan while the Sounders visas under Biden announced Thursday by start their season Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. April 16. OL Reign 11 POLITICS: As GOP makes it The allowed 25% seating of the National harder to vote, few Republicans capacity for spectators — Women’s Soccer dissent who must be physically dis- League start May 15. tanced and wearing masks The Mariners said 10 LATIN AMERICA: Mexico — comes a year after Inslee they have approval launches Latin America’s latest announced a ban on at sport- to host up to 9,000 cable car line ing events as the pandemic fans a game, and took hold. The same capacity In this July 4, 2020, fi le photo, downtown Seattle is seen behind as players Mariners chairman 10 NORTHWEST: Portland mayor warm up before a game in an empty stadium in Seattle, Washington. of spectators will be allowed John Stanton said in seeks $2 million to stem rampant at high school sports, motor- events that have permanent seating. a statement that the gun violence sports, rodeos and other similar outdoor Expanded spectator capacity for high team is “thrilled to be able to welcome fans back to T-Mobile Park for the first 9 POLITICS: Biden: Aim for time since 2019.” every adult to be eligible for Under Phase 3, all indoor spaces — vaccination by May 1 including indoor dining at restaurants, indoor fitness centers, and retail — can tú Decides Newspaper increase capacity from 25% to 50%. 8220 W. 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During that other suitable sponsor, crisis, FEMA helped he Biden administration is until their immigration stand up temporary turning to the Federal Emer- cases can be resolved. shelters and process- Tgency Management Agency But more children ing stations on mili- for help managing and caring for record are being held longer at tary bases. numbers of unaccompanied immigrant Border Patrol facilities President Joe Biden children who are streaming into the that weren’t designed has ended the Trump- United States by illegally crossing the with their care in mind era practice of expel- border with Mexico. because long-term shel- ling immigrant chil- FEMA will support a government- ters run by the Depart- dren who cross the wide effort over the next three months ment of Health and border alone, but to safely receive, shelter and transfer Human Services have maintained expul- minor children who arrive alone at the next to no capacity to sions of immigrant U.S. southwest border, without a parent accommodate them. families and single or other adult, Homeland Security Secre- Children are being adults. tary Alejandro Mayorkas said Saturday. apprehended daily at While his admin- Government figures show a growing far higher rates than istration has tried crisis at the border as hundreds of chil- HHS can release them In this Monday, March 1, 2021 fi le photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to deter immigrants dren illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico to parents or sponsors. speaks during a press briefi ng at the White House in Washington. from entering the daily and are taken into custody. Mayorkas said FEMA as quickly as possible, consistent with U.S., many believe The Homeland Security Department is working with the Health and Human legal requirements and in the best inter- they have a better chance now that Biden is supposed to process and transfer Services Department to “look at every est of the children,” Mayorkas said. is president. unaccompanied minor children to the available option to quickly expand phys- During an record influx of unac- There have also been growing reports Department of Health and Human Ser- ical capacity for appropriate lodging.” companied minors in 2014, the Obama of parents sending their children across vices within three days so that they can “Our goal is to ensure that unaccom- administration also turned to FEMA for the border alone while they remain in be placed with a parent already living panied children are transferred to HHS help coordinating the governmentwide Mexico or Central America.

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Wisdom for your decisions March 18th, 2021 You Decide – A Bilingual Newspaper 12 IMMIGRATION Immigrant crime victims hope for myTTCCH.org 509.547.2204 change to visas under Biden Life may not be back to normal But your health care needs Urgent Care haven’t changed

An immigrant from Liberia, who spoke to Th e Associated Press on condition of anonymity, poses for a photograph in the United States on Friday, March 12, 2021. Vaccinations HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) the program in major immigration legis- lation poised for House debate this week. n a bid to become a legal perma- Many applicants are women and chil- nent resident of the United States, dren who have endured horrific abuse or Ishe says she lives in fear, afraid both trafficking. Created in 2000, the U visa of being deported and of retribution after program was tucked into wider legislation she testified against men who were con- to fight human trafficking and violence Regular Health victed of killing her boyfriend. against women. checkups Robbers forced her and her boyfriend Advocates have pushed for changes for to lay on the floor of his Philadelphia row- years, saying a massive backlog — over house, she testified, and after searching 160,000 cases, according to federal data — the house for cash he made selling drugs, and a lack of protection from deportation REGULAR CARE IS STILL IMPORTANT shot him point-blank in the head. during the yearslong application process Even after that horror, the woman, who has frayed the U visa’s effectiveness. spoke to The Associated Press on the con- “That’s a wrong that needs to be dition of anonymity, said bearing the fear righted,” said David Freedman, a lawyer is worth it. That’s because in the U.S. — at the Barley Snyder firm in Pennsyl- Schedule an appointment today where she overstayed a visitor’s visa 20 vania who helps people with visa cases. years ago to escape civil war in her native “These people have upheld their side of CALL (509) 547-2204 Liberia — she can work and send money the bargain, and we’re asking the govern- back to her son. ment to make good on the promise they “This is all I know, and the opportu- made to these victims.” If you have COVID-19 symptoms call ahead. nities here are not in my country,” the Federal law limits U visas to 10,000 55-year-old woman said. “Everybody annually. Several times that number apply, YOUR BEST PROTECTION FROM COVID-19 depends on me. ... That’s all I work for, and efforts to raise the cap have been apart from paying my rent and eating, captive to the wider immigration stale- • Getting a COVID-19 vaccine (when you are eligible) that’s all I work for — helping my family.” mate in Congress. Her best, and perhaps last, hope for In immigration legislation from Biden • Wearing a mask remaining in the U.S. is her application and Democratic lawmakers, the annual • Staying at least 6 feet away from others for a U visa, carved out for people without cap on U visas would increase to 30,000 • Avoiding crowds legal status who become victims of serious and applicants would get work authoriza- crimes — or in some cases, witnesses — tion. • Washing your hands often and help law enforcement solve them. “While that’s a promising start, there is But the program is broken, immigrant still more work to be done given the size advocates say, leaving applicants waiting of the backlog,” said Amy Cheung, senior years for a decision — sometimes without counsel at Asista, an immigration advo- permission to work or protection from cacy organization. Are you eligible for your covid-19 Vaccine? deportation. After the Trump administra- When a decision does come, about 85% Call 509-547-2204 for an appointment tion made it easier to deport U visa appli- of applicants are approved, government cants, they’re hoping for help from Presi- figures say. But so few U visas are avail- Learn more at myTCCH.org dent Joe Biden, who’s backing changes to able, they’re put on a waiting list. Wisdom for your decisions 11 You Decide – A Bilingual Newspaper March 18th, 2021 POLITICS As GOP makes it harder to vote, few Republicans dissent ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) for the effort is much broader than cerns, they have done little so far to slow just Trump’s hard-right base, and the momentum of major legislation in n Arizona, a Republican state objections from GOP policymak- competitive states like Georgia, Arizona, senator worried aloud that his ers are so quiet they can be easy to Florida and Texas, where Republicans Iparty’s proposed voter identifica- miss. control the state legislature and the gov- tion requirements might be too “cumber- “It’s appalling what’s happening,” ernor’s office. some.” But he voted for the bill anyway. said former Republican National Democratic officials, civil rights leaders In Iowa, the state’s Republican elections Committee chairman Michael and voting advocates are horrified. chief put out a carefully worded statement Steele, who condemned the Martin Luther King III said he spent last that didn’t say whether he backs his own silence of the GOP’s elected offi- weekend in Selma, Alabama, celebrating party’s legislation making it more difficult cials. “There have been no prov- Protesters opposed to changes in Georgia’s voting laws sit the 56th anniversary of his father’s bloody to vote early. able, obvious, systemwide failures or on the steps inside the State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, on march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. And in Georgia, Republican Lt. Gov. fraud that would require the kind of Monday, March 8, 2021. Instead of being a day of celebration, he Geoff Duncan left the room as Senate ‘legislative remedies’ that Republi- Arizona, had embraced absentee and mail said, there was a sense that the civil rights Republicans approved a bill to block early can legislatures are embarking on. What voting. Several Republican strategists movement was sliding backward because voting for all but the GOP’s most reli- the hell are you so afraid of? Black people note the party may be passing laws that of the Republican voting proposals. able voting bloc. Duncan instead watched voting?” only box out their own voters. “There’s no question about this being a Monday’s proceedings from a television Experts note that most changes up for “There are multiple states and in mul- higher level of Jim Crow,” King said in an in his office to protest. debate would disproportionately affect tiple demographics where Republicans interview. He said he’s worried that little This is what amounts to dissent as voters of color, younger people and the consistently outperform Democrats in can be done to stop the Republican effort Republican lawmakers push a wave of poor — all groups that historically vote early voting and absentee voting, and in the short-term. legislation through statehouses across for Democrats. But Republicans are also they need to be very careful because they “I’m not sure what would make Repub- the nation to make voting more difficult. pushing restrictions with the potential could be shooting themselves in the foot licans change other than they lose (in The bills are fueled by former President to place new burdens on GOP-leaning to restrict that and make it more diffi- upcoming elections,” King added. “There Donald Trump’s false claims of wide- groups. cult,,” said Terry Sullivan, a Republican has to be a maximum effort so that does spread voter fraud and many are spon- It’s a startling shift for a party whose strategist. happen. They’re going to get very few sored by his most loyal allies. But support voters in some states, such as Florida and If elected Republicans share these con- votes from community of color.”

Wisdom for your decisions March 18th, 2021 You Decide – A Bilingual Newspaper 10 LATIN AMERICA Mexico launches Latin America’s latest cable car line MEXICO CITY (AP) a working class neighbor- 15-degree slopes. hood on the northern edge Mayor Claudia Shein- exico City has launched the of Mexico City, to the nearest baum said a second cable first of what it hopes will subway and bus station. The car line is being built Mbe several cable-car lines stretch inaugurated Thurs- in Iztapalapa, another serving the poorer outskirts of the city of day covers just 1.7 kilometers working class neighbor- 9 million. (1.06 miles) of that route, to hood, to the east. Thursday’s inauguration of the first leg the neighborhood of Tlalp- “Having the best trans- of the “Cablebus” line marks the latest exco. portation for the poorest chapter in Latin America’s love affair with At present, officials parts of the city reduces cable cars, which are seen in much of the explained, residents at the top inequality,” Sheinbaum world as largely for tourists and ski slopes. of the hill in Tlalpexco have said. The neighboring State of Mexico to board crowded, small vans Cuautepec resident already has a cable car serving one north- that travel much more slowly. Evelyn Sánchez said that, ern Mexico City suburb, and the city’s Plus, they don’t have the nice like most people here, her own first line was also built on the poor, view the cable cars offer from Offi cials and journalists ride in cable cars between the Campos Revolucion and Tlal- biggest challenge is getting crowded north side. their big windowed cars that pexco stations, during the inauguration of a new aerial public transit system dubbed to the nearest subway Cable cars are seen as a cheaper, quicker can seat 10 passengers at a the Cablebus, in the Cuautepec neighborhood of northern Mexico City, on Th ursday, station. way to bring public transport to poor time. The cars run on elec- March 4, 2021. “It does take us a long communities located high up hillsides. tricity and can travel about 13 long as 55 minutes or an hour,” Guillermo time, and now with this, Since they’re airborne, the car lines also miles (20 kilometers) per hour, far faster Calderon, director of the electrical trans- well now it is going to be a lot quicker,” don’t have as many difficulties with Latin than most traffic in the city. portation system Mexico City. Sánchez said. America’s notoriously difficult issues of “There are nearly a million inhabitants Traditional transport solutions like The city of Medellin, Colombia, chaotic development, bad traffic and lack living in the area around the Cablebus, bus or subway lines are almost impossi- launched its cable cars in 2004. Since of rights-of-way. and they make their trips in small vans ble here, both because there are no rights then, many other Latin American cities By June, the line will run almost 9.2 that descend through narrow streets, and of way in the densely packed slums, and have followed suit, ranging from from Rio kilometers (6 miles) from Cuautepec, that may take, from the highest point ... as they are crowded along hillsides on steep de Janeiro, Brazil to La Paz, Bolivia. NORTHWEST Portland mayor seeks $2 million to stem rampant gun violence PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) Thursday with a list of actions they “Certainly the police bureau has a believe will slow gun violence, includ- very specific role, but we need your he mayor of Portland, Oregon, ing expanding the ranks of street-level help,” Davis said. announced Thursday he outreach workers, increasing gun crime Policing has gone through changes Twould seek $2 million in one- investigations and re-establishing a uni- in the past year, as protesters for eight time funding for police, other agencies formed patrol team to engage in vio- months marched in the street’s of Port- and outreach programs to try to stem lence prevention and response. land demanding change and an end to rampant gun violence in the city. “We believe very strongly that it is systemic racism. The move by Mayor Ted Wheeler rep- important to intercede at this point, and Among the recommendations in the resents an about-face after city leaders appeal to the city to work with us and In this August 5, 2019, fi le photo, Portland Mayor Inter-Faith Peace & Action Collabora- in June voted to cut nearly $16 million and to hear us, as it relates to the need Ted Wheeler poses for a photo outside City Hall in tive letter was a request to re-establish from the police budget, reductions that for the tide to be stemmed with the Portland, Oregon. a team to engage in violence prevention included the elimination of a gun vio- number of shootings on the street,” said issue in front of us as an opportunity to and response, which includes respond- lence reduction unit. The cuts came J.W. Matt Hennessee, chair of Inter-Faith come together.” ing to shootings, engaging people at risk amid racial justice protests following the Peace & Action Collaborative. As of March 8, there have been 278 of gun violence and following up on police killing of George Floyd in Minne- During an hour-long news confer- shootings in the Portland region, 58 investigations. apolis. ence Thursday, Wheeler, activists, faith people have been injured from shoot- Wheeler said the tactic is not the same Oregon’s largest city has seen a spike leaders and community members reiter- ings, and there have been 17 gun-related as the now-eliminated Gun Violence in violence. So far this year, there have ated that in order to solve the problem of homicides, according to the mayor’s Reduction Team and would be more been 20 homicides, most the result of gun violence, the community must work office. At the current pace, shootings transparent. shootings. During the same period of together. and homicides are on track to surpass Wheeler said he supports the ideas, 2020 — the deadliest year in the city in “There is just too much blood on the last year’s totals. beginning with asking City Council more than a quarter century — there streets,” Pastor Ed Williams said. “We Portland Deputy Police Chief Chris to appropriate $2 million in one-time was one. have got to be determined, we have got Davis said the rise in violence is not just fiuds from the city’s reserve stability A group of community members and to be fed up about (the violence) and to a police problem, and it needs attention contingency account created last fall, to leaders sent a letter to the City Council want to do something about it. I see this from the entire community. address gun violence.

Wisdom for your decisions 18 de marzo 2021 tú Decides – A Bilingual Newspaper 9 POLÍTICA Biden: Que todo adulto sea elegible a vacuna para el 1 de mayo WASHINGTON (AP) Su objetivo: Permitir que los estadoun- de los recibos de servicios públicos de la idenses se reúnan, al menos en pequeños población. n año después de que el coro- grupos, para celebrar el 4 de julio y “que En su discurso nocturno, Biden dijo que navirus paralizó prácticamente este Día de la Independencia sea verdad- conforme sigan aumentando los suminis- Upor completo a Estados Unidos, eramente especial”. tros de la vacuna, ordenará a los estados el presidente Joe Biden utilizó su primer Biden conmemoró el primer aniversa- y territorios que todos los adultos sean discurso en horario estelar el jueves para rio de la llegada de una pandemia que ha elegibles para vacunarse antes del 1 de anunciar su plan de que todos los adultos cobrado más de 530,000 vidas en Estados mayo. Estados Unidos espera la entrega de sean elegibles a la vacuna para el 1 de mayo Unidos y ha alterado la vida de incontables dosis suficientes para esos 255 millones de y “comenzar a marcar nuestra indepen- personas. adultos a finales de ese mes, pero el proceso dencia de este virus” para el 4 de julio. Les “Aunque fue distinto para todos, todos El presidente Joe Biden habla acerca de la pandemia de aplicar dichas dosis tomará tiempo. ofreció a los estadounidenses nuevas espe- perdimos algo”, dijo Biden, al describir el de COVID-19 durante un discurso el jueves 11 de Biden dijo que su gobierno lanzará marzo de 2021 desde la Sala Este de la Casa Blanca, ranzas y volvió a pedirles su ayuda. último año como un “sufrimiento colec- en Washington. un sitio web que ayudará a las personas Desde la Sala Este de la Casa Blanca, tivo, un sacrificio colectivo”. a encontrar dosis, diciendo que con ello Biden anunció medidas para acelerar las Horas antes el jueves, el mandatario pro- brindan hasta 1,400 dólares en pagos evitará las frustraciones para que ya “no vacunaciones, incluyendo suspender los mulgó un paquete de apoyo por 1.9 bil- directos a la mayoría de las personas, y la tengan que pasar día y noche buscando requisitos de elegibilidad, desplegar 4,000 lones de dólares el cual, señaló, ayudará a extensión de la entrega de los subsidios de una cita”. tropas adicionales para colaborar con las que Estados Unidos derrote al coronavirus emergencia por desempleo de 300 dólares A pesar de que ofreció optimismo, el labores de inoculación, y permitir que más y a que la economía se recupere. Algunos semanales hasta principios de septiembre. mandatario dejó en claro que el plazo del personas — como veterinarios, dentistas estadounidenses podrían empezar a recibir El proyecto de ley también incluye la 4 de julio era únicamente para reuniones y estudiantes de medicina — apliquen las cheques este fin de semana. expansión de créditos fiscales durante pequeñas, y se requiere la cooperación vacunas. “Esta ley histórica es acerca de recon- el próximo año para los niños, cuidado de los estadounidenses para seguir con el Ordenó también el envío de más dosis struir la columna vertebral de este país”, infantil y licencia familiar —algunos de los uso de mascarillas, mantener la distancia a unos 950 centros de salud comunitarios dijo Biden al firmar el proyecto de ley en cuales los demócratas han dicho que les social y apegarse a las directrices federales y a unas 20,000 farmacias minoristas, para la Oficina Oval. gustaría que sean permanentes_, además para frenar la propagación del virus a corto facilitar que las personas se vacunen más Lo más destacado para muchos de fondos destinados a los inquilinos, plazo. También les pidió que se vacunen en cerca de su casa. estadounidenses son las cláusulas que a programas de alimentación y al pago cuanto sean elegibles. POLITICS Biden: Aim for every adult to be eligible for vaccination by May 1

WASHINGTON (AP) truly special.” said that as vaccine supplies continue to But he also cautioned that this was a increase, he will direct states and territo- ne year after the nation was “goal” and attaining it depends on people’s ries to make all adults eligible for vacci- brought to a near-standstill cooperation in following public health nation by May 1. The U.S. is expecting to Oby the coronavirus, President guidelines and rolling up their sleeves to have enough doses for those 255 million Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time get vaccinated as soon as eligible. Only adults by the end of that month, but Biden address to make all adults eligible for vac- that, he said, can bring about an end to warned the process of actually adminis- cines by May 1 and raised the possibility a pandemic that has killed more than tering those doses would take time, even of beginning to “mark our independence 530,000 Americans and disrupted the as his administration looks to instill con- lives of countless more. fidence in the safety of the vaccines to from this virus” by the Fourth of July. President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 He offered Americans fresh hope and “While it was different for everyone, we pandemic during a prime-time address from the overcome hesitance. appealed anew for their help. all lost something,” Biden said of the sac- East Room of the White House, Th ursday, March 11, “Let me be clear, that doesn’t mean Speaking in the White House East rifices of the yearlong-and-counting pan- 2021, in Washington. everyone’s going to have that shot imme- Room Thursday night, Biden honored the demic. Office. diately, but it means you’ll be able to get in “collective suffering” of Americans over The speech came just hours after Most noticeable to many Americans line beginning May 1,” he said. the past year in his 24-minute address and Biden signed into law a $1.9 trillion relief are provisions providing up to $1,400 Even as he offered optimism, Biden then offered them a vision for a return to package that he said will help defeat the in direct payments and extending $300 made clear that the July 4 timetable a modicum of normalcy this summer. virus, nurse the economy back to health weekly emergency unemployment ben- applied only to smaller gatherings, not “We are bound together by the loss and and deliver direct aid to Americans strug- efits into early September. Also included larger ones, and requires cooperation the pain of the days that have gone by,” he gling to make ends meet. are expanded tax credits over the next from Americans to continue to wear said. “We are also bound together by the Some cash distributions could begin year for children, child care and family face coverings, maintain social distanc- hope and the possibilities in the days in arriving in the bank accounts of Ameri- leave — some of them credits that Dem- ing and follow federal guidelines meant front of us.” cans this weekend. ocrats have signaled they’d like to make to slow the spread of the virus in the near He predicted Americans could safely “This historic legislation is about permanent — plus spending for renters, term. He also called on them roll up their gather at least in small groups for July rebuilding the backbone of this country,” food programs and people’s utility bills. sleeves to get vaccinated as soon as they’re Fourth to “make this Independence Day Biden said as he signed the bill in the Oval In his Thursday night address, Biden eligible.

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