Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 4:23 PM, for 9h 22m 57s of daytime. The moon is new with none of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand one hundred thirteenth day.
On this day in 1838, the territorial legislature assembles in Madison for the first time.
Whitewater’s Community Involvement & Cable TV Commission meets at 5:00 PM, and Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 5:30 PM.
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Catherine Rampell writes There’s no other way to explain Trump’s immigration policy. It’s just bigotry:
It was never about protecting the border, rule of law or the U.S. economy. And it was never about “illegal” immigration, for that matter.
Trump’s anti-immigrant bigotry was always just anti-immigrant bigotry.
There’s no other way to explain the Trump administration’s latest onslaught against foreigners of all kinds, regardless of their potential economic contributions, our own international commitments or any given immigrant’s propensity to follow the law. Trump’s rhetoric may focus on “illegals,” but recent data releases suggest this administration has been blocking off every available avenue for legal immigration, too.
Last month, the number of refugees admitted to the United States hit zero. That’s the first month on record this has ever happened, according to data going back nearly three decades from both the State Department and World Relief, a faith-based resettlement organization.
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The Trump administration’s own research — which it attempted to suppress — found that refugees are a net positive for the U.S. economy and government budgets. That is, over the course of a decade, refugees pay more in taxes than they receive in public benefits.
The Associated Press reports WADA panel recommends neutral status for Russia at Olympics:
The WADA compliance review committee proposed a four-year ban on Russia hosting major events but stopped short of asking for the blanket ban on Russian athletes that is among the possible sanctions for the most egregious violations.
The WADA executive committee will rule on the recommendations Dec. 9.
The proposal follows a lengthy investigation into lab data handed over by Russia in January. Giving the data to WADA was part of a deal to lift a suspension of the Russian anti-doping agency, and the data was supposed to be used to expose past cover-ups of drug use by Russian athletes.
But in a damning admission, WADA said the Russians were tampering with the data as late as January 2019 — days before they handed over the data that had originally been due on Dec. 31, 2018.
Among the alterations, WADA says, was the planting of evidence in an attempt to implicate the lab’s former director, Grigory Rodchenkov. The planted evidence claimed Rodchenkov, who blew the whistle on the Russian doping plot, did so as part of a scheme to extort money from athletes.