Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:36 PM, for 15h 20m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the nine hundred fifty-second day.
The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1812, Pres. Madison signs a Congressional declaration of war against Great Britain.
Recommended for reading in full:
Caitlin Dickerson reports The Youngest Child Separated From His Family at the Border Was 4 Months Old (‘Baby Constantin spent five months of his first year in a foster home. His family got a painful look at America’s experiment with family separation as an immigration policy’):
Constantin was ultimately the youngest of thousands of children taken from their parents under a policy that was meant to deter families hoping to immigrate to the United States. It began nearly a year before the administration would acknowledge it publicly in May 2018, and the total number of those affected is still unknown. The government still has not told the Mutus why their son was taken from them, and officials from the Department of Homeland Security declined to comment for this story.
In Constantin’s case, it would be months before his parents saw him again. Before then, his father would be sent for psychiatric evaluation in a Texas immigration detention center because he couldn’t stop crying; his mother would be hospitalized with hypertension from stress. Constantin would become attached to a middle-class American family, having spent the majority of his life in their tri-level house on a tree-lined street in rural Michigan, and then be sent home.
Now more than a year and a half old, the baby still can’t walk on his own, and has not spoken.
Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti report Trump vows mass immigration arrests, removals of ‘millions of illegal aliens’ starting next week:
President Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests starting “next week,” an apparent reference to a plan in preparation for months that aims to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. cities.
“Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States,” Trump wrote, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “They will be removed as fast as they come in.”
Large-scale ICE enforcement operations are typically kept secret to avoid tipping off targets. In 2018, Trump and other senior officials threatened the mayor of Oakland, Calif., with criminal prosecution for alerting city residents that immigration raids were in the works.
Trump and his senior immigration adviser, Stephen Miller, have been prodding Homeland Security officials to arrest and remove thousands of family members whose deportation orders were expedited by the Justice Department this year as part of a plan known as the “rocket docket.”
(Trumpism is a bigoted authoritarianism, and its goal is a herrenvolk state.)