by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
and they weren’t allowed under the Biden administration. As one ICE agent described it:Immigration enforcement officials have long complained about countries that do not take their citizens back when the U.S. has determined they can be deported.
Some countries don’t take back any of their citizens. Others are selective, especially when it comes to people with criminal convictions or who’ve committed particularly egregious crimes. And according to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling, ICE cannot hold someone for more than six months if there is no reasonable chance to expect they can be sent back to their home country.Historically that has meant that immigration enforcement officials have had to release people into the U.S. that it wants to deport but can’t.To get around this problem, the Trump administration has leaned on other countries to accept people who are not their own citizens. The most high profile of these deals was announced in February by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a trip to El Salvador. That country has taken Venezuelans that the U.S. alleges are gang members and is holding them at a notorious prison.
Costa Rica and Panama have also taken citizens who are not their own although they were not imprisoned. Many of them have gone home or moved to third countries.Outside of those three Central American nations, the Trump administration has said it’s exploring other third countries for deportations. More recently there’s been indications the U.S. may be trying to send
The Trump administration is trying to strip protections from
admitted into the U.S. on a temporary basis during the Biden administration. This could eventually make those people subject to deportation.Following the 2010 tragedy, city officials, with help from public health and heat experts, devised an action plan to warn citizens when the heat is at dangerous levels and prepare city hospitals to respond rapidly to heat-related illness. The plan has been replicated across India and other parts of South Asia.
The last two years have been theand researchers hope their work can provide an additional line of defense for those who bear the brunt of increasing heat.
The Ahmedabad study is only one part of a global research project examining how heat is affecting poor, vulnerable communities in four cities across the world. Researchers also are measuring heat impacts using smartwatches and other devices in Africa’s Burkina Faso, the Pacific island of Niue near New Zealand and in the Sonoran desert region in Mexico.More than 1.1 billion people — about one-eighth of the world’s population — live in informal settlements and poor neighborhoods that are particularly vulnerable, said Aditi Bunker, environmental health researcher associated with the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Heidelberg University, Germany, who is leading the global project.