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Houston (AFP) - A "large group of migrants" crossing into the United States from Mexico broke through razor wire Thursday and rushed the border wall, the border patrol said, the latest episode in a simmering national immigration crisis. Illegal immigration is a hugely contentious topic in the United States, and an issue already figuring prominently in the campaign for the November presidential election. Republicans blame President Joe Biden for the recent record flow of migrants, while the White House accuses Republicans of deliberately sabotaging a bipartisan attempt to find a solution. Greg ...
AFP
Justiz-Krimi um ein neues Einwanderungsgesetz für den US-Bundesstaat Texas: Wenige Stunden nachdem der Oberste Gerichtshof der USA dem umstrittenen Gesetz grünes Licht gegeben hatte, ist es von einem Berufungsgericht vorerst wieder auf Eis gelegt worden. Dies berichteten US-Medien. Das Gesetz soll texanischen Behörden weitreichende Befugnisse an der Grenze zu Mexiko geben, die sonst Bundesbehörden vorbehalten sind. Irreguläre Migration in die USA soll damit auf Ebene des Bundesstaats kriminalisiert werden. Kritikern zufolge verstößt das Gesetz gegen die Menschenrechte. Auch das Justizministeri...
DPA (German)
A man who attracted a large following and inspired millions with the story of his life in an iron lung has died at 78. Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his life, built a big following on social media and inspired people around the globe with his positive outlook. Alexander died Monday at the age of 78 at a Dallas hospital, said longtime friend Daniel Spinks. He explained that Alexander had recently been hospitalised after being diagnosed with CO...
Euronews (English)
Daniel Spinks, viejo amigo de Alexander, señaló que murió el lunes en un hospital de Dallas. Contrajo polio en su infanciay la enfermedad le dejó paralizado desde el cuello hacia abajo. Desde entonces superó las expectativas de vida con una determinación que su entorno ha descrito como inspiradora. Spinks llamó a su amigo "una de las estrellas más brillantes del mundo". Los amigos de Alexander, que se graduó en la facultad de Derecho y desarrolló una carrera como abogado, dicen que era un hombre que mostraba una gran alegría por la vida. Alexander tenía 6 años cuando comenzó a usar un pulmón d...
Euronews (Spanish)
Houston (AFP) - A US power company admitted Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the largest wildfire in Texas' history. Xcel -- the parent of Southwest Public Service Company, which provides electricity to part of the state -- said it was working with officials investigating the cause of the blaze that charred more than a million acres (over 400,000 hectares). "Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire," the company said. Hundreds of homes are thought to have been dest...
AFP
Houston (AFP) - Gusty weekend winds were threatening to worsen a million-acre wildfire that has already killed two people in the southern US, as a monster blizzard engulfed California's mountains Friday. Fires are burning across northern Texas and neighboring Oklahoma, fueled by an unseasonably warm winter and ferocious winds. After a slight dousing of rain that brought limited reprieve to firefighters on Thursday as they sought to get a handle on the out-of-control blazes, danger was forecast for Saturday. "Critical fire weather conditions are expected to return midday Saturday and once again...
AFP
Bei den Waldbränden im Nordwesten des US-Bundesstaates Texas sind mindestens zwei Menschen getötet worden. Eine Frau sei in ihrem Haus im Bezirk Hemphill nahe dem Ort Canadian tot aufgefunden worden, berichtete der US-Sender CNN unter Berufung auf einen Sprecher der Behörde für Öffentliche Sicherheit. Zudem vernichteten die Flammen auch am Donnerstag weiter Häuser und Tiere in der Region, die etwa 550 Kilometer nordwestlich der Großstadt Dallas liegt und wegen ihrer geografischen Form auch Panhandle («Pfannenstiel») genannt wird. Mehr als 85 Prozent der in Texas gezüchteten Rinder würden dort ...
DPA (German)
Houston (AFP) - Texas emergency crews were struggling Thursday to contain the largest wildfire in the US state's history, with the blaze leaving at least one person dead and scorching a million acres as it raged out of control. The Texas A&M Forest Service said six major fires, fueled by winter heat and ferocious winds, were actively burning, five of them across the state's northern area known as the Texas panhandle. The largest, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, started on Monday, grew to a record 1,075,000 acres (435,000 hectares) in size, and was just three percent contained, the forest service sa...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a Texas law that would allow state police to arrest and deport migrants who cross illegally into the United States from Mexico. The administration of Democratic President Joe Biden had sued to halt the law known as Senate Bill 4 (SB 4), which had been scheduled to take effect next week. US District Court Judge David Ezra issued a preliminary injunction preventing it from going into force, citing previous court rulings that "states may not exercise immigration enforcement power except as authorized by the federal government." "S...
AFP
Houston (États-Unis) (AFP) - L'Etat américain du Texas continue jeudi à lutter contre le plus grand incendie de forêt de son histoire, qui a fait au moins un mort et ravagé plus de 430.000 hectares. Le feu progresse dans le nord de cet Etat plus grand que la France, commençant même à grignoter des terres dans l'Oklahoma, sans que les pompiers parviennent à contenir la catastrophe. Selon l'Office des forêts du Texas, pas moins de cinq grands foyers actifs distincts sont à déplorer dont le principal, baptisé "Smokehouse Creek", a tué une femme de 83 ans, dont la maison est partie en fumée. Les p...
AFP (Français)
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