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David Ortiz flown to Boston after being shot in a bar

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Eliezer Salvador, who was at the scene, said the gunman said nothing, just fired once. Salvador then drove a wounded Ortiz to the hospital, telling reporters they had a brief conversation in the car as he urged the baseball great to stay calm and breathe.

“Do you have any problems with anyone?” Salvador recalled asking him, to which Ortiz replied: “No, my brother, I’ve never wronged anyone.”

Salvador held up Ortiz’s bloody belongings for reporters, along with some of his jewelry. He also apologized for hitting several cars while rushing to the hospital: “That wrongdoing was justified.”

…“He is resting,” the elder Ortiz said. “Big Papi will be around for a long time.”

He added that he is pleased with the medical attention Ortiz has received but that he will be transferred to Boston so he can be with his wife and the Red Sox medical team.

…“In 2013, when we needed David Ortiz the most, he was there for us,” Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy said Monday. “Our focus is on his health and on getting him back here for treatment.”

David Ortiz flown to Boston after being shot in a bar | fox8.com

Yes, Mr Salvador, I think you are right. It was.

#papistrong

US announces new travel restrictions on Cuba, banning cruise ships

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The Trump administration announced plans to further restrict travel to Cuba in April, when White House national security adviser John Bolton said the Treasury Department would “implement further regulatory changes to restrict non-family travel to Cuba.”

…The State Department announced that “going forward, the United States will prohibit US travelers from going to Cuba under the previous ‘group people-to-people educational’ travel authorization. In addition, the United States will no longer permit visits to Cuba via passenger and recreational vessels, including cruise ships and yachts, and private and corporate aircraft.”

…Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who reopened the Cuban embassy in Washington in 2015, called the new restrictions “an attack on international law.”

US announces new travel restrictions on Cuba, banning cruise ships – CNNPolitics

Mexico had planned on most actions in border deal before Trump tariff threat

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Mexico had already promised to take many of the actions agreed to in Friday’s immigration deal with the US — months before President Donald Trump’s tariff threat, officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations.

…On Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Trump in a statement of having “undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world by recklessly threatening to impose tariffs on our close friend and neighbor to the south.”

Congress, she said, will hold the White House “accountable for its failures to address the humanitarian situation at our southern border.”

New York Times: Mexico had planned on most actions in border deal before Trump tariff threat – CNNPolitics

hmmmm

Border Patrol Kicked, Punched Migrant Children, Threatened Some With Sexual Abuse, ACLU Alleges

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Mitra Ebadolahi, ACLU Border Litigation Project staff attorney, said the allegations describe a law enforcement system “marked by brutality and lawlessness.” The organization also accused Border Protection officials of failing to “meaningfully investigate” the allegations detailed in the public records.

…“The misconduct demonstrated in these records is breathtaking, as is the government’s complete failure to hold officials who abuse their power accountable.”

Border Patrol Kicked, Punched Migrant Children, Threatened Some With Sexual Abuse, ACLU Alleges

This was existing culture before things were ramped up….

Extending ‘Zero Tolerance’ To People Who Help Migrants Along The Border : NPR

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[Warren] believes the government is violating his right to religious freedom by criminalizing his spiritual belief that mandates he help people in distress.

“For the government, it’s kind of been an expansion of the interpretation of what it means to harbor,” he suggested.

…Thousands have died of dehydration and exposure in the Arizona borderlands.

“It is life or death here. And a decision not to give somebody food or or water could lead to that person dying,” Warren said.

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…Under current law, once a migrant steps onto U.S. soil, he or she can request asylum. [But….]

Extending ‘Zero Tolerance’ To People Who Help Migrants Along The Border : NPR

sigh…

Cree leader Poundmaker is getting an apology from Trudeau.

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“The whole portrayal of what happened during the Northwest Resistance, or rebellion, was one in which the government painted First Nations as if they were supporters of Riel and the Métis,” Stonechild said. “The whole thing was just a total fabrication. And it’s been proven to be so.”

…The Cree weren’t the aggressors that day, Waiser said. “They were attacked and so they counter-attacked.” In fact, things would have been much worse for the Canadian had Poundmaker not intervened. “He was a peacemaker,” said Tootoosis. “He was a diplomat.”

…When the Cree arrived at Battleford, however, they found the town abandoned. The locals, ginned up by press reports of angry savages bent on slaughter, had all holed up in the fort, the Indian agent alongside them.

Poundmaker’s people, hungry from the journey and a lean winter, spent the day waiting around, hoping for a meeting. Eventually, Waiser said, they helped themselves to the food and stores in the abandoned homes.

…Otter had been ordered to Battleford to secure the fort and protect the locals. He arrived to find a local populace terrified and furious at what they viewed as a siege and near sacking of their town.

…Poundmaker, who was both victorious and merciful, was put on trial in a Canadian court, convicted and sentenced, along with two other chiefs, to three years in the Stony Mountain Penitentiary. It was a brutal place. All three men would die within months of their release.

Cree leader Poundmaker is getting an apology from Trudeau. But what really happened in 1885? | National Post

What happened? Enough for the Cree to be owed an apology and not anything that is implied in that headline…

Justice Neil Gorsuch Again Provides Decisive Vote In Native American Rights Case

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The court held that hunting rights for the Crow tribe under a 19th-century treaty did not expire when Wyoming became a state. 

…Gorsuch, who was a judge in Colorado and dealt with his share of Native American rights cases before joining the Supreme Court, also provided the fifth vote in another American Indian treaty case dealing with the “Yakama Tribe and its right under an 1855 treaty to travel the public roads without being taxed on the goods brought to the reservation.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch Again Provides Decisive Vote In Native American Rights Case : NPR

nice