buzzfeednews--2020-03-06--The Trump Administration Is Sending 160 Troops To The Border

The Trump administration is sending 160 active-duty personnel to the southern border in light of a recent court ruling preventing the government from making immigrants wait in Mexico .
Senior Customs and Border Protection officials said they are sending 80 soldiers to El Paso , Texas , and another 80 to San Diego to support officers at official border crossings there .
Officials also said they were sending soldiers there due to increasing coronavirus concerns .
On Friday of last week , the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the Trump administration 's “ Remain in Mexico ” policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the US border and forced them to wait in Mexico while their cases are completed , though later the same day it suspended its order .
In between the two court actions immigrants presented themselves at official border crossings , sometimes in large groups , to ask the border officials to take them out of the policy officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols ( MPP ) following the initial ruling .
In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez , CBP responded by shutting down a port of entry and officers temporarily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Texas .
`` Immediately upon that decision from the 9th Circuit enjoining MPP we had large groups of mass that causes instant port closures and disruption of port operations and therefore we have to have a prepared response in the event that that decision comes down again or any clarifying court decision that could disrupt port entry operations , '' a senior CBP official said .
`` CBP ports of entry are not designed or equipped to handle extremely large groups of travelers arriving at the same time . ''
Earlier this week @ @ @ @ @ @ @ block the Trump administration 's “ Remain in Mexico ” policy , saying it was `` causing extreme and irreversible harm . ''
The policy is in place across the entire border .
However , the 9th Circuit stayed its injunction against the policy , allowing it to continue until March 11 pending a possible review by the Supreme Court .
If the Supreme Court does n't take up the administration 's appeal , the 9th Circuit 's injunction will take effect March 12 , but only in California and Arizona where the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were sending soldiers to Texas , despite the ruling not affecting the state , because they were worried large groups of immigrants would try to force their way into the US .
On Friday , when the same appeals court said MPP was n't legal , a group of roughly 150 asylum-seekers gathered on the Ciudad Juárez side of the Paso Del Norte Bridge , which connects to El Paso .
CBP shut down the bridge in response .
Officials said they are also sending active-duty personnel to San Diego because of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were referring to the time a caravan of immigrants tried to enter the US in 2018 and were repelled by tear gas fired by Border Patrol into Mexico to stop them .
The group of 160 will be made up of military police , engineers , and personnel providing aviation support .
They will not be enforcing immigration laws , officials said .
The soldiers are expected to be in place no later than Saturday .

The Trump administration is sending 160 active-duty personnel to the southern border in light of a recent court ruling preventing the government from making immigrants wait in Mexico.
Senior Customs and Border Protection officials said they are sending 80 soldiers to El Paso, Texas, and another 80 to San Diego to support officers at official border crossings there. Officials also said they were sending soldiers there due to increasing coronavirus concerns.
On Friday of last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the Trump administration's “Remain in Mexico” policy, has sent back nearly 60,000 immigrants from the US border and forced them to wait in Mexico while their cases are completed, though later the same day it suspended its order.
In between the two court actions immigrants presented themselves at official border crossings, sometimes in large groups, to ask the border officials to take them out of the policy officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) following the initial ruling. In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, CBP responded by shutting down a port of entry and officers temporarily shut down a bridge in Brownsville, Texas.
"Immediately upon that decision from the 9th Circuit enjoining MPP we had large groups of mass that causes instant port closures and disruption of port operations and therefore we have to have a prepared response in the event that that decision comes down again or any clarifying court decision that could disrupt port entry operations," a senior CBP official said. "CBP ports of entry are not designed or equipped to handle extremely large groups of travelers arriving at the same time."
Earlier this week, the 9th Circuit said it would block the Trump administration's “Remain in Mexico” policy, saying it was "causing extreme and irreversible harm." The policy is in place across the entire border.
However, the 9th Circuit stayed its injunction against the policy, allowing it to continue until March 11 pending a possible review by the Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court doesn't take up the administration's appeal, the 9th Circuit's injunction will take effect March 12, but only in California and Arizona where the court has jurisdiction.
CBP officials said they were sending soldiers to Texas, despite the ruling not affecting the state, because they were worried large groups of immigrants would try to force their way into the US. On Friday, when the same appeals court said MPP wasn't legal, a group of roughly 150 asylum-seekers gathered on the Ciudad Juárez side of the Paso Del Norte Bridge, which connects to El Paso. CBP shut down the bridge in response.
Officials said they are also sending active-duty personnel to San Diego because of the "history" there. They were referring to the time a caravan of immigrants tried to enter the US in 2018 and were repelled by tear gas fired by Border Patrol into Mexico to stop them.
The group of 160 will be made up of military police, engineers, and personnel providing aviation support. They will not be enforcing immigration laws, officials said. The soldiers are expected to be in place no later than Saturday.


buzzfeednews--2020-03-06--An Employee At Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan’s Charitable Organization Has Tested Positive For

An Employee At Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan’s Charitable Organization Has Tested Positive For Coronavirus

An employee at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — the charitable organization of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife , Priscilla Chan — has tested positive for coronavirus .
The organization has suggested the rest of its 400 employees at its Redwood City , California , headquarters work from home .
Neither Chan nor Zuckerberg had been in the office when the employee was on site recently , according to a CZI spokesperson .
“ All employees have been notified , including those who were in close contact with the person , ” said the spokesperson .
“ We will continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with public health protocols .
All CZI employees are being encouraged to work from home until March 23.
” A CZI spokesperson previously told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that an employee had been in contact with a relative who had been diagnosed with the virus .
That employee has now contracted the virus and is now receiving treatment .
Across the world , there have been more than 98,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 , the disease caused by the new coronavirus , as of Thursday evening .
More than 3,300 people have died @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases and deaths have occurred in China , but cases across the world have been increasing , with about 230 reported in the US as of Thursday evening .
Over the same period in the Bay Area , there have been 42 confirmed cases , though it 's unclear if the case at CZI is included in that count or not .
At least two have been reported in San Mateo County .
CZI invests and funds causes supported by the Facebook founder and his partner in fields of health , education , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some 400 employees at its San Francisco Bay Area headquarters .
Endowed with billions of dollars ' worth of Facebook shares , CZI has awarded about $ 1.6 billion in grants and made $ 110 million in venture investments since its founding in 2015 .
Focused on finding technological solutions to the world ’ s problems , the limited liability company has also funded ballot measures and companies and in 2016 pledged $ 3 billion to a program to “ cure , manage , or prevent all disease by the year 2100.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that a Facebook contractor in the company ’ s Seattle office had been diagnosed with coronavirus .
Following that diagnosis , Facebook shut down two of its four offices in the Seattle area for cleaning , according to the Times .

An employee at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — the charitable organization of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan — has tested positive for coronavirus.
The organization has suggested the rest of its 400 employees at its Redwood City, California, headquarters work from home. Neither Chan nor Zuckerberg had been in the office when the employee was on site recently, according to a CZI spokesperson.
“All employees have been notified, including those who were in close contact with the person,” said the spokesperson. “We will continue to take all necessary steps in line with public health protocols. All CZI employees are being encouraged to work from home until March 23.”
A CZI spokesperson previously told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that an employee had been in contact with a relative who had been diagnosed with the virus. That employee has now contracted the virus and is now receiving treatment.
Across the world, there have been more than 98,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, as of Thursday evening. More than 3,300 people have died from it. The vast majority of cases and deaths have occurred in China, but cases across the world have been increasing, with about 230 reported in the US as of Thursday evening.
Over the same period in the Bay Area, there have been 42 confirmed cases, though it's unclear if the case at CZI is included in that count or not. At least two have been reported in San Mateo County.
CZI invests and funds causes supported by the Facebook founder and his partner in fields of health, education, science, and energy, and has some 400 employees at its San Francisco Bay Area headquarters.
Endowed with billions of dollars' worth of Facebook shares, CZI has awarded about $1.6 billion in grants and made $110 million in venture investments since its founding in 2015. Focused on finding technological solutions to the world’s problems, the limited liability company has also funded ballot measures and companies and in 2016 pledged $3 billion to a program to “cure, manage, or prevent all disease by the year 2100.”
On Thursday the New York Times reported that a Facebook contractor in the company’s Seattle office had been diagnosed with coronavirus. Following that diagnosis, Facebook shut down two of its four offices in the Seattle area for cleaning, according to the Times.


buzzfeednews--2020-03-06--The Peace Corps Botched Its Evacuation From China At The Height Of The Coronavirus Outbreak, Volunte

The Peace Corps Botched Its Evacuation From China At The Height Of The Coronavirus Outbreak, Volunteers Say

But instead of flying them to the US and asking them to self-quarantine according to CDC guidelines , the Peace Corps bought plane tickets to Thailand to house them together in a hotel in Bangkok , a decision questioned by one public health expert .
When the Trump administration suddenly pulled the plug on the China program a week later , some of them returned home without a quarantine , while others stayed in Thailand for two weeks , broke and jobless .
On Jan. 28 , weeks after the coronavirus outbreak was first announced by Chinese state health officials @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from China , where about half of the program ’ s volunteers , around 60 to 70 people , were still in the country during the Lunar New Year season .
“ Our intention is to consolidate in Bangkok to allow us time to further assess the situation in the next few weeks and if the situation improves , we will return to China , ” Sonny Luu of the Peace Corps China program emailed in the “ consolidation ” order to the volunteers that initially pulled them out of China .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hosts they were leaving until Peace Corps had contacted them directly .
At the time , there were 6,000 coronavirus cases in China , mostly clustered in the city of Wuhan .
Just a week before , China had begun travel restrictions on the city of 11 million people .
In what would soon become the biggest quarantine in human history , China expanded its restrictions daily so that by Jan. 30 , roads in 10 provinces , trains in 16 provinces , and bus routes in parts of 28 provinces were blocked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the order requiring all volunteers to get to airports in various cities for a flight to Bangkok , the volunteers — located in numerous provinces outside of Wuhan — had to break the travel orders in order to escape , they said .
“ Volunteers had to rush to escape these cities with nothing but the clothes on their backs , to not be trapped , ” volunteer Christopher Shirley , who had been based in the city of Chengdu , told BuzzFeed News .
Checkpoints were set up around the city , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ checks at every metro stop .
“ To get to our flight I also had to break several laws to get to the airport as , at the time , restrictions on movement had become more intense , ” Shirley said , noting that he had to bribe an official at a traffic stop in order to be allowed to cross .
“ I had to take three volunteers into my school because their towns restricted travel to and from their respective stations — my school barely allowed them in , ” volunteer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ email .
Volunteers had not received pay for five weeks because of the Lunar holiday and the outbreak , leaving many stretched for funds to get to airports and meet flights arranged by the Peace Corps .
In a statement sent to BuzzFeed News , the Peace Corps said only that they informed the CDC of the evacuation , and did not respond to further questions .
None of the volunteers were from Hubei Province , the hardest hit in the outbreak , with 2,931 deaths as of Friday .
By Feb. 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made it to a Bangkok hotel used by the Peace Corps ’ Thailand program , where they learned President Donald Trump had abruptly shut down the China program and they wouldn ’ t be able to return to the country .
( Originally the plan had been to close the program in a year and a half , a decision announced earlier in January , reportedly under pressure from Sens .
Rick Scott and Marco Rubio of Florida . )
“ It ’ s really not ideal to pack people coming from an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Boston University global health expert David Hamer told BuzzFeed News .
However , since the volunteers were n't from Hubei and the outbreak was still gearing up , the risk of an outbreak among volunteers was likely low .
“ Evacuations are often messy.
” In Thailand , the volunteers were given a perfunctory medical checkup with no virus screen , issued a medical card from the Peace Corps to hand to a medical screener at airports , and told to vacate the hotel as they were no longer in the Peace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ headed home to the US , effectively bypassing travel restrictions in place at the time to China .
Rivera , who is looking for a job in Washington , DC , headed home , while others , like Shirley , stayed in voluntary self-quarantine in Thailand for 14 days .
“ I handed the card to the CDC screener at Newark airport , ” Rivera said .
“ He hadn ’ t heard of it , but he looked it over and then let me through.
” None of the volunteers contacted by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Those who were outside China when the evacuation order came described the consolidation effort as easy , because of a lack of travel restrictions .
However , the sudden cancellation of the program was a blow .
“ These communities that we were placed into became our homes , ” volunteer Taylor Knoedl told BuzzFeed News .

“Our intention is to consolidate in Bangkok to allow us time to further assess the situation in the next few weeks and if the situation improves, we will return to China,” Sonny Luu of the Peace Corps China program emailed in the “consolidation” order to the volunteers that initially pulled them out of China. The volunteers were told not to tell their hosts they were leaving until Peace Corps had contacted them directly.
At the time, there were 6,000 coronavirus cases in China, mostly clustered in the city of Wuhan. Just a week before, China had begun travel restrictions on the city of 11 million people. In what would soon become the biggest quarantine in human history, China expanded its restrictions daily so that by Jan. 30, roads in 10 provinces, trains in 16 provinces, and bus routes in parts of 28 provinces were blocked.
When the Peace Corps sent out the order requiring all volunteers to get to airports in various cities for a flight to Bangkok, the volunteers — located in numerous provinces outside of Wuhan — had to break the travel orders in order to escape, they said.
“Volunteers had to rush to escape these cities with nothing but the clothes on their backs, to not be trapped,” volunteer Christopher Shirley, who had been based in the city of Chengdu, told BuzzFeed News. Checkpoints were set up around the city, and ride-sharing was banned, with health checks at every metro stop. “To get to our flight I also had to break several laws to get to the airport as, at the time, restrictions on movement had become more intense,” Shirley said, noting that he had to bribe an official at a traffic stop in order to be allowed to cross.
“I had to take three volunteers into my school because their towns restricted travel to and from their respective stations — my school barely allowed them in,” volunteer Cameron Rivera, told BuzzFeed News by email. Volunteers had not received pay for five weeks because of the Lunar holiday and the outbreak, leaving many stretched for funds to get to airports and meet flights arranged by the Peace Corps.
In a statement sent to BuzzFeed News, the Peace Corps said only that they informed the CDC of the evacuation, and did not respond to further questions. None of the volunteers were from Hubei Province, the hardest hit in the outbreak, with 2,931 deaths as of Friday.
By Feb. 5, the 139 China volunteers had all made it to a Bangkok hotel used by the Peace Corps’ Thailand program, where they learned President Donald Trump had abruptly shut down the China program and they wouldn’t be able to return to the country. (Originally the plan had been to close the program in a year and a half, a decision announced earlier in January, reportedly under pressure from Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio of Florida.)
“It’s really not ideal to pack people coming from an outbreak region into a single place,” Boston University global health expert David Hamer told BuzzFeed News. However, since the volunteers weren't from Hubei and the outbreak was still gearing up, the risk of an outbreak among volunteers was likely low. “Evacuations are often messy.”
In Thailand, the volunteers were given a perfunctory medical checkup with no virus screen, issued a medical card from the Peace Corps to hand to a medical screener at airports, and told to vacate the hotel as they were no longer in the Peace Corps. A handful of the volunteers headed home to the US, effectively bypassing travel restrictions in place at the time to China.
Rivera, who is looking for a job in Washington, DC, headed home, while others, like Shirley, stayed in voluntary self-quarantine in Thailand for 14 days.
“I handed the card to the CDC screener at Newark airport,” Rivera said. “He hadn’t heard of it, but he looked it over and then let me through.”
None of the volunteers contacted by BuzzFeed News described having any coronavirus symptoms. Those who were outside China when the evacuation order came described the consolidation effort as easy, because of a lack of travel restrictions. However, the sudden cancellation of the program was a blow.
“These communities that we were placed into became our homes,” volunteer Taylor Knoedl told BuzzFeed News.


buzzfeednews--2020-03-06--What Should We Replace Handshakes With In An Era Of Coronavirus?

The humble handshake has taken a big hit to its reputation as the novel coronavirus has spread around the world @ @ @ @ @ their citizens that on top of washing their hands frequently , they should avoid unnecessary @ @ @ @ @ greeting for millions .
It 's not just handshakes that are out .
France 's @ @ @ @ @ should avoid the double-cheek kisses that his country is known for .
And in Italy @ @ @ @ @ commissioner for the coronavirus sympathized with how difficult it would be to cut back on @ @ @ @ @ world is a very big place and there are plenty of No-Contact Greetings to choose @ @ @ @ @ together a sample of them and want to know which you think should replace the @ @ @ @ @ :

The humble handshake has taken a big hit to its reputation as the novel coronavirus has spread around the world. Governments are now warning their citizens that on top of washing their hands frequently, they should avoid unnecessary contact — including the customary greeting for millions.
It's not just handshakes that are out. France's health minister has said people should avoid the double-cheek kisses that his country is known for. And in Italy, the government's special commissioner for the coronavirus sympathized with how difficult it would be to cut back on contact.
Luckily, the world is a very big place and there are plenty of No-Contact Greetings to choose from. We've put together a sample of them and want to know which you think should replace the handshake in these trying times: