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The Home Secretary said the UK is absolutely about to enter a glorious new era. Brexit transition rules will end in December allowing the country to finally take back control. Ms Patel told the Daily Express: January 1 is going to be one of those totemic moments in the history of this country, a landmark moment.

We are ending free movement. We are a government thats all about delivery.

The points-based system is just the first step to big immigration changes, changes to border control.

Ms Patel said the government is boosting economic investment in all parts of the UK.

We want to get Britain moving again but we actually want to get Britain motoring, she said.

We want to see the renaissance of our regions, we want to level up.

We have levers to do all that so this is just the start.

Ms Patel was speaking during a visit to Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, to meet local police on the first anniversary of being made Home Secretary.

The Cabinet minister said the Conservatives are unapologetically the party of law and order.

We have a first-class working relationship with the police, she said. I am absolutely shoulder to shoulder with them.

We dont stand behind them, we stand beside them. It is a journey for both of us in terms of the support we give and my commitment to them, but also through resourcing.

Ms Patel revealed 90,000 people have applied to be police officers since last October and the government is well ahead of its police recruitment targets.

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Police forces have received that largest uplift in funding in a decade at 1.1 billion.

That is moving the needle on law enforcement, Ms Patel said. We love the police, we respect the police, we are here for the police, we are the party of law and order.

Ms Patel, who visited the Blue Glove Boxing Academy, a gym for emergency services personnel, hailed police officers for their exceptional service during the coronavirus crisis.

She said there had been a spirit of national unity during the COVID lockdown and the police have been at the forefront of it.

Police have warned they will not be able to carry out widespread enforcement of new rules coming into force on Friday ordering the public to wear facemasks in shops.

Ms Patel said she did not believe that heavy-handed tactics would be necessary because people have been very conscientious about following the rules.

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She insisted enforcement is always a last resort.

People will apply their common sense, she said. We dont need police officers to go round in a pernicious way to act in an enforcement way.

The Home Secretary said she did not expect there to be widespread flouting of the rules over the summer, despite recent problems such as overcrowding on Bournemouth beach.

She said people have had pent up frustrations in the last few weeks after lockdown.

She added: Thats inevitable. Thats human instinct.

But she insisted Britons are sensible people.

Ms Patel said she has used her first year to empower and equip police officers, including making stop and search easier.

Although some campaigners claim the measures leave young black boys and men disproportionately targeted, Ms Patel insisted it is not a divisive tactic.

She said: Ive spent plenty of hours, too many sadly, with parents that have lost their children to street violence. The parents have said to me repeatedly we need more stop and search.

Officers have been actively using stop and search even during the COVID crisis over concerns about weapons on the streets, she said.

When it comes to saving lives, we should be unapologetic, Ms Patel added. If we are saving lives then these are the types of measures we should be using.

Ms Patel said tackling knife crime is a priority and told how machetes half my height are being pulled off the street.

We need to stop that, she said.

Hard cash is going into police forces in a targeted way to keep the public safe.

Crime is coming down, she said. We are serious about getting violent crime down.

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No ice, no polar bears, and no hockey. Climate change will take them right before making us go extinct. Backyard ice hockey rinks in US cities back in the 1940s, gave 60 days of suitable ice. Today, it is less that 20 days a year. The question is, what effect is this having on polar bears? Dr. Stephen Amstrup joins Thom Hartmann to talk about how carbon emissions are affecting the climate and how they are going to kill the polar bears.

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And the clock is ticking: A court has already ordered the administration to start accepting new applications for the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that protects immigrants who came to the country illegally as children.

The result is that few people, if any, know what will happen. Administration officials are telling different things to different people involved in immigration policy. And staffers are going back and forth internally with just over 100 days from the election.

Whiplash is how Karen Tumlin, an attorney involved in one of the cases that the Supreme Court ruled on last month, summed it up.

Any action he takes is a political minefield. The Trump campaign wants to energize immigration hardliners in the presidents base who say DACA represents egregious executive overreach before the November election. But it also wants to win over the swing voters, evangelicals and Hispanics who support Dreamers.

Trump moved to end the program in 2017, offering a six-month wind-down period designed to give Congress time to pass legislation to make the program permanent. But lawmakers never acted and in June, the Supreme Court rejected Trump's action on relatively narrow grounds, leaving the door open for him to try to kill it again.

Trump initially acknowledged that he lost the Supreme Court case and said he would try to kill the program a second time by writing another memorandum rescinding DACA that would start the lengthy process.

He later appeared to change his mind, saying a different legal interpretation of the case actually gave him more authority to act unilaterally on immigration and other issues.

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He then confused even his own staffers when he appeared to not distinguish between executive and legislative actions, using the words executive order and bill interchangeably, and announcing on television that he would sign an immigration bill, though Congress had not passed one.

In the meantime, Trumps staffers have been crafting separate executive orders on immigration, health care and taxes after an outside lawyer counseled the president that the Supreme Courts DACA decision actually handed him more executive power despite a loss in the case.

The immigration order could be amended to offer protections for a more limited number of Dreamers, according to three people familiar with the discussions. But such a move risks backlash after Trump spent years arguing President Barack Obama acted illegally when he pushed through his own order to offer Dreamers legal protections in 2012.

Mara Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of the Latino political organization Voto Latino, who has spoken to the White House about DACA, said Trump is trying to end the program while appearing like hes trying to fix it as a way to appease Hispanics, independents and evangelicals.

He wants the headline to read hes trying to fix DACA, she said. What he's trying to do is neutralize the opposition.

Trumps politically risky position is arguably one he created himself by embarking on seemingly contradictory actions cracking down on immigrants but insisting he will treat Dreamers with compassion.

Trump made immigration the centerpiece of his 2016 campaign, promising to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico, deport millions of migrants who arrived in the country illegally and terminate DACA, which provides renewable work permits to 700,000 Dreamers. But once in office, he often spoke of his great heart and great love for the Dreamers.

As he runs for office a second time, Trump once again talks tough on immigration while his political advisers try to slice into Democrats advantage with Hispanic voters. His campaign has created an advisory board and a coalition focusing on recruiting volunteers, collecting data and fundraising. Campaign aides say Trumps hardline immigration policies appeal to Hispanic Americans, like all Americans, because they are worried about safety but they say little about Dreamers.

Meanwhile, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who was vice president when DACA was created, has vowed to reinstate the program, calling Trumps decision to end the program cruel and counterproductive.

A Trump campaign official blamed Obama for acting unconstitutionally by creating DACA and Democrats for stonewalling administration offers.

President Trump has repeatedly offered to find a bipartisan solution to protect Dreamers, but said it had to be done while securing our borders and fixing our immigration system, the official said, though it was Trump who actually ended up rejecting a bipartisan deal.

The White House and Department of Homeland Security did not respond to questions.

Activists and lawmakers on both sides of the issue have lobbied the White House for weeks. Immigration advocacy groups, prominent evangelical leaders and major companies have all urged him to to keep the program until Congress passes legislation.

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has been in touch with the White House, said he hopes Trump plans to follow through on his pledge to end the program but understands that he may be playing politics to throw his opponents off balance. The president seems to be trying to send intentionally conflicting signals, he said.

But Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, a group working to protect Dreamers, said Trump will only hurt himself and Republicans in November if he continues to side with the few people who want Dreamers deported just 12 percent, according to a recent POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

The president, who is currently in open defiance of the Supreme Court, can either stop siding with those 12 percent by trying to end DACA, or continue his effort to harm DACA recipients and further crush his partys political chances this fall, he said.

Trump immediately said he would try to end the program again using a different explanation for killing DACA that would pass legal muster. They want us to refile if we want to win, he said in an interview with Fox News. So, I'm going to refile, and it's going to work out for DACA.

The paperwork to start the lengthy process has been widely expected for weeks but never came. Some administration officials said they were not able to file without first receiving a document from the Supreme Court, though immigration lawyers say that was not necessary. That order was filed Monday.

And the delay in paperwork doesnt explain why the administration didnt immediately start processing new applications. A Maryland court ordered the administration to do that and set a hearing Friday on the issue. If it fails to start accepting applications, the administration could be held in contempt, facing possible fines or other sanctions.

"From the Supreme Court down, the courts have made it clear: DACA stands, and now its doors are open to new Dreamers to apply, said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led the multistate coalition at the Supreme Court on DACA.

Even as he planned to scrap the program, Trump insisted he would protect Dreamers as part of a broader immigration deal with Democrats. But more than half a dozen congressional offices involved in DACA discussions in the past, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosis office, say they have not heard from the White House.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said in a statement she hasnt heard from the White House on immigration but urged her colleagues to protect Dreamers. I have long supported a path to citizenship for Dreamers, she said. Congress should take up legislation so that these young people can stop living in fear.

Earlier this year, Jared Kushner, the presidents son-in-law and senior adviser, had floated including protections for Dreamers as part of a broader immigration package, POLITICO reported in June. But administration aides knew a deal was unlikely and planned to use the lack of one to blame Democrats for being unwilling to come to the table, hoping the message would help the president appeal to Hispanic voters.

Finding a legislative solution is next to impossible for a divided Congress during an election year that has been dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats, already suspicious of any deals with Trump, have said they want to wait and see if their party wins back the White House and Senate in November before they proceed.

House Democrats have passed a bill that would provide legal status and eventual citizenship to 2.3 million Dreamers, including DACA recipients. But the Senate, which needs 60 votes to pass legislation, has ignored it.

In late June, Trump began to consider a different strategy altogether after reading a pair of op-eds by a former aide to President George W. Bush attorney, who said the Supreme Courts DACA ruling actually gave the president more power than he realized.

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John Yoo, who wrote the legal opinions that supported an expansion of presidential power after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, said that because the Supreme Court never said Obama was wrong to establish DACA it paved the way for another president to also act unilaterally. A president can reverse a predecessors decision, but the process is lengthy and could take years, he said.

The Supreme Court gave the president of the United States powers that nobody thought the president had, by approving, by doing what they did their decision on DACA, Trump said on Fox News Sunday. But the decision by the Supreme Court on DACA allows me to do things on immigration, on health care, on other things that we've never done before.

Leon Fresco, an immigration attorney who handled immigration issues at the Department of Justice under Obama, agrees that because the Supreme Court did not invalidate the program altogether it leaves the door open for Trump to determine by executive order how he wants to treat the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.

The White House is working on an executive order modeled after a bill pushed by Kushner that failed to garner support on Capitol Hill to give priority to high-skilled, well-educated immigrants over those who want to enter the U.S. based on circumstances involving their family or native country, according to two White House officials. Some have suggested a narrow DACA-like proposal could be added to the order.

The longer Trump waits to respond to the Supreme Court on DACA, the more his efforts to end DACA will hang around his neck like an anvil weighing him down with voters he and Republican senators need this fall, said Douglas Rivlin, director of communications for Americas Voice, an advocacy group. One could argue that defying the Supreme Court would be to his advantage if the American people were with him on DACA, but they arent.

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By Carmyn Polk Tuesday, July 28, 2020YWCA Cambridges building on Temple Street is shaded by Temple Place, 40 affordable units developed with a Cambridge Housing Authority affiliate. (Photo: Marc Levy)

Since 1891, the YWCA Cambridge has been paving the way toward eliminating racism and empowering women. As we move into the next decade, it is only proper to provide an overview of the successes and triumphs over the past decade, with contributions reached far and wide. Year after year, each of these accomplishments has supported the mission to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

2010: The YWCA Cambridge Rehabilitation Project begins. Renovations aimed to provide residents with the best accommodations possible by updating residential units, ensuring that each unit was fully furnished with new desks, beds, side tables, chairs, large dressers, energy-efficient refrigerators and air conditioners. It also helped 12 residents secure permanent housing and three to get home base rental assistance. Additionally, TD Bank awarded $10,000 to expand programming geared toward the mission of the organization, such as a leadership camp at the Marshfield branch where young women learned from experts on topics such as finance, law and health care.

2011: Cambridge YWCA was one of three recipients of state grants aimed at improving affordable housing in Cambridge, getting $3.9 million the largest award of the $9.5 million program. This grant supported the continuous improvement of precious affordable homes.

2012: YWCA Cambridge celebrated the 20th anniversary of its flagship fundraising event, Tribute to Outstanding Women. This event supports the work of the organization while highlighting the accomplishments of female leaders in the community. The Tribute has also been a time to recognize outstanding young adults, such as Cambridge Rindge and Latin School students and community leaders.

2013: The organization held a Marshfield summer camp that served more than 325 kids with activities including arts and crafts, archery, swimming lessons and hikes along nature trails. YWCA Cambridge has remained a prominent part of the community by remaining a meeting place for community engagement opportunities.

2014: Women throughout the Cambridge area were able to find a home for their artwork in the lobby of the Cambridge YWCA; the organization also highlighted women authors by hosting talks with them at the Marshfield and main locations with interested and diverse audiences. In conjunction with this community programming, the YWCA Cambridge Family Shelter housed 17 women and their 21 children throughout the year. With the organizations support, five families were able to find permanent housing.

2015: With the support and advocacy of family shelter staff, eight residents among the 14 mothers with 17 children housed this year moved into permanent independent residences, two got their GEDs, seven found full-time work, four began part-time work and one graduated from a medical assistant program. In addition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health student Anvita Kulkarni promoted better health with women living in a YWCA housing facility, hearing their experiences and bringing a voice to the need for assisted living and support for women and families across Cambridge.

2016: The Girls Only Leadership Development Program nearly doubled to 39 yearlong participants. In addition, the organization welcomed Darakshan Raja, co-director of the Washington, D.C., Peace Center, as the keynote speaker for the annual Stand Against Racism program. In collaboration with Transition House and Cambridge College, Cambridge YWCA sponsored a symposium on nonprofit community service for 25 African professionals from the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Initiative.

2017: Board members, staff and friends of the organization marched in the Womens March Boston in support of legislation and policies supporting womens rights, human rights, LGBTQ+ rights, racial equality, health care and immigration reform and many other efforts. In this year alone, 257 participated in racial and social justice events. In addition, YWCA Cambridge kept its doors open to grassroots organizations geared toward equality and racial justice, such as the Cambridge Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinities, Black Lives Matter Cambridge, Anti-Racist Collaborative and Cambridge African American Heritage Alliance.

2018: In partnership with the citys Department of Human Services, the family shelter moved into a historic mansion transformed into short-term housing for homeless families. The new space provided a more homelike atmosphere to families in need. In addition, the organization had a voice at the 2018 Womens March in Cambridge through executive director Eva Martin Blythe, who spoke during the march.

2019: The YWCA Cambridge joined the Roe Act Coalition, which is committed to passing legislation to protect and expand access to abortion in Massachusetts, and the Menstrual Act Coalition, which exists to pursue equity, act for justice and build intersectional feminism in the state. As a central hub for the Cambridge community, YWCA Cambridge also was granted funding from Cambridge in Motion to provide free summer yoga to the Cambridge community. More than 160 events were provided, from meditation to support groups. In addition, there was a two-part salary negotiation series for women presented in partnership with the state Office of Economic Empowerment.

Only a few of the many accomplishments for each year of the past decade are highlighted here. The YWCA Cambridge has started out the new decade committed to continuously increasing its impact, programming and access to those that need it most. While in the past month the desire for knowledge about racism and systemic oppression has become more apparent, the accomplishments and efforts of YWCA Cambridge have always been at the forefront of fighting to eliminate racism and empower women, and the groundbreaking work will continue.

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As some undergraduates prepare to return to the Upper Valley in September, the College has compiled a committee of students to help administrators understand student concerns.

Students have expressed frustration over the lack of student representation in College decision-making since COVID-19 first threatened in-person learning. For example, the Dartmouth Student Union a newly formed student advocacy group has called for students to have a seat at the table since mid-March.

Nearly two terms later, the Dean of the College Student Advisory Board, a group of 12 student leaders from organizations across campus nominated by College staff, will help Dean of the College Kathryn Lively and other administrators balance safety with social life as students officially return for the first time since March.

Since the big decisions have been made and most of these logistical challenges have happened, Lively said, now is the time to invite more people into the conversation.

Board member Miles Battle 21 said he feels it's an opportunity to tell administrators what students are seeing on the ground and hearing discussed among friends.

Student Advisory Board gets started

On Monday, the board had its second meeting. Members of the group said theyre still in the introduction and priority-setting phases, but Lively hopes they can soon dive into what she calls cultural messaging figuring out how to ensure that students on campus during the fall term dont tank the ship by violating protocol.

Lively said that two years ago, when Hanover issued restrictions on the Homecoming bonfire, student leaders from undergraduate advisors to the football team were highly influential in making sure students adhered to the new norms. Bonfires have been successful since, with no attempts by students to touch the fire.

Two years later, COVID-19 presents the same issues ensuring that students follow College and town safety regulations.

The board members were nominated by Student Affairs staff associate deans, graduate deans and directors and then handpicked by Lively and associate dean for student life Eric Ramsey, Lively explained. They aimed to find student leaders who had a wide swath of interests across organizations. She also said her staff sought students with experience working with administration or other school officials, who understand institutional constraints and are well-networked.

Members of the committee include representatives from Palaeopitus, Student Assembly, the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault and the Greek Leadership Council.

Lively, who is not the final decision-maker on COVID-19 policies, will cull information from the meetings and bring it forward to Provost Joseph Helble and other administrators, she said. She added that her job is to represent the student perspective to the senior administrators, and to run Student Affairs.

Students on the board will also discuss social life during the pandemic, Lively said.

Me and my staff, we could come up with all kinds of social events, but theyre going to be so much better if students do them, Lively said.

Down the line, she said theyll discuss budgetary changes due to COVID-19. In addition to the student board, Lively said a new faculty committee on priorities is also working with academic deans to deal with the Colleges coronavirus budget fallout.

Abigail Johnson 23, a member of the board, said that the group is focused on what the fall is going to look like from social distancing guidelines to which campus facilities will be open and who will have access to them.

Johnson, the secretary of the Dartmouth Outing Club as well as a member of the club cycling team and Glee Club, also said the group will look at Dartmouths response to the Black Lives Matter movement and discuss how to build a more anti-racist campus. Battle noted that the group is racially diverse.

Battle explained that the meetings are dual-ledby both students and Lively.

Lively said she will give students insight into how decisions are made and what the stakes and challenges are, and then students can share suggestions and concerns.

A late answer to a call for student voices

In a letter to administrators and the student body in March, members of the Dartmouth Student Union called for the formation of a student liaison committee. They wanted a group of students to sit on the COVID-19 task force, DSU co-founder Olivia Audsley 21 said.

That was our biggest goal, so that student groups don't have to be just reacting to College policy during the pandemic; they can be actively a part of shaping it, she said.

Audsley said Lively was not interested in a student committee at the time.

When it comes to major decisions like whether or not a term will be taught online, Lively said, Students cant make those decisions.

She said everyone, including students, are more focused on what they want in the current moment rather than the big picture.

Its an institution. It's the second biggest employer in the Upper Valley. We have relationships with the town that we have to maintain. We have to keep in mind that there is one hospital for the entire region. We have to keep in mind that there are [several] nursing homes in the Upper Valley, Lively said.

Audsley said the board is a step in the right direction, but that it isnt as high up in the decision-making process as DSU had originally hoped for.

Lively has continued to meet regularly with student groups from Palaeopitus and Student Assembly to international student groups and the Dartmouth Student Union throughout the last few months. She said its her job to listen to and advocate for students.

Over the summer, though, many of these groups have changed leadership, so Lively said she has been having table-setting meetings, exchanging introductions and priorities.

Students can also voice their frustrations through their elected Student Assembly members. Student Assembly compiles lists of questions to consolidate and send to the administration. Following the footsteps of previous Student Assembly administrations, current Student Assembly president Cait McGovern 21 and vice president Jonathan Briffault 21 have collected questions through an online form twice in response to the 2020-2021 academic year plan, and for questions regarding the shipping and storing process.

Students call for communication, transparency

When it comes to the new board, some students are critical of the way it was assembled.

Audsley said the board is made up of students representing organizations who already get a decent amount of airtime with the administration.

She said organizations like Palaeopitus and Student Assembly, who have members on the committee, already have routine meetings with Lively. Meanwhile, voices from student activist circles, like members of Divest Dartmouth, the Coalition for Immigration Reform and Equality at Dartmouth or Sunrise Dartmouth, are missing.

Co-moderator of Palaeopitus Marina Cepeda 21 said its difficult to believe the board will be able to represent the full student body when members were chosen by nomination rather than through an election.

I am a part of [Palaeopitus], and I am in circles of privilege where I do have that direct pipeline, Cepeda said, but I don't think it should be up to one person which student is worthy enough to speak to [the] administration.

Battle, who is on the football team and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the Greek Life Council, Shabazz, the Afro-American Society and Palaeopitus, said Lively has emphasized that the students on the board are there to provide another set of student voices, not to represent the entire student body.

Dean Lively has made it very evident that her goal isn't for us to represent everybody else, but more so represent ourselves, he said.

Ian Scott 24, who is already working with the Dartmouth Student Union, said he hopes the administration will be more transparent about decision-making going forward.

He said his class is really in search of guidance, because there is not going to be a single, all-clarifying message, and it is really overwhelming to take in all this information.

One concrete step hed like to see? A transcript or meeting notes from the new board.

Audsley seconds his request. I hope it's not a closed door thing, she said.

Lively said she is currently in the midst of a negotiation with students on the board about what can and cant be shared.

McGovern said that Cornell University has been a model in transparency, releasing detailed reports from their COVID-19 committees.

Weve been very clear with the College that the decision-making process needs to be explained clearly to students, McGovern said. I hope that for decisions moving forward this information will be given to students to help us understand the logic behind certain decisions.

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