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Ki alegria, ora nan a bisa mi:
“Ban cas di Señor!”
I awor, ata mi aki para na bo porta Señor.
Salmo 122
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa
fayecimento di nos ser stima:
Sra. Jeanette Sukraj
*13-09-1939 - †06-02-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Cu profundo dolor na nos curason pero
conforme cu boluntad di Dios, nos ta anuncio
cu a bai sosega den brasa di Señor:
Josephine G. Letang
*01-03-1953 - †06-02-2022
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
obituario/u.s. news Diahuebs 10 Februari 2022
As state mask rules taper, pressure shifts to
school leaders
(AP) - As some of the last
statewide school mask man-
dates near an end, responsi-
bility is shifting back to lo-
cal leaders, who are caught
in the middle of one of the
most divisive issues of the
pandemic.
In the hours after Connecticut’s
governor announced its man-
date would end later this month,
the school superintendent in
Cheshire was peppered Mon-
day with messages from families
who feel masks are critical for
protecting students and others
who have long been opposed.
trict in New Haven’s suburbs the end of February or March,
The issue of masks in schools would not be mask-optional, as COVID-19’s omicron surge
has been so contentious in much based on metrics developed with fades. State leaders added Mas-
of the country that school board local health officials, including sachusetts to the list on Wednes-
meetings have devolved into vaccination and infection rates. day.
shouting matches and arrests,
superintendents have seen pro- Some school officials around The states are among a dozen
testers outside their homes, and the country welcomed the state- that have kept mask mandates in
slates of candidates — pro- and imposed mandates to spare them schools as others have dropped
anti-mask — have sought school from having to make unpopular them, according to the nonparti-
board seats in an attempt to decisions, especially early in the san National Academy for State
shape policies. pandemic. But many superin- Health Policy.
tendents say they now have the
“Unfortunately, this is an is- tools to decide whether masks The Centers for Disease Con-
sue where you are not going to should be required, and they trol and Prevention still recom-
make everybody happy,” Su- welcome the ability to adapt as mends masks for teachers and
perintendent Jeffrey Solan said. needed. staff inside buildings, leaving
“We can’t allow those individual district leaders to weigh the fed-
passions to decide the debate.” The governors of Connecticut, eral guidance against what they
Delaware, New Jersey and Or- have seen in their own schools
If the decision had to be made egon this week announced plans and heard from the parents and
right away, Solan said, his dis- to lift mandates in schools by teachers.
Working conditions for Border Patrol getting
more attention
(AP) — A strained Border core policies of his predecessor
Patrol is getting increased but has come under fire over the
attention from the Biden situation at the border that could
administration after tense cause trouble for Democrats in
meetings between senior of- the midterm elections.
ficials and the rank and file
while the agency deals with CBP encountered migrants
one of the largest spikes in from all over the world about
migration along the U.S.- 1.7 million times along the
Mexico border in decades. nus said Tuesday. U.S.-Mexico border last year.
The total, among the highest in
Department of Homeland Secu- “That’s something that agents in decades, is inflated by repeated
rity Secretary Alejandro Mayor- the field want to hear because as- apprehensions of people who
kas, who oversees the Border Pa- saults are on the uptick,” Magnus were turned away, without being
trol, laid out 19 ways to address told The Associated Press. “We given a chance to seek asylum,
working conditions after frosty are not just seeing folks who are under a public health order is-
receptions by agents, said Chris fleeing to the U.S. to get away sued at the start of the pandemic.
Magnus, the new commissioner from conditions. We are seeing
of Customs and Border Protec- smugglers, members of cartels, Immigration advocates have
tion. and drug organizations that are condemned the administra-
actively engaged in doing harm.” tion for not repealing the public
Mayorkas also pledged in a health order, known as Title 42,
memo to push for more pros- Efforts to deal with working while critics, including many
ecutions of people accused of conditions for agents come as Border Patrol agents, say a Biden
assaulting CBP personnel in the President Joe Biden has been policy of allowing children and
course of their duties, an issue criticized across the political families to stay in the country
raised at a recent meeting in Lar- spectrum over immigration. He and pursue asylum has encour-
edo, Texas, and elsewhere, Mag- has sought to reverse many hard- aged irregular migration.