The Expiration of Title 42; ScholarCHIPs; A Judgy Traffic Light.

Title 42 is the code that commended migrants to expel the U.S. without asking for any asylum. It started during the Covid-19 circumstance, and the U.S. government lifted this code officially last Thursday. Up until the end of Title 42, there are 23,400 migrants in CBP - Customs and Border Protection - custody. Leading up to before Title 42 was lifted there were thousands of people at the Southern border in EL Paso. But the expiration of Title 42 didn't spark a historic wave of migrants. The U.S. estimated there would be a surge of migrants, but only 1,800 migrants were recorded at the spike. CNN interviewed a man running a network of shelters in EL Paso. He said there used to be a packed crowd throughout the alley, but there was no new one on the morning of the day Title 42 was lifted. In addition to that, there used to be a lot of tents and lean-tos there, but now the influx has dwindled.
In January, the U.S. CBP opened a massive tent processing that could hold 1,000 people at a time. And in Brownsville, there are dozens of buses near an intake facility. But, a major humanitarian organization said only one bus arrived.
But they don't think this situation will last. A man with his son was turned away from the U.S. because didn't make it to the border in time, so he said he would find another way to cross into the U.S. But Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, stated they were clear there were lawful and orderly ways to see relief in the U.S. He added if they attempted to cross into there illegally they would confront tougher consequences. For instance, some people were shackled and went on a repatriation flight.
Now, migrants are reassessing the border to cross into the U.S. and finding the next opportunity.
+) This woman, Yasmine Arrington, had an incarcerated dad. But she grew up an inspiring and uplifting woman. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, who was an advocate of education. She tried hard to find a scholarship for her granddaughter, but there wasn't any her daughter was eligible to take. After she took an entrepreneurship program she decided to help students who grew up under incarcerated parents. She could feel how stigmatized and marginalized they were. So she pitched this scholarship for them, ScholarCHIPs, with 1,000 dollars of seed grants. CHIP is an acronym for Children of Incarcerated Parents. They give college-bound students robust help with mental health by mentoring. The scholars could opt into being matched with mentors. When they find their scholars are struggling they cheer up and help them shape up with this sentence; "Lean into it and let it just wash over!"
+) Here's a judgy traffic light. Canada implemented this experiment in a suburban town in Montreal. When you get close to this traffic light, it checks if you drove under the speed limit. When you receive the green light you can get a pass. This machine even relays this record to the city for analysis.


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