+ wildfire smoke health risks US Edition - Today's top story: Title 42 didn't result in a surge of migration, after all â but border communities are still facing record-breaking migration [View in browser]( US Edition | 8 June 2023 [The Conversation]
[The Conversation]( Top headlines - [Atlanta sent a SWAT team to raid a bail fund nonprofit](
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- [Ambassador of bossa nova got little love from home]( Lead story This past week, a closed low-level prison down the street from my apartment in Manhattan found a new purpose â serving as a temporary rest stop for several hundred male migrants. The urgency of the ad hoc operation was evident. Police were scattered along the sidewalk, with construction workers hauling things in and out of the previously shuttered building. Dozens of men, presumably migrants, dressed casually, some in flip-flops, waited outside in small clusters, talking quietly and checking their phones. New York is far from the U.S.-Mexico border. But with the rising number of migrants â many of them asylum-seekers â coming to the U.S., an increasing number of communities are facing the challenging question of how to accommodate these newcomers. Scholars Lydia Renee Cleveland, Alexandra P. Leader and Erika Frydenlund examine this exact question in their research. In [todayâs top story](, they spotlight El Paso, a border town in Texas, and discuss the implications of migration into the U.S. trending upward. âAcross host communities, such simple matters as overflowing public trash cans and overcrowded public transportation can be a flashpoint for resentment â these can be visual cues to local communities that the migration response is not being well managed by the government,â they write. [[Sign up here to our topic-specific weekly emails.](] Amy Lieberman Politics + Society Editor
In an aerial image taken on May 12, 2023, a border wall and concertina wire barriers stand along the Rio Grande river between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, left, and El Paso, Texas. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
[Title 42 didnât result in a surge of migration, after all â but border communities are still facing record-breaking migration]( Lydia Renee Cleveland, Old Dominion University; Alexandra P Leader, Eastern Virginia Medical School; Erika Frydenlund, Old Dominion University When host communities unexpectedly receive large numbers of migrants, the influx can tax local services â and relations between migrants and residents. Politics + Society -
[Four strategies to make your neighborhood safer]( Ishita Chordia, University of Washington Crime is spiking and youâre scared. Here are strategies to get past the fear and diminish the threat of crime in your community. Environment + Energy -
[Republicansâ anti-ESG attack may be silencing insurers, but it isnât changing their pro-climate business decisions]( Rachel Kyte, Tufts University A âgreenhushingâ campaign is targeting insurers, who have the power to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy in how they write policies and invest. -
[Wildfire smoke can harm human health, even when the fire is hundreds of miles away â a toxicologist explains why]( Christopher T. Migliaccio, University of Montana Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities including New York, Detroit and Denver at one point with some of the worst air quality in the world â even far from the flames. -
[Will faster federal reviews speed up the clean energy shift? Two legal scholars explain what the National Environmental Policy Act does and doesnât do]( J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University; James Salzman, University of California, Los Angeles Do environmental reviews improve projects or delay them and drive up costs? Two legal scholars explain how the law works and how it could influence the ongoing transition to renewable energy. Health + Medicine -
[WHOâs recommendation against the use of artificial sweeteners for weight loss leaves many questions unanswered]( Lindsey Schier, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Scott Kanoski, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The WHO report concluded that habitual use of nonsugar sweeteners is linked to a modest increase in diabetes, hypertension and stroke. But the research itâs based on has limitations. Ethics + Religion -
[Oklahoma OKs the nationâs first religious charter school â but litigation is likely to follow]( Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton The schoolâs approval may be the strongest challenge yet to limits on public money in religious schools. -
[What is incorruptibility? A scholar of Catholic worship explains]( Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross People are congregating in Missouri after news spread that the exhumed body of a nun had not decayed four years after her death. There is a long history to these claims. Arts + Culture -
[Messi is heading to the US as Saudi Arabia kicks off bidding war with MLS for aging soccer stars]( Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan French soccer star Karim Benzema will join Ronaldo in the Saudi Pro League, and others may follow. -
[Astrud Gilberto spread bossa nova to a welcoming world â but got little love back in Brazil]( Mario Higa, Middlebury During the only major performance she gave in her home country, Gilberto was booed. Education -
[Cost and lack of majors are among the top reasons why students leave for-profit colleges]( Molly Ott, Arizona State University; Thomas Zimmerman, Rutgers University Students told researchers that the cost of going to a for-profit college changed over time and eventually became too much to bear. Economy + Business -
[Arrests of 3 members of an Atlanta charityâs board in a SWAT-team raid is highly unusual and could be unconstitutional]( Beth Gazley, Indiana University Georgia authorities have filed charges against Network for Strong Communities trustees. The nonprofit opposes the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which protesters call âCop City.â Trending on site -
[Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people]( -
[US, Chinese warshipsâ near miss in Taiwan Strait hints at ongoing troubled diplomatic waters, despite chatter about talks]( -
[âMan, the hunterâ? Archaeologistsâ assumptions about gender roles in past humans ignore an icky but potentially crucial part of original âpaleo dietâ]( Today's graphic [A bar graph showing the rankings of US peach producing states in 2022. The highest peach producing state is California, followed by South Carolina and then Georgia.]( From the story, [Peaches are a minor part of Georgiaâs economy, but theyâre central to its mythology]( -
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