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Anti-immigrant law motivated by xenophobia and racism makes Kansas less welcoming – Kansas Reflector
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On Feb. 22, HB 2717 was launched within the Kansas Home of Representatives. By April 11, the invoice grew to become legislation. In 70 days, the state of Kansas was in a position to endanger and alienate immigrants, their households, mates and allies by embracing white supremacist ideologies like xenophobia and racism.
Worry is one hell of a motivator, particularly throughout election season.
I’ve adopted HB 2717 since its introduction for a number of causes. I questioned If Trump-era racist and xenophobic propaganda would metastasize and infect native authorities in Kansas. Which state senators would help anti-immigrant laws? What native legislation enforcement companies would signal as much as take part in federally sanctioned racial profiling?
The laws retains municipalities from enacting, implementing or imposing ordinances, resolutions, guidelines or insurance policies that prohibit or limit legislation enforcement officers, native officers and native authorities workers from taking motion with regard to a person’s citizenship or immigration standing, lawful or illegal.
Any native authorities worker can share your info with any native, state or federal official. In the event that they query your immigration standing, they will talk with the Division of Homeland Safety.
The Kansas Legislative Analysis Division summarized HB 2717, stating: “The invoice makes the usage of racial or different biased-based policing for the enforcement of federal immigration legislation and communications with federal companies illegal.” Adopted by: “The invoice makes use of present legislation to outline ‘racial or different biased-based policing’ because the unreasonable use of race, ethnicity, nationwide origin, gender, or faith by a legislation enforcement officer in deciding to provoke an enforcement motion.”
What do they contemplate unreasonable? Who decides what is affordable?
The sort of policing shouldn’t be thought of racial profiling when a person’s figuring out elements like race, ethnicity, and nationwide origin are mixed to provoke an enforcement motion. As a Brown, Hispanic, second-generation immigrant residing in Kansas, I really feel much less welcomed now, realizing I’m being profiled for added elements.
The sort of policing shouldn’t be thought of racial profiling when a person’s figuring out elements like race, ethnicity, and nationwide origin are mixed to provoke an enforcement motion. As a Brown, Hispanic, second-generation immigrant residing in Kansas, I really feel much less welcomed now, realizing I’m being profiled for added elements.
This invoice is being cheered on by far-right politicians and hate teams. Organizations just like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) use the misnomer “anti-sanctuary state laws” to debate HB 2717, however it’s actually anti-immigration legislation. The Southern Poverty Legislation Middle (SPLC) has labeled FAIR a hate group.
In keeping with the SPLC, FAIR’s leaders have ties to white supremacist teams and eugenics. Their present govt director, Dan Stein, can also be on the board of administrators for Immigration Reform Legislation Institute (IRLI).
If you weren’t conscious, former Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach served as authorized counsel for IRLI. The institute made nationwide headlines when former investigative affiliate Ian M. Smith resigned as a DHS coverage analyst after The Atlantic obtained and shared emails tying Smith to white nationalists in 2018.
FAIR members held positions in former president Donald Trump’s administration. These people are former FAIR govt director Julie Kirchner and former FAIR authorities relations director Robert Legislation. Legislation co-authored FAIR’s coverage report Immigration Priorities for the 2017 Presidential Transition.
This report advocates, in a bit titled “Prison Aliens and Inside Enforcement,” that “DHS should restore and absolutely fund 287(g) agreements, notably ‘job power’ mannequin agreements,” and “DHS should permit ICE brokers to query any alien they’ve affordable suspicion to imagine is within the nation unlawfully, no matter circumstance.”
Part 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act permits the Division of Homeland Safety to enter into agreements with state and native enforcement companies. In these agreements, state and native legislation enforcement companies are deputized to carry out sure features of federal immigration brokers.
All of that is carried out beneath the supervision of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Giving ICE supervision over officers in state and native legislation enforcement companies is problematic. The final two ICE administrators have attended anti-immigrant occasions led by hate teams. Ronald Vitiello, former performing director of ICE, attended a FAIR media occasion in 2018 in Washington, D.C. This month, it was reported by the Day by day Beast that Trump-appointed, former ICE Director Tom Homan attended an occasion referred to within the article as a “Nazi convention.”
The present performing ICE director, Tae Johnson, can also be a Trump appointee. Underneath Trump’s administration, 9 people served as performing director of ICE, and none have been confirmed by the senate. Present Biden nominee Ed Gonzales has not been confirmed and will not be, as he faces home abuse accusations.
Each the Finney County’s Sheriff Workplace and the Jackson County’s Sheriff’s Workplace have agreements with DHS. Extra deputized ICE brokers are coming. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse and Shawnee County Sheriff Brian Hill went to D.C. in September of 2019 to debate border safety and “different sizzling subjects.” They weren’t the one Kansas sheriffs in Washington, D.C. Sheriff David Groves of Cherokee County and Sheriff Andrew Dedeke of Leavenworth County have been additionally there.
I foresee extra native legislation enforcement companies signing as much as work with ICE. They are going to make Kansas much less welcoming, one metropolis or county at a time. For a state actively recruiting individuals and companies to maneuver right here, I discover this contradictory.
Passing anti-immigrant laws perpetuates the false narrative that Kansas has an immigration drawback. We don’t have an immigration drawback. We’ve got a xenophobia and racism drawback.
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Tulane Football’s Path to Victory Must Exploit Inexperienced Kansas State
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The stage is set for Tulane football’s highly anticipated Week 2 matchup against the Kansas State Wildcats as they seek to become contenders on a national stage.
Intriguingly, the Green Wave and the Wildcats have some parallels on offense. Kansas State kicks off the season Saturday against FCS opponent UT-Martin, much like Tulane opened against Southeastern Louisiana.
Sophomore quarterback Avery Johnson will make his first regular season start, much like redshirt freshman Darian Mensah led Tulane to their 52-0 victory Thursday night. Johnson did appear in eight games as a true freshman and started for the team in the Pop-Tarts Bowl, beating North Carolina State.
However, he did so behind an offensive line that looks nothing like the one that will take the field next Saturday at Yulman Stadium. The Wildcats must replace four of five starters, including third-round draft pick Cooper Beebe. Just as Tulane had to find Vincent Murphy to take over for Sincere Haynesworth.
Though the group of returners isn’t exactly inexperienced, they don’t have any time playing together in concert. The lone starter remaining is right guard Hadley Panzer, who likely is starting this season at left guard. Presumed starting left tackle Easton Kilty is making his first FBS start.
It helps that Kansas State’s offensive line coach, Conor Riley, was promoted to coordinator. He has pieces to work with that have credible game snaps. The challenge is whether they can come together as a unit.
While Avery Johnson has more experience than Darian Mensah, Mensah benefits from a much more stable offensive line. Tulane returned both starting guards and right tackle and brought in key transfers to fill the remaining holes. In their season debut, they gave Mensah time in the pocket, but the run blocking left much to be desired.
Tulane brought in transfers on the defensive line to bolster their pass rush. They got to the quarterback twice with two sacks last Thursday, but the Bandit role was a point of concern. Their three-man front is spaced to spread out their top playmakers, Adin Huntington at defensive end and Patrick Jenkins at tackle.
With Huntington to the field and Jenkins to the boundary, it forces defenses to either focus attention on one side of the line or just shut down the best two players. That awards a lot of one-on-one opportunities for the rusher at Bandit. The players who rotated in the first game didn’t make much of a case.
Terrell Allen didn’t make any standout plays, nor did Matthew Fobbs-White, though the latter showed some disruptive abilities off the line of scrimmage. Frankly, Shi’Keem Laister was the most productive in a packaged role. Laister had a hurry and forced Southeastern to throw quickly, leading to incompletions on the drive.
Tulane doesn’t need the Bandit to be the hero, but they need a player to step up and credibly command attention to open up lanes for Huntington, who only recorded one hurry in his debut for the team.
Importantly, the team likely didn’t show their cards on the ways they might get to the quarterback. It might come from the second level. Linebacker Sam Howard had more pressure snaps than Fobbs-White and Allen, and he recorded a hurry and beat his blocker on another.
Could Tulane rely on blitzing and utilizing defensive backs and linebackers as rushers? Not all season. But creativity and confusion might just be enough to rattle the Wildcats as both teams race to figure out what the other is made of with merely one game of film.
The secondary came together as Tulane’s season opener went on, and should be a point of strength, but the best coverage is a pass rush. Especially with an opponent that has similar turnover and areas to exploit. For the Green Wave to pull off a victory on Sept. 7, the key lies in the lane to the quarterback.
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Lawmakers plan brazen power grab, pushing aside Kansas voters and Gov. Laura Kelly • Kansas Reflector
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Let’s be clear about what Kansas Republican legislative leaders are doing with their planned overhaul of budgeting: They are launching a personal and political power grab against Gov. Laura Kelly.
They have never accepted or respected her mandate. Despite Kelly winning a second term and having two years left to go, they have continually attempted to usurp the executive branch’s authority. They have tried a constitutional amendment and prohibiting her ability to negotiate Medicaid contracts. Now they’re going after her yearly state budget proposal.
Usually, the Legislature begins its yearly budget process with a proposal from the governor. Her office submits it when lawmakers arrive for the annual session, in January. Now an interim committee wants to start the process earlier, as soon as October of the previous year.
In this new process, the governor’s budget would be a suggestion, not a starting point.
And never mind that it’s a direct attack on Kelly. House Speaker Dan Hawkins, R-Wichita, assured the audience that these changes had nothing to do with the governor.
“This process has nothing to do with the governor,” he said at the meeting earlier this month, according to Kansas Reflector reporter Tim Carpenter. “If you’re going to focus on the governor, probably not the wisest thing to do, because this process has happened over time with many, many different governors.”
He was contradicted by Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover, who let the proverbial cat out of the figurative bag.
“You’ll have a Republican governor, for example, or somebody you trust, and you trust the administration to build the budgets, and then you kind of rubber stamp stuff,” Masterson said. “And, then, you switch, and you have (the) opposition party and then there’s all that same power.”
Oh. So it’s like that, then.
All of this might seem like so much partisan mud wrestling, except for the fact that the leaders have also decided to do an end run around Kansas voters.
Did you notice that the proposed new process could start as early as October? While details at the hearing were scarce, leaders appeared to suggest that they would start working on budget without knowing whether they would be elected. What happens if all the folks on the budget committee are voted out of office? Who takes the lead then?
Once again, we see Kansas legislative leaders trying to concentrate power. They don’t want the governor to even have the first say in the budgeting process, and they apparently don’t trust the rest of their colleagues. You know, all the people who drive to Topeka in January to actually make laws.
Sen. Carolyn McGinn, a Sedgwick Republican, raised concerns that these changes would also limit the ability of constituents to speak about budget priorities.
McGinn might have decided to retire, but she has a point. Leaders apparently don’t even trust their constituents when it comes to spending.
In there interest of fairness, I should note that the reform committee considered several worthwhile proposals. Rep. Troy Waymaster, R-Bunker Hill, discussed ending lawmakers’ de facto three-day work week. Yes, they usually take Mondays and Fridays off, at times slowing progress to a crawl. The panel also targeted budget earmarks for favored programs that don’t go through a regular committee process.
In the interest of perspective, however, I’m not falling over myself with gratitude. It’s obvious that legislators should work throughout the week, and it’s obvious they shouldn’t be larding up the budget with unvetted spending.
It’s like going through life without running over someone with your car. I mean, I’m glad that you didn’t, but surely you don’t deserve a plaque.
Lawmakers might still be able to make worthwhile changes to the budgeting process. They could start with increasing transparency, which Carpenter noted wasn’t discussed by members of either party. But until they stop jostling for partisan advantage and making themselves look foolish, don’t expect much.
Clay Wirestone is Kansas Reflector opinion editor. Through its opinion section, Kansas Reflector works to amplify the voices of people who are affected by public policies or excluded from public debate. Find information, including how to submit your own commentary, here.
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Kansas City Royals Provide Injury Update on Key Reliever
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After learning that they would lose first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino for the rest of the regular season (and possibly the entire postseason), the Kansas City Royals also provided an injury update on reliever Lucas Erceg.
Per Joel Goldberg of the Royals broadcast team:
Lucas Erceg is day to day. Has swelling and soreness in the hand and said he hopes to be back very soon. He’s understandably upset about the play last night. Most upset about the injury to Vinnie Pasquantino. Says his teammates, including Vinnie, supported and consoled him.
Lucas Erceg is day to day. Has swelling and soreness in the hand and said he hopes to be back very soon. He’s understandably upset about the play last night. Most upset about the injury to Vinnie Pasquantino. Says his teammates, including Vinnie, supported and consoled him.
— Joel Goldberg (@goldbergkc) August 30, 2024
Erceg and Pasquantino were injured on the same play Thursday in the loss to the Houston Astros. Erceg was hit by a batted ball, then threw the ball to first base. The throw took Pasquantino into the runner, which is where he suffered his injury.
Lucas Erceg and Vinnie Pasquantino both left the game with apparent injuries after this game-tying play in Houston
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— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) August 30, 2024
The 29-year-old Erceg was acquired in a trade deadline deal with the Oakland Athletics. He’s 2-5 this season with a 3.40 ERA. In 51 appearances, he’s struck out 57 batters.
The Royals enter play on Friday at 75-60 overall. They are 1.5 games back of the Cleveland Guardians in the American League Central and they currently hold the second wild card spot in the American League.
Kansas City hasn’t made the playoffs since 2015, which is the last year they won the World Series.
The Royals and Astros will play each other again on Friday night. It will be a battle of aces as Seth Lugo (Kansas City) pitches against veteran lefty Framber Valdez for Houston.
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