The US proposes to put an immigration prison in Guantanamo. This is a bad thing to do, and not only for symbolic reasons. The reason Dubya put the torture center and prison there was to take advantage of a legal loophole which reduced the rights that prisoners could claim there.

The same will apply to any immigrants sent there.

We have already seen difficulty in making sure that all unauthorized immigrants get their legal rights even when imprisoned in the US itself. No immigration prison should be in Guantanamo.

Using private contractors to run an immigration prison is also wrong, for similar reasons.

New Zealand seems to be abandoning the effort to fully eradicate Covid-19.

The lockdown to end the current outbreak has gone on for many weeks, and yet it keeps trickling along. It appears that transmission occurs, just enough to defeat eradication, along routes that public health has been unable to identify.

If everyone got a Covid test every week, perhaps eradication would succeed.

US citizens: Phone your senators at 1-888-751-2787 and call on them to support the Make Polluters Pay act.

*House committee on Capitol attack subpoenas Trump’s ex-chief of staff and other top aides.*

*Low-lying nations implore faster action on climate at U.N.*