Why one California city is giving $500 a month to Black families with a low income

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oakland-universal-basic-income-california-b1822017.html#16166245089922

The pilot programme does not use taxpayer funds, and is a partnership between Oakland, a coalition of ten cities trying UBI, the Family Independence Initiative, and the philanthropic group Blue Meridian Partners, which provided $6.7 million to support the programme.

The nearby county of Marin is set to launch a similar programme this week. San Francisco launched a programme in September giving pregnant Black and Pacific Islander women $1,000 a month during their pregnancies and six months after, and in December voted to launch a broader UBI pilot programme.

Pentagon approves request to house migrant children at two bases in Texas

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-pentagon/pentagon-approves-request-to-house-migrant-children-at-two-bases-in-texas-idUSKBN2BH017

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday that it had approved a request to house unaccompanied migrant children at two U.S. military facilities in Texas, amid a sharp rise in migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Just two months into office, President Joe Biden is struggling to get a handle on a burgeoning migration challenge along the U.S. border with Mexico - a problem the Democrat blamed on “the somewhat draconian” policies of his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, who left office with his border wall incomplete.

U.S. officials are battling to house and process an increasing number of unaccompanied children, many of whom have been stuck in jail-like border stations for days while they await placement in overwhelmed government-run shelters.

In a statement, the Pentagon said it had approved the request from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to temporarily house the children at Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland and Fort Bliss.

US Citizen Killed in Quintana Roo Had Ties to European Drug Groups

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2021/03/us-citizen-killed-in-quintana-roo-had.html

Two men were murdered in a gangland attack in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, early on Sunday morning. Both were driving in a neighborhood called Aldea-Kaan when sicarios pulled up on a motorcycle and shot at them from point-blank range.

A private security guard from the neighborhood who witnessed the shooting detailed that the driver tried to escape the shots, but was not successful in out-motoring the motorcyclist. The assassins then fled the scene and have not been arrested.

Investigators from the Quintanna Roo Attorney General's Office say that one of the victims was a US citizen with ties to European criminal groups. He was wanted in Ukraine for cocaine trafficking charges; his fugitive alert code was 305CH3.

The deceased were identified as Fernando Luis 'N' and Vitaly 'N'. Local media say Fernando Luis was a US citizen; Vitaly's citizenship may also be foreign, reports say.

Borderland Beat reported earlier this month that the aspiring mayor of Puerto Morelos for the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), Ignacio Sanchez Cordero, was murdered by sicarios inside a coffee shop.

Trump eyeing partnership with new app for social media network: report

https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/trump-eyeing-partnership-with-app-for-social-media-network-report/