people who signed this are asking for, after his time speno detained at irwin, what they were asking president biden to do was to shut down that facility in irwin county, georgia. technically the signatories on this letter are asking for all i.c.e. facilities across the r country to be shut down, but they specifically talk about the facility that mr. nelson barahona was at. the facility where detainees fashioned masks out of food containers while covid was spreading rampantly. the facility where dozens of women were allegedly sterilizedi against their will and where the trump administration started rapidly deporting them once they came forward as witnesses in an open criminal investigation inti those forced sterilization claims. well, like nurse dawn wooten said, if there is not a change, there is not going to be a an change. again, we started covering that story in september. we have been watching it and all these different developments ts over these months. today there was a change.s
a big one. today, under the biden administration, the department of homeland security announced they are closing the i.c.e. facility in irwin county, georgia, along with a separate i.c.e. facility in massachusetts that faced its own allegations of abusive treatment toward immigrants.ve secretary of homeland security i alejandro mayorkas told i.c.e. today to stop detaining immigrants in the irwin county facility, quote, as soon as possible., and there s one other very important piece of news here. i mentioned we have not heard re beep about that criminal investigation into what happened at irwin. dozens of allegations of forced gynecological procedures, force sterilizations on women detained there without their consent.at the trump administration trying to deport those women in the middle of an active criminal investigation.ry as i mentioned, it has been radio silence on that investigation since the fall. well, nbc news did some digging on that part of it today, and ne here is what they
A local treasure
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16th December 2020
Summer evening sunshine greets the Galway Bay Sailing Club fleet as they welcome home the Transatlantic-voyaging ketch Danu (at centre) at Kilronan in the Aran Islands at the end of July 2020
Credit: Vera Quinlan
Galway Bay Sailing Club, comfortably ensconced in their fine clubhouse at Renville New Harbour near Oranmore at the head of Galway Bay, can look back at many ups and downs during the fifty years of sailing development they ve experienced from small beginnings in the city in 1970, until now they re one of the pre-eminent clubs on the West Coast in all areas of sailing.
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