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Sondeos revelan más pesimismo entre hispanos en EEUU y menor aprobación para Trump
Por FERNANDA FIGUEROA
Mientras el primer año del segundo mandato del presidente Donald Trump llega a su fin, dos nuevas encuestas del Pew Research Center encuentran que los adultos hispanos están cada vez más descontentos con la forma en que su administración está manejando la economía y la inmigración, temas que fueron clave para los votantes durante las elecciones del año pasado.
Las encuestas, realizadas en octubre y septiembre a más de 5.000 adultos hispanos en Estados Unidos, revelaron que un año después de que Trump erosionó la ventaja tradicional de los demócratas con los votantes latinos, la mayoría de los adultos hispanos se sienten peor acerca de su lugar en el país y es más probable que estén preocupados de que ellos o alguien cercano a ellos pueda ser deportado, en comparación con principios de este año.
Disminuye la aprobación de Trump
Aproximadamente dos tercios de los adultos hispanos en general desaprueban el enfoque de la administración Trump hacia la inmigración, mientras que el 61% dice que sus políticas económicas han empeorado las condiciones.
Los votantes hispanos se inclinaron hacia Trump en las elecciones de 2024, aunque la mayoría aún apoyó a la demócrata Kamala Harris. Según AP VoteCast, el 43% de los votantes hispanos a nivel nacional apoyaron a Trump, frente al 35% en las elecciones presidenciales de 2020, que perdió ante el demócrata Joe Biden.
La gran mayoría de los hispanos que informaron haber votado por Trump en 2024 (81%) aprueban el desempeño del presidente, comparado con 93% que tenía al inicio de su segundo mandato. Casi todos los votantes hispanos de Harris desaprueban el desempeño de Trump.
Los hallazgos de Pew reflejan una encuesta de octubre de The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, que encontró que el 25% de los adultos hispanos tienen una opinión “algo” o “muy” favorable de Trump, frente al 44% en una encuesta de AP-NORC realizada justo antes de que el republicano asumiera el cargo en enero.
El cambio en la opinión subraya cuán preocupados e insatisfechos se sienten muchos adultos hispanos. Aunque muchos votantes hispanos se sintieron motivados por preocupaciones económicas en las elecciones del año pasado, encuestas recientes indican que este grupo continúa sintiendo un mayor estrés financiero que los estadounidenses en general.
Los votantes hispanos representaron el 10% del electorado en 2024, según AP VoteCast, y el número de votantes hispanos elegibles ha crecido rápidamente en las últimas décadas.
Aumenta la ansiedad sobre el lugar de los hispanos en EEUU
Aproximadamente dos tercios de los adultos hispanos dicen que la situación para los hispanos en Estados Unidos es peor que hace un año. Eso es más alto que en 2019, durante el primer mandato de Trump, cuando el 39% pensaba que su situación en Estados Unidos había empeorado en el último año.
De manera similar, 8 de cada 10 adultos hispanos dicen que las políticas de Trump les perjudican más de lo que les ayudan. Estas opiniones son más negativas que en 2019, cuando 7 de cada 10 dijeron que las políticas de la primera administración de Trump eran más perjudiciales que beneficiosas para los hispanos.
Los hispanos que son demócratas o se inclinan hacia el Partido Demócrata piensan abrumadoramente que los hispanos en Estados Unidos están peor, como grupo, que hace un año, pero también lo piensan el 43% de los republicanos hispanos y los que se inclinan hacia el Partido Republicano.
Amplias preocupaciones sobre la represión migratoria
En los últimos meses, las comunidades hispanas han sido un objetivo de la mano dura del presidente contra la inmigración.
Hoy en día, el 44% de los adultos latinos son inmigrantes, sumando 21,1 millones, según un análisis que hizo el Pew de las estimaciones de la Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos con datos de la Encuesta de la Comunidad Estadounidense de 2024.
Ante el aumento de las redadas migratorias, el 52% de los adultos hispanos dicen que les preocupa “mucho” o “algo” que ellos, un familiar o un amigo cercano puedan ser deportados. Esto ha aumentado desde el 42% en marzo.
El duro entorno para los inmigrantes también ha afectado la forma en que algunos adultos hispanos viven su vida cotidiana: un 19% dice que han cambiado recientemente sus actividades diarias porque piensan que se les pedirá demostrar su estatus legal, y un 11% dicen que llevan documentos que prueban su ciudadanía o estatus migratorio con más frecuencia de lo que normalmente lo harían.
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La primera encuesta del Pew Research Center de 3.445 adultos en Estados Unidos, incluidos 629 hispanos, se realizó del 22 al 28 de septiembre de 2025 utilizando muestras extraídas del Panel de Tendencias Estadounidenses basado en probabilidad. La segunda encuesta a 8.046 adultos en Estados Unidos, incluidos 4.923 hispanos, se realizó del 6 al 16 de octubre utilizando muestras extraídas del Panel de Tendencias Estadounidenses basado en probabilidad y el Panel de Opinión SSRS.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Bolsonaro & Those Damn Indestructible Ankle Monitors
Bolsonaro & Those Damn Indestructible Ankle Monitors
The plot has again thickened, and got a bit weirder, in the arrest and trial saga of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison in September for an alleged coup attempt related to not accepting the results of the last presidential election.
We detailed Saturday that federal police rushed to his residence Saturday to take him out of house arrest, and initiated what’s being called a ‘preventative arrest’ – and he was whisked away to police headquarters in Brasilia. The arrest order issued from the country’s top court came hours after his ankle monitor was shown to be violated at 12:08am on Saturday. From there, authorities considered Bolsonaro a flight risk, explaining he is in close proximity to foreign embassies where he might try and gain asylum.
Bolsonaro was in court Monday for a full day of trial, part of what’s likely to be a lengthy appeals process, where he surprisingly confirmed that he did indeed tamper with the ankle monitor. His explanation got strange, telling the court that he suffered a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in his medication, after which was fearful of the device as it might be ‘wiretapped’.
Assistant judge Luciana Sorrentino said following a meeting with Bolsonaro where she inquired of the incident, “he had ‘hallucinations’ that there was some wire tap in the ankle monitoring, so he tried to uncover it.” Sorrentino described further of the conversation that Bolsonaro told her he “did not remember having a breakdown of this magnitude in another occasion” and that it could be linked to a change in medication, but he insisted there was no intention of trying to escape.
The former Brazilian leader “said he was with his daughter, his elder brother and an aide at his house and none of them saw what he was doing to the ankle monitoring,” according to a court document which has been made public. “He said he started to touch it late at night and stopped around midnight.”
Photos released by the court show the ankle monitor’s cap heavily damaged, after he reportedly at one point took a soldering iron to it. According to The New York Times:
At first, Mr. Bolsonaro told the police that he had banged his ankle monitor causing it to malfunction, according to a report from the capital region’s prison authority.
But when an agent on the scene asked about the burn marks on the device, Mr. Bolsonaro admitted using a soldering iron to try to melt it. In a video of the exchange released by the authorities, Mr. Bolsonaro can be heard apparently telling the agent that he had started torching the monitor hours earlier.
His legal team has since claimed that “Bolsonaro would have no way of escaping” as he is “an elderly man who suffers from serious health problems.
However, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has long been a political enemy (the US has even sanctioned him personally) as well as chief overseer of the case, described over the weekend, “He is located about 13 kilometers (8 miles) away from where the United States of America embassy lies, in a distance that can be covered in a 15-minute drive.”
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge that medicine-induced paranoia and hallucination caused him to tamper with an electronic ankle monitor, court records showed, a day after police took him into custody out of fear he might flee https://t.co/UDE85hVyXg pic.twitter.com/cmCan0ehnS
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 24, 2025
There’s also the fear that the Embassy of Argentina would be open to helping him find safe-haven. But his legal team has said that he must serve his prison sentence at home as his severe health problems “makes his safe stay in a prison environment impossible.” President Trump has long decried the case as a ‘witch hunt’ while the Lula government has condemned Washington’s ‘interference’ in the internal affair.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/24/2025 – 19:40
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bolsonaro-those-damn-indestructible-ankle-monitors
US Rep. Lauren Underwood warns Chicago immigration crackdown not over as ICE plans major staff expansion
Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area may have ebbed in recent weeks, but U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood cautioned Monday against assuming the effort is over after she was granted special access to the federal government’s controversial immigration processing center in west suburban Broadview.
Opponents of Operation Midway Blitz, the chaotic and at times violent joint deportation mission carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, were heartened by this month’s departure of controversial Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. But Underwood, the top Democrat on the congressional subcommittee that oversees the budgets for ICE, Border Patrol and other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters the officials she spoke with Monday “have not received any instruction around an end date.”
In fact, Underwood said, ICE is looking to “probably triple” the size of the staff at its Broadview processing center and Chicago field office “by January.” The agency also is “pursuing contracts for temporary office space,” she said.
Pointing to $150 billion allocated to ICE in the spending package Trump muscled through Congress over the summer, Underwood said that even if another government shutdown occurs early next year when the current funding deal runs out, the agency would “be able to hire and bring in these temporary structures to continue to grow immigration enforcement across our community.”
Underwood’s tour of the Broadview processing facility, which has been the epicenter of local protests over the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies and the subject of an ongoing federal lawsuit over the conditions inside, came after months of similar access requests from Democratic members of Illinois’ congressional delegation were denied. The four-term lawmaker from Naperville said she was the first member of Congress in “several years” to get a look inside the facility.
A class-action lawsuit filed in federal court last month described the two-story brick building on an industrial side street as a “black box,” where those taken into custody have been cut off from most outside contact and kept in dirty and unsafe conditions. After a judge earlier this month ordered Homeland Security to improve conditions, the number of people being held there dropped substantially, the Tribune reported last week.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood talks with reporters near the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Nov. 24, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
By the time Underwood arrived late Monday morning, no one was being held at the facility, with only a small contingent of security guards and the three ICE officials who conducted the tour present, she said. Underwood was told that the last person processed at the facility was overnight before she arrived, she said.
The congresswoman said she was told the facility was nearly empty because “they were updating their security systems and installing new security cameras.”
ICE did not respond Monday to questions about Underwood’s visit or her description of the agency’s future plans.
Trying to conduct proper oversight with little staff present and no one being held at the facility was “challenging,” Underwood said.
Nevertheless, Underwood said she saw only three showers and eight cots available in a facility that at times has held more than 100 people. The facility has no vendor providing food service, with meals purchased from sandwich shops and big-box retailers, she said, and there likewise is no one under contract to provide medical care.
“They had one package of Huggies, they had some sanitary pads for menstruating women, and they had foot powder,” Underwood said.
The Monday tour, led by Sam Olson, outgoing director of ICE’s Chicago field office, was arranged through Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s office, Underwood said.
While the congresswoman intends to return to Broadview and has requested a tour of all other Homeland Security facilities in Illinois, the department only committed to Monday’s visit, she said.
“The way that immigrants and U.S. citizens have been treated here is unacceptable, and it doesn’t make us more safe,” Underwood said.
Despite her position on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Underwood said Monday that she did not know what Operation Midway Blitz has cost taxpayers to date.
Underwood’s visit came on the same day new data was released detailing the federal government’s immigration enforcement actions nationwide over the past two months, the first update since before the record 43-day shutdown that ended Nov. 13.
As of Nov. 16, ICE was detaining 65,135 people, an increase of nearly 5,400 from Sept. 21, the last day of available data prior to the shutdown, according to an analysis from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC. Among that net increase in detainees, 97% had no criminal conviction, not even a minor traffic offense, indicating that “during the government shutdown, increasingly ICE targeted individuals with no criminal history,” according to the analysis.
In addition, “despite the enormous increase in the resources and government personnel devoted” to immigrant removal operations, there has been only a 7% increase in deportations since Trump took office compared with the last full year of President Joe Biden’s administration, the analysis showed.
“The Trump administration continues to conceal most concrete details about its immigration enforcement activities — both on the level of resources the government is devoting to this effort as well as who it is targeting and has actually removed,” TRAC said in a report released Monday.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/rep-lauren-underwood-broadview-visit/
Insurrection Chic
Insurrection Chic
Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,
Is Jeff Davis the Model?
Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?
The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?
Or perhaps Jefferson Davis? He ultimately ordered the attack by South Carolina state forces against the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, which ignited the Civil War.
Or is the better inspiration the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door?” Alabama Governor George Wallace likewise vowed to use his state’s law enforcement to nullify a federal law.
Yet how odd that the left, which had lectured us so often about a January 6th “insurrection”—a charge that not even the Javert-like special counsel Jack Smith ever lodged against Donald Trump—now talks frequently about the proud nullification of our nation’s federal laws.
The New Confederacy
Democrats weirdly boast of the subordination of the Constitution to international statutes. Our governors and mayors in blue states and cities take neo-Confederate vows to oppose the national government’s right to protect its own property, to direct its own employees, and to enforce our shared federal laws.
Over a decade ago, some 600 “sanctuary cities” declared that they were immune from the full enforcement of federal law. They further boasted that they would not hand over illegal aliens, detained by state or local authorities, to federal agents.
These were strange threats. Not long ago, at the 1992 and 1996 Democratic conventions, liberal grandees like Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi had vowed to stop all would-be illegal aliens from unlawfully entering the U.S. Apparently, they all flipped to open borders when spiraling numbers turned the undocumented into a new Democratic constituency.
Moreover, being the left, their loud nullificationist vows were, of course, purely political and never principled.
Once, an exasperated Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, had beseeched the Obama administration in vain to enforce its own federal laws at the southern border. In frustration, she finally sought ways to use her own state’s resources to do what Obama refused.
And the reaction of the Obama administration?
It was certainly not gratitude for Brewer’s efforts to enforce federal law. Instead, the Obama crowd sued her. It successfully sought out left-wing judges to stay her state’s efforts.
How strange that our current “principled” district judges once ruled that states could not interfere with federal border policing—even in cases where the federal government was illegally refusing to enforce its own laws.
But now they’ve become neo-Confederates who routinely favor states blocking the federal government when it is finally fulfilling its constitutional duties.
Of course, if any rural red county decided that it could nullify the federal government’s laws governing handgun registration or EPA regulations, the projectionist left would deem them insurrectionary new Confederates and send in the FBI.
Coup Bluster
In Trump’s first term, some retired four-star admirals and generals—Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice be damned—talked of a sitting U.S. President Trump leaving office, the “sooner the better”—whatever that meant. Others libeled him as a “liar” and “Mussolini,” his policies comparable to those of the executioners at Auschwitz.
Some retired lieutenant colonels in 2020 even publicly advocated using military units to confront presidential security details. Did they want an armed showdown to forcibly remove Trump from the Oval Office? And in their madness, they bragged about the purported greater lethality of their army friends to defeat the president’s supporters or security details: “Trump’s little green men, so intimidating to lightly armed federal law enforcement agents, step aside and fade away, realizing they would not constitute a good morning’s work for a brigade of the 82nd Airborne.”
Do we remember the Obama-era Pentagon lawyer who, eleven days into the first Trump administration, speculated in print about how to remove an elected President Trump? She offered up the choices of Trump removal by either the 25th Amendment, the impeachment process, or a military coup: “[A] possibility [for removing President Trump] is one that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America: a military coup…”
We also remember Gen. Mark Milley, the recent Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
He once apparently diagnosed Commander-in-Chief Trump as unhinged.
So Milley took it upon himself to warn his communist Chinese counterpart that during any existential crisis, the People’s Liberation Army head would be first contacted by Milley—if Milley ever felt Trump was too erratic to be obeyed (in Milley’s nonprofessional medical judgment).
So Milley reported his call as follows: “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
Milley apparently also decided that he was exempt from obeying federal laws.
As JCS chair, he also violated laws governing the chain of command. He unlawfully directed regional commanders to report to him first, should they receive a direct presidential order deemed lunatic by Milley. Yet the legal chain of command mandated that subordinate theater commanders report to, and receive presidential orders via, the Secretary of Defense.
Later, ex-generals like Milley and John Kelly routinely and emphatically blasted ex-President Trump as a “fascist.”
“Fascist” was just the sort of dangerous hyperbole that the left so often has warned us can prompt the unstable—like a Thomas Crooks or Ryan Routh—to emerge from their creepy shadows to “save the republic.”
Fort Sumter?
Democratic officials are also currently calling for organized and state-sanctioned opposition to the federal government, in near-Bleeding Kansas or Fort Sumter insurrectionary fashion.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson claims he will use his city resources to actively thwart ICE duties. In deranged fashion, he threatens to call in the UN to prevent federal law enforcement. He apparently treats the Constitution as nothing, as if Johnson were elected not by fellow citizens but by global voters from Iran to North Korea.
Johnson’s idiocy is no mere boast: when a trapped convoy of ICE vehicles was recently besieged by violent protesters, local Chicago-area police were told to stand down and let ICE fight its own way out.
In Portland, the local police sometimes advise violent Antifa-related protesters on strategies for their anti-ICE street activities, presumably to help them avoid arrest.
Consider the blather of the increasingly disturbed octogenarian Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
She recently boasted that “Trump is ‘a vile creature, the worst thing on the face of the Earth.” Then she doubled down and giggled that she “could have done much worse.”
But what exact epithet could Pelosi mean that is “much worse” than “vile” and “the worst thing on earth”?
The ‘vilest creature in the cosmos’?
Pelosi, remember, as Speaker of the House, set an embarrassing historic precedent by tearing up on national television the State of the Union address of the President of the United States when the text, as is customary, was ceremoniously presented to her by Trump. Should that now become a normal part of all SOTU addresses?
Recently, in a veritable paean to Jefferson Davis, Pelosi warned that federal agents might be arrested on her home turf if her state officers determine whether their enforcement of federal law violates California statutes.
If Pelosi’s confrontation materializes, will they use force?
Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani has boasted in the past that he will soon override federal law as mayor of New York and arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he arrive at the UN headquarters in New York.
But what if the federal government says, “NO!” Will Mamdani then call in the NYPD?
Note, Mamdani did not issue a comparable threat to the communist Chinese UN delegations, whose government oversees a million Uyghurs in work camps, nor to the Nigerians who have allowed Islamic terrorists to kill over 150,000 Christians, nor to Vladimir Putin, who invaded Ukraine, causing over 1.5 million casualties in the greatest European slaughterhouse since World War II.
Instead, Mamdani appeals to a superior “international law.” In his unconstitutional mind, world law supersedes his own government’s constitutional authority.
As a de facto insurrectionist, Mamdani would claim that international human rights activists, or the International Criminal Court (?), deserve greater legal authority inside the U.S. than do Americans’ own elected federal government.
All that nonsense sounds like infamous Confederate Attorney General Judah Benjamin, who often bragged about how insurrectionary states could legally ignore federal authority.
Military Resistance?
Yet the most recent and dangerous example of insurrectionary nullification is an inflammatory video issued by Democrat and veteran politicos.
In it, Democratic lawmakers and veterans Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep. Maggie Goodlander, Rep. Chris Deluzio, and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan appeal to U.S. soldiers to “disobey” their superior officers’ orders if, in their own legal opinion, they feel the orders are “illegal” by contravening the Constitution. How or why, they do not say.
Are we then to imagine an insurrectionary fantasy of 1.3 million active-duty soldiers, now each acting as his own lawyer, questioning daily orders from their officers? Not one of these elected officials provided a single instance of any past Trump order or Pentagon directive that would serve as an example of their nullificationist dogma.
When these Democratic officials also appealed to federal intelligence officers to likewise disobey orders, should we laugh or cry?
Did any of these moralists ever issue such a video when the Obama- and Biden-era Directors of the CIA, FBI, and National Intelligence all admittedly lied under oath?
How about when “51 intelligence authorities” deliberately lied in an open letter to the American people on the eve of the 2020 election to help elect Joe Biden? Or when the FBI agents worked with private social media to suppress the news?
In the video, did these officials mean that soldiers should resist presidential orders to employ federal troops to quell domestic chaos and rioting?
Lots of presidents have done just that from the Civil War to the present.
Would they have urged U.S. soldiers to disobey any order in pursuance of the use of force without congressional approval?
If so, why didn’t they damn past presidents like Harry S. Truman, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, who all directed the military to act abroad without the approval of Congress?
How about Barack Obama’s serial use of Predator assassination drones that, on at least one occasion, blew up an American citizen?
These sanctimonious Democrat officials did not outline any possible scenarios for their advocacy of insurrectionary disobedience—because they had no example to draw on.
Nor did they dare reference in any detail Articles 90 and 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which explicitly spell out when, in the rarest of cases, a soldier can disobey an order.
The officials had no concern that their video was endangering thousands—if someone might take their advice and, without cause, disobey an order, putting lives at risk, well beyond their own careers.
What the Democrats did not say is that they cut the video to implant a false narrative that Trump was on the verge of issuing unconstitutional orders, and they were encouraging mass and politicized disobedience, after the previous failure of the shutdown, mass street protests, attacks on ICE agents, and Tesla dealerships.
The New Secessionists
Leftists are now back to the same old, same old incendiary conspiracies and paranoias of Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, removing Trump from the ballot, impeaching him twice, indicting him 91 times, raiding his home with armed FBI agents, plotting stealthily to record him to invoke the 25th Amendment— and all the dangerous and often illegal ways it has sought to destroy a political opponent by any means necessary.
We certainly are in dangerous times. But the crisis is one of the left’s own making, in overtly inciting the country to a virtual rerun of 1861.
What else is urging American soldiers to defy the orders of their superiors without citing a single specific cause?
How about claiming by fiat that entire cities and states are immune from federal jurisdiction?
What about threatening to use state officers to arrest federal law enforcement officials?
Withholding local police help and thus endangering federal agents at the hands of violent protesters?
Making a mockery of the Uniform Code of Military Justice?
Advising violent protesters on how best to demonstrate against federal officials without being arrested?
Subordinating U.S. federal law to global legal authorities?
Using city resources to help illegal aliens evade federal law enforcement?
Arresting a foreign official with diplomatic immunity and under federal legal protection when he enters a local jurisdiction?
Freelancing by sidestepping the legal rights of the Commander-in-Chief and instead phoning to tip off an enemy general?
The common theme?
The desperate left feels the more insurrectionary tensions they can gin up, the more that the ensuing domestic crises hurt an elected president whom they loathe.
They assume they are exempt from following the law because they believe they are our moral and intellectual superiors.
And so for the next four years, they will once again insist they can ignore or violate with contempt any federal law they please—as the nation is heading toward widespread civil insurrection of the left’s own neo-Confederate making.
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/24/2025 – 19:15
‘Nothing but the best’: Marist’s Savanah Weathers is 2025 Daily Southtown Girls Volleyball Player of the Year
In her last match for Marist, senior right-side hitter Savanah Weathers helped the RedHawks win their second straight Class 4A state championship.
It was a great way to go out, for sure, but reality is finally setting in.
“I’m going to miss the girls because I’ve played with a lot of them since I’ve been playing club volleyball,” Weathers said. “Playing alongside of them is something I’m really going to miss.
“It’s the connection that we all have.”
On her next journey, the 2025 Daily Southtown Girls Volleyball Player of the Year will have at least one Marist connection. Weathers is heading to NCAA Division II Davenport in Michigan.
Waiting for her there will be Maddie Berry, the RedHawks’ setter last season and the 2024 Daily Southtown Girls Volleyball Player of the Year.
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) and Elayna Davidson (5) go for the ball against Benet in the Class 4A state championship match at CEFCU Arena in Normal on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. (Rob Dicker / Daily Southtown)
“I’m looking forward to playing again with Maddie,” Weathers said of Berry, who had 902 assists in her first year in college. “When I visited there, it had the same vibe as Marist.”
Weathers, Berry’s soon-to-be roommate, put up some strong all-around numbers for Marist (36-5) this fall. She finished with a team-high 262 kills, adding 235 digs, 87 blocks and 26 aces.
The 5-foot-8 Weathers and 5-4 Berry may not be the tallest players in college, but they could be a potent tag-team again.
“Maddie is already tearing it up there and there’s no doubt Savanah will do the same,” Marist coach Jordan Vidovic said. “I’m a little biased toward undersized players, having been one myself.
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) swipes the ball across the net for a kill against Normal Community during the Class 4A Bradley-Bourbonnais Supersectional on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
“I like to see them get recognized for their impact. Both are absolute dream players, and you will see the results start to show in college.”
Vidovic confirmed that Weathers worked hard and sometimes wanted to overwork.
“Up until the final practice before state, she constantly was doing everything she could to give herself the best chance to succeed,” he said. “She was taking extra reps on her swings. She was getting extra reps the day of practice on the day of the championship game.
“It got to the point where I had to stop her and tell her we didn’t need to jump anymore. She would leave nothing to chance.”
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) saves the ball against Mother McAuley during a nonconference match in Chicago on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
Weathers comes from an athletic family. Her brother, Jonah, a two-sport athlete at Marian Catholic, is playing baseball at Logan. He plans on heading to Louisville after his sophomore year.
Savanah grew up playing baseball against boys and softball. Volleyball eventually won out.
“I really don’t know how I got involved in playing volleyball,” she said. “I told my parents I wanted to play. We’re a family with basketball and baseball players.
“But I randomly took an interest in volleyball. Maybe I saw it on TV.”
Once she started playing, she was hooked.
“It’s a super high-energy sport,” Weathers said. “Just being able to hit the ball is my favorite part. I love jumping and being able to kill the ball.”
Marist’s Savanah Weathers (10) and Cassidy Cage (23) go up for a block against Mother McAuley’s Keira McQuillan (10) during a nonconference match in Chicago on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (Vincent D. Johnson / Daily Southtown)
Winning isn’t too bad either.
Last season, the RedHawks took nine losses into the playoffs and still won the state title. This season, they had five losses but swept seven playoff matches in two games, including revenge wins over Mother McAuley and Benet.
“I remember the beginning of preseason last year, we all had a super-close bond,” Weathers said. “This year, the group of seniors that we did have all came from the championship team, so we all know what it felt like. We had the goal of going downstate and winning it again.”
After winning back-to-back gold medals together, Vidovic offered up perfect praise of Weathers.
“Savanah is nothing but the best,” he said.
Jeff Vorva is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
Memo: Gobierno de Trump planea revisar todos los refugiados admitidos durante presidencia de Biden
Por REBECCA SANTANA y ELLIOT SPAGAT
WASHINGTON (AP) — El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump planea llevar a cabo una revisión de todos los refugiados que fueron admitidos en Estados Unidos durante la presidencia de Joe Biden, de acuerdo con un memorando al que The Associated Press tuvo acceso el lunes.
Es probable que la revisión genere miedo y confusión entre las casi 200.000 personas que huyeron de la guerra y la persecución para venir a Estados Unidos durante ese período.
El memorando, con fecha del 21 de noviembre, señala que durante los años del gobierno de Joe Biden se dio prioridad a la “rapidez” y a la “cantidad” por encima de la “evaluación y verificación detallada”, lo que justificaba una revisión a fondo y una “nueva entrevista de todos los refugiados admitidos desde el 20 de enero de 2021 hasta el 20 de febrero de 2025”.
Los defensores del programa de refugiados afirman que los refugiados suelen ser algunas pasar por muchos más filtros que el resto de las personas que llegan a Estados Unidos y que a menudo esperan años para poder entrar al país.
El memo, que lleva la firma del director de los Servicios de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS, por sus siglas en inglés), Joseph Edlow, también suspendió de inmediato la aprobación de tarjetas de residencia para los refugiados que llegaron al país durante el período mencionado.
Las personas que fueron admitidas en Estados Unidos como refugiados están obligadas a solicitar una tarjeta de residencia un año después de llegar al país y, por lo general, pueden solicitar la ciudadanía cinco años después de eso.
El gobierno de Joe Biden admitió a 185.640 refugiados entre octubre de 2021 y septiembre de 2024. Las admisiones de refugiados superaron las 100.000 el año pasado, la mayoría de ellos provenientes de la República Democrática del Congo, Afganistán, Venezuela y Siria.
Los defensores de los derechos de los refugiados criticaron de inmediato la medida, asegurando que provocará un nuevo trauma en personas que ya se han visto obligadas a pasar por un extenso proceso de verificación para poder llegar a Estados Unidos en primer lugar.
“Este plan es sorprendentemente mal concebido”, dijo Naomi Steinberg, vicepresidenta de políticas y defensa para Estados Unidos de HIAS. “Este es el nuevo punto más bajo en el trato consistentemente frío del gobierno hacia las personas que ya construyen nuevas vidas y enriquecen a las comunidades en donde han formado sus hogares”.
Los Servicios de Ciudadanía e Inmigración, el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional y la Casa Blanca no respondieron de momento a solicitudes en busca de comentarios.
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Spagat informó desde San Diego.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Daily Horoscope for November 25, 2025
General Daily Insight for November 25, 2025
Something needs to change. At 6:25 AM EST, Venus trips into a cautionary quincunx with careful Chiron, nudging us to adjust expectations in relationships or budgets. Little blind spots have potentially grown into bigger mix-ups! Miscommunications are around every corner — thankfully, kind questions can restore warmth once the emotional Moon conjoins transformative Pluto. With the Moon in curious Aquarius, teamwork and bright ideas should blossom with patient effort. Minor tweaks are the ideal way to protect bonds and brighten shared futures.
Aries
March 21 – April 19
Vulnerability can currently deepen trust. Caring Venus energizes your 8th House of Intimacy and Shared Resources with her quincunx to healing Chiron in your 1st House, inviting you to make thoughtful edits to shared commitments. You may notice a roommate’s budget worry or a partner’s hesitancy — don’t shy away from conversations about those things. While your sign is known for jumping into action, make a point of slowing down as much as possible. Gentle pacing builds safety and keeps passion steady, supporting trust.
Taurus
April 20 – May 20
Your heart needs quiet to speak clearly. Your 7th House of Cooperation takes the lead as compassionate Venus seeks harmony alongside tender Chiron in your 12th House of Escapism, which may reveal a private worry behind a loved one’s silence. If a friend cancels or a loved one suddenly quiets, you could suggest a gentle walk and ask them what would feel supportive without pushing for answers about the exact details. Soft patience is a far better strategy than well-meaning pushiness.
Gemini
May 21 – June 20
Not all knowledge should be shared at present. A small mismatch between intentions and group expectations could cause friction, especially as Venus in your 6th House of Wellness tugs at vulnerable Chiron in your 11th House of Friends. If a co-worker edits your draft without asking, look to your organization’s established hand-off routines rather than confronting them angrily. With friends, you can gently but firmly set boundaries around sensitive topics. Setting these systems in place will make them easier for everyone to follow.
Cancer
June 21 – July 22
Rules don’t have to interfere with fun at the moment. They can actually protect your sources of joy! As Venus (in your playfulness zone) nudges therapeutic Chiron in your practicality sector, brace yourself to put that principle into action. Take a look at your work-life balance. Is it actually balanced, or is one side overpowering the other? Working from home could be impeding your productivity; conversely, last-minute work demands may inhibit dinner plans. Plan ahead to handle your responsibilities before clocking out for the day.
Leo
July 23 – August 22
Someone at home may not feel heard. Your domestic quadrant is highlighted as beauty-loving Venus seeks comfort with wise Chiron in your far-flung 9th house. Travel plans or beliefs may clash. If a relative questions your holiday itinerary, you don’t have to engage. That said, if you can tell they mean well, you could look into a compromise that honors everyone’s traditions. Plus, you’d get to be the hero who aligned everyone’s schedules! Kind flexibility protects family warmth and supports your bigger plans.
Virgo
August 23 – September 22
Clear words currently beat assumptions, especially about money. Transparency is key while Venus and Chiron talk over each other in your busy 3rd house and deep 8th house. If a sibling delays paying you back, a friend “forgets” their wallet, or a partner hesitates to combine accounts, you can stand your ground. This is your cue to get out the numerical evidence! There’s no need to be rude, of course, but you’d be wise to set up a specific plan to handle any financial tension.
Libra
September 23 – October 22
Value grows when respect meets real numbers. Money-minded Venus focuses your 2nd House of Cash with her quincunx to wounded Chiron in your 7th House of Partnerships, so price tags and promises may need gentle rebalancing. If a collaborator expects a discount because you are friends, you can name your actual rate without anxiety. Your diplomatic instincts shine when you affirm fairness, even if that means having tough conversations. Clear terms ensure that you’re building long-term alliances in professional and personal relationships.
Scorpio
October 23 – November 21
You’re allowed to take up space! Today is meant for self-care, thanks to the alignment between indulgent Venus and thoughtful Chiron. They’re highlighting your identity and pointing out where routines create friction. If a stranger comments on your outfit or attitude, you can take a deep breath and move on without apologizing for existing or needing to snap back. Ignore them and do what works for you, whether you’re out and about or at home. When your needs are met, you’ll shine brighter than ever!
Sagittarius
November 22 – December 21
Joy can presently be found in subtle details. Your 12th House of Solitude takes the wheel as sweet Venus rests in tandem with edgy Chiron in your upbeat 5th house, marking a tug-of-war between solo chill time and exciting invitations. If friends push for an energetic outing, feel free to go along for a while, then head home early. They should understand your need for recharge. If you push yourself, you risk burning out. Pausing as necessary protects your laughter from turning brittle.
Capricorn
December 22 – January 19
Friends and family might be yanking you in different directions. Harmonious Venus spotlights your social sector, disagreeing with private Chiron in your 4th House of Comfort. If a group chat sends a last-minute invite while you’re already making dinner at home, you don’t have to make excuses. Honor prior commitments (and your own need for calmer meetings). All sides of your circle deserve a chance to bond with you. In turn, you deserve both quieter connections and exuberant outings. Thoughtful pacing supports all relationships.
Aquarius
January 20 – February 18
Your influence grows when your words stay kind. Careful statements could be in order as lofty Venus in your 10th House of Status pokes clumsy Chiron in your chatter zone. They’re both warning against sharp replies or rushed emails. If an acquaintance or supervisor challenges you, you can thank them without actually enacting any bad ideas. Your inventiveness shines when you keep the tone friendly and ensure the next steps are laid out clearly. Warm professionalism opens doors and moves ideas forward smoothly.
Pisces
February 19 – March 20
A bigger world now asks for particularly thoughtful pacing. Your 9th House of Journeys brightens as beauty-loving Venus seeks expansion, though her quincunx to sore-spot Chiron in your 2nd House of Budgets could drag things down. If a course or flight seems out of reach, look for scholarships or coupons. Your mind deserves a chance to grow — though it may be best to start with a trip to the library for some free knowledge before making any purchases. Just give yourself permission to begin!
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/daily-horoscope-for-november-25-2025/
Los Patriots, primer equipo con 10 victorias, enfrentan lesiones antes de su semana de descanso
Por KYLE HIGHTOWER
FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts, EE.UU. (AP) — Cada entrenador en la NFL habla sobre lo difícil que es ganar partidos.
Mike Vrabel espera que la victoria por remontada de los Patriots de Nueva Inglaterra por 26-20 sobre los maltrechos Bengals de Cincinnati, sea un recordatorio para su equipo de que, incluso después de convertirse en el primer equipo de la NFL en alcanzar diez victorias esta temporada, necesitará dar lo mejor de sí cada semana para seguir acumulando victorias.
“Creo que encontraron una manera de ganar”, afirmó Vrabel. “Tendremos que mantener ese delicado equilibrio de entender que las victorias son importantes, pero mejorar en esta época del año es lo más importante”.
Eso es especialmente cierto para un equipo que probablemente se enfrentará a los Giants de Nueva York en un partido de “Lunes por la Noche” sin dos titulares en una línea ofensiva que ha sido una de las más estables de la liga.
El guardia izquierdo Jared Wilson salió cojeando en la primera serie de la victoria del domingo con una lesión en el tobillo, y el tackle izquierdo novato Will Campbell fue retirado en carrito en el tercer cuarto con una lesión en la rodilla.
Esto marcó el mayor cambio esta temporada para el grupo titular de Campbell, Wilson, el centro Garrett Bradbury, el guardia derecho Mike Onwenu y el tackle derecho Moses Morgan, que han comenzado 11 de 12 juegos. La única desviación de ese quinteto fue en la semana cuatro cuando Ben Brown comenzó en lugar de Wilson, quien estaba inactivo con lesiones en el tobillo y la rodilla.
Vrabel dijo el lunes que la lesión de Campbell le obligaría a perderse algunos partidos.
“No estará ahí esta semana. Serán un par de semanas”, comentó Vrabel. “Tendremos que tomar una decisión aquí en la plantilla para ver cuánto tiempo será y partir de ahí. Pero no es nada que, con suerte, lo deje fuera por toda la temporada”.
El entrenador fue un poco más optimista sobre las perspectivas para Wilson, diciendo que su estado dependería de cómo responda a la rehabilitación y la práctica.
Vederian Lowe reemplazó a Campbell el domingo, con Brown ocupando nuevamente el lugar de Wilson. Si Wilson y Campbell permanecen fuera por un período prolongado, la buena noticia es que tanto Brown como Lowe tienen amplia experiencia como titulares. Lowe comenzó 13 juegos como tackle izquierdo la temporada pasada y Brown registró diez inicios como centro en 2024 después de que David Andrews ingresara a la reserva de lesionados.
Está funcionando
Después de la actuación de siete recepciones y 115 yardas del ala cerrada Hunter Henry el domingo, los Patriots han tenido cuatro juegos consecutivos con un receptor de 100 yardas. Henry se unió a DeMario Douglas (100 yardas contra Atlanta el 2 de noviembre), Mack Hollins (106 en Tampa Bay el 9 de noviembre) y Stefon Diggs (105 contra los Jets de Nueva York el 13 de noviembre). Es la primera vez que el equipo tiene un receptor de 100 yardas en cuatro juegos consecutivos desde la temporada 2018.
Necesita ayuda
Los Patriots fallaron dos veces en anotar touchdowns con el balón en la yarda uno.
Con una ventaja de 17-13 en el tercer cuarto, tuvieron un pase de touchdown a Henry anulado por una interferencia de pase ofensivo sobre Hollins. Dos jugadas después, en cuarto down, Rhamondre Stevenson fue detenido en una carrera corta de la línea de gol.
Arriba 20-13 en el cuarto período, el intento de Maye de avanzar en tercera en la línea de gol fue detenido, obligándolos a conformarse con un gol de campo.
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With 2 sacks against the Steelers, Chicago Bears defensive end Montez Sweat is heating up at the right time
Asked about the sack he didn’t have, Chicago Bears defensive end Montez Sweat couldn’t help but chuckle in his deep, baritone laugh.
“That’s the difference between being good and great,” Sweat said.
On the play, early in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s win over Pittsburgh, Sweat sidestepped an attempted block from the running back — who frankly was no match one-on-one for the 6-foot-6, 270-pound Sweat — and zeroed in on Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph.
Sweat placed two hands across Rudolph’s hips and looked like he had a sure sack, what would’ve been his third of the game. Sweat spun to the ground and somehow Rudolph twisted out of his grasp and lofted an incompletion out of bounds.
“It would have been my first hat trick,” Sweat said. “Maybe we can try again next game.”
Nobody is blaming Sweat for not cashing in on the hat trick. He had two sacks in the game, including a game-changing strip sack in the second half that he himself recovered and wound up leading to a Bears touchdown a short while later.
Bears defensive end Montez Sweat, right, closes in on Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph in the fourth quarter at Soldier Field on Nov. 23, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
Sunday marked his sixth game with two or more sacks in his seven-year NFL career, and his first since he had a career-high 2 1/2 sacks against the Cleveland Browns in 2023, not long after the Bears traded to acquire him.
Coach Ben Johnson awarded Sweat with one of two game balls in the locker room after Sunday’s victory. Sweat now has 7 1/2 sacks on the season, including 6 1/2 of those over the last six games.
“He’s been heating up since the bye week,” Johnson said. “You just feel it each week. He seems to impact the game a little more each week.”
Sweat had just one sack over the first five games of the season. Johnson is right, his top pass rusher is heating up.
Sweat leads the Bears with 30 quarterback pressures, according to NFL Pro. His 11% pressure rate is second among Bears defensive linemen with enough snaps to qualify, behind only defensive tackle Gervon Dexter’s 11.5%.
It’s notable that his 11% pressure rate is actually Sweat’s lowest since 2021. He pressured the QB 14.7% of the time last season. Perhaps what’s most remarkable about Sweat’s recent success is that he’s capitalizing on his chances even when there haven’t been a lot of chances. Prior to the Steelers game, he had gone four straight games with a pressure rate below 10%. He still cashed in on 3 1/2 sacks over that four-game stretch.
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Against Rudolph and the Steelers, his pressure rate jumped to 16%. Johnson said Sweat isn’t doing anything different, he’s just taking advantage when he sees a chance. Defensive tackle Grady Jarrett feels that, too.
“I think just being in the right place, man,” Jarrett said. “Playing hard. I think another thing that helps him when he makes those nice, big plays, he’s able to make them outside of the pocket because of his crazy athleticism, man. So fast, to be that big and the quarterback’s thinking they’re going to get away from him and he’s just going to hawk them down. Super impressive to see.”
Sweat has been a big reason why the Bears are now in the midst of their second four-game win streak of the season. They’ve won eight of their last nine games. They are 6-1 in one-score games.
“We take a lot of pride in it,” Sweat said of winning close games. “We understand that that’s not necessarily been the story around here in the past years I have been here. We are creating a history of competing in these close games. We feel pretty comfortable in it. We know when we are down or it’s a close game that we are still in the fight. I feel that coming from all phases, we’re still fighting.”
Sweat is heating up at the right time. The Bears have a pivotal stretch coming up with five of their final six games against teams that are currently holding onto a playoff spot or just outside the wild-card picture.
That includes Friday’s matchup against the defending Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles, who for years have had one of the best offensive lines in football.
Ben Johnson: No injury updates on Monday
Johnson did not provide any injury updates on Monday. Cornerback Tyrique Stevenson (hip) and linebacker Ruben Hyppolite II (shoulder) exited Sunday’s game with injuries and did not return. The Bears will release their first injury report of the week on Tuesday.
It remains uncertain if cornerbacks Jaylon Johnson and Kyler Gordon will be activated off injured reserve ahead of the Eagles game.
Bears make several practice squad transactions
The Bears placed tight end Nikola Kalinic on the practice squad injured list. The team called up Kalinic from the practice squad for the Steelers game and he played 16 snaps on special teams. That was Kalinic’s first appearance for the Bears this season.
Additionally, the Bears signed linebacker Dominique Hampton, tight end Qadir Ismail and defensive end Jeremiah Martin to their practice squad Monday.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/24/chicago-bears-pittsburgh-steelers-montez-sweat/
US Export-Import Bank To Spend $100 Billion To Secure Critical Minerals, Nuclear & LNG Supply Chains
US Export-Import Bank To Spend $100 Billion To Secure Critical Minerals, Nuclear & LNG Supply Chains
The US Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency tasked with helping to facilitate US trade, will invest $100 billion to achieve President Trump’s plan to secure US and allied supply chains for critical minerals, nuclear energy, and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Its new chair, John Jovanovic (appointed in September) told the Financial Times that the agency would finance these efforts in order to counter western reliance on China and Russia – and that the first tranche of deals will include projects in Egypt, Pakistan and Europe, adding that the West has been over-reliant on supplies of critical materials that “are no longer fair.”
“We can’t do anything else that we’re trying to do without these underlying critical raw material supply chains being secure, stable and functioning,” Jovanovic told the outlet, adding that the bank’s first deals would include a credit insurance guarantee for $4 billion of LNG being delivered from Egypt by New York-based commodities group Hartree Partners, as well as a $1.25 billion loan for the Reko Diq mine under development in Pakistan by Barrick Mining.
US Export-Import Bank chair John Jovanovic
The bank currently has $100 billion to deploy out of $135 billion authorized by Congress, and has authorized $8.7 billion in new transactions in the 12 months to the end of September, which doesn’t include a $4.7 billion loan that was reapproved in March to support a LNG project in Mozambique led by France’s TotalEnergies, the FT reports.
Ex-Im Bank is “back in a big way, and it’s open for business,” said Jovanovic in his first interview since assuming his new role, adding that the focus would be on bringing “US energy molecules to every corner of the globe.”
He also said that the United States “can’t do anything else that we’re trying to do without these underlying critical raw material supply chains being secure, stable and functioning.”
Ex-Im was being “inundated” with requests for support for US LNG coming from Europe, Africa and Asia, and a series of multibillion-dollar LNG supply deals would be announced in the coming days, he said.
While some development banks have climate change-related mandates that prevent them from investing in fossil fuels projects, Ex-Im cannot exclude them. Jovanovic said American LNG would be a “stabilising factor in providing energy security to parts of the world that need it most”.
Ex-Im’s increased focus on supporting LNG exports and energy security represents a shift of emphasis for the bank, which had been expanding support for renewable energy under former president Joe Biden. Last year it supported $1.6bn in green energy projects, an increase of 74 per cent compared with 2023. -FT
Meanwhile, Ex-Im is “actively in discussions” about several nuclear projects in south-east Europe, where US companies including Westinghouse are looking to invest, as well as back mining projects for uranium in order to make nuclear fuel – something which has moved increasingly into Russia and China.
The Trump administration has been stressing the need to break America’s dependence on China for metals, including copper and rare earths. The bank will finance critical minerals projects “in a large way,” and is working on deals that are “very near the finish line,” Jovanovic told FT, noting that much of what’s in the pipeline was “orders of magnitude larger” than the $1.25bn Reko Diq loan.
In October, the White House hammered out a minerals supply deal with Australia, and is working on similar deals that Ex-Im is “ready to be part of.”
h/t Capital.news
Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/24/2025 – 18:50
