You’re telling me I survived three years of a pandemic
to be bit by a rabid fox
Ximena
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Ximena
@Ximena_Bustillo
Duality of Idahoan & Capitol Fox victim 🦊 DHS/Immigration correspondent @NPR | Always writing rural y ag | Signal @ximenabustillo.77
BOI➡️DC↔️NYC
Joined August 2014
- Replying to @ufonumanahHey thanks for this thread, helped me confirm I wasn’t administered all the shots I needed to be yesterday. Twitter can be good!!
- That feel when you get bit by a fox leaving Capitol cause that’s of course something I expect in THE MIDDLE OF DC.
- 🚨 BREAKING: The @EPA is banning all uses of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on all foods and crops effective within six months. The pesticide has been widely tied to neurological damage in children and as harmful to farmworkers, especially pregnant women.
- NEW: NPR has obtained a DHS memo requesting some 20,000 National Guard troops to help a wide variety of ICE tasks including "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside detention facilities. h/t @TBowmanNPR
- Oregon becomes the latest state to legalize overtime pay for farmworkers:Oregon Senate passes bill giving farmworkers overtime protection. kptv.com/2022/03/03/ore…
- Sometimes when I do an interview in Spanish I spend a significant amount of time thinking about how that person would never be interviewed, or how different the interview would be, if they weren’t contacted by a bilingual reporter. And that hits.
- Congratulations to the newest members on the Washington Desk @AshLopezRadio and @Ximena_Bustillo! npr.org/sections/npr-e…
- Can someone frame this headline for me?? Local news FTW!!!!
- College students recently lost access to increased SNAP benefits (temp benefit from the pandemic) and food insecurity is credited as a reason students may not even graduate. Still there are restrictions on meal plans. Some colleges have opted to let students “donate” unused fundsNew Biden admin proposal would stop colleges from keeping students' unused meal plan funds (e.g. “dining dollars” or “[mascot] bucks”) if they were purchased by a Pell grant or federal student loan. Didn't realize this was a thing. www2.ed.gov/policy/highere…
- A new memo from ICE circulating on the Hill emphasizes the Laken Riley Act is “impossible to execute with existing resources.” New #’s put the need for beds at over 100k & costs over $26 billion. They say prior estimates were outdated & didn’t count for all crimes in the bill
- One year ago today I started at NPR and since I have: - Covered the White House - Covered the Hill - Covered Agencies - Covered an election - Kept my food/ag/rural niche - Done :30 second and 6 minute radio pieces - Reported from 6 states across 3 mediums Honestly, what fun 💛
- The farmworker that died in Oregon due to heat owed a coyote for the crossing. He asked to work even amid record breaking heat. Coworkers who found him called 911 but couldn’t tell operators where they were because workers often don’t know where they are.
- Okay post 40-minute panel on @KQED regarding farmworker labor conditions and the violence in Half Moon Bay I feel like there’s more context needed as to why the focus of the panel was on the labor sector of the victims and crime. So a thread on the politics and layers:
