☀️The stretch of nice weather continues. Today will be sunny with a high of 67. Sunset is at 4:36 p.m.
It’s election eve: Have you checked out our voter guide yet? More on our election coverage below. But first: In April, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rescinded a Biden-era policy that deferred deportation proceedings for youth who are current and future Special Immigrant Juvenile petitioners for green cards. Many immigrant children and young people have been ordered removed from the country as a result, despite having already gained humanitarian relief to be in the U.S. legally. Other youth and children who have the same immigration status, or are in the process of getting it, fear they will be ordered to a court hearing and told to leave the country.
Recently, Sarah Betancourt spoke with one of those kids who got a life-changing call from their attorney. She was ordered to appear in court last month, where a judge ordered her deported, but that’s on hold while she appeals the decision.
Worcester-based Ascentria is the only foster care service provider for the state’s Unaccompanied Refugees Minors Program. Staff there are used to representing children in routine immigration hearings. Ascentria staff say that recently more children are being forced to miss school to attend hearings.
“These are children who are victims of extreme abuse, abandonment, neglect, trafficking, all kinds of things. And their escape to the United States was quite frankly the only option, and it is not an option that comes easily for them, “ Angela Snyder, supervising attorney at the Immigration Legal Assistance program at Ascentria. “There has been a systematic attack on the rights for these youth through the immigration system.”
Four Things to Know
- Repeal of new abortion law will likely go before Mass. voters: Advocates say they’ve hit the signature-gathering benchmark needed to put a question before voters in 2028 that would repeal a new state law making it legal to get an abortion in Massachusetts at any point in pregnancy as long as a doctor approves. If the signatures are confirmed by the state, it would not only put the question on the 2028 ballot, but would also freeze the law and stop it from taking effect next month, unless Gov. Maura Healey acts.
- Gubernatorial candidates head to Western Mass. With election day nearly upon us, all the candidates for governor have spent months trying to make sure constituents across the state understand their views. Democratic candidate and incumbent Gov. Maura Healey, Republican candidate Mike Minogue, and Independent challenger Andrea James visited the Springfield studio of New England Public Media recently to address issues specific to residents in western Massachusetts. Hear what the three candidates had to say about affordability, housing, food assistance and who gets to use water from the Quabbin reservoir.
- New soldiers home in Holyoke: Massachusetts’ new state-of-the-art Veterans Home in Holyoke was unveiled last week, marking a major milestone in the transformation of veterans care in the state. Formerly known as the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, the new facility was constructed at the site of a deadly 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, where at least 76 veterans died — a tragedy that helped the push to replace it.
- Jay-Z once backed Kaepernick. Now he’s headlining the Super Bowl: The rapper and business mogul has been booking the musical acts for the Super Bowl Halftime Show for seven years. Next year, he’s booked himself to headline the pinnacle showcase of the NFL. The GBH News show Under the Radar takes a look at how this move from Jay-Z is playing out with fans.
Public seeks answers about new Cape Cod gas pipeline
Could a new natural gas pipeline to Cape Cod mean a future increase in gas consumption on the Cape?Members of the Cape Cod Commission and the public tried to pin down an answer to that question last Wednesday, as a commission subcommittee held its first hearing on the project to replace the pipelines under the Bourne and Sagamore bridges with a single line drilled under the Cape Cod Canal.
Critics claim the larger-diameter pipe could carry more gas than the two old pipes combined — double the volume, Sierra Club Massachusetts says — if pipeline owner Algonquin Gas Transmission were to receive federal approval for more flow and if National Grid’s downstream distribution system were expanded to handle it.
The Sierra Club and other detractors say burning more gas on Cape Cod flies in the face of goals to reduce communities’ carbon footprint, including goals in the commission’s own Regional Policy Plan.
📻 LISTEN: Boston Public Radio, 11 a.m., on GBH 89.7 FM: A special pre-election day show, checking in with reporters and voices from around the country on key races.
🧐LISTEN: The Curiosity Desk, 1 p.m., on GBH 89.7 FM: An energy panel will explore Gov. Healey’s interest in expanding natural gas pipelines in Massachusetts. We’ll hear from Jordan Wolman at Commonwealth Beacon, MASS Fiscal Alliance’s Paul Craney and Eva Morgan from The Sierra Club.
🎨 LISTEN: The Culture Show, 2 p.m., on GBH 89.7 FM: Conductor Daniela Candillari and Director Patricia Racette discuss the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
📺WATCH: ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Sensational Finds, 8 p.m., on GBH 2: ROADSHOW reveals high drama, dire straits and scandals keeping us on the edge of our seats, including a U.S. Secret Service archive from around 1900 and a 1965 Noah Purifoy Watts Riots sculpture.
📺WATCH: Pati Jinich Explores PanAmericana, 9 p.m., on GBH 2: Pati travels from Colorado to New Mexico, finding the Rio Grande and the lives it sustains. Read more about Pati’s life journey and experiences with food and get a few of her recipes here.
📺WATCH: Coming Home: From Shadowland to Spiritworld, 10 p.m., on GBH 2: After 170 years of displacement, a Kashia Pomo elder guides two young tribal members on journeys reclaiming ancestral land, confronting historical trauma and searching in Russia for ancient connections to their women gone missing.
🧑🍳COOK: Garlic and Cumin Rubbed Chicken from Chef Pati Jinich
🎯PLAY: Can you guess how much Antiques Roadshow finds are worth? Test your skills with our daily game.
GBH Daily is written by Don Seiffert with contributions by Katrina Ávila Munichiello and edited by Anna Fort and Jackie Bruleigh.
