Taliban Seize Two More Provincial Capitals In Northern Blitz

Aug 08, 2021 View Original Article
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"On Friday the Taliban seized their first provincial capital, Zaranj in southwestern Nimroz on the border with Iran, and followed it up a day later by taking Sheberghan in northern Jawzjan province the following day."
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6% Conservative
"He'd be joining the bipartisan and seemingly smart push from U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, for the White House to appoint a border czar tasked with prioritizing the health and safety of communities in the Rio Grande Valley."
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2% Conservative
"He'd be joining the bipartisan and seemingly smart push from U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, for the White House to appoint a border czar tasked with prioritizing the health and safety of communities in the Rio Grande Valley."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Cruz was quick to echo him, as he often does, saying the election of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was a super-spreader event because their open border is endangering not just the people of Texas but people all across the country. DeSantis parroted accordingly at a press conference."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Cruz was quick to echo him, as he often does, saying the election of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was a super-spreader event because their open border is endangering not just the people of Texas but people all across the country. DeSantis parroted accordingly at a press conference."
Positive
12% Conservative
"The escalating scene has proven an irresistible campaign backdrop for Abbott and a couple of other Republicans hoping to challenge President Joe Biden if he runs again in 2024."
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4% Conservative
"Local governments were overwhelmed, leading to cities such as Laredo suing the Biden administration over the influx."
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-2% Liberal
"He would call, rightly, for the Biden administration to set up its own COVID wards at the border to relieve overburdened NGOs and cities."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"If Abbott were truly concerned about the COVID threat posed by migrants, he would've accepted the Biden administration's offer to help test them."
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-18% Liberal
"But local officials say the Biden administration has failed to provide enough facilities for quarantine so they've had to improvise by setting up emergency tents, including one at a Hidalgo County park."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Host Sean Haity flat out said that Americans who get sick or die of COVID can blame Biden for letting in immigrants who are causing a super-spreader event."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Accusing Biden of endangering the lives of Americans and immigrants, the governor issued an order that made the situation even worse by restricting the transport of migrants."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"There is a long, sordid history in our country of painting migrants, or foreigners in general, as a disease-ridden scourge -- from the exclusion acts targeting Asians that were justified around stopping the spread of diseases, to President Donald Trump, who used the pandemic to pressure the CDC to close the border entirely to migrants entering from Mexico."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"For Abbott, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, scapegoating faceless groups of new immigrants has become almost rote, an unquestioned custom of piing many of the nation's vexing ills on a constituency who can't retaliate at the ballot box."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"For Abbott, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, scapegoating faceless groups of new immigrants has become almost rote, an unquestioned custom of piing many of the nation's vexing ills on a constituency who can't retaliate at the ballot box."
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-44% Liberal

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53% : On Friday the Taliban seized their first provincial capital, Zaranj in southwestern Nimroz on the border with Iran, and followed it up a day later by taking Sheberghan in northern Jawzjan province the following day.

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