Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #779: TUESDAY March 23, 2021: EXODUS by Jerry Lara of the San Antonio Express-News who recently won the NPPA’s coveted Morris Berman Citation, and Jason Buch who covers immigration and border affairs.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #779: TUESDAY March 23, 2021: EXODUS by Jerry Lara of the San Antonio Express-News who recently won the NPPA’s coveted Morris Berman Citation, and Jason Buch who covers immigration and border affairs: Migrant families and unaccompanied children are overwhelming U.S. Customs and Border Protection holding areas and federal youth shelters even as the facilities are being expanded. The surge is happening as families flee gang violence, unstable governments, poverty and hurricane damage at a time many believe the Biden administration will be more welcoming than the former Trump White House. Border Patrol apprehended nearly 100,000 refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border in February, the 10th consecutive month of increased apprehensions and a return to levels last seen in mid-2019, according to the Pew Research Center. The border is not open – most single adults and families who cross illegally are expelled to Mexico. Migrants shut out by former President Donald Trump’s ”zero tolerance” immigration policy are making perilous journeys out of hope, desperately fleeing conditions in Central America unimaginable to most Americans. The number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border this year is on pace to be the highest in 20 years, and the influx is straining U.S. immigration resources and intensifying pressure on the Biden administration to stem an emerging crisis. Welcome to: EXODUS.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Mount Merapi Effusive Eruption © Slamet Riyadi/ZUMA Press

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Mount Merapi is seen emitting white clouds down its slopes as seen in Cangkringan, Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Friday, March 12, 2021. The residents who live on its slopes look calm. They are cheerful while guarding Mount Merapi, which is at the Alert level as determined by the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Center (BPPTKG).

The BPPTKG report until March 7-11, 2021 states that hot clouds of avalanche occurred 12 times with a maximum sliding distance of 1,500 m to the southwest to the upper reaches of the Boyong and Krasak Rivers, as well as the Sat River Meanwhile, the morphological analysis of the peak area based on photos from the southwest sector shows a change in the morphology of the peak area due to avalanche activity and dome growth. The volume of the lava dome in the southwest sector is 785,600 m3 with a growth rate of 13,500 m3 / day.

BPTG added that the current potential hazard in the form of lava and hot clouds in the South-Southwest sector includes the Yellow, Boyong, Bedog, Krasak, Bebeng, and White rivers for a maximum of 5 km and in the southeast sector, namely the Gendol river as far as 3 km. Meanwhile, the eruption of volcanic material in the event of an explosive eruption can reach a radius of 3 km from the summit.

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ZUMA’s Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi featured on The Guardian.com March 22, 2021

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March 22, 2021, Taipei, Taiwan: A nurse prepares a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, as Taiwan begins vaccinations  at Far Eastern Hospital. Medical workers including doctors and nurses, predominant officials and those aged 65 or above will be inoculated first across Taiwan whilst the Taiwanese vaccines remain clinical trials. 

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press