1. The first paragraph of a news article should answer the questions who, what, where and when. List the who, what, where and when of this news item. (NOTE: The remainder of a news article provides details on the why and/or how.)

2. What is President Biden’s reason for the potential payments?

3. What are the details of the plan? —
a) How much is President Biden considering sending to each migrant?
b) Residents of which countries would receive the money?
c) Which country from which many of the migrants are coming is left out? What is your reaction to that?

4. If President Biden does carry out his plan to pay people not to enter the U.S. illegally, the money would come from U.S. taxpayers. The government doesn’t have any money of its own - the money comes from us. What is your reaction to this plan, considering the fact that many Americans are still not back to work, and there are thousands of homeless in need of mental health and/or drug abuse treatment and housing in major California cities, NYC and many other large cities across the U.S.?

5. How much is is costing taxpayers to house the thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America who were brought by coyotes into the U.S.?

6. Talking about the border crisis on Sunday at a news conference, Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott asserted, “…One of the reasons why there are so my people coming here, is if you go back to the Democrat presidential debates, every single one of the Democrat candidates said if they are elected, they will have open borders and they will be giving things for free to anybody coming across the boarder. This is exactly why we’re seeing the flood, and the Biden administration was simply unprepared … which is why they have so haphazardly responded to it.”
Gov. Abbott called for the Biden administration to restore President Trump’s immigration policies. “What the president could do is to immediately put back in place the ‘remain in Mexico’ protocols that were established in the prior administration. He could continue to build the wall along the border in South Texas. He could send a stronger message that these people should not be coming here,” Abbott said.

What is your reaction to Gov. Abbot’s request/suggestion?