In turn, a 64 percent majority of Republicans now say immigration is a good thing for the country, up from 39 percent last year."

whose support for lowering immigration rates plummeted to 48 percent, from 88 percent just one year ago. Although a plurality still want immigration to decrease, an increasing share expressed a desire to keep immigration at current levels.

The embassy never responded. Cristosal’s U.S.A.I.D. funding has since been canceled; the head of its anticorruption unit, Ruth López, was arrested last month, and is still in prison."

When Cristosal’s director, Noah Bullock, heard Mr. Rubio would visit the country, he asked the embassy if the secretary would make time to meet with representatives from civil society groups like his, as had often been the case for such visits around the world.

One of the groups that U.S.A.I.D. funded in El Salvador, Cristosal, is a human rights group that investigates corruption by the country’s government.

Now, Mr. Rubio was meeting with Mr. Bukele, who has called himself the world’s “coolest dictator,” to discuss sending undocumented migrants from the United States to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

The agency spent more than $50 million on human rights and other pro-democracy programs in El Salvador last year, according to federal data.

The TLDR version of the talk:
cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/unity-d...

Any institution that stands up to Mr. Trump should be prepared to make sacrifices. ... One mistake that the submissive law firms made was imagining they had any chance of emerging unscathed once Mr. Trump targeted them."

"A crucial fact about these agreements is that they include no binding promises from the White House. ... The university did not even win the restoration of that funding when it agreed to his demands; it won merely permission to begin negotiating with the administration.

Still shocking to me how quickly universities are giving up. Maybe they never went through a real test of their integrity, and their true essence is now being revealed.