#Immigration

THREAD // On forced sterilizations and ICE: This is not new for the US. Especially in closed-door systems like immigration centers, prisons, asylums, institutions for disabled people, etc., it’s a
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The Intercept is out with an astonishing report profiling a whistleblower who served as a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center. The article should be damning on its own.
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This seems like just another Trump tweet but I don't think people understand what weight this could theoretically carry. I'm inserting no opinions or beliefs into this information, just stating
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In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit allowed the Trump administration to terminate TPS for Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Sudan, a program that gave temporary protected status to at
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Been trying to keep it out of my mind, but had things gone the other way? Tonight I'd be thinking about how we would cover tripled mass death once Trump
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Why does having a representative school curriculum matter? An overly Eurocentric curriculum, as is prevalent in many Ontario schools, signals that other races "have not made valuable contributions to the
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Castizo Futurism is real.We're hurtling towards a future in which California will be a red state again, and Arizona and Georgia will be blue states.https://twitter.com/SelimSeesYou/status/1265054874640793601 People who claim that Americ
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The UK government is saying that they’re desperate to circumvent the *law* on refuge and asylum and targeting immigration lawyers as politically motivated. This is what fascism looks like.https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1298674067
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A note from abroad: Realizing now that I've been 5 days out of US that many folks back home don't realize how other countries might be living with the 'Rona.
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Why is it for migrants to justify our right to exist on any particular land? "I am fleeing war", "I contribute to the economy", etc. No. It should be fr
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Thread: Keep thinking about how several EU states seem likely to refuse bilateral returns agreements with asylum seekers. It doesn't necessarily rule out a wider EU agreement, but it definitely
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85% of my office's casework is immigration-related. Today, I wanted to share one constituent’s remarkable journey to Silicon Valley. He asked to remain anonymous (you’ll see why in the video) but
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The farright have used Balbriggan, again, as an opportunity to spread false information. The cause of fire was electrical. This is a family terrified now because of what far-right have
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Oh gahd the @CommonsHomeAffs Home Affairs Committee is taking evidence from Dan O'Mahoney, "Clandestine Channel Threat Commander"https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d7c84b79-fbe0-4f1d-b262-e5091f60c160 Yvette Cooper notes to
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There’s been a lot confusion as to why Pacific people have traditionally voted for Labour. Despite the “that’s the way we’ve always voted” notion, Samoa’s affinity with Labour is deeply
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In honor of my new not petty, positive, drama-free energy I’m going to make a thread of all my frens I’ve made on here and how awesome y’all are @LizCGil
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