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Suddenly felt like I should share this here today: forumtogether.org/article/qa-b...
Q&A: Birthright Citizenship - National Immigration Forum
(Versión en español) The political season has once again brought to the fore the question of who is entitled to birthright citizenship. Former President Donald Trump, now the presumptive presidential ...
forumtogether.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Suddenly felt like I should share this here today: forumtogether.org/article/qa-b...
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Today the Census Bureau released an updated estimate of the US immigrant population in 2024, and it shows that despite all the legal and illegal immigration under Biden, the immigrant share of the US population had grown at the slowest pace for any decade since the 1970s www.cato.org/blog/immigra...
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Today the Census Bureau released an updated estimate of the US immigrant population in 2024, and it shows that despite all the legal and illegal immigration under Biden, the immigrant share of the US population had grown at the slowest pace for any decade since the 1970s www.cato.org/blog/immigra...
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If anything puts the lie to “we’re going after the criminals,” this shocking video should be it. Kudos to the @nytimes.com on a tremendously well done look into the immigrants here on legal visas whom we’re detaining. An absolute must watch: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Opinion | We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If anything puts the lie to “we’re going after the criminals,” this shocking video should be it. Kudos to the @nytimes.com on a tremendously well done look into the immigrants here on legal visas whom we’re detaining. An absolute must watch: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
Yeah, no. See forumtogether.org/article/expl...
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yeah, no. See forumtogether.org/article/expl...
Looking NW from Arlington, MA, 10:04-10:20 p.m. EST #auroraborealis
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Looking NW from Arlington, MA, 10:04-10:20 p.m. EST #auroraborealis
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Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.
NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.
U.S. citizens.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
U.S. citizens.
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The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
September 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
Today’s sunrise was a winner. Arlington, MA
September 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Today’s sunrise was a winner. Arlington, MA
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at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
Vance: "There's no unity with people who fund these articles, who pay the salaries of these terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF and the Ford Foundation...benefit from generous tax treatment...How do they reward us? By setting fire to the house built by the American family."
September 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
at the center of the efforts to destroy civil society in russia, hungary, georgia and elsewhere is the stigmatization, harassment, & criminalization of NGOs. that's what this is about, a full-on assault on democratic debate & freedoms.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
this is not hyperbole. it's right here.
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For months, the @bostonglobe.com DC Bureau has been traveling the country, documenting the impacts that Trump administration DOGE funding cuts are having on Americans in all facets of life. We found the cuts had ripple effects, not all of them obvious at first blush. Thread:
August 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For months, the @bostonglobe.com DC Bureau has been traveling the country, documenting the impacts that Trump administration DOGE funding cuts are having on Americans in all facets of life. We found the cuts had ripple effects, not all of them obvious at first blush. Thread:
What.
August 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What.
Welcome to the era of COVID-booster international tourism.
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Welcome to the era of COVID-booster international tourism.
Props to @miamiherald.com. They're ON the Venezuela TPS news.
May 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Props to @miamiherald.com. They're ON the Venezuela TPS news.
Well this one hits hard.
“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing.
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Well this one hits hard.
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The southern border is now fortified by 16,500 border agents, 3,600 active-duty soldiers, 4,500 Tex. National Guard & 2,200 Natl Guard deployed under Biden. With just 29,000 migrant arrests in Jan., that equates to about one migrant per agent/soldier per month, Adam Isacson of WOLA said. @tucson.com
Trump 'emergency' declaration clashes with reality of quiet border
SÁSABE, Ariz. — At a volunteer-run migrant-aid camp, about 22 miles east of the Sásabe port of entry, the only action on this quiet Wednesday afternoon was the rustle of
tucson.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The southern border is now fortified by 16,500 border agents, 3,600 active-duty soldiers, 4,500 Tex. National Guard & 2,200 Natl Guard deployed under Biden. With just 29,000 migrant arrests in Jan., that equates to about one migrant per agent/soldier per month, Adam Isacson of WOLA said. @tucson.com
Me, seeing egg prices at the store 10 days ago: It's only a matter of time before these are inside a locked case
February 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Me, seeing egg prices at the store 10 days ago: It's only a matter of time before these are inside a locked case
Wife and me: "Do you know what a 'character' is?"
5yo: "Yeah, it's like the chef with no eyes who cooks with chickens."
(Don't miss this one, @beckawall.bsky.social)
5yo: "Yeah, it's like the chef with no eyes who cooks with chickens."
(Don't miss this one, @beckawall.bsky.social)
a man in a chef 's hat is cooking while a stuffed chicken looks on
Alt: The Swedish chef is "cooking" while a chicken puppet looks on
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Wife and me: "Do you know what a 'character' is?"
5yo: "Yeah, it's like the chef with no eyes who cooks with chickens."
(Don't miss this one, @beckawall.bsky.social)
5yo: "Yeah, it's like the chef with no eyes who cooks with chickens."
(Don't miss this one, @beckawall.bsky.social)
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If Noem chooses to terminate the Venezuelan TPS designation that will suddenly be set to expire in April again, that could mean around 300,000 people would lose their jobs and deportation protections in a single day.
Another 300,000 would be set to lose the same in September.
Another 300,000 would be set to lose the same in September.
600,000 Venezuelans with TPS just got a little less safe—Trump is revoking Mayorkas’ last-second extension of TPS, restoring previous expiration dates in April and September.
Now Noem has to make a decision on extension or termination for about half that population by Feb 1 instead of spring 2026.
Now Noem has to make a decision on extension or termination for about half that population by Feb 1 instead of spring 2026.
Relentless heartless #immigration reform by the Trump administration ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...
January 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If Noem chooses to terminate the Venezuelan TPS designation that will suddenly be set to expire in April again, that could mean around 300,000 people would lose their jobs and deportation protections in a single day.
Another 300,000 would be set to lose the same in September.
Another 300,000 would be set to lose the same in September.
Oh advocacy org, if you only knew how many Zooms I already join on Thursday ...
January 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Oh advocacy org, if you only knew how many Zooms I already join on Thursday ...
Note the subhead too, but the immigration orders are ... oof. Knowing (generally) what's coming doesn't make it more fun when it starts to arrive. immigrationforum.org/.../murray-i...
January 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Note the subhead too, but the immigration orders are ... oof. Knowing (generally) what's coming doesn't make it more fun when it starts to arrive. immigrationforum.org/.../murray-i...
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Blue Hill Observatory reports that 2024 was their 3rd warmest year on record. The top 8 have all been set since 2010, with the last of the top 10 being 1998 and 1999.
BHO is the longest continuously run climate site in North America. #wbz
BHO is the longest continuously run climate site in North America. #wbz
January 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Blue Hill Observatory reports that 2024 was their 3rd warmest year on record. The top 8 have all been set since 2010, with the last of the top 10 being 1998 and 1999.
BHO is the longest continuously run climate site in North America. #wbz
BHO is the longest continuously run climate site in North America. #wbz
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In this @houstonlanding.bsky.social account of a Venezuelan family's journey to Texas, by @annacat.bsky.social, you'll lose count of the times they have to pay money to criminals to avoid being kidnapped or worse. Mexico seems worse than the Darién Gap.
Great narrative:
Great narrative:
Behind the journey: A Venezuelan family braves jungle, cartels to be reunited in the U.S.
One Venezuelan family trekked through the lawless jungle and risked kidnapping in Mexico to reunite. Trump’s win casts a shadow over their future.
houstonlanding.org
December 17, 2024 at 12:17 PM
In this @houstonlanding.bsky.social account of a Venezuelan family's journey to Texas, by @annacat.bsky.social, you'll lose count of the times they have to pay money to criminals to avoid being kidnapped or worse. Mexico seems worse than the Darién Gap.
Great narrative:
Great narrative:
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Wow.
Syria is the most displaced nation on Earth.
60% of its population - 14M people - forced from their homes by the regime’s brutality.
Today, a golden thread has connected cities around the world as the Syrian diaspora gather to celebrate the end of Assad.
Here’s a 🧵 of global celebrations
🟢⚪️⚫️ 👇
60% of its population - 14M people - forced from their homes by the regime’s brutality.
Today, a golden thread has connected cities around the world as the Syrian diaspora gather to celebrate the end of Assad.
Here’s a 🧵 of global celebrations
🟢⚪️⚫️ 👇
December 9, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Wow.
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"U.S. authorities made about 46,700 arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in November, down about 17% from October to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency," reported @elliotspagat.bsky.social: apnews.com/article/bord...
The fewest since July 2020. Here's what that looks like:
The fewest since July 2020. Here's what that looks like:
December 4, 2024 at 12:27 PM
"U.S. authorities made about 46,700 arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in November, down about 17% from October to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency," reported @elliotspagat.bsky.social: apnews.com/article/bord...
The fewest since July 2020. Here's what that looks like:
The fewest since July 2020. Here's what that looks like: