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"Non-Refoulement" (which prohibits states from returning or "refouling" a person to a country where they face a genuine risk of persecution, torture, or other serious human rights violations.)
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While the US has not ratified the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, it did ratify the 1967 protocol and has its own Refugee act of 1980, both of which place a legal obligation on Republicans and the Trump regime to respect the doctrine of “Non-Refoulement”
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In addition to the broad dangers to immigrant communities, rhetoric around deportations and revocation of legal status are particularly salient for those who have no nationality at all. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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Coverage has often focused on deportations of immigrants, centering around destinations including CECOT, a maximum security anti-Terrorism facility which has already been criticized by Human Rights watch www.hrw.org/news/2025/03... for violations including torture and deprivation of rights. (3/6)

It is worth adding that here in the United States our own narratives around immigration have also produce destructive systems. Including ICE detentions yesterday in Massachusetts (Worcester) and the BU (Brighton) areas, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvvo...
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Unfortunately this development creates ripples as a negative example for other countries in the region including Oman, which has also recently passed new laws to widen the criteria for citizenship stripping. www.newarab.com/news/oman-go...
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As a result Kuwait has become a regional leader in human rights violations and continues to slide towards more political concentration in the hands of fewer citizens and a path to authoritarianism. amwaj.media/en/article/m...
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But is also an ongoing process with new lists of people being stripped of their nationality being released every week (434 last week) www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetai...
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This process has been explained by a peer of mine in a recent blog post buslahr.medium.com/from-citizen...
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These deportations returning hundreds of thousands of Haitians to a country which is a threat to their safety should be criticized as a violation of the doctrine of #Non-Refoulement www.unhcr.org/us/about-unh... a core principle of the 1951 Refugee Convention which the D.R. is a party to.
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As a result hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been deported from the Dominican Republic. The government reported it deported 276,000+ people in 2024 www.cnn.com/2025/01/02/a... including children and pregnant women news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Recently, the political and economic crisis in Haiti has exacerbated (with significant gang violence and lawless zones in major population centers) creating a number of additional refugees fleeing Haiti and entering the Dominican republic. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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A key feature of this system has been the denial of birth certificates and the use of different colored (pink) birth certificates for foreigners to limit documentation available to be used to prove citizenship. bppj.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2017/12/01/f...
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