Dan Berlin
@dberlin-pgh.bsky.social
Human rights lawyer, cyclist, father, yinzer in Frankfurt. Post mine only. He / him
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Read more about the recipients of this year's Anne Feeney hellraiser fund grants here! www.laborheritage.org/content.aspx...
September 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Read more about the recipients of this year's Anne Feeney hellraiser fund grants here! www.laborheritage.org/content.aspx...
“Failing to protect our Afghan allies sends a dangerous message to the world: that U.S. commitments are conditional and temporary,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/w...
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They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies.
An executive order has halted refugee flights for Afghans who supported the American mission in Afghanistan and had been approved to resettle in the U.S.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Failing to protect our Afghan allies sends a dangerous message to the world: that U.S. commitments are conditional and temporary,”
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/w...
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Wildly unlawful and will immediately cause MORE chaos for refugees and, ironically, force them to use more benefits like SNAP!
The Trump administration abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support to recent arrivals: cnn.it/42sjEeQ
Advocate groups ordered to stop aiding refugees who have already arrived in US | CNN Politics
The Trump administration on Friday abruptly halted services for refugees in the United States, including Afghans, according to a memo obtained by CNN, stunning agencies that provide critical support t...
cnn.it
January 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Wildly unlawful and will immediately cause MORE chaos for refugees and, ironically, force them to use more benefits like SNAP!
PEPFAR is the one good legacy of the George W Bush years, and has literally saved millions of lives. Where is the pro-life outrage on this one?
This will kill so many people living with HIV who depend on PEPFAR programs to stay on their HIV treatment driving further HIV drug resistance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
Pepfar, which is estimated to have delivered lifesaving treatment as many as 25 million people in 54 countries, faces a funding delay of as long as 180 days.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
PEPFAR is the one good legacy of the George W Bush years, and has literally saved millions of lives. Where is the pro-life outrage on this one?
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I’m going to talk about pages 11, 12, and 13 of this brief in depth, because that is the part where the Trump DOJ tries to defend the Trump Executive Order.
The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
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The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
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FYI — Here is the filing DOJ submitted overnight opposing the Washington-led plaintiffs' TRO request: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I’m going to talk about pages 11, 12, and 13 of this brief in depth, because that is the part where the Trump DOJ tries to defend the Trump Executive Order.
The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
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The lawyers here so deeply misrepresent some of the cited material that it should be cause for sanctions in any just world.
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CHNV parole was an unmitigated success-decreasing irregular border crossing for those nationalities by 98% according to CBP. People who came on this pathway followed the rules and have quickly and lawfully joined the US economy. Now Trump admin intends to deport them: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Trump Officials Move to Quickly Expel Migrants Biden Allowed In Temporarily
A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to target programs that let in more than a million people.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
CHNV parole was an unmitigated success-decreasing irregular border crossing for those nationalities by 98% according to CBP. People who came on this pathway followed the rules and have quickly and lawfully joined the US economy. Now Trump admin intends to deport them: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Well, this horrible act passed, but at least Rep. Deluzio changed his vote to Nay. This was 100% due to pressure from constituents, so please continue to engage even when it feels like democracy is failing us. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202523
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Well, this horrible act passed, but at least Rep. Deluzio changed his vote to Nay. This was 100% due to pressure from constituents, so please continue to engage even when it feels like democracy is failing us. clerk.house.gov/Votes/202523
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Please call Deluzio and ask him to change his vote to NO on Laken Riley. Here's the letter I wrote this week:
January 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Please call Deluzio and ask him to change his vote to NO on Laken Riley. Here's the letter I wrote this week:
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According to a State Department memo, thousands of refugees who had been cleared for admission to the United States have had their travel cancelled immediately, including those who were slated to arrive before the executive order’s effective date of January 27, 2025.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...
Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US | CNN Politics
Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners o...
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January 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
According to a State Department memo, thousands of refugees who had been cleared for admission to the United States have had their travel cancelled immediately, including those who were slated to arrive before the executive order’s effective date of January 27, 2025.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...
I'm disgusted by so many of the profoundly damaging EOs from last night. But I take personal offense that they call out Charleroi, PA, where my great grandparents found refuge from Irish famine, to justify their attack on refugees. PA was built by immigrants and refugees! tinyurl.com/3s3dy4yh
Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program – The White House
REALIGNING THE United States REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'm disgusted by so many of the profoundly damaging EOs from last night. But I take personal offense that they call out Charleroi, PA, where my great grandparents found refuge from Irish famine, to justify their attack on refugees. PA was built by immigrants and refugees! tinyurl.com/3s3dy4yh
When people say "why don't they get in line like they are supposed to", this is the only line, and it just got shut down. Tens of thousands of appointments cancelled and probably hundreds of thousands of people who have been trying to get appointments, all stranded in Mexico.
From CBP One web site. It is over. Future outstanding appointments about 30,000 are being cancelled. People are receiving those email now. This afternoon presentations had been rescheduled to Feb 9 last Friday. Now to be crushed. At least this morning people were allows to present.
January 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
When people say "why don't they get in line like they are supposed to", this is the only line, and it just got shut down. Tens of thousands of appointments cancelled and probably hundreds of thousands of people who have been trying to get appointments, all stranded in Mexico.
Lots of interesting inside baseball on Mexican migration politics here, and a reminder of how complex regional migration dynamics are. Time will tell how the Trump admin navigates these issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/w...
How Mexico Cracked Down on Its Immigration Chief to Defuse a US Migrant Crisis
When border crossings grew out of control in 2023, the U.S. pressured Mexico to do something. Officials rebuked the immigration chief and stripped him of a key power, an investigation shows.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Lots of interesting inside baseball on Mexican migration politics here, and a reminder of how complex regional migration dynamics are. Time will tell how the Trump admin navigates these issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/w...
My dad and sis came to LA last week and we took them on a hike through Eton Canyon. This is a mile from my in-laws’ house. They are safely evacuated but this is so scary and sad. www.pasadenastarnews.com/2025/01/07/t...
This map shows where the Eaton fire is burning near Pasadena
A brush fire fueled by high winds ignited Tuesday evening in the Eaton Canyon area near Pasadena.
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January 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
My dad and sis came to LA last week and we took them on a hike through Eton Canyon. This is a mile from my in-laws’ house. They are safely evacuated but this is so scary and sad. www.pasadenastarnews.com/2025/01/07/t...
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As I told @sojo.net, churches focus on supporting people who need it and nurturing the faith of their community – not checking people's citizenship status. Trump's plan to un-designate churches as sensitive locations is an assault on religious liberty.
sojo.net/articles/new...
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Trump May Allow ICE Arrests in Churches; Here’s What We Know
After reports Trump will rescind a policy discouraging ICE raids in churches, faith and immigration experts prepare for uncertain future.
sojo.net
December 12, 2024 at 9:55 PM
As I told @sojo.net, churches focus on supporting people who need it and nurturing the faith of their community – not checking people's citizenship status. Trump's plan to un-designate churches as sensitive locations is an assault on religious liberty.
sojo.net/articles/new...
sojo.net/articles/new...
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Our editorial in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social we tell aid agencies that their failure to unambiguously call out Israel’s war crime is complicity.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/20...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/20...
Aid agencies: History will judge your failure to call out Israeli war crimes as complicity
You don’t have to wait for the charge of genocide to be legally established to condemn Israel’s generational war crimes in Gaza.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 12, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Our editorial in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social we tell aid agencies that their failure to unambiguously call out Israel’s war crime is complicity.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/20...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/20...
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So... What does it actually mean that European states including the UK are "suspending" asylum claims from Syrian nationals?
Irresponsible & xenophobic commentary aside, here's the facts as I understand them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPE...
Irresponsible & xenophobic commentary aside, here's the facts as I understand them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPE...
A Syrian ASYLUM BAN?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:33 AM
So... What does it actually mean that European states including the UK are "suspending" asylum claims from Syrian nationals?
Irresponsible & xenophobic commentary aside, here's the facts as I understand them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPE...
Irresponsible & xenophobic commentary aside, here's the facts as I understand them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdPE...
Way to go Aaron! Laying out in plain, precise language why we should not spend almost a trillion dollars to separate families, wreck our econonmy, and hypercharge inflation. The choice is clear!
If you want to watch my 5-minute opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee today, it's below. I lay out exactly why mass deportation is the wrong path to take this country down.
December 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Way to go Aaron! Laying out in plain, precise language why we should not spend almost a trillion dollars to separate families, wreck our econonmy, and hypercharge inflation. The choice is clear!
Thinking of all the Syrian families who were so hospitable to us when we travelled there before the war. All the refugees I’ve worked with and alongside for years. And everyone else with loved ones in that beautiful country. I hope this is a first step toward peace.
December 8, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Thinking of all the Syrian families who were so hospitable to us when we travelled there before the war. All the refugees I’ve worked with and alongside for years. And everyone else with loved ones in that beautiful country. I hope this is a first step toward peace.
"The Biden administration now has a last chance to prevent an impending disaster by working with the Mexican government to expand access to asylum at land border ports of entry, a policy approach that a majority of American voters support." Excellent op ed from @yaelschacher.bsky.social & Ari Sawyer
December 5, 2024 at 3:52 PM
"The Biden administration now has a last chance to prevent an impending disaster by working with the Mexican government to expand access to asylum at land border ports of entry, a policy approach that a majority of American voters support." Excellent op ed from @yaelschacher.bsky.social & Ari Sawyer
Imagine the many, many positive things the UK government could have done with all this money.
In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme
I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions
www.gov.uk/government/p...
I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions
www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 2, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Imagine the many, many positive things the UK government could have done with all this money.
Trump the dealmaker gets Mexico to agree to do the same thing they are already doing www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/u...
Mexico’s President and Trump Describe a Positive Talk but Differ on Migration Details
The discussion between President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and the president-elect came after Mr. Trump threatened tariffs unless Mexican authorities stopped migrants and drugs from coming across th...
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Trump the dealmaker gets Mexico to agree to do the same thing they are already doing www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/u...
"Though ['external deterrence'] receives less media attention than incoming President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportation, it will be a key area to watch as he works to fulfill his pledge to stop migrants from coming." 💯 Expect diplomacy/coercion across the region to deter migration
My latest Border Report for @voiceofsandiego.bsky.social looks at some of the ways deterrence strategies happen south of the US-Mexico border
Border Report: Deterrence Starts Way Before Migrants Reach Our Border
Strategies to keep migrants from entering the United States don’t just begin at the U.S.-Mexico border.
voiceofsandiego.org
November 27, 2024 at 1:36 PM
"Though ['external deterrence'] receives less media attention than incoming President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportation, it will be a key area to watch as he works to fulfill his pledge to stop migrants from coming." 💯 Expect diplomacy/coercion across the region to deter migration
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Using the same logic, Mexico and Canada could impose tariffs on US goods until we get serious about:
- Reducing US citizens' voracious demand for illicit drugs
- Stopping cross-border trafficking of weapons easily purchased at US gun shops
- Curtailing money-laundering in US banks, real estate etc.
- Reducing US citizens' voracious demand for illicit drugs
- Stopping cross-border trafficking of weapons easily purchased at US gun shops
- Curtailing money-laundering in US banks, real estate etc.
Trump announces blanket tariffs on goods imported from Canada, Mexico, and China
November 26, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Using the same logic, Mexico and Canada could impose tariffs on US goods until we get serious about:
- Reducing US citizens' voracious demand for illicit drugs
- Stopping cross-border trafficking of weapons easily purchased at US gun shops
- Curtailing money-laundering in US banks, real estate etc.
- Reducing US citizens' voracious demand for illicit drugs
- Stopping cross-border trafficking of weapons easily purchased at US gun shops
- Curtailing money-laundering in US banks, real estate etc.
They only have small (by American standards) turkeys in the German supermarkets. So I’m gonna supplement our 5kg turkey with this duck from the farmers market. Trying my hand at a confit with the legs/wings and pan seared breast.
November 26, 2024 at 1:10 PM
They only have small (by American standards) turkeys in the German supermarkets. So I’m gonna supplement our 5kg turkey with this duck from the farmers market. Trying my hand at a confit with the legs/wings and pan seared breast.