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#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries without giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:

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this means nothing, but in the UK maths is plural and sport is singular. in the US, math is singular and sports is plural that's kind of funny right?

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Once more with feeling

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“My cousin told me, ‘Go to Spain,’” ... “Here,” she said, “we have hope.”

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the Senegalese national women's basketball team seems to have been prevented from coming to the US due to visa restrictions www.cnn.com/2025/06/20/s...

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This is how climate migration happens

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good read from @niskanencenter.bsky.social on the efforts to overturn Plyler v. Doe, the 1982 SCOTUS decision ensuring students of all legal status can attend public schools for free www.niskanencenter.org/the-price-of...

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In 2008, the Bush administration tried to convince some immigrants to "self-deport," just as the Trump admin is doing now It, um, didn't go well www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

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Having a lot of books in the home as a child makes people more likely to migrate as adults, according to new research academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

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as the Schengen agreement hits 40 years of existence this week, 11 our of 29 member states had public plans to reintroduce border checks within the Schengen Zone

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Apparent steps backward for migrant rights in Kuwait

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The Marines arrested a US citizen and veteran on his way to the VA office www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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per the contact info, this website seems to have been set up by the Commerce Dept, which doesnt issue visas

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Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born. "What we are seeing is compelling evidence that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency, it is potentially a neurological one." grist.org/health/clima... #Health #Climate #Kids #Science #Children #Brains

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Trump’s latest climate rollback makes it all but official: The US is giving up on trying to stop the planet’s warming. In some ways, the effort has barely started. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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About 828,000 Canadian immigrants call the US home – making them an emblem of the historically warm relations between the two countries Our article offers a wealth of info on this group bit.ly/canadian-imm...

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ICE last week detained Khaby Lame, the world's most popular TikToker. He then left the country voluntarily apnews.com/article/tikt...

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Um whoa

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Chad is instituting a reciprocal travel ban for US citizens globalnews.ca/news/1121874...

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SCOOP: The Trump administration is planning to dramatically ramp up its transfer of undocumented migrants to Guantanamo Bay. Some 9,000 people are being screened, including hundreds from European countries, according to documents. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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"In unraveling key policies that contributed to establishing today’s quiet border, the administration is gambling with the possibility of increased irregular arrivals in the future." @colleenputzelkav.bsky.social puts her finger on Trump's border paradox www.migrationpolicy.org/news/low-mig...

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In the wake of a deadly attack and a brief war, India is moving to deport Pakistani women from the part of Kashmir it controls. inkstickmedia.com/the-pakistan...

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Pep Guardiola: “It's so painful what we see in Gaza. It hurts my whole body… Maybe we think that we see the boys and girls of 4 yo being killed by the bomb, it's not our business… Sorry, but I see my kids. When I see every morning since the nightmare started the infants in Gaza, and I'm so scared."

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Italy, which is facing a potentially bleak demographic crisis, just voted on whether to open up the labor market and make it easier to become a citizen Or, rather, Italians didn't vote. Less than 1/3 went to the polls, less than the 50% necessary www.bbc.com/news/article...

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ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is headed back to the US abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl...

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The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which began distributing aid last week, has closed all its centres.

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woah: “Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face the constant threat of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen…”

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The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad 6 months ago has left a big question for millions of Syrians who fled their war-torn country: Return or not? In our new article, Mohammed Torki Bani Salameh writes from Jordan about the question looming over the Middle East: www.migrationpolicy.org/article/syri...

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"quiet like a dead island" What's left on the small Panamanian island of Gardí Sugdub, which many residents have fled in the face of existential rising sea levels ticotimes.net/2025/06/03/p...

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lots of questions about whether Syrian refugees will return, now that Assad is long gone Meanwhile, 10s of thousands of Alawites have fled Syria to Lebanon www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

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Painting roofs a lighter color keeps buildings cooler, dramatically reducing the need for A/C and its energy use. But darker roofing material seems to be more profitable for companies, which have fought to kill policies floodlightnews.org/this-little-...

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- mexican man arrested for writing letters for threatening trump - letters were actually written by a wisconsin man whom the mexican guy was going to testify against for robbing him & slashing him with a box cutter - mexican guy still detained & facing deportation

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UN official says the ‘devastating milestone’ shows the damage of the displacement crisis after two years of fighting.

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Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede. Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

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A major decision that could allow about half a million people to be deported

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DC's mayor is quietly pushing a provision to repeal the District's "sanctuary" law limiting cooperation with ICE "It is a misnomer for the city."

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An underappreciated aspect of the new WMO report -- if the temperature predictions are correct, the world will pass 1.5C in as a long-term average (i.e., the _actual_ Paris goal) in 2027. In just two years. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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ICE is gaining access to an unprecedented amount of information about US residents -- and not just immigrants Read @colleenputzelkav.bsky.social & Muzaffar Chishti on the quiet but rapid expansion of data-consolidation in pursuit of mass deportations www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trum...

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potentially big news: A German court ruled that energy companies can be held liable for the damages attributed to climate change (altho it ruled against a Peruvian farmer in this particular case) www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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US administration openly intervened on behalf of the authoritarian populist candidate in the Polish presidential election

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I believe in a future involving a midfield in which everyone is named Martin and a defense and front line in which everyone is named Gabriel

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there were more than 1.1 million international students in the US in the 2023-24 school year Here you can see where they came from: opendoorsdata.org/data/interna...

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local and state authorities have used a license-plate lookup tool on behalf of ICE more than 4,000 times "while Flock does not have a contract with ICE, the agency sources data from Flock’s cameras by making requests to local law enforcement" www.404media.co/ice-taps-int...

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"For the first time, Venezuela will elect representatives not only for its 23 recognised states but also for a new state: Guayana Esequiba."

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International students account for more than 1/4 of students at Harvard

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I think Denmark's one of the most intriguing cases for immigration policymaking today. Led by Social Democrats, the country has become a leader for restrictions to humanitarian protection www.migrationpolicy.org/article/denm...

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