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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off. Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Utter madness. 36 million people. 👇 At least 500,000 tons of American-grown food meant for food-insecure people worldwide are stuck in ports and warehouses due to Trump administration freeze on USAID. It’s enough to feed >36 million people and valued at ~ $500 million. www.devex.com/news/us-grow...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

DOJ brief defending Trump birthright citizenship order below. Remarkably, almost laughably weak

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, including imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says

submitted 25 days ago • 270 comments

Trump's tariffs are part of the wider phenomenon of Hardball Migration Diplomacy. This is not new. Trump used threats in his first term. And the EU, Bush, and Obama also used visa sanctions and threats to get states to cooperate on deportations and other migration policies.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

If you want to learn more about the history of US citizenship, I'm re-sharing my past review of two books about US citizenship, birthright by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novov, and another book on citizenship stripping by Amanda Frost. www.lpbr.net/2023/02/you-...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Good. More of this.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

What a lie. Here's the Supreme Court in 2012 making clear that simply being in the country without permission is NOT a crime: "As a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States." It's a civil violation, not a crime.

submitted 31 days ago • 104 comments

Why the “Finance COP”in Baku Missed the Mark? #COP29 was focused on scale but not enough on the how and what of climate finance. @carnegieendowment.org

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Cutting funding to UNRWA politicizes refugee aid and collectively punishes Palestinians. @kelseypnorman and I explain the long history of politicization of UNRWA and how this part of global pattern of politicized aid to refugees theconversation.com/funding-for-...

submitted 393 days ago • 0 comments

[email protected], Adam Lichtenheld, & Kelsey Norman on how Israeli forces are engaging in mass displacement as a strategy of war, likely violating international law given all signs point to unwillingness to let people return theconversation.com/israels-mass...

submitted 445 days ago • 0 comments