#Migrants

1) Thread on CBP prepping for battles in America’s cities: Noticed for some months now that Border Patrol/CBP are not as present on the border. With crossings limited to essential
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THREADIn 1914 there was a deeply rooted and thriving community of German migrants in Britain; by 1918 it was almost utterly destroyed. (1) In 1911, 53,324 German migrants lived in
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A confusing thing is that in Anglophone Taiwanese discourse, the label "migrant" is used for both "migrant workers" who lack long-term residency rights; & "immigrants" like the women below, almost
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A great read by @AbrahmL in @nytimes on how Russia might win from climate change, and how it can handle potential migration from China. The story has lots of interesting
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Fascinating invocation of the term 'hospitality' by Green Bay's @MayorGenrich in anticipation of #POTUS's Wisconsin trip. As my research shows, political leaders have often cited the state's history of welcoming
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Netflix’s Immigration Nation reminded me that according to Trump, MS 13 were coming to to the suburbs to rape white women before black people and Antifa were. Have a watch
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I am new to budget negotiations, but since it has become a major element of the #RuleOfLaw debate, here is an attempt (and timeline) at understanding this evening's veto from
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Boden, Sweden:THE END OF OWNING NICE CARSThe main driver of spreading Islam in Sweden is immigrationJealous migrants destroy Swedish citizens cars in parking lotsPolice were asked about this incident & they didn't
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Kudos to the Malaysian cabinet for the decision to provide free vaccines for non-citizens under the NIP. Thanks, @Khairykj. Hopefully, this includes the vulnerable non-citizens without documentation- undocumented migrants, refugees,
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They've always suffered from his policies. They suffer from tax policies which makes them poorer, they suffer when they don't have health care, etc.But they love him because he tells
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I am sharing this thread again on Priti Patel and "racial gatekeepers" since it seems to have struck a chord. The ethos of the Racial Gatekeeper = my policies against
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1 Conservative commentators are decrying the departure of Banks & Plunket from Radio Magic, & warning of a sinister new phenomenon called 'Cancel Culture'. But boycotting is an old tactic
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Many people struggle to "learn to code" due to abstractions. Everything in scripting is an abstraction, but when you must delve six or seven abstractions deep to find out how
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The Coast Guard is blocking passage up the Potomac to Washington, D.C. This is a reminder that democracy won a battle but has not won the war. It was an
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I've now read Michael Gove's Ditchley lecture. I'm not impressed. It contains nothing we have not heard many times before. Every government in my lifetime has started out with an
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Great article by public health expert on the primary reasons for covid spread in Oz - TLDR policing individual behaviours will have limited efficacy if you don't address the structural
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