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Dr. Frank Laczko

@flaczko.bsky.social
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Former UN Migration Director. Series Editor, Routledge, Global Migration Issues, books. Budapest, Hungary. Geneva, Adviser Multi-Cultural Insights. Son of a refugee.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 22/09/2025
The White House said that Trump's proclamation "allows for potential exemptions, which can include physicians and medical residents."
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Map shows health care H-1B visas by state as Trump floats fee exemption
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 22/09/2025
Hiring workers on a H-1B visa may now cost employers $100,000 more. Here's why the CTO of an expanding AI company isn't worried about that price tag.
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I'd happily pay $100,000 for an H-1B hire to get the best talent for my AI company. It's part of the cost of doing business.
Hiring workers on a H-1B visa may now cost employers $100,000 more. Here's why the CTO of an expanding AI company isn't worried about that price tag.
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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Among the details in our new article from @flaczko.bsky.social & Neli Esipova: Female Chinese international students in the US are more likely to want to stay than their male counterparts Read more about the factors affecting students’ decisions bit.ly/46chwrY
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Amid Declining U.S. Enrollment, Many Chinese Students Cite Negative Experiences
The United States remains the top destination for Chinese students studying internationally, although numbers have declined significantly in recent years. Most Chinese students at U.S. colleges and universities say they have experienced discriminatio...
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Migration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Most Chinese college students in the US say they have faced discrimination & abuse. About half experienced racism Our NEW ARTICLE from @flaczko.bsky.social & Neli Esipova digs into survey findings www.migrationpolicy.org/article/disc...
A chart: Chinese Students' Experiences in the United States, 2024
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Trump and Chinese students. Trump says they're coming in and we need them. And his administration is systematically denying all their visa applications. Typical case of Trump chaos.
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Trump Says He Welcomes Chinese Students, as His Administration Blocks Them
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
So, 3 months ago, the US govt said it would "aggressively" revoke visas of Chinese students. Now, Trump wants to "welcome more Chinese students than ever." I feel sorry for the Chinese students, for US visa officials, for anyone who still attempts to make sense of US politics.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
President Trump threw his own conservative base into disarray this week after declaring he would welcome 600,000 Chinese students to American universities — a position that clashes with his administration’s past hard line on student visas. belib.org/oNCg6qX
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Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Base Are Accusing Him of Betraying His ‘America First’ Agenda
MAGA voices on social media are outraged at Trump's proposal to let 600,000 Chinese students enter the U.S.
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Go-go boots Ronnie says we have too many Chinese students while the orange conman wants to allow another 600,000 in. Keep infighting. We like that #USDemocracy www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/educa...
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Ron DeSantis claims the number of Chinese students in US is 'way out of bounds'
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) criticized the Trump administration over its decision to grant student visas to as many as 600,000 Chinese students.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/08/2025
China urges US to welcome Chinese students, stop 'harassment' reut.rs/47MzzY2
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China urges US to welcome Chinese students, stop 'harassment'
China hopes the United States will act on U.S. President Donald Trump's commitment to welcome Chinese students, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/08/2025
President Donald Trump has sparked backlash from some members of his loyal base by saying his administration would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities.
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Trump saying 600,000 Chinese students could come to the US draws MAGA backlash
President Donald Trump has sparked backlash from some members of his loyal base by saying his administration would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/08/2025
Right-wing media has spent years portraying Chinese international students as economic saboteurs or outright spies. Why? In part because key figures inside Trump world have been making that case for years. Now Trump is calling for 600,000 Chinese student visas. NEW from Will Sommer:
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MAGA’s Newest Meltdown With Trump
Move over, Epstein files—the president’s call for 600,000 Chinese student visas has his base irked.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/08/2025
Q: "In May, Sec. Rubio said they were aggressively removing visas of Chinese students. Yesterday, you said you wanted to allow 600 thousand Chinese students to study in the U.S....What is the policy on Chinese students?" Trump: "I'm getting along very well with President Xi. I think it's very insul
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Dr. Frank Laczko @flaczko.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People
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Dr. Frank Laczko @flaczko.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits Senior Care Work Force
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Mackay @cnocfinn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
@atpgeo.bsky.social 1/4 Brain Drain Trends (2025) Emigration of Skilled Workers: The U.S. is experiencing a modest "brain drain" as highly educated professionals seek better opportunities abroad. Significant net losses of state college-educated individuals, with emigration rates exceeding 60%
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Department for Migration and Globalisation @demigkrems.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Together with Michail Moschovokos (@ec.europa.eu - Research and Innovation), Giulio Maria Mancini (@euhomeaffairs.bsky.social), Fabian Bach (Eurostat), @deniskierans.bsky.social (@compasoxford.bsky.social), @flaczko.bsky.social (former @iom.int), @bircantuba.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel),
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 19/06/2025
Foreign nationals applying for student and exchange visitors visas will be asked to set their social media profiles to public, and the U.S. State Department said failure to do so would raise red flags.
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U.S. orders social media vetting for student visa applicants
The move steps up measures to restrict foreign nationals’ entry to American campuses over national security concerns.
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Jonathan Chaloff @jonathanchaloff.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
The world's largest (and only) migration statistics conference - more than 500 participants, dozens of sessions - will be in Malmö, Sweden, 16-18 June 2025 Co-organised by OECD, IOM and UNDESA. Paper/Session proposals can be submitted by 1 December.⬇️ oe.cd/ifms-2025
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Malmö universitet/Malmö University @mau.se · 13/06/2025
More than 500 participants from around the world will gather in Malmö on 16-18 June for a conference on global migration. “We need a better understanding of international migration at the global level,” says Professor Pieter Bevelander, Director of the research centre MIM. mau.se/en/news/glob... 🧪
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Global migration in focus as leading experts gather in Malmö | Malmö University
More than 500 participants from around the world will gather in Malmö on 16-18 June for a conference on global migration. “We need a better understanding of international migration at the global level,” says Professor Pieter Bevelander, Director of the Malmö University Research Centre for Migration Studies (MIM), which is hosting the event.
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Centre for Economic Performance @cep-lse.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In a new blog @alanmanning4.bsky.social explains why change was needed to the "seriously flawed" social care visa route and how the government now needs to deliver on its promise to make care work a more attractive job. blogs.lse.ac.uk/poli...
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Why the social care visa had to go - British Politics and Policy at LSE
Labour's immigration White Paper has proposed closing the social care visa route for workers from overseas. This was a needed change to a flawed system.
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BIV News @bivnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
OTTAWA — Population growth in Canada slowed slightly in the last quarter of the year as the government made efforts to reduce temporary migration into the country, Statistics Canada revealed Wednesday.
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Population growth slows for first time since pandemic as feds clamp down: StatCan
OTTAWA — Population growth in Canada slowed slightly in the last quarter of the year as the government made efforts to reduce temporary migration into the country, Statistics Canada revealed Wednesday.
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Ben Brindle @benbrindle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New net migration figures covering 2024 will be released on Thursday. Fewer visas have been granted, so it's widely expected that numbers will fall. But here are 3 questions we'll be asking when the stats are released.
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Dr. Frank Laczko @flaczko.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Ed Davey's Why I care and why care matters out this Friday www.libdemvoice.org/ed-daveys-wh...
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Ed Davey’s Why I care and why care matters out this Friday
Ed Davey has written a book about his own varied and lifelong caring experience and it’s coming out on 22 May, just in time for me to take my copy with me on my Highland holiday. He sent an email to p...
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Oxford Social Sciences Division @socsci.ox.ac.uk · 13/12/2024
💡 Fascinating article explaining the recent changes in UK #migration data ⬇️ Prof Sumption is Director of @migobs.bsky.social, based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Well worth a listen. Nasar is PI for the Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees project, and Sergi is a member of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A Migration Advisory Committee explainer on net migration trends & policy options. MAC thinks net migration is heading towards 300k on current policies. Population falls if inflow is < 120k and rises when > 120k (as deaths > births gap) www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Net migration report (accessible)
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Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This really brings home the scale of some of the recent revisions to the UK's official migration statistics 🤯 Excellent piece by Madeleine from @migobs.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-do-the-u...
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Roger Hyttinen @artful-dodger.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Today's writing quote: ““Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” ―George Orwell #writing #writingquote #writingcommunity
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Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump's UN hit list. Is UNICEF next? www.globaldispatches.org/p/trump-is-c...
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Trump is Coming for UNICEF
For decades, UNICEF has been a symbol of international cooperation. Now, it's the target of an unprecedented effort by the U.S. government to undermine it.
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spring has arrived; as has the latest ISRF Newsletter! Read on for: Chris Newfield's Director's Note on so-called #ArtificialIntelligence, ISRF events, Fellows news, and recent blog posts. mailinglist.isrf.org/p/isrf-newsl...
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ISRF Newsletter – March 2025
Spring has arrived; as has the next ISRF Newsletter! Read on for: a Director's Note on so-called 'Artificial Intelligence', ISRF events, Fellows news, and recent blog posts.
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Methods in Migration Research (Meth@Mig - IMISCOE) @methatmig.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hello there! We are the IMISCOE Standing Committee „Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research“ or  “Meth@Mig” for short. We will use this profile to share news about our SC and members. Please follow us to stay up-to-date. Learn more about us: www.imiscoe.org/research/sta...
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy theconversation.com/trumps-tarif...
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Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on ...
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Canada Immigration News @canadaimmignews.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Canada has long been known for its welcoming stance toward refugees and asylum seekers. However, as global migration patterns shift, Canada faces the task of balancing border security with its humanitarian duty to protect vulnerable individuals fleeing danger. canadaimmigration.news/canadas-asyl...
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Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📢 And the countdown is on! ➡️ Get ready for the 21st #MPCSummerSchool! Join us in Florence from 16 to 27 June for two weeks of intense learning, #networking, & collaboration on global migration governance. ❗Grants available Applications are open until 28 February: www.eui.eu/apply?id=mig...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"“In this hyperpolarized environment and debate, many people have missed the big picture,” said Marco Tabellini, an economist who studies migration and political change at Harvard University. “Countries in the global north will have to really compete for migrants.”
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We think the world will always be how it is now. But I think we need to imagine a world in which there are too few migrants, and many more nations competing to attract them. This is the first in a series I'll be publishing about global migration. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
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Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All (Gift Article)
Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk sys that he and President Trump are in the process of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy and defying the constitutional power of Congress to determine how money is spent.
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Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
Musk announced the planned closure of the foreign assistance agency early Monday morning on social media.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this. Do not.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22/01/2025
Many Reddit users are boycotting X after Elon Musk twice made a gesture that resembled a Nazi salute during President Trump’s inaugural celebration.
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Reddit Users Boycott X Links After Elon Musk’s Gesture at Inaugural Event
A boycott of links to Mr. Musk’s social media platform spread on Reddit this week, after he made a gesture that some likened to a Nazi salute. Others worried about censorship.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Powering the world with clean energy is common sense. It will secure the future for our grandchildren. The clean energy transformation is - and remains - unstoppable www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/t...
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Trump Withdraws from Paris Agreement (Again): What This Moment Means for Climate Action
Trump has pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement (again) — but here’s how the US can still fight the climate crisis.
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Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
How many unauthorised migrants are there in the UK? How can one become an unauthorised migrant? What motivates unauthorised migrants, or how do they respond to policies like the hostile environment? We tackle these and key important questions in our updated briefing (link below)
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Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I'm very excited to announce that my new book SUM OF US: A History of the UK in Data will be published this April by Bridge Street Press/ Little Brown. It feels very timely & future-facing considering it's a history book! I had a lot of fun writing it and I can't wait to hear people’s reactions.
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Amy Pope - IOM Chief @iomchief.iom.int · 22/01/2025
Are you ready for demographic change? It’s time to bring together the actors who have a stake in building migration frameworks that work to meet the needs of a changing world. #WEF25 (Credits: WEF / Ciaran McCrickard)
IOM Director General at World Economic Forum's townhall on debating migration and demography.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🇺🇦 "Currently, 30% to 70% of Ukrainian refugees are working abroad. If a person has transferred some of their money back home, in 5-10 years there will be nothing to stop them from staying abroad. They invest savings in something in Ukraine." Read more👇 theukrainianreview.info/andriy-gaidu...
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Andriy Gaidutsky: After the cessation of hostilities or victory, 1-2 million may leave
According to Andriy Gaidutskyi, a doctor of economics and expert on migration policy, it is not the ministry but local communities that should return Ukrainians.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Here's Farage on #LauraKuenssberg calling Musk "a hero" whose endorsement made his party "look cool." Less than 3 hours later, Musk said he should be replaced.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
France’s President Macron stated that Elon Musk is "directly intervening in elections, including Germany" and "supporting a new reactionary international." At least 3 other European leaders Olaf Scholz, Keir Starmer & Jonas Gahr Støre have called out Musk in last 24 hours.
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Mary Waters @marywaters.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
My graduate student Saul Ramirez has been studying people who have been deported to Mexico. He has a terrific op ed in today's LA Times. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Opinion: Why Trump's plan to deport millions will fall far short of what it promises
Many of the immigrants removed from the United States inevitably come back, driven by connections here and risks in their countries of origin.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Stats on who gets H1-B visas. Make of them what you will. immigrationroad.com/visa/h1b-wor...
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ImmigrationRoad.com - Green Card, Visa, Citizenship
ImmigrationRoad.com is a resource center for immigrants seeking to study, work or live the US.
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