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Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D.

@igarciavaldivia.bsky.social
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asst. prof. | Ph.D. @UCBerkeley | Immigration. Life course/Aging. Race/Ethnicity. Family. Educator. Pup-mom. Retweets ≠ endorsement. My takes are my own.

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Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So thankful — academic wins are rare & take years. You rarely know the impact of your work while you're just trying to finish it. My paper "Life Course Illegality" just won 2 ASA awards 🎉. Seeing scholars like Angela S. García build on it means everything. 🔗 bit.ly/SF25-LCI
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Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I really enjoyed presenting at the IM presentations earlier this month in New York with amazing panelists (pictured here). #returnmigration
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 02/11/2025
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
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Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
As a past NSF GRFP recipient, I am disappointed with the last minute change to this year's competition. All students must now apply during their first year (instead of picking when they should apply apply - either first or second year). Read more here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/09/2025
Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.
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Claire Herbert @12claire12.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Back on #BlueSky to spread the word about the chaos unfolding at University of Oregon. Admin laid off teaching profs this summer & now are telling us that TT & tenured profs will be laid off & numerous #humanities depts closed. Who will teach the largest ever incoming cohort of #ducks this fall?
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2025
AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵
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AAUP President Denounces Planned Cuts at the University of Oregon
The AAUP stands with the United Academics of the University of Oregon in protesting the administration's plan to slash multiple departments and programs and fire faculty.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is not surprising, but so appalling. About 180 FEMA staff members knew they would be risking their jobs to communicate the degradation of emergency response under Trump tells you how bad things are. We can't say we were not warned, but the people who warned us are being punished for doing so.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Big news out of Florida tonight! An environmental challenge has brought the use of the Everglades detention camp to a halt.
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ASA Int'l Migration @asamigration.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Thanks to all who participated in our wonderful sessions at #ASA2025. See you in NYC for #ASA2026!!
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved
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Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada'
Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I haven't had time to say much about this case, dealing with "third country" deportations. But it's a terrible decision for all the reasons J. Sotomayor outlines in her dissent. She is probably the best justice on immigration issues, though wrong about much else: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Sadly not a new phenomenon. Many veterans have been deported over the years, often because of drug problems they acquired after PTSD from their time in the service.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day?
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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Not true that ICE should use masks because of increased attacks against them.
"assults" against officers down 20% from 2024.
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Ty Jones Cox @tyjonescox.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
85 cents a day may not sound like a lot for a parent to purchase fruits & veggies for their toddler. Yet the House Ag Approps Chair called this amount “hugely inflated” & wants to eventually cut the already modest $26 monthly #WIC benefit to $10/month. appropriations.house.gov/schedule/mar...
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Full Committee Markup of Fiscal Year 2026 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Bill
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
One of the fundamental themes of authoritarianism is that people doing the right thing will be labeled as doing the wrong thing. And often, that label is applied by bystanders who are still failing to recognize that the institutions they once trusted are no longer trustworthy.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Khalil is challenging the other charge of removability (claimed misrepresentation) as First Amendment retaliation, but those claims are ongoing. Until then, the government does still have statutory authority to keep him detained. He does have a right to a bond hearing, though.
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Attorney Kathleen Martinez @attorneymartinez.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
BREAKING: "California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said California will sue the Trump administration Monday over its deployment of the National Guard to quell Los Angeles protests against federal immigration raids."
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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Pres. Trump is NOT invoking the Insurrection Act, so the troops will fill a limited role. Posse Comitatus Act still prevents them from engaging in direct law enforcement activities.
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Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
📣 Very timely and important work from my colleague @hwaight.bsky.social and her coauthor. Consider reading the summary thread and article 🤓!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
My latest in @theguardian.com. It is not the nations on the travel ban that are a threat to US security. It is the US that robbed them of their wealth, destroyed their institutions & environment, & then denied them participation in safety built at their expense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Countries under Trump’s travel ban are unique subjects of American imperialism
US’s cruel escalation of policy puts misplaced target on vulnerable nations such as Afghanistan and Sudan
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025
NEW: Texas’ understaffed agricultural, restaurant and elder care sectors rely on workers who are undocumented. “If you got serious about applying [E-Verify], you would create even worse problems” with labor shortages, said a former GOP state lawmaker. With @texastribune.org
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Texas Talks Tough on Immigration. But Lawmakers Won’t Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization.
Texas’ conservative Legislature has again and again refused to mandate that most private businesses use E-Verify. Experts say that Republican resistance is rooted in how the system could impact the st...
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Haitians are the only people referenced as harmful to US communities for intangible and unspecified reason beyond security concerns and which is, as everyone knows, RACISM
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 05/06/2025
ICE detained a FOURTH GRADER during his #immigration hearing
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Outrage after California fourth grader is detained by ICE during immigration hearing
Martir Garcia Lara was ordered into custody in Houston as federal agents target courthouses nationwide
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
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Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📣🚨 NEW ARTICLE: Many #immigrants are aging & remain undocumented. What is their experience of illegality as they age–specifically their fear of deportation? New publication @sfjournal.bsky.social! Please read and share widely. 🔗 here: bit.ly/SF25-LCI (summary below) /1
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Life course illegality: how the life course and aging shape the experience of illegality
Abstract. Scholars have studied in detail how immigrants experience illegality in the US. Many have focused on immigrants’ fear of deportation as central t
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
BREAKING: Billionaires in America now hold a record $7 TRILLION in wealth. That's a $4.1 TRILLION increase since the last Trump tax scam. Republicans are now pushing a budget to give billionaires more tax breaks, paid for by cuts to healthcare and food assistance. Insanity.
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Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
My new-to-blusky friend Nicole Kreisberg @nicolekreisberg.bsky.social is looking for interviewees for her project on immigrant couples! Her research team is in particular need of more respondents from Latin America and/or on student visas. Please share widely! #Socsky
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Dr. Lisa Munro (she/her) @llmunro.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Everything is terrible and so is this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews
Directive could severely delay visa processing and hurt universities that rely on foreign students for revenue
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime. One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.
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Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted
What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/03/2025
Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for "No Other Land" about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by the Israeli military, witnesses tell NPR.
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Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director beaten by Israeli settlers, is now released
Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for No Other Land about Palestinians under Israeli occupation, was attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by the Israeli military, witnesses tell NPR.
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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Universities produce benefts for everyone, even does who do not attend. They are hubs of invention and inovation. Listen or read this good piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...
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Opinion | Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away. (Gift Article)
The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
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Childless Dog Lady is on sabbatical. 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
how much more are Palestinians supposed to fucking take, MY GOD
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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Julio was profiled because of a benign tattoo, shaven, shamed, and paraded as a criminal so that two national leaders could boast. Julio's second daughter was born in the U.S. while he was in detention in the U.S.; here he is meeting her through video call. theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/disap...
Meeting daughter while under immigration custody.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/02/2025
The move, which is in line with an executive order from President Trump to slash the federal workforce, raises concerns about staffing at the agency that delivers crucial benefits to Americans.
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'Significant workforce reductions' are coming to the Social Security Administration
The move, which is in line with an executive order from President Trump to slash the federal workforce, raises concerns about staffing at the agency that delivers crucial benefits to Americans.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Happening across government: pushing out general counsels to ensure the internal referees will say that whatever Trump wants to do is perfectly legal.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/02/2025
@sanders.senate.gov and I have a bill to get that done, so that seniors can retire with the dignity they deserve. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In
Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be signific...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I'm glad the judge is raising these concerns but... this specific issue is not even remotely new. ICE arrests people on pretrial bail all the time.
In a memo shared on Wednesday with judges nationally, Acting U.S. Marshals Service Director Mark Pittella made clear that the new authority permitted it to hold, detain and arrest migrants who are in prison, jail or have been recently released from custody.
Chang, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama in Chicago, in his memo said that while he appreciated the Marshals Service's decision to reach out to discuss the new policy, "the potential arrest and detention of defendants who have been released for pretrial-bail purposes raise questions that would seem nationwide in scope."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...
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How Unauthorized Immigrants Help Finance Social Security Benefits
Undocumented workers often pay taxes that help fund programs like Social Security — even if they can’t collect from them in the future.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.
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Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Follow ASA International Migration🌐
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The White House just issued a new executive order which appears to expand on a Day One executive orders, directing the administration to cut off any federal funding going to so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions and to not issue any federal benefits to undocumented immigrants (already large true).

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🚨 BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump just signed an executive order to TERMINATE all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens and END the subsidization of open borders.

Here is the text of the order:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The plain text of Federal law, including the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193) (PRWORA), generally prohibits illegal aliens from obtaining most taxpayer-funded benefits.  Title IV of the PRWORA states that it is national policy that "aliens within the Nation's borders not depend on public resources to meet their needs," and that "[i]t is a compelling government interest to remove the incentive for illegal immigration provided by the availability of public benefits." But in the decades since the passage of the PRWORA, numerous administrations have acted to undermine the principles and limitations directed by the Congress through that law.  Over the last 4 years, in particular, the prior administration repeatedly undercut the goals of that law, resulting in the improper expenditure of significant taxpayer resources.

My Administration will uphold the rule of law, defend against the waste of hard-earned taxpayer resources, and protect benefits for American citizens in need, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.Sec. 2. Preserving Federal Public Benefits. (a)  To prevent taxpayer resources from acting as a magnet and fueling illegal immigration to the United States, and to ensure, to the maximum extent permitted by law, that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens, the head of each executive department or agency (agency) shall:

(i)   identify all federally funded programs administered by the agency that currently permit illegal aliens to obtain any cash or non-cash public benefit, and, consistent with applicable law, take all appropriate actions to align such programs with the purposes of this order and the requirements of applicable Federal law, including the PRWORA;

(ii)   ensure, consistent with applicable law, that Federal payments to States and localities do not, by design or effect, facilitate the subsidization or promotion of illegal immigration, or abet so-called "sanctuary" policies that seek to shield illegal aliens from deportation; and

(iii) enhance eligibility verification systems, to the maximum extent possible, to ensure that taxpayer-funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien who entered the United States illegally or is otherwise unlawfully present in the United States.(b) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Administrator of the United States DOGE Service, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, shall further:

(i)   identify all other sources of Federal funding for illegal aliens; and

(ii) recommend additional agency actions to align Federal spending with the purposes of this order, and, where relevant, enhance eligibility verification systems.

(c) Agencies shall refer any improper receipt or use of Federal benefits to the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security for appropriate action.
Sec. 3.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c)  This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
83 years since EO 9066. Here is my mom with her parents - she was born into imprisonment at Gila River Relocation Center. She spoke kind and firm words of encouragement to me this past week when I told her of my efforts to get immigration lawyers to Guantánamo. www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-b...
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