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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

“If I were an immigration practitioner now, I’d tell my clients that they have to act like they’re in a war zone,” said retired immigration judge Dana Leigh Marks, calling the destruction of immigration courts "the canaries in the coalmine.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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A Public Affair @apublicaffair.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🎙️Less than 1/3 of WI's new budget for childcare will go directly to childcare providers. But it doesn't have to be this way. @isabeau.bsky.social tells Douglas Haynes about how Quebec created a successful and popular universal childcare system. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/a-proven-mod...

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A Proven Model of Universal Childcare Exists - WORT-FM 89.9

On today’s show, journalist Isabeau Doucet shares how one state made an investment in universal childcare and changed its entire economy.

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Craig Spencer MD MPH @craigspencer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The day after Elon Musk assured us there was “no interruption” in Ebola prevention the Trump administration cancelled almost all Ebola-related contracts Along with HIV medications for kids And polio vaccines And malaria programs We will regret this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Thanks all the people who shared their harrowing stories with me, to the immigration attorneys who patiently answered so many questions and to my stellar editor @noayachot.bsky.social

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Though they make up one of the largest refugee groups in the world, Palestinians are largely excluded from the international refugee system. This state of limbo since 1948 has created bureaucratic barriers unique to them–a hellscape of exile, statelessness and erasure.

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Palestinians aren't allowed to register as "Palestinian" with USCIS and are officially required to claim citizenship of a neighboring country, even if they've never been to that country.

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Mike Casey, a US diplomat who helped resettle this refugee in the US said: “If I tried to justify it saying they can’t go back to Gaza because of Israeli threats, it would have never been approved.” Casey and has since resigned from the Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem.

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The only refugee from Gaza who I could find had been resettled in the US in the past 14 months had to prove persecution by someone other than Israel, even after surviving an airstrike on their home while their family was inside.

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Despite the scale of Israeli state violence against Palestinians, it is rarely considered in US refugee and asylum claims.

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Though the US took in more refugees in 2024 than any other year since 1995, it has hardly resettled anyone from Gaza since the start of the war.

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Isabeau Doucet @isabeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I spent weeks interviewing Palestinians from Gaza and investigating the Kafkaesque nightmare they face when seeking refuge in the US. They fled the abyss of horrors in Gaza only to find their Palestinian identity doesn’t exist for US immigration purposes: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Palestinians seeking US refuge face a Kafkaesque nightmare. Trump could make it even worse

Gaza has been besieged for 14 months, but the US has hardly accepted any refugees

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Noa Yachot @noayachot.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Palestinians from Gaza are facing unprecedented violence yet are largely excluded from the international refugee system. @isabeau.bsky.social has a powerful investigation looking at how this can be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Gaza has been besieged for 14 months. The US has hardly accepted any refugees

Palestinians seeking urgent protection in the US must navigate a Kafkaesque system that’s unique to them – and it could get worse under Trump

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