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Jeanne Carstensen

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Journalist and author of "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis," coming March 25, 2025 from Simon & Schuster / One Signal. beacons.ai/jeannecarstensen

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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@sandiproy.bsky.social has written an astonish and entertaining book about Chapal Rani, India’s great female impersonator. I’ll be interviewing him tonight. Join us!
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Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 14/02/2026
Mission Local is the 20th most-read nonprofit news site in the country! That's according to Nieman Lab. We're in the rankings next to outlets with much larger budgets, covering much larger areas. Thank you all for helping us get here—onward and upward.
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Farrah Fazal @farrahfazal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don Lemon says the feds came to arrest him in the middle of the night at his home in LA. Prosecutors told the judge Lemon is a “threat to the community”. Unbelievable. Judge didn’t believe them. Lemon says he won’t stop covering the news. He has to be back in court on February 9th.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I can’t believe I’m posting this. Not only in the US deporting people with no due process, essentially kidnapping them, they are often using full body shackles. This is sick.
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ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 26/09/2025
As tanks closed in and relentless airstrikes occurred within a kilometre of our clinics, it was impossible to continue our vital work. Thousands of people still remain in Gaza City, now stripped of critical medical support. Read more here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
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Palestine: MSF forced to suspend activities amid intensified Israeli offensive in Gaza City | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF halts operations in Gaza City as Israeli offensive intensifies, hospitals overflow and civilians face dire shortages of care, shelter and essentials.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/07/2025
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Sotomayor: "Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied. I cannot join so gross an abuse ...."
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/05/2025
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices. www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
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DOGE Is Busier Than Ever—and Trump Says Elon Musk Is 'Really Not Leaving'
Federal workers from six agencies tell WIRED that DOGE-style work is escalating in their departments as both new and familiar DOGE faces have appeared in meetings and at new offices.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Thanks for reading!
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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"En pocos meses se ha roto la percepción de que Puerto Rico era un santuario para inmigrantes, donde las comunidades extranjeras llevaban años conviviendo y enriqueciendo a la boricua." elpais.com/us/migracion...
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Barrio Obrero, el corazón dominicano de Puerto Rico, se desgarra por las redadas de ICE: “Es una ciudad sitiada”
La política del presidente Donald Trump aterroriza en una zona del territorio estadounidense considerada el epicentro migrante de la isla
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is deplorable. The human rights abuses against migrants in Libya have been clearly documented. @sallyhadden.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
“Alarm bells must ring, Loudly.” Indeed
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Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention.
The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
New Yorker’s @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social on Trump’s plan to deport 7 million by suspending the rule of law shorturl.at/ijEdg
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here it is — A Greek Tragedy: The Official Book Trailer! Thank you to my dear friend, filmmaker Paul Lundhal, for making this beautiful visual introduction to my book — including the mesmerizing animation of Orpheus’s head washing up on Lesvos.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Eighteen more migrants, including at least four children, drowned today trying to cross from Turkey to Lesvos. I mourn for the families and loved ones of the deceased. These senseless deaths must stop.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What a great night at The Commonwealth Club! Huge thanks to @cwclub.bsky.social and the incredible Tyche Hendricks of KQED for such a thoughtful conversation about A Greek Tragedy and the human cost of failed migration policies.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I discuss my new book (A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis) with journalist and author @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social on his tremendous podcast, Radio Free Mike. Check it out!
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007 Jeanne Carstensen: A Greek Tragedy
The story of a shipwreck off Lesbos — the worst refugee disaster in the eastern Aegean — ten years on
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Listen to my interview on NPR's Weekend Edition. I spoke with host Scott Simon about the October 28, 2015 shipwreck that took 76 lives, the heroic response of the Greek islanders, and the ongoing global migration flow.
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How a 2015 shipwreck off the Greek coast shows the human cost of the refugee crisis
NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, "Greek Tragedy," about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
So thrilled to have an excerpt from my book A Greek Tragedy in @literaryhub.bsky.social.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It’s finally happening – today is publication day for A GREEK TRAGEDY. And yes, it’s available between two beautiful covers, as an eBook, and as an audio book read by Cassandra Campbell. You can order from all the usual online booksellers – or from your favorite neighborhood bookshop. #NewBook
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Dalia Lithwick: “We are now at the place, only eight weeks into this presidency, at which judges must decide if they will take the necessary steps to enforce their decisions, including sanctions and contempt, or if they will agree to be made irrelevant. Those are the remaining options.”
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We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thank you to @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social, one of this country’s best writers on migration, for supporting A GREEK TRAGEDY. It means a lot. A GREEK TRAGEDY is out in just 5 days—March 25, 2025! Hit the link in my bio to pre-order! 📖 #newbook #bookrelease
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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Trump hates accountability & certainly doesn’t want oversight. He fired about 17 independent lawyers in Gov’t whose job is to neutral and forever the public against govt abuse of power. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Ask yourselves why he attacks an org that has way less money & powder than he does?
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Trump fires more than a dozen independent inspectors general at government agencies
The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration that some members of Congress are sug...
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David Leopold @davidleopold.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is some serious shit. The Alien Enemies Act led to the internment of US citizens of Japanese descent during WWII. www.justsecurity.org/109133/alien...
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Trump Administration Appears to Launch 'Alien Enemies Act' Deportation Program
Trump administration appeared to start the process of carrying out the deportation of Venezuelan nationals pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE brutalized this man, a legal resident of the US from Germany. They “violently interrogated” him at Logan and tried to take away his green card. First Khalid, now Schmidt, next?
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Originally from Germany, Fabian Schmidt was stopped on his way home from Luxembourg, questioned, and held in Rhode Island.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic,& women veterans.The website for Arlington "unpublished" links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and educational material pertaining to Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as some Medal of Honor recipients.”
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A Greek Tragedy is coming to The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco! @cwclub.bsky.social GET YOUR TICKETS NOW at the Commonwealth Club website or follow the link in my bio under EVENTS. I hope to see you there!
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“DOGE’s cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does.”
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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Yes, people, they are coming for the arts, trying to inflict their MAGA world view on all expression by tying federal grants to their pro-white, anti-everyone else criteria. Wow, sounds like free speech to me!
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Cultural Organizations Protest Trump Efforts to Confine Speech for Federal Grantees
Seven arts, culture, and free expression organizations have issued a statement asserting that recent Trump Administration executive actions are aimed at turning federally funded programs into “the mou...
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A federal judge in Seattle blocks Trump’s effort to halt the refugee admissions system
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A federal judge in Seattle blocks Trump’s effort to halt the refugee admissions system
A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to halt the nation’s refugee admissions system.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Live updates: 21 employees resign from DOGE, refusing to 'dismantle critical public services'
Elon Musk is vowing yet again to fire any federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished last week.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin supreme court www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin supreme court
“His attack on democracy isn’t limited to gutting the federal government. He wants it all.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thank you @govpritzker.illinois.gov!
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hello. I’m excited to announce my upcoming events for A GREEK TRAGEDY. I’ll be in the Bay Area, Portland, and New York.  I look forward to sharing what I learned over close to a decade of researching and writing about the October 28, 2015 refugee shipwreck off Lesvos. #NewBook #BookTour
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am deeply grateful to the incredible people – Syrian and Afghan refugees, fishermen, lifeguards and many more – who shared their stories with me.  🧵Thread #RefugeeCrisis #MigrantJourneys #ImmigrationStories #SocialJustice
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Coming soon! See the Simon & Schuster link in my bio. #BookRelase
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Gamergate might seem trivial compared to the Musk/Doge takeover of government, but they have similar roots in misogyny and techno-authoritarianism. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Nazis and Racists and “Big Balls,” Oh My!
Elon Musk’s DOGE-boys are hacking our government. The misogynist bros of the 2014 Gamergate travesty have won. For now.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/02/2025
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social has a message for his fellow Senate Democrats: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a Constitutional and democratic crisis." No votes for nominees, no votes for legislation. Make life difficult for complicit Republicans. #resist #forkoff
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): "We need to act like a real opposition party"
YouTube video by climatebrad
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
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It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Let us speak of this & help @robertmacfarland.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @tempestwilliams.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @elizkolbert.bsky.social Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! buttondown.com/5calls
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5 Calls Newsletter
The 5 Calls Newsletter breaks down what your representatives are voting on and what you can do to influence them. From your friends at 5 Calls
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RSA - Refugee Support Aegean @rsaegean.org · 05/02/2025
Joint statement by the organisations representing survivors and victims of the Adriana fishing vessel #shipwreck off #Pylos: rsaegean.org/en/scathing-report-by-… On the occasion of the Greek Ombudsman’s press release regarding the (1/10)
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Pre-order A GREEK TRAGEDY at a discount! Barnes & Noble is running a 25% off all pre-orders from Wednesday, February 5th through Friday, February 7th! Use this code: PREORDER25 at barnesandnoble.com or by clicking the link in my bio. #nonfictionbooks bit.ly/3Eq3sAR
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 03/02/2025
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're going to be outside Treasury tomorrow at 5 PM to ask Elon Musk what he's doing with our money. SHARE AND JOIN US: www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Thanks @kimberlyburns.bsky.social
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Musk publicly called on Whitaker to resign after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
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Jeanne Carstensen @jcarstensen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump just slammed the door in the face of 1000s of Afghans who helped the US military. Shame on him, pox on their anti-immigrant EOs. These allies were fully vetted and deserve our welcome.
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They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies.
An executive order has halted refugee flights for Afghans who supported the American mission in Afghanistan and had been approved to resettle in the U.S.
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