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John Slocum

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Executive Director, Refugee Council USA. Nonresident Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs. For now, also on X as @JohnSlocum2. Posts are my own.

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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump administration's refugee program is highly discriminatory. More than 450 state and local elected officials from across the country are calling for the US to welcome as refugees "those fleeing persecution, regardless of their race, religion, or country of origin." tinyurl.com/2tpr5j8n
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450+ U.S. State and Local Elected Officials Call to Restore Refugee Program — The Refugee Advocacy Lab
WASHINGTON—Today, more than 450 state and local elected officials across the country delivered a letter to the Trump administration calling to rebuild a refugee program that is fair, strengthens our c...
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The United Nations was founded to preserve peace. It’s a horrific turn of events to have the US president take the podium there boasting of war crimes and threatening to commit more.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lawyer for Texas man shot by ICE, Wilber Garcés Perez: No more traffic stops by ICE. ICE does not know how to conduct traffic stops safely. We need our members of Congress to put a stop to ICE stopping people in traffic
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A president who bans the free press should not be president.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The White House's failure to understand the economic contributions of immigrants is as damaging to this country as its failure to understand international trade. The must-read new AFL-CIO/ACLU report shows how mass deportations DRAMATICALLY WORSEN the affordability crisis aflcio.org/reports/citi...
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Citizenship and the Affordability Agenda | AFL-CIO
After nearly four decades of punitive enforcement focused immigration policies, it is time to rebalance our system. A path to better jobs, higher wages, and prosperity for all.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The correct spelling is "Lake 25th Amendment"
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Trump is insisting that ICE resume vehicular stops - in effect ordering his unaccountable federal police force to keep murdering people in their cars. ACLU’s excellent “Agents of Chaos” report on ICE abuses, released today, could not be more timely: www.aclu.org/publications...
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Agents of Chaos and Cruelty: How the Trump Administration's National Deportation Policing Force Has Attacked American Communities | American Civil Liberties Union
This ACLU research report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, documents widespread civil rights violations carried out by immigration agents during the first year of President Trump’s second term. The repor...
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Another murder by ICE today. When is this going to stop?
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Birthright citizenship has been, and remains, the law of the land. The question has been, and remains, settled.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Expelling productive members of society, as this administration (abetted by SCOTUS) is doing, is monumentally counterproductive from an economic point of view.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Expressing solidarity with TPS holders and asylum seekers in view of today's terrible Supreme Court rulings. The American people embrace newcomers who need protection; the court made blatantly political decisions, ignoring the Trump administration's clearly racist intent in slamming the door shut.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
On this World Refugee Day, let's rededicate ourselves to the core American values of welcoming the stranger and providing safe haven to the persecuted. Doing so makes our communities and our country better and stronger. Turning away refugees and demonizing newcomers diminishes us as a nation.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The United States is hosting the biggest sporting event in the world. But what kind of "host country" slams the door in the face of so many people from so many countries around the world? #FIFA2026 #WeWillWelcome
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Today the US hosts its first #WorldCup2026 match. But what kind of "host" country blocks the door to immigrants and refugees, rounds up and arrests newcomers, throws them in detention camps without due process, and unlawfully expels them to places where their lives are in danger? #WeWillWelcome
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
More than thirty countries, the United States among them, have unrestricted birthright citizenship.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This competitive redistricting business has an ominous feel to it. Like the Kansas-Nebraska Act, or the Anglo-German naval arms race. Neither of which ended well.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Putin explained NATO to Trump. Now Trump wants to leave NATO. Operation Putin's Puppet nearing successful completion.
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Rowena Eureka @rowenaeureka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Anti-War protest tonight at 6 pm at the White House. Spread the word!
Stop the War on Iran. 6 pm at White House - sponsored by multiple organizations
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump posted today that "a whole civilization will die tonight" and if that's not a threat of genocide I don't know what is.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Happy Passover / Chag Pesach Sameach!
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“Illegal” is shorthand for the structural hypocrisy of a system that exploits the labor of undocumented workers without creating legal pathways for them.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Eid Mubarak! Nowruz Mubarak! Happy Spring!
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I am so damn tired of the “fake news” label, which is a childish, petulant, way of referring to coverage you don’t like. Coming from persons in power - up to and including the president - it’s also a chilling authoritarian move.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“Welcome to your new AI assistant” is just nature‘s way of saying “Your tech overlords hate you and want to see you dead”
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The same person telling us we can't address diversity, equity, and inclusion - and who orders removed signage that truthfully discusses how the first US president was an enslaver - that same guy unapologetically uses his megaphone to spread the most vile racist crap.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New reality
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It matters in which department a government function is housed. Ben Rhodes makes a cogent case that the post-9/11 transfer of Immigration enforcement from DOJ (rule-of-law) to DHS (counter-terrorism) is a key structural problem underlying today's hyper-militarized, constitution-flaunting ICE/CBP.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I can't tell you how much I won't miss seeing Bovino's face in the news for a while - that is, not until he's put on trial.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 20/01/2026
Those who claim to defend 'Western civilization' are today gutting the institutions on which the West's civil, peaceful coexistence has rested for all our lives.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
For the US to destroy NATO over Greenland would be game, set, match for Putin.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
My commentary on events in Minneapolis and the administration's punitive and discriminatory new "Operation Parris" policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting resettled refugees.
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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The sheer volume of white nationalist memes/allusions posted from official government accounts over the past year is staggering www.vox.com/politics/475...
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The entire US foreign policy establishment needs to speak out with one voice on the idiocy of saber-rattling toward Greenland - and the world-historical catastrophe that would result from following through on threats to annex it by force.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I don’t think it should be unreasonable to hope that a few more GOP senators can find it within themselves to speak out about how absolutely bananas it is to threaten to invade and annex Greenland.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Impeachment before Greenland
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
What is just crazy about this, aside from the need for this statement at all, is that Greenland already IS in the US sphere of influence. It's far cheaper for the US, in material, security, and reputational terms, to have Denmark continue administering Greenland and work within NATO on security.
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Andrea R. Flores @andreaflores.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
🧵There will be much to say about Trump’s military actions. Yes, he should have sought congressional authorization. But too much analysis leaves out how Venezuelans, both in the diaspora and at home, understand what just happened. Their perspective should inform our understanding.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Since he likes to put his name on things, why not “The Trump-Epstein Files”?
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is International Migrants Day. Business and civic leaders must speak out against this administration's cruel collective punishments against legal immigrants, refugees, and asylees and the unacceptable police-state excesses of its immigration enforcement campaign.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Fortunately, the boat that transported María Corina Machado out of Venezuela did so without being attacked by U.S. drones.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
With all of this administration's drastic and unpopular policies, now would be a good time for politicians on both sides of the aisle (and especially the electorally nervous GOP!) to begin rebuilding trust with immigrant communities by finally passing the Dream Act.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
When a party’s electoral prospects start looking shaky, its leaders must have a very low opinion of their voters to be doubling down on the most vile racist pronouncements.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/12/2025
The US government is engaged in a policy program of mass exclusion. It is not a ‘crackdown’—which means strict enforcement against lawbreakers. It seeks to exclude refugees, students, and family members immigrating lawfully, and to exclude US citizens smeared as undesirable. Not a ‘crackdown’.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
On Thanksgiving, we can be grateful that the United States - for all its flaws, historical and present-day - is a place where millions of people from all over the world have found refuge, freedom, safety, and opportunity.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Tonight it may be instructive to Google the name “Herschel Grynszpan.” History shows the horrors that can result when an act of violence perpetrated by a single person becomes a pretext to punish an entire group of people.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Government by an endless stream of threats is ultimately incompatible with government of, by, and for the people.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This really is beyond the pale. Trump on Khashoggi's brutal murder: “You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about. Whether you liked him or didn’t like him, things happen." www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...
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Trump claims slain journalist Khashoggi was ‘extremely controversial,’ defends Saudi crown prince | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed a question about the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi, claiming that the Saudi dissident journalist was “extremely controversial” and that raising the subject...
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is what the Trump/Miller/Homan/Bovino blitz has brought us: neither good-faith immigration policy nor public safety, but a long series of abusive actions by armed, masked thugs. Every child in that daycare has been traumatized by this incident. Such horrors are happening every day in Chicago.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The cesspool that is Twitter/X is extra cesspooly tonight.
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John Slocum @jslocum.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
".Among other things, the company would have to deploy one million humanlike robots and boost its stock market value to $8.5 trillion from $1.4 trillion today.Control of Tesla Is at Stake in Vote on Elon Musk’s Pay Plan" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
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Control of Tesla Is at Stake in Vote on Elon Musk’s Pay Plan
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