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Sarah Matusek

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Immigration & Mountain West reporter at @csmonitor.bsky.social On Signal at sarahmatusek.54 Colorado convert. But most at home in any library.

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Center for Victims of Torture @cvt.org · 04/06/2026
“The hope is never gone,” said CVT's Ariadna Gudiño, to @sarahmatusek.bsky.social in @csmonitor.bsky.social about clients who’d hoped to seek asylum in the U.S. Her clients fled torture but are now stranded as access to asylum is halted by new Trump policies. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/...
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Asylum seekers wait at border as US courts renew their hopes
Recent federal court rulings against the U.S. government’s asylum ban at the border are renewing hope for thousands of asylum seekers waiting in northern Mexico.
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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
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Henry Gass @henrygass.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Today's #SCOTUS oral argument is only partly about birthright citizenship, but it offers a preview of a country in which Trump's birthright citizenship order is in place. @sarahmatusek.bsky.social and I examined what that could look like: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/...
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Birthright citizenship reaches the Supreme Court. What’s at stake?
Much is at stake as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a birthright citizenship case May 15, including whether an executive order is applied uniformly across the country.
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“While the targets have changed over time, the use of ideological exclusion and deportation as tools of political repression have not" @juliarosekraut.bsky.social. Thank you to @sarahmatusek.bsky.social for reaching out to me for this story. @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @harvardpress.bsky.social
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Sarah Matusek @sarahmatusek.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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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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Sarah Matusek @sarahmatusek.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
What a month. We try to capture the breadth of immigration policy changes under Trump 2.0 so far: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...
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Here’s how Trump has remade US immigration policy in just 1 month
One month after inauguration, President Trump’s flurry of executive action on immigration has dramatically changed U.S. policy. Critics say justice is at risk.
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Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Federal downsizing has hit immigration courts the Trump administration has terminated 20 judges, including an entire class of judges added in December
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Trump DOJ Fires 20 Immigration Judges as Termination Wave Begins
The Department of Justice has terminated an entire class of newly hired federal immigration judges as well as several management-level judges.
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Sarah Matusek @sarahmatusek.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
With Hegseth at DoD, Rubio at State, and Noem at DHS now confirmed, Trump has installed key leaders in his effort to militarize border enforcement and suspend the entry of refugees and immigrants apnews.com/article/kris...
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Senate confirms Noem as Trump's homeland security secretary
The Senate has confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump...
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Sarah Matusek @sarahmatusek.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Beyond executive actions aimed at curbing illegal immigration, President Trump is expected to suspend refugee resettlement for at least 4 months, an incoming WH official told press today. More context here: www.csmonitor.com/USA/2025/011...
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Trump cut the refugee program before. Refugee groups prepare for Round 2.
Refugee groups are preparing for funding cuts and a lowered refugee admissions cap during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
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Cameron Pugh @cameron-pugh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My latest for @csmonitor.bsky.social ✍🏾
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The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Financing climate action is a major aspect of this year’s COP29, the annual climate change conference. Diplomats are debating what to pay – and how the private sector can contribute. ClimateChange #cop29
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$1.3 trillion price tag for climate? These charts show why.
At the COP29 summit, diplomats are debating how to finance action on climate change – and what role the private sector could play.
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