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Jane Devlin

@bostonmigration.bsky.social

Boston-based, immigration-obsessed; Posts on immigration, Boston, refugees. Retired canonist. Same handle on other platforms.
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White House announces that parole in place for undocumented spouses/children of US Citizens will begin on August 19. Other benefits also announced. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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US Department of State updates guidance on waivers for otherwise ineligible visa applicants: fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09...
9 FAM 305.4 (U) PROCESSING WAIVERSfam.state.gov
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Immigrants have been so essential to disaster recovery that a statue in New Orleans honors the Latinos who helped rebuild after Katrina. “In some areas of the country, such as the Southwest, all work crews are immigrants.” These are the workers he wants to deport: americasvoice.org/blog/baltimo...
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July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.
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The Declaration of Independence was a series of grievances the colonists enumerated against King George III. The colonists wrote the document explaining why they were breaking away. There are a few line items having to do with colonial dissatisfaction with migration policies. (1/12)
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Not to mention it is going to cost the government so much too!
Mass deportation means rounding up folks who live in our communities, work w/us, feed us, & care for us. "Beyond the devastating human & community impact, there will also be a massive hit to the US economy," including costing many Americans their jobs: zacharymueller.substack.com/p/mass-depor...
Mass Deportation is a Kitchen Table Issuezacharymueller.substack.com The Devastating Consequences of the GOP’s Signature Promise are Worth Talking About
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Speaking of eldercare, guess what percentage of the nursing home staff (27.5%) and long term care staff (23.5%) are immigrants? But Trump wants to deport 15-20 million people. Statistics from: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
Eldercare, something I spent a LOT of time on in the last 13 years as an only child & the subject no one wants to talk about. Until it hits them. So many friends reaching out to me now b/c they saw what I went thru, and they're only now realizing how hard it is. 🎁 shorturl.at/npCyS 1/
Care For America’s Elderly And Disabled People Relies On Immigrant Labor | Health Affairs Journalwww.healthaffairs.org As the US wrestles with immigration policy and caring for an aging population, data on immigrants’ role as health care and long-term care workers can inform both debates. Previous studies have examine...
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Mass deportation would mean the purging of 1m+ of the farmworkers who feed us, more than 20,000 teachers protected by #DACA, 1.6m workers in the contruction industry, and many other workers. It tear families apart and inflict unprecedented damage on the economy: americasvoice.org/blog/teacher...
CBS has new poll showing support for mass deportation. Most don't have context for what that really means. They need to Also, in NH and SC exit polls, GOP voters had choice of deportation or legalization. Those coveted Haley voters came in at 70% for legalization americasvoice.org/blog/south-c...
South Carolina Exit Polls Provide More Evidence Trump’s Extreme Immigration Agenda May Be More Liability Than Asset - America's Voiceamericasvoice.org This past weekend, indicted former President Donald Trump won the South Carolina GOP primary by predictably defeating Gov. Nikki Haley in her home state but by a smaller margin than expected: 59.8% to...
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Not a new response from me but: marrying a U.S. citizen does not automatically cure immigration ills. People can’t just arrive here, get hitched, and poof. May be $$$. May be impossible. Mixed status families exist. Waivers are expensive, hard, & sometimes unavailable. “Anchor baby” also fake news.
ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.
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When the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service lets the mask slip:
welcome to our automated answering system. we understand you just want to speak to a representative but first we would like to make you really mad
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Boston Globe: A brief history of immigration to Massachusetts. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/02/m...
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Remembering my Uncle David today who volunteered even before the draft during Vietnam. He said he figured he owed the US since they took him in as an immigrant.
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“More than one out of every five Medal of Honor winners has been an immigrant. But the heroism and sacrifice of non-citizens was barely known—until Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez died in battle in Iraq,” CBS News reported in 2003: www.cbsnews.com/news/the-dea... #MemorialDay
One of these immigrant patriots, Marine Lance Corporal Jose Gutierrez, was one of the first US service members to be killed in action during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was once undocumented, arriving in the US alone when he was just 14. He was awarded his US citizenship posthumously. #MemorialDay
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These workers’ tax contributions are also “critical to the viability of public health programs like Medicare and Medicaid,” the National Immigration Forum said in 2022. “Between 2000 and 2011, undocumented immigrants generated a $35.1 billion surplus in the Medicare Trust Fund.” 👇🏽
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Trump says people in the US illegally are "KILLING" Social Security and Medicare. But Social Security's own actuary has said unauthorized workers are a net benefit to the program's trust fund — they pay into it and aren't eligible for benefits. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Highlights from today’s #AmericasMigrationBrief include:  ➡️ Migrant and refugee relocation programs in 🇧🇷🇲🇽 ➡️ Climate change and migration in 🇬🇹 ➡️ The use of smugglers to get to 🇺🇸, based on surveys from 🇨🇷🇭🇳🇲🇽 ➡️ Reports of human rights abuses in 🇩🇴 deportations of 🇭🇹 www.migrationbrief.com/p/americas-m...
Americas Migration Brief - March 18, 2024www.migrationbrief.com Welcome to the Americas Migration Brief! If you find this newsletter useful, please consider sharing with a friend or colleague. Se puede acceder aquí a una versión en español del boletín traducida po...
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Tyler Anbinder: "immigrants today are really just like immigrants 175 years ago. Like the famine Irish, they’re not the dregs of the societies they come from. ... they’re people with some resources, typically, to get to the US. They tend to be very young, very driven." www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/u...
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Beyond borders and throughout history, Black immigrants have made significant contributions to our country.  With $114 billion in spending power, they play a vital role in shaping our communities and economies. #BlackHistoryMonth