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- Sep 30, 2026
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Four strands of a rope (opens the original)
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September 30, 2026There were four stories that I thought about on my day off yesterday that are connected just under the surface.First, the Administration’s “third-country removal” policy is back in effect with a preliminary “shadow docket” ruling from the Supreme Court.This is not a surprising ruling. For the government to obey the lower court would require adding a huge number of hearings to immigration courts, at a time when they are already <a href=
Disappeared (opens the original)
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September 28, 2026The Associated Press and Mother Jones are reporting on “thousands of detained immigrants with ‘<a href="htt
“You Will Not Replace Us” (opens the original)
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September 27, 2026There’s something I think we all know in our bones, but I’m not sure I’ve seen it said anywhere, so I’m going to articulate it. Mass deportations are not really about immigration. And if that’s right, they are only the beginning of a plan.Subscribe nowLet me start 20 years ago. It was 2007, and all our eyes were watching 2045.At the time, I worked for the Center for Social Inclusion, a small policy advocacy nonprofit focus
Remigration and Rendition (opens the original)
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September 26, 2026On September 26, 2002, a Canadian man, Maher Arar, was transiting through JFK on his way home. He was not coming into the U.S., but merely in the airport for a layover. Nonetheless, FBI agents descended on him on the concourse, and took him away.I heard about the case a day or two later; one of the lawyers I worked with at the Center for Constitutional Rights got wind, and tried to find him. He was held in Brooklyn, at the then-infamous Metropolitan Detention Center,<a class="f
Thucydides Traps (opens the original)
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September 25, 2026Alternet and Phillips OBrien noted that, in their press conference yesterday, Xi Jinping kind of insulted the U.S. and Donald Trump, despite his excellent grasp of history and the classics, failed to notice, twice now:Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump’s face - in the White Hou
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