The public has a right & a duty to understand immigration policy. I used to help out with that as a reporter; now I do it at @immcouncil. All tweets my own.
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The government will do things that hurt people.
But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.
Here’s a start.
nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opini…
ICE is acting like it owns Americana and America. It doesn’t.
Indycar, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500 are avatars of a better, more welcoming America.
We get a say in the things that matter to us, too.
indystar.com/story/opinion/2…
Just set up a recurring donation for Bolts.
It’s tremendously hard, at the level of individual journalists or of newsrooms, to sustain yourself if your aim is not to win awards or change history but simply to inform the public.
It is also the highest goal.
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A mass deportation operation would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion.
"Starting" with 1 million people a year? That's $88B annually.
And GDP would take a hit of 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end. americanimmigrationcouncil.o…
Apropos of nothing (nothing at all!) here are the FACTS — probably more nuanced than you’d think! — about whether recent Haitian arrivals are “legal.”
(And why that’s a less important question than whether they would be under a future president.)
immigrationimpact.com/2024/0…
This pretends to be a blog post about Haitians, but it's really about how hundreds of thousands of people have been shuffled around under new Biden programs. Whether they're "legal" is ultimately the wrong point. The point is they're legally vulnerable. immigrationimpact.com/2024/0…
Back around 2016-2017ish when NPR and the NYT and FOX all lost their f'n minds about anything to do with immigration facts and policy, the lone voice of reason was @DLind at VOX. No topical news requires a more critical eye than reporting on immigration in the US media.
Yeah this country has pretty incredible history but I hear they don’t know who @PatricioOWard is here so I’m evangelizing. #PatoWho
I have one request and one request only for the Indycar season wraps and it’s that we get the headline “Don’t Cry For Me, Juncos Hollinger”
@eliz_blackstock @JennaFryer pls
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story here: texastribune.org/2024/08/23/…
Unless they win, in which case it becomes standard operating practice.
(Further reading: immigrationimpact.com/2024/0…)
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