Emily Wu Pearson 柯依薇

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Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/07…

NEW: Every year, the Elie Wiesel Act requires the president to report to Congress on how the govt is preventing mass atrocities. This year, that report never came. In its absence, at least 10 former US federal employees who worked on atrocity prevention released a Shadow Report.

"Trump Administration Plans Changes to Skilled Worker Visas and Citizenship Tests In an interview with The New York Times, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy." nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/…

SCOOP: In early July, the US embassy in Pretoria asked Washington if non-whites can apply for Trump’s refugee program geared towards white South Africans. In response, State Dept’s top refugee official said the program was intended for white people. W/@tedhesson

I love getting appointment reminder calls from the vet because they ask hey is this walnuts mom and yes. Yes this is

ICE deported around 150,000 people since Trump took office, confirming @camiloreports, putting the agency on track to deport the highest number of people in more than a decade. DHS also recorded 13,000+ self-deportations. Here's one of those stories: cnn.com/2025/07/09/pol…

you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt

This is truly wild: @josephcox.bsky.social got the user manual for ICE's new facial recognition app, which appears to be one of the most powerful face rec systems because it is connected to tons of different government databases and surveillance systems 404media.co/inside-ices-su…

National Guard troops from as many as 20 states are expected to be tasked with some hands-on roles including conducting finger printing and mouth swabbing of detainees—part of a broader mobilization to assist ICE. Story w/ @halbritz: cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

'They chained me to the ground': Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz allege harsh punishment by guards. Our @WLRN report.wlrn.org/immigration/20…

Listening to your cat cry on the drive to the vet is like being killed with 100 hammers

as i get older, nice weather is really something precious, something to enjoy, and something to talk about. like yes, this is a big deal. this sun, this light breeze. this is big.

Costa Rica authorized legal residency and employment permits for 25 migrants deported from the United States in February. The permits will permit the migrants to work and legally reside in Costa Rica for the next six months cronista.com/usa/inmigracio…

Buried in amendments to the Interior Dept. Gov funding bill, is a stipulation that the Kennedy Center Opera House must be renamed the 'First Lady Melania Trump Opera House' in order to receive federal funds. The Appropriations Committee adopted that amendment by a vote of 33-25.

Since the ARC was established in 1965, it has invested over $6 BILLION into the region and the poverty rate was cut in half. The results, while not enough, have shown drastic improvement in infrastructure, economic opportunity, and social mobility.

Yes, he’s a citizen. Yes he’s a veteran. Yes he just happened to be driving to work. ICE detained him anyway. msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-t…

ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant after holding him for months without interpreter calmatters.org/justice/2025/0…

Multi-million contracts & purchase orders documents published in the Florida Accountability Tracking System reveal the big business of building and operating Alligator Alcatraz and help explain why the site is very expensive and its $450M annual price tag miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…

Tampa Bay Times reports Florida airports are scrambling after the state’s attorney general issued a letter warning them to comply with a state law that bans weather modification — a thing which does not exist and is the stuff of conspiracy theories. Sigh. loom.ly/PVgiHmU