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As of January, 2025 about 7.8 million Venezuelans were displaced outside their country.  At that time, 6.1 million Syrians were outside Syria, and about 6.5 million Ukrainians.  With the overthrow of the Assad regime and change in immigration policy by the Trump administration, what has and is happening to these populations? I will focus on a few key population segm...


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DHS officers (ICE, Border Control) in Minneapolis were conducting a targeted traffic stop at about 6:50PM, on the 600 block of 24th Avenue North. A Federal officer got into a struggle with a man he was trying to detain. Several persons began to attack the federal officer, who shot the person to be detained. The man received a non-fatal injury.  A crowd formed. Minneapoli...


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One’s initial response to the fatal incident was shock. Renee Nicole Macklin Good, on January 7, 2026, at about 9:30 AM in the Central neighborhood of South Minneapolis, was shot to death by ICE officer Jonathan E. Ross.

After some time viewing videos, one notices the peculiar way in which Ross circles Good’s car and comes to stand in front of the car.. More precisely,...


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The EU experienced an explosion in migrants in 2015 –1.2 million migrants, almost all seeking asylum and much of it irregular– border crossing without permission).  Already some countries had been dealing with cross-Mediterranean migration. And some migration had been tolerated – for instance Moroccans into Spain. The surge in the mid 2010s prompted a decade of re-organi...


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The Trump administration appears to be heading willingly into a sharp confrontation with the courts over the grounds for stripping citizenship — denaturalization. The courts for decades have made the allowable grounds very narrow. Here I address stripping as it has been playing out in the U.S. and cite UK policy as point of comparison.

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