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#asylum

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#WhatsMissing: The "#AntiThiel - #Grant":

Sadly I'm not a #billionaire, cuz otherwise I would've done so and hired people to be able to do so.

  • Instead I'm just gonna continue helping a couple wherever I can…

'Britain and other European countries can disrupt smuggling networks and raise the cost of doing business, although unfortunately they are likely to make cross-channel journeys more lethal in the process.'

economist.com/britain/2025/04/

Iranian refugee: “If you think the smugglers are bad people, I agree with you. It’s a long and unsafe journey, a dangerous journey. But do you think it’s possible to go to the British embassy in Iran and get a visa?”

Migrants try to board a smuggler's inflatable dinghy
The Economist · How to run a smuggling businessBy The Economist

“He took information that was publicly available but labor-intensive to compile, and did something nobody else was doing...I don’t know if he expected this second career to make him basically the world’s only credible public source on U.S. deportation flights, just as they were becoming part of one of the United States’ biggest national news stories.”
theatlantic.com/politics/archi

The Atlantic · The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation FlightsBy Nick Miroff
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Back in the courtroom At attorney Prada’s request the judge froze Reyes Mota’s #asylum case for the time being. That way, he could eventually take it up again. That is, if he is ever able to return to the #UnitedStates.

“We can agree that there was no removal order from this court or another court,” the judge said, noting that there was very little he could do.

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He has no tattoos & his family members deny he has any gang ties. Had Reyes Mota still been in the #US, his #asylum hearing would have been a commonplace matter. But his absence showcases the remarkable nature of the #Venezuelans#deportation to #ElSalvador. As attys argue the flights were unlawful & violated a federal judge’s order, the #immigration court is navigating the case of an asylum seeker w/pending immigration proceedings whom #Trump flew to another country w/o #DueProcess.

For this #monochromemonday post: Building 93 at the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center, a defunct New York State-run psychiatric hospital on the North Shore of Long Island that was open from 1885-1996. This particular building was a patient ward building, 13 stories tall, and built from 1939-1940, and opened to patients in 1941. It was vacated for good in 1992, a few years ahead of the complete closure of the hospital campus but by then, only the first four floors were actually being used. Utilities (water, electric, heat, etc.) were shut off in 1993 and the building has been left to rot ever since. #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #decay #urbandecay #abandonedplaces #derelictstructures #derelict #abandoned #abandonedbuilding #modernruins #ruins #urbex #lefttorot #architecture #architecturalphotography #gothic #scary #haunted #longisland #newyork #asylum #hospital #photography #fujifilm #fujixt3 #tamron #tamron18300f3563
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"America cannot be a country where we just willy-nilly pull people off the streets because they have a real Madrid tattoo and we send them to the worst conditions imaginable in another country with no recourse."

~ Tim Miller

But it is, Tim: America now is that kind of country. Some 77 million of us eagerly voted to turn it into that kind of country.

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #Venezuelans #LawandOrder #asylum #LGBTQ #tattoos
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