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Given that ICE can operate with broad discretion, the stakes for trans people—especially those from racial minority groups—are higher than ever.
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The implications extend to ICE, which now has newfound justification to target transgender individuals under the guise of immigration enforcement.
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While this rule supposedly only applies to the green card lottery, in its response to public comments about the new gender requirements, the State Department said this “biological sex at birth” requirement now applies to all visa applications.
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Furthermore, if the State Department were to find out that a person is trans and didn’t fill out the form using their “biological sex at birth,” it would also be able to declare their application fraudulent, even after they’ve entered the country.
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This requirement creates a loophole that could allow the State Department to label applications from trans people as fraudulent and disqualify them.
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Under this rule, which was finalised 11 March, applicants are required to disclose their "biological sex at birth," regardless of discrepancies with their passports or other official documents.
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The Trump administration's newly finalised rule, "Enhancing Vetting and Combatting Fraud in the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program," poses a significant threat to transgender individuals participating in the Diversity Visa Program in the US, commonly known as the "green card lottery."
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It makes histories collide, exposing the uneasy distance between remembered suffering and enacted domination. That is part of what has made it one of the year’s defining films, both as a work of horror and as a major cultural event.
#sinners #academyawards
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Doc Baroque
Artist
Set in 1932 Mississippi, Sinners is a film about race, memory, music, religion, and belonging, but it is also a film about the false comfort of easy analogies. It does not flatten history into something neat or reassuring.
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Doc Baroque
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Art Historian and Artist. MFA: Art History; MFA: Studio Art; PhD: Art History. I eat, sleep, and breathe art. Unapologetically Indigenous. ... theroguearthistorian
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The Monster in Sinners Is Not Just the Vampire. It Is America.
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The Other 98%
theroguearthistorian
Doc Baroque
Artist
Art Historian and Artist. MFA: Art History; MFA: Studio Art; PhD: Art History. I eat, sleep, and breathe art. Unapologetically Indigenous.
other98
The Other 98%
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soichisdream
so pure and rotted at the same time
with @yharnam_shadows 🖤
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typically consisting of several warships & 5,000 Marines & sailors, the officials said.
The Japan-based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines are now headed for the Middle East, 2 of the officials said. Marines are already in the Middle East supporting the Iran operation, the ofncials said.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central Command, responsible for American forces in the Middle East, for an element of an amphibious ready group and attached Marine expeditionary unit,
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From @wsj: Pentagon Is Moving Additional Marines, Warships to the Middle East
The Pentagon is moving additional Marines and warships to the Middle East as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials.
timwhitakerspeaks
This man is evil.
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Cultura_Movement
Make Changes 🌎
Under all different shades different cultures were all the same #OneLove
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#NoKidsInCages
#RazaUnida #IndigenousUnited
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This is transparently the plan. We can stop it — ask questions, resist, vote.
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she/her
extremists for love & the extension of justice. collective liberation & revolutionary optimism. 💛
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blockclubchi
People are tired of empty promises,” Juan Pablo Herrera, Palenque LSNA board president and member of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said during the conference.
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blockclubchi
“People are tired of hearing that nothing can be done. People are tired of leaders pointing to obstacles instead of solutions.
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A group of about 30 people representing the signatories gathered at the Federal Plaza in the Loop for a news conference in support of their petition Thursday afternoon.
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blockclubchi
The petition had 243 signatories including Alds. Jessie Fuentes (26th), Byron Sigcho Lopez (25th), Julia Ramirez (12th), Michael D. Rodríguez (22nd), Anthony Quezada (35th), Jeylu B. Gutierrez (14th), Andre Vasquez (40th) and Maria Hadden (49th).
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the non-fatal shooting of Marimar Martinez in Brighton Park in October and multiple instances of tear gas and pepper balls being deployed at protestors.
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The petition cited several alleged crimes committed by federal immigration agents including the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park in September,
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“The State’s Attorney cannot represent the people of Cook County while turning a blind eye to egregious acts of violence that federal agents have inflicted on them in her jurisdiction,” the petition reads.
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