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Jane Devlin

@bostonmigration.bsky.social

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Boston-based, immigration-obsessed; Posts on immigration, Boston, refugees. Retired canonist. Same handle on other platforms.

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Immigrants have been so essential to disaster recovery that a statue in New Orleans honors the Latinos who helped rebuild after Katrina. “In some areas of the country, such as the Southwest, all work crews are immigrants.” These are the workers he wants to deport: americasvoice.org/blog/baltimo...

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Peter Manseau's avatar Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social
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July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

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Anna O Law's avatar Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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The Declaration of Independence was a series of grievances the colonists enumerated against King George III. The colonists wrote the document explaining why they were breaking away. There are a few line items having to do with colonial dissatisfaction with migration policies. (1/12)

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Austin Kocher, PhD's avatar Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.bsky.social
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Data shows that immigrants keep America running. Immigrants are just 14% of the population but:

- pay $580B in taxes/year
- are 16% of nurses and 28% of health aides
- are 25% of ag workers
- are 25% of construction workers
- are 20% of entrepreneurs

immigrationimpact.com/2024/07/02/i...

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People Migrate's avatar People Migrate @hannahvh.bsky.social
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Not to mention it is going to cost the government so much too!

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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Mass deportation would mean the purging of 1m+ of the farmworkers who feed us, more than 20,000 teachers protected by #DACA, 1.6m workers in the contruction industry, and many other workers. It tear families apart and inflict unprecedented damage on the economy: americasvoice.org/blog/teacher...

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Not a new response from me but: marrying a U.S. citizen does not automatically cure immigration ills. People can’t just arrive here, get hitched, and poof. May be $$$. May be impossible. Mixed status families exist. Waivers are expensive, hard, & sometimes unavailable. “Anchor baby” also fake news.

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Jane Devlin's avatar Jane Devlin @bostonmigration.bsky.social
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When I first moved to Denmark (1985), even garlic was viewed as a bit daring.

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Joe Gordon's avatar Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social
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When the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service lets the mask slip:

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Jane Devlin's avatar Jane Devlin @bostonmigration.bsky.social
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Gosh. You would have thought they covered that in his classes in law school.

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Jane Devlin's avatar Jane Devlin @bostonmigration.bsky.social
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Not the same brand, but this black currant juice is offered by my local grocery in Massachusetts:

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Anna O Law's avatar Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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Remembering my Uncle David today who volunteered even before the draft during Vietnam. He said he figured he owed the US since they took him in as an immigrant.

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“More than one out of every five Medal of Honor winners has been an immigrant. But the heroism and sacrifice of non-citizens was barely known—until Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez died in battle in Iraq,” CBS News reported in 2003: www.cbsnews.com/news/the-dea... #MemorialDay

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Jane Devlin's avatar Jane Devlin @bostonmigration.bsky.social
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Weather is supposed to improve tomorrow, even better Tuesday if you stay that long. Had I known ahead of time, I’d have sent you to Chung Shin Yuan for weekend dim sum brunch. www.chungshinyuan.com

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These workers’ tax contributions are also “critical to the viability of public health programs like Medicare and Medicaid,” the National Immigration Forum said in 2022. “Between 2000 and 2011, undocumented immigrants generated a $35.1 billion surplus in the Medicare Trust Fund.” 👇🏽

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Trump says people in the US illegally are "KILLING" Social Security and Medicare. But Social Security's own actuary has said unauthorized workers are a net benefit to the program's trust fund — they pay into it and aren't eligible for benefits. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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