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Washington Post
19-07-2025
- Washington Post
Families welcome Venezuelans released from El Salvador with joy, grief
Angela Leal went to bed Thursday and recited the prayer she has whispered to herself each night for the last four months. She asked God to keep her husband safe, to give him strength and to bring him home. The next morning, she woke to the answer she'd been waiting for: The United States had made a deal with the Venezuelan government to send more than 250 Venezuelans jailed in El Salvador back home. The men deported from the U.S. would be landing on two flights in exchange for the release of 1o American citizens and permanent U.S. residents imprisoned in Venezuela.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Its Your Call for July 7
Money better spent elsewhere I can't imagine a worse use of money than throwing it in Lake Contrary, everyone should drive down to that area and see what it actually looks like. Much less pleasant place to live I just would like to ask this to city management, police department, everyone. What is the point of having fireworks, firecrackers, M80 regulations on the books if they're never enforced. It has sounded like a war zone in my neighborhood for the last couple of nights. I can imagine it's going to be horrible for the next couple of nights past that and nothing is ever done. They're incredibly loud, incredibly big fireworks. The police could easily drive through the neighborhoods and start issuing tickets. I think it makes Saint Joseph a much less pleasant place to live. What has this nation become? Trump was in Iowa giving a speech, and he said I hate Democrats and the people in the crowd applauded. What kind of nation have we become that we have hate speech like that. Has to be stopped Now Trump's wanting to send Marines to back up ICE in Florida. This man is out of control. He's putting American troops on the streets of the United States against American citizens. And you can say anything you want to about this guy, but this is the first step of him creating a police state. An authoritarian, as one of the first things that they do. This man, he's not an American and he's not a king. He has to be stopped.
CNN
04-07-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans
For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts. That power, under the new Trump administration, may be broadening. According to a memo issued by the Justice Department last month, attorneys should aim their denaturalization work to target a much broader swath of individuals – anyone who may 'pose a potential danger to national security.' The directive appears to be a push towards a larger denaturalization effort that fits with the Trump administration's hardline immigration policies. These could leave some of the millions of naturalized American citizens at risk of losing their status and being deported. People who have committed violent crimes, are members or associates of gangs and drug cartels or have committed fraud should also be prioritized, the memo, issued by the head of the DOJ's Civil Division, said. But for many officials and experts, the real concern, they say, is that it is designed to strike fear in the hearts of legal immigrants across the country – particularly those who are at odds with Trump himself. 'The politicization of citizenship rights is something that really worries me, I think it's just flatly inconsistent with our democratic system,' Cassandra Burke Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University, told CNN. The statute in question is part of a McCarthy-era law first established to root out Communists during the red scare. But its most common use over the years has been against war criminals. In 1979, the Justice Department established a unit that used the statute to deport hundreds of people who assisted the Nazis. Eli Rosenbaum, the man who led it for years, helped the department strip citizenship from or deport 100 people, and earned a reputation as the DOJ's most prolific Nazi hunter. Rosenbaum briefly returned in 2022 to lead an effort to identify and prosecute anyone who committed war crimes in Ukraine. But the department has broadened those efforts beyond Nazis several times, including an Obama-era initiative called Operation Janus targeting those who stole identities to earn citizenship. In 2020, Trump attempted to expand denaturalization efforts by creating a dedicated office at the Justice Department, but it was quietly disbanded by the Biden administration the following year. One former DOJ official called the office a 'branding opportunity,' noting that it was not particularly effective and did not fit with Trump's successor's priorities. Since returning to the White House, Trump has worked to redesign how the federal government enforces immigration in the country, pushing agencies like the FBI and US Marshals to join deportation efforts and targeting foreign student visas for people abroad hoping to attend a private university in the states. Instead of reinstating the stand-alone office from his first administration, the entire Civil Division is now being told to prioritize denaturalization 'in all cases permitted by law,' according to the memo, which also suggests that US attorneys' offices across the country should flag cases where they may be able to initiate denaturalization proceedings. Trump filed 102 denaturalization cases during his first administration, contrasted with the 24 cases filed under Biden, DOJ Spokesperson Chad Gilmartin said on social media Wednesday. So far, the second Trump administration has filed 5 cases in its first five months. The DOJ told CNN in a statement: 'Denaturalization proceedings will only be pursued as permitted by law and supported by evidence against individuals who illegally procured or misrepresented facts in the naturalization process.' But current and former DOJ officials who spoke to CNN said that the beyond instructing lawyers to file as many denaturalization cases as possible, the memo is so broad that it could allow the Justice Department to invoke vague or unsubstantiated claims to expel people from the country. Robertson, of Case Western, warned that the memo could give way to the Trump administration retroactively searching for missteps in the naturalization process of perceived political opponents, like student activists. Irina Manta, a law professor at Hofstra University, said that the administration's move could have a 'chilling effect' on free speech, both political and otherwise. 'I regularly observe the fear firsthand,' she said. Trump has publicly flirted with the notion of deporting American citizens he doesn't want in the country. Though the seriousness of these statements is highly unclear, he has called for everything from deporting 'bad people … many of them [who] were born in our country' to saying his administration should 'take a look' at removing Elon Musk after his erstwhile ally criticized the president's spending bill. At least one ally has taken a more formal step. Last week, Andy Ogles, a Republican congressman, asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani—who was born in Uganda and naturalized in 2018— should be subject to denaturalization proceedings because he 'publicly glorifies' people connected to Hamas in a rap song. Bondi has not publicly responded to the letter.
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Travel + Leisure
30-06-2025
- Travel + Leisure
What Cruise Passengers Should Know About U.S. State Department Advisories and the Global Travel Warning
The U.S. Department of State regularly updates its travel advisories to countries all over the world, advising American citizens who might travel there about the destinations. But, how worried should a traveler, and particularly a cruise ship traveler, be based on the U.S. government's travel advisory? On June 22, the US Department of State issued a 'Worldwide Caution' security alert. 'The conflict between Israel and Iran has resulted in disruptions to travel and periodic closure of airspace across the Middle East. There is the potential for demonstrations against U.S. citizens and interests abroad. The Department of State advises U.S. citizens worldwide to exercise increased caution,' it states. The U.S. Department of State issues travel advisories for every country to give travelers a sense of what to be aware of in their destination. There are four levels that are determined by factors such as crime, terrorism, disease, civil unrest, and natural disasters. Level 1 indicates the lowest level of risk, level 2 recommends increased caution and possibly heightened risk, level 3 means you should reconsider travel to the country, as there might be serious risks, and level 4 means that you should not travel to the country. Level 1 and 2 advisories are reviewed every 12 months, while level 3 and 4 are reviewed every 6. The worldwide caution is more unusual. Cruise ships generally do not travel to countries designated as Level 4, but many do travel to countries that are listed at Level 2 or 3. For travelers planning cruises in the near future, it is advisable to look at the U.S. travel advisories for the destinations that will be visited, however it's important to keep in mind that the places visited on cruises are often not the places that cause the travel advisory level to rise. For example, though Egypt is ranked at Level 3, Nile River cruises remain popular and the risk to travelers who do not have dual American-Egyptian citizenship is low. In comparison, various Caribbean destinations are ranked at Level 2, and some, including The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos, have noted risk of violent crime in areas where cruise ship ports are. Cruise ship companies won't take their clients into a war zone, and beyond that each traveler needs to weigh the information and risks to decide for themselves what they are most comfortable with on their cruise itinerary. Travel advisories are meant to inform a traveler if they should be more alert than usual, not necessarily to deter a visitor from the country.
Wall Street Journal
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
No, the PLO Isn't a Person
The Supreme Court last week vindicated a common-sense principle: Foreign entities that kill Americans abroad through acts of terror can be held to account in American courts. Fuld v. PLO marks a turning point in a long legal saga. In 2004 U.S. citizens sued the Palestinian Authority for its role in terror attacks that killed their family members. After a seven-week trial, a New York federal jury found the authority liable.
