‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad

"The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places," Trump said to El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/04/homegrowns-are-next-trump-hopes-to-deport-and-jail-u-s-citizens-abroad/

Columbia student detained while attending naturalization ceremony, lawyer says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-detained-naturalization-rcna201214

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

• Pays #StudentDebt, back-owed #taxes and #RenounciationFee for anyone fleeing the #USA and migrating overseas, regardless if seeking #Asylum, #Naturalization or whatever.

• Only condition is the people renounce their #US citizenship either instantly or as soon as they have attained another #citizenship (as #statelessness is a problem for the #stateless!)…

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…

Senior U.S. judge: Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship is “blatantly unconstitutional”

“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” said Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/01/senior-u-s-judge-donald-trumps-executive-order-attempting-to-end-birthright-citizenship-is-blatantly-unconstitutional.html

Cantwell and Murray say they’ll push for amendments as Senate gears up to debate deportation policy in Laken Riley Act

The Spokesman-Review's Orion Donovan Smith reached out to the offices of Washington State's United States Senators to discuss H.R. 29, which will be considered in the Senate after Democrats declined to filibuster it.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/01/cantwell-and-murray-say-theyll-push-for-amendments-as-senate-gears-up-to-debate-deportation-policy-in-laken-riley-act/

Farmer who voted for Trump hopes he won’t do what he promised

Kristi Noem is Trump's pick for Homeland Security, but some South Dakota residents warn she's failed her own citizens repeatedly. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2024/12/farmer-who-voted-for-trump-hopes-he-wont-do-what-he-promised/

I'm curious when the park stewards at Waterloo Park will deem the new family of beavers a nuisance :(

I noticed a second significant dam being built and the new beaver pond is quite extensive and beautiful.

It's amazing how a new habitat has been created so soon after the park water system was re-engineered :D

https://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/pressemitteilungen/DE/2024/06/stag-inkraft.html

BMI - Presse - Neues Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht tritt in Kraft: Einbürgerungen schneller möglich, Voraussetzungen aber strenger (2024-06-25)
———

Press Release from the German Federal Ministry of the Interior & Homeland (“Heimat”), about the revised Nationality Law.

The crucial revision was made mainly concerning #naturalization. And lo…

“Extended naturalization test … New exam questions added on the topics of anti-Semitism, the right of existence of the State of Israel, and Jewish life in #Germany.”

(In original German: Erweiterter Einbürgerungstest … Zu den Themen Antisemitismus, Existenzrecht des Staates Israel und jüdisches Leben in Deutschland wurden neue Prüfungsfragen aufgenommen.)

Sorry, but you lost me, BRD.

@palestine
#Inquisition #FreedomOfThought #antisemitism

Eingereichte Einbürgerungsgesuche: 1 von 5 (noch ca. 18 Monate für den Rest).

I find it interesting that the applicant‘s RAV record can be consulted in the examination. Many folks casually say RAV usage doesn’t matter, so this invites the question why it would be mentioned in the disclosure at all.

Senate’s bipartisan national security deal unveiled; House Republicans vow to nix it

It is unclear if the proposed agreement can pass in Congress’ upper chamber, but even if it does, it has no future in the House, top Republicans say. …

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/02/senates-bipartisan-national-security-deal-unveiled-house-republicans-vow-to-nix-it.html

After a nail-biting two-year wait for foreigners in Germany, the government has passed its flagship bill to relax its citizenship and naturalisation laws. 

In the second and third reading of the bill in the Bundestag on Friday, a majority of MPs voted to permit the holding of multiple nationalities in Germany, as well as reducing residence requirements and removing language barriers for over-67s.

All of the parties within Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-party coalition - the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) - voted in favour of the law,
with MPs from the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) voting against.
#germany #citizenship #naturalization

https://www.thelocal.de/20240119/breaking-german-parliament-passes-landmark-dual-citizenship-reform

An ethnolinguistic view of King County’s evolution over the last two hundred years

King County is a place that encompasses not just land but the stories of diverse lives that have shaped its past and conti…

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/09/an-ethnolinguistic-view-of-king-countys-evolution-over-the-last-two-hundred-years.html

#Naturalization #SmartGrowth&Density

With almost 20k votes, 85% of the pro government telegram channel voted for deportation of all Afghans living in Iran.

Close to 30% of them were born in Iran and never been to Afghanistan.

But Iran doesn't have any #naturalization process, even for people who are more culturally and historically Iranian than most of Iranians.

The level of racism and hate towards Afghans in Iran is a shameful and sad reality of Iran that most people don't want to talk about it.

Made some progress in the process today. Received this by USCIS today.
#immigration #naturalization

One of the most rewarding experiences I have with the #LeagueofWomenVoters is registering new citizens at #naturalization ceremonies. New citizens walk out smiling and excited and are eager to #registertovote. Their enthusiasm is contagious. COVID significantly reduced the ceremonies and now many only distribute forms to be completed and mailed later. I miss it.

Excellent article on naturalizing/rewilding your garden, especially about what happens if you run into bylaw enforcement issues. Canadian focus, but relevant anywhere.

Where I live, we have a property standards bylaw that says lawns should be trimmed. At the same time, the county's climate change coordinator encourages letting the grass grow. I haven't had a bylaw complaint yet.

https://www.rewildingmag.com/rewilding-yard-not-illegal/

Almost a million immigrants became Americans in the past (fiscal) year: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/10/1141994507/citizenship-rate-us-record-high

Germany wants to ease naturalization rules, but Switzerland is unlikely to follow.

What does one have to do to get a Swiss passport? While the Berlin government wants to lower the hurdles for applicants, Switzerland is sticking to its rules. German-speaking cantons in particular have high expectations of new citizens.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/germany-wants-to-make-citizenship-easier-but-switzerland-doesnt-ld.1715691

Local ecological enhancement project - reintroducing Indigenous plants in what was more recently a large lawn.
#ecology #restoration #naturalization #enhancement

https://open.substack.com/pub/charlesmenzies/p/ecological-enhancements-at-acadia?r=1juh2p&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web