Show threadNonilexJun 24, 2025

On Monday, Park, a #GreenCard holder, self-deported to South Korea. His removal order was the result of charges related to drug possession & failure to appear in court from >15 yrs ago—offenses that, he said, stemmed from years of untreated PTSD.

Park's story reflects both the challenges of life after #combat & the perils that #noncitizen #veterans face if caught in the legal system — realities made harsher amid the #Trump administration's push for record #deportations.

#immigration #law

DJZappelliApr 2, 2025

I've been speaking out about the #FirstAmendment with regards to #FreeSpeech, #Belief, #Assembly, #Petition, and the #Press. But, it's now clear that we're seeing severe threats to international #HumanRights, like #FreedomOfMovement.
#Travel #NonCitizen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/know-your-rights-protesting-and-traveling-in-the-us-as-a-noncitizen/

Know your rights: Protesting and traveling in the U.S. as a noncitizen

Can noncitizens protest? Should you leave your phone at home when flying into and out of the United States? Post reporters walk us through the gray areas being used by the Trump administration in its effort to crack down on immigration.

The Washington Post
David ZappelliApr 2, 2025

I've been speaking out about the #FirstAmendment with regards to #FreeSpeech, #Belief, #Assembly, #Petition, and the #Press. But, it's now clear that we're seeing severe threats to international #HumanRights, like #FreedomOfMovement.
#Travel #NonCitizen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/know-your-rights-protesting-and-traveling-in-the-us-as-a-noncitizen/

Know your rights: Protesting and traveling in the U.S. as a noncitizen

Can noncitizens protest? Should you leave your phone at home when flying into and out of the United States? Post reporters walk us through the gray areas being used by the Trump administration in its effort to crack down on immigration.

The Washington Post
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Mar 29, 2025

#FactCheck:
'#Loophole in #US. Law' Does NOT Legalize #Noncitizen #Voting If They 'Believe' They Are #Citizens -- It's Still Illegal

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/03/fact-check-loophole-in-us-law-does-not-legalize-noncitizen-voting-en-masse.html

Fact Check: 'Loophole in U.S. Law' Does NOT Legalize Non-citizen Voting If They 'Believe' They Are Citizens -- It's Still Illegal

Does a "loophole in U.S. law" legally grant permission to noncitizens to vote in federal elections if they believe they are U.S. citizens? No, that's not true: A professor specializing in election law told Lead Stories that what was referred...

Lead Stories LLC
David ZappelliFeb 9, 2025

"So instead of saying #NonCitizen or #migrant, they're supposed to say #alien. Instead of saying #integration, they're supposed to say #assimilation, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the #government"

#Orwellian #Fahrenheit451 #Dystopia #RayBradbury #NeoMarcarthyism #ideology #repression #newspeak #FreedomOfSpeech #ThoughtControl #Censorship #HUAC #GreatPurge #BookBurning #Wiping #Digital #Enshittification #NineteenEightyFour #BrainRot

#WhatNext | "Why #Trump ’s #DataPurge is a Digital Book Burning"

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code

Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning

How reporters tracked the Trump administration's data purges in real time.

Slate
PrivacyDigestOct 29, 2024

No, noncitizens are not #voting in droves.

Studies have shown that #noncitizen voting is essentially nonexistent in federal #elections in the United States.
#election2024 #election #vote

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/technology/noncitizen-voting-election.html

No, noncitizens are not voting in droves.

Studies have shown that noncitizen voting is essentially nonexistent in federal elections in the United States.

The New York Times
Show threadNonilexJun 4, 2024
In one vm…, a caller yells: “Where the hell do you get off letting illegals vote? This is the nation’s capital. You are traitors, traitors to our country.”
Evans said that employees have been encouraged to cover up any DC BOE paraphernalia they may be wearing or holding while outside the office in case someone who opposes #noncitizen voting directs their opinion toward a staffer. DC police spox said in a stmnt that officers would be near polling locations “ensuring #safety for voters”
#democracy
NonilexJun 4, 2024

DC #ElectionWorkers have been fielding angry calls & emails for over a month from people who oppose allowing #noncitizen residents to #vote in local #elections, leaving the head of the DC Board of Elections concerned about #safety at the polls in Tues’s primary.

“I am definitely nervous,” said Monica Evans, BOE exec dir. “The environment around elections has felt more unsafe.”

#democracy #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/03/dc-election-workers-noncitizen-voters/

D.C. elections office beset by calls opposing noncitizen voting

Sarah Graham, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Board of Elections, estimates the office has received more than 60 calls and voicemails against noncitizen voting rights.

The Washington Post
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jan 8, 2024

#False claim that #Obama urged #noncitizen #immigrants to show up to #polls | #Factcheck

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2024/01/05/obama-did-not-encourage-illegal-immigrant-voting-in-2016-fact-check/72096337007/

False claim that Obama urged noncitizen immigrants to show up to polls | Fact check

President Obama did not call for noncitizens to vote illegally in a 2016 interview. He encouraged Latinos to vote since others in their circle can't.

USA TODAY
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Sep 27, 2023
#Ohio Sec. of State #LaRose flagged more than 520 cases of #noncitizen #voterfraud. Only ONE was legit.
https://flip.it/O.B8-V
Ohio Sec. of State LaRose flagged more than 520 cases of noncitizen voter fraud. Only one was legit. - Ohio Capital

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has referred 641 cases of suspected voter fraud since taking office. The vast majority of those incidents, 521 …

ohiocapitaljournal.com - Nick Evans