"The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening."
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The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

@socprof Hah! And European companies entrusting the entirety of their working data to "the cloud" (also known as a data centre in the Californian desert) fondly imagine the screws won't begin to be turned when the US tech mega-corporations judge them to be fully dependant?