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This is the official US application form ("statement of interest") for Afrikaner "refugees." You merely need to claim that you have "fear of future harm" because of your "political opinion" or "membership in a social group."

Full application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Houston Landing is shutting down on Thurs and we’re still negotiating a fair severance package. Here’s how you can help support 20+ journalists who will be out of a job in a few days

With three days left, Houston Landing leadership has failed to provide a fair severance package to union members. Have you written a letter to our board of directors yet? It only takes two minutes. actionnetwork.org/letters/give-h…

Current and former officials told lomikriel and I that the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for unaccompanied migrant children, is becoming an enforcement arm and at the same time the Trump administration fired the agency's first ombudsman propublica.org/article/office…

"Everyone's afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops & the next begins," said the former ombudsman for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for immigrant kids, about closer ties w/ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement propublica.org/article/office…

NEW: Troubling story about how the Trump admin has changed the role of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. From lomikriel and Mica Rosenberg of ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. propublica.org/article/office…

Scoop: White House bans all U.S. agencies from working on the G-20 in South Africa, including all lower-level meetings leading up to the summit. Some officials oppose the decision, saying it will cede the floor to China. W/ Jeff Stein

Some personal news! After three fulfilling and... intense years on the women’s health beat, I’m transitioning to a new role: Law and Politics Reporter Still Texas Tribune, but now on the politics team, covering the AG, courts, politics and more.

In recent months, senior State Department officials in both Washington and Gambia have coordinated with Starlink executives to coax, lobby and browbeat at least seven Gambian government ministers to help Elon Musk, records and interviews show. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Interesting details in this story, including that Trump took advice from a South African golfer and that Rubio and other aides were "particularly incensed that South Africa had brought a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice." nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/…

L.A. Vietnamese man came for annual ICE check-in, then nearly got deported to Libya via Rachel Uranga latimes.com/california/sto…

Some personal news: Next month I’ll start a new job as a politics reporter Texas Tribune. I’ll still write about some of the news I cover now, but am excited to dig into our state leaders, state government agencies, #txlege + how their decisions impact Texans.

Somehow this story (Trump’s Libya deportations plan) just keeps getting worse. Read this excerpt from Rachel Uranga’s vital reporting for the Los Angeles Times ⬇️

ICE sent out a press release saying they arrested more than 400 people. Who were they? Where were they arrested? What specific crimes were they accused of? Where were they sent? ICE won't say houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t… via @houstonchron

New tonight: Texas Legislature on verge of completely banning THC products after key House vote texastribune.org/2025/05/21/tex… via Texas Tribune #txlege #SB3

Belated thank you to Alice Notley; I hope the next destination gives you the answers you sought but in the meantime, thank you for helping many of us feel seen theparisreview.org/poetry/8125/iv…

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the silliest thing I have initated at Texas Tribune: the Tom Oliverson, M.D. playlist via Renzo Downey #txlege

Major shakeups at ICE today: Head of ERO (which handles arrests and deportations) is retiring and Acting Director of HSI is being reassigned. Comes amid pressure for more deportations

New: Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws. propub.li/451LPCK