Hacker News with Generative AI: Immigration

Police search for woman who escaped Panama hotel where US deportees are held (theguardian.com)
Police are searching for a Chinese woman who escaped from a downtown Panama City hotel where she was being held following her deportation from the US under Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against immigrants.
Immigration, Law Enforcement, Panama, United States
5 points by perihelions 1 day ago | 0 comments
Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) (nytimes.com)
It happened the first time over dinner. I was saying something to my husband, who grew up in Paris where we live, and suddenly couldn’t get the word out.
Language, Identity, Culture, Linguistics, Immigration
3 points by Thevet 3 days ago | 1 comments
As Trump 'Exports' Deportees, Hundreds Are Trapped in Panama Hotel (nytimes.com)
They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama.
Immigration, Politics, International Relations, Panama
7 points by perihelions 3 days ago | 1 comments
India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System (bloomberg.com)
New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.
India, Visa System, Employment, Business, Immigration
113 points by jollofricepeas 3 days ago | 59 comments
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)
My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferred method of improving his lot was improving lots, and my brother and I were “voluntarily” recruited to help working on the buildings we owned.
Family, Real Estate, Immigration, North America
12 points by lis 3 days ago | 1 comments
Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why? (ycombinator.com)
We hear about people wanting to move to a different country because of economic reasons or political reasons regularly. If you had your wish, where would you move to?
Immigration, Relocation, Personal Finance, Politics
54 points by WheelsAtLarge 6 days ago | 125 comments
ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online (theintercept.com)
Amid anger and protest over the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to monitor and locate “negative” social media discussion about the agency and its top officials, according to contract documents reviewed by The Intercept.
Immigration, Government Surveillance, Social Media, Law Enforcement
234 points by belter 7 days ago | 130 comments
South Africans clamor for US resettlement after Trump order (msn.com)
Immigration, Politics, United States, South Africa
10 points by impish9208 9 days ago | 4 comments
FCC Investigates Radio Station over Coverage of Immigration Raid (cato.org)
FCC, Immigration, Media, Law Enforcement
10 points by mikepavone 9 days ago | 0 comments
Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, paid them a fraction of US workers (theguardian.com)
Uline, a Wisconsin-based office supply company owned by one of Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers, paid workers it brought from Mexico to work at its US warehouses just a fraction of what their US counterparts were paid, according to four sources who spoke to the Guardian.
Labor, Immigration, Business, Wages, United States
4 points by adrian_mrd 9 days ago | 1 comments
Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible: US Legal Immigration Rules Explained (cato.org)
Immigration, Law, United States
48 points by zerr 10 days ago | 112 comments
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations (theguardian.com)
News of mass immigration arrests has swept across the US over the past couple of weeks. Reports from Massachusetts to Idaho have described agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spreading through communities and rounding people up. Quick Google searches for Ice operations, raids and arrests return a deluge of government press releases. Headlines include “ICE arrests 85 during 4-day Colorado operation”, “New Orleans focuses targeted operations on 123 criminal noncitizens” and, in Wisconsin, “ICE arrests 83 criminal aliens”.
Immigration, Government, Media, Misinformation
59 points by sharkweek 15 days ago | 25 comments
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations (theguardian.com)
News of mass immigration arrests has swept across the US over the past couple of weeks. Reports from Massachusetts to Idaho have described agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) spreading through communities and rounding people up. Quick Google searches for Ice operations, raids and arrests return a deluge of government press releases. Headlines include “ICE arrests 85 during 4-day Colorado operation”, “New Orleans focuses targeted operations on 123 criminal noncitizens”, and in Wisconsin, “ICE arrests 83 criminal aliens”.
Immigration, Politics, Misinformation, Government, Media
19 points by asib 15 days ago | 3 comments
How to prepare to flee your country? (ycombinator.com)
I live in the bay area, and like it here, but am starting to think it would be smart to get things lined up so that it would be possible to leave fairly quickly and establish a life in another country if necessary.
Immigration, Political Instability, Safety Planning
35 points by bittercynic 17 days ago | 33 comments
El Salvador has agreed to accept U.S. deportations of any nationality (twitter.com)
El Salvador, Immigration, Deportation, United States
10 points by donsupreme 17 days ago | 3 comments
El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nation (cnn.com)
El Salvador, Crime, Immigration, Politics, International Relations
51 points by miles 17 days ago | 64 comments
The Zizians and the rationalist death cult (maxread.substack.com)
On the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration last week, a Customs and Border Patrol agent was killed in a shootout with two unidentified people following an apparently immigration-related traffic stop miles from the Canadian border in Vermont.
Politics, Crime, Immigration
185 points by dsr_ 20 days ago | 205 comments
Bill criminalizing votes for sanctuary policies constitutionally suspect (tennesseelookout.com)
As Gov. Bill Lee’s immigration enforcement plan moves swiftly through the Tennessee Legislature, one component of the bill — aimed at arresting local officials who support sanctuary policies for immigrants — drew scrutiny Tuesday.
Politics, Law, Immigration
10 points by Kluggy 22 days ago | 2 comments
Analysis: America's gulag': Trump's Guantánamo ploy tars migrants as terrorists (theguardian.com)
It has been denounced as “America’s gulag”: a secretive, abuse-ridden Caribbean prison camp for terror suspects that Donald Rumsfeld once said contained “the worst of the worst”.
Politics, Human Rights, Terrorism, Immigration
13 points by bobongo 22 days ago | 2 comments
Violent Crime Conviction Rate in Denmark by Nation of Origin 2010-2021 (twitter.com)
Crime, Denmark, Statistics, Immigration
4 points by user9999999999 22 days ago | 3 comments
New Zealand welcomes digital nomads by loosening visitor visa rules (abc.net.au)
New Zealand's economic growth minister, Nicola Willis, has announced changes to visitor visas, permitting remote work for foreign companies while in the country.
New Zealand, Digital Nomads, Visas, Immigration, Remote Work
60 points by curiousObject 25 days ago | 23 comments
The Trump Administration's Plan to Strip Citizenship from Americans [pdf] (immpolicytracking.org)
Politics, Immigration, Law, Government, United States
8 points by bloomingkales 25 days ago | 0 comments
ICE raid at Newark, NJ fish market was not part of mass deportation plan (fox5ny.com)
Federal immigration agents on Thursday detained several workers, including a U.S. military veteran, at Oceans Seafood Depot in Newark, New Jersey, local advocates and officials told FOX 5 NY.
Immigration, Law Enforcement, New Jersey
6 points by bloomingkales 26 days ago | 0 comments
Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps (oregoncapitalchronicle.com)
As U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intensifies its efforts to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants throughout the country, concern is rising among Indigenous communities residing in urban areas about reports of Indigenous people being detained in the Valley.
Immigration, Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, Law Enforcement
17 points by mandmandam 26 days ago | 8 comments
The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump's Immigration Crackdown (nytimes.com)
Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda.
Immigration, Surveillance, Technology, Politics, Law Enforcement
5 points by johntfella 26 days ago | 0 comments
ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War (daringfireball.net)
That these raids are beginning and will surely escalate is no surprise. Trump campaigned heavily on the promise of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. This is an issue where he’s doing what he said he’d do.
Politics, Immigration, Civil Rights
19 points by croes 27 days ago | 31 comments
Europe can import disillusioned talent from Trump's US, says Lagarde (ft.com)
Europe can import disillusioned talent from Trump’s US, says Lagarde
Europe, Immigration, Politics, Talent, Economy
9 points by belter 28 days ago | 11 comments
Mass deportations would deliver a catastrophic blow to the U.S. Economy (senate.gov)
Though the U.S. immigration system remains broken, immigrants are crucial to growing the labor force and supporting economic output.
Immigration, Economics, Labor Force
28 points by geox 29 days ago | 70 comments
India Set to Accept 18,000 Citizens From U.S. (bloomberg.com)
India’s government is prepared to work with Donald Trump’s administration to identify and take back all its citizens residing illegally in the US, an early signal from New Delhi that it’s willing to comply with the incoming American president and avoid a trade war.
India, Immigration, United States, Politics, International Relations
12 points by petethomas 30 days ago | 0 comments
Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship (whitehouse.gov)
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Politics, Immigration, Law, Citizenship, United States
30 points by laristine 32 days ago | 34 comments