“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

SPJ leads a coalition in condemning a proposed Trump administration rule that would require federal employees to sign standardized nondisclosure agreements, warning it would silence public employees and violate First Amendment rights. 🔗Full statement: bit.ly/4efm30S

A proposed rule would restrict work permits for people paroled for humanitarian reasons. Our CEO @JennieMurrayK warns it "could exacerbate workforce shortages, disrupt economic stability, and hinder growth in sectors heavily reliant on immigrant labor." forumtogether.org/article/po…

Many are asking why their employment authorization is delayed. We are sharing a glimpse of what is happening. Public Law 119-21 "One Big Beautiful Bill" was signed into law on July 4, 2025. This law authorized fee collections, mandated new fees, changed spending authority, and directed USCIS to expand or modify operations. USCIS is not funded through congressional appropriations. USCIS is a fee-funded agency. Public Law 119-21 directly increases USCIS revenue. Additionally, Public Law 119-21 addresses the bottleneck in the DHS security for the comprehensive re-review, potential interview, and re-interview of all aliens from high-risk countries of concern who entered the United States on or after January 20, 2021 as triggered by the 2025 Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders. The comprehensive re-review USCIS implementation of Public Law 119-21 "Hold and Review of USCIS Benefit Applications Filed by Aliens from Additional High-Risk Countries," can be found here: uscis.gov/sites/default/file… Afghan cases take longer because of the required security checks. As depicted in the image, Congress funded more staff in 2025, and processing should improve later in 2026 and become much faster in 2027. An expedite request for an employment authorization document may be submitted through your Member of Congress to USCIS when there is clear, documented, and time‑sensitive hardship that places the individual or their family at risk. In these situations, congressional offices can ask USCIS to review the application more quickly due to the serious humanitarian impact of continued delay. While this support can help elevate the urgency of the case, the outcome remains at USCIS’s discretion and cannot be guaranteed. More information on expedite requests can be found here: uscis.gov/forms/filing-guida… #AfghanAllies #TaskForceArgo #EAD #EmploymentAuthorization #ExpediteRequest #USCIS

Read more on third-country removals in the American Immigration Council's factsheet @immcouncil americanimmigrationcouncil.o…

We are deeply alarmed by reports that the Trump Administration plans to deport Afghan and Iranian nationals to the Central African Republic tomorrow. Third-country removals raise serious due process and humanitarian concerns. We urge immediate action to halt these transfers.

Yesterday’s Social Security Trustees Report confirmed that millions of retirees are facing a twenty to twenty-five percent cut in benefits which can throw them into poverty and put a greater strain on their families. Congress must step up now to protect Social Security before it’s too late. It’s only going to cost more and be more difficult to solve the longer we wait.

651 letters. All 50 states. Today, 83 members of Congress demanded answers on our Afghan allies stranded in Qatar. Civic engagement did that. Read our statement. #AfghanEvac #StillWithUS

If planned protest in #Herat proceeds today, I urge caution & restraint by all & refer to our joint statement that exercise of law enforcement must abide strictly with principles of legality, necessity, proportionality and non-discrimination under IHRL. ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…

Unconscionable. // Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say nytimes.com/2026/06/11/world… via @NYTimes

STATEMENT: the new SIV report out from State last week makes official lots of things we already knew.

Bill Cassidy, conceding defeat, throws shade at Donald Trump: “When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to. But you don’t pout. You don’t whine. You don’t claim the election was stolen.” His crowd immediately gets the reference.

#Chine : RSF appelle le président Trump à obtenir la libération du patron de presse Jimmy Lai lors de sa visite officielle. Dans un état de santé alarmant après plus de 1 950 jours derrière les barreaux, il purge la plus longue peine jamais prononcée au titre de la loi sur la sécurité nationale à #HongKong. rsf.org/fr/china-rsf-urges-p…

In February, our polling with the @BullfinchGroup found 68% of voters wanted immigration enforcement focused on threats to public safety and national security, not large-scale operations like Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. forumtogether.org/article/ne…

ici.fr/infos/culture-loisirs… via ICI

Join our team! CPJ is #hiring a remote communications associate to develop and implement communications strategies to maximize the impact of CPJ’s work in defense of press freedom worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline is May 18, 2026. Apply today: cpjorg.bamboohr.com/careers/…

NEW: The Trump admin is trying to resettle more white Afrikaners at the exclusion of refugees waiting for years. IRAP recently updated our legal challenge to the dismantling of USRAP to address this kind of discriminatory repurposing of resettlement. nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/po…

I’m not Gen. Stanley McChrystal status 🫡, but I’ve been assisting the US’s Afghan allies since 2021, and I too signed onto this letter!

The president of the aid group AfghanEvac, Shawn VanDiver, says hundreds, including retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, have signed onto an open letter opposing a potential Trump admin. plan to send Afghan refugees who aided the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

French Response a tiré dans le mille et fait bugger la matrice. Ce n'est pas un troll. C'est un outil géopolitique, un outil de recadrage en temps réel. On riposte, on dénonce la manipulation adverse, on recadre. On ne s’arrête pas là : @FrenchResponse arrive sur TikTok.