Immigration nerd. Director of PR @GlobalRefuge. Francophone. Tweets my own. #RefugeesWelcome | [email protected]
Baltimore, MD
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Incredibly grateful to @arishapiro and @alejanse_ for such a powerful report on what the suspension of the refugee program means for people like Reine and Jacombo.
Listen to the story below, including insight from @KrishVignarajah of @GlobalRefuge. 🎧
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For generations, immigrants and refugees have helped strengthen our communities. Proud to celebrate $300,000 in federal funding for Global Refuge to help newcomers build careers, find stability, and put down roots here in Maryland.
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🚨 NEW: On Sept. 29, ICE arrested a 25-year-old woman at a Maryland courthouse when she went in to address a theft charge.
The charge wasn’t filed by the police. It was filed by her ex-boss. Over $12.
She remains in ICE detention.
For @baltimorebrew: baltimorebrew.com/2026/10/13…
ALT ICE arrested a young woman named Nayeli inside a Maryland courthouse on Sept. 29. She was marched out of the building in handcuffs.
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These refugee families did everything asked of them. They submitted to interviews, background checks, and years of waiting abroad, only setting foot on U.S. soil once government officials approved their applications.
Our @GlobalRefuge statement:
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This will primarily impact refugees who haven't yet received their green cards.
DHS estimates 186,000 people fall into this category. BUT, about 113,000 refugees have green card applications pending.
So most of this population is stuck in a backlog of USCIS’s own making.
Rosalía literally wrote a perfect song for Bridgerton. If there’s no Spanish royal storyline in S5 that crescendos with Reliquia, we riot
Maryland has the best flag, the best crabs, and the BEST Senators.
And thanks to the their efforts to secure funding, Maryland will have an even stronger workforce as @GlobalRefuge connects motivated refugee workers with employers who need talent.
A win-win all around! 👏
“Punishing families who followed every rule is indefensible, and it’s beneath a country that chose to protect them,” says @KrishVignarajah of @GlobalRefuge as OBBBA healthcare cuts take effect today. 👇
These new restrictions only increase the likelihood that children and families are going to ration essential medication or put off care until a manageable problem becomes an emergency room visit.
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These new restrictions only increase the likelihood that children and families are going to ration essential medication or put off care until a manageable problem becomes an emergency room visit.
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Omg I’m so glad I know about the cornrows debacle at the Baltimore Rock Opera Society now.
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NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a 9yo rested her head on the table, a 6yo pretended to fly an airplane, and a 3yo played with the mic. Many in attendance didn't have an attorney — and a 13yo was ordered removed. A look inside, thru sketches.
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BREAKING: Per reports by @priscialva and @camiloreports, the Trump administration intends to admit up to 17,500 refugees in FY2027, with slots primarily reserved for White South African Afrikaners.
Our @GlobalRefuge statement here:
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NEW: @GlobalRefuge, one of the nation's largest refugee resettlement groups, weighs in on the Trump administration's reported plan to keep a historically low refugee ceiling of 17,500 in place, primarily reserved for White South Africans.
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CBS Exclusive: The Trump administration is planning to welcome up to 17,500 additional White Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees over the next 12 months, according to a notice sent to Congress and obtained by CBS News.
The effort is projected to cost $500 million.
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New: The ICE officer who shot Wilber Garces-Perez in Austin had been assigned a body worn camera but was not wearing it at the time of the shooting. Another officer with him has partial video from their body camera, but not of the shooting itself, according to 2 DHS officials
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CBS News: A 36-year-old Costa Rican man died in ICE custody Friday, becoming the 25th immigration detainee to die this year, per an agency notice to Congress.
ICE says Carlos Josue Marchena-Marchena was found unresponsive at the Winnfield Correctional Center in Louisiana.
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While the Trump admin. has not said this explicitly, DHS sources tell me the deportation of non-Africans to Africa is designed to be a warning:
If you’re here illegally / with a tenuous status and don’t self deport, you could be sent to an African nation where you have no ties.
Liberia, an African country roughly the size of Tennessee and home to more than 5 million people, is now hosting deportees from nations like Brazil, Colombia, Honduras and Venezuela who were expelled from the U.S.
CBS News' @camiloreports went there to understand how they ended up thousands of miles away from the U.S. and their homelands.
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Bleeding for days before seeing a doctor. Shackled to hospital beds. Denied basic prenatal care. This is what detention is doing to pregnant asylum seekers — and ICE won't even count the miscarriages.
This is a must-read by @maanvissingh
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What DHS OIG found when it did an unannounced inspection of ICE's krome detention center: overcrowded housing units and holding cells, overflowing vats of raw chicken, frozen food out in direct sunlight.
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There is no euphemism that can sanitize caging human beings.
Calling a metal box a “calming area” is an affront to the English language and to human dignity alike.
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Breaking News: A state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz used small metal cages to confine migrants, a watchdog report said. nyti.ms/4xlUDh6
