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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday pledged to challenge a long-standing interpretation of the U.S. Constitution in an attempt to end birthright citizenship for children of unauthorized immigrants if he defeats President Biden in the 2024 election. If he secures a second presidential term, Trump said he would issue an executive order during his first day back at the White House in January 2025 instructing the federal government to deny citizenship to children with parents who are not American citizens or legal permanent residents. Under a decades-long interpretation of the Constitution, children born on U.S. soil are automatically bestowed American citizenship, even if their parents are not themselves citizens or legally present in the country. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-birthright-citizenship-children-unauthorized-immigrants/

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I spent around 25 years working in the Thai Education, some time in the US and in educational programs primarily in the Middle East for a time. Based on my experience, the only thing I can say is that I haven't seen any education system that was significantly better or worse than others. They all have strengths and weaknesses. I did have some oversight of a school in the Middle East that was excellent, but it was at the expense of a lot of students. It had very high standards to get in and any student who fell below a certain level was expelled. When you start looking at public education for all children, the standards start to drop. It's a lot more challenging to education 100,000 students who must attend than it is to educate 1,000 of the best in the county, province or area. I tend to be cynical, but students who I taught in G. 2 and considered them to be rather 'dense' are all now working adults. I have met and visited with a few in the US where they were studying Masters or Ph.Ds. A few are in the US and working here. There are so many variables, everything from the levels of poverty and nutrition in an area, to parent involvement, classroom size and quality of educators.

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Twelve years ago, invited to speak at a small gathering at New York’s cultural center 92nd Street Y, I ran a gauntlet of protesters who’d gathered for the arrival of the featured speaker on the main stage. It was Henry Kissinger and I watched in wonder as they gathered to protest “a talk given by the renowned war criminal.” They were back three years later when Kissinger was speaking there again. This time demonstrators were targeting “his history concerning Timor-Leste (East Timor), West Papua, Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Angola and elsewhere.” https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/23/opinions/henry-kissinger-100-birthday-legacy-andelman/index.html

Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for leading a far-reaching plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. The sentence is the first handed down in over a decade for seditious conspiracy. “What we absolutely cannot have is a group of citizens who – because they did not like the outcome of an election, who did not believe the law was followed as it should be – foment revolution,” District Judge Amit Mehta said before handing down the sentence. “That is what you did.” https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/oath-keepers-sentencing-stewart-rhodes-kelly-meggs/index.html

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the late Andy Warhol infringed on a photographer’s copyright when he created a series of silk screens based on a photograph of the late singer Prince. The ruling was 7-2, with Justice Elena Kagan penning a stinging dissent and arguing that the opinion will “stifle creativity of every sort.” The court rejected arguments made by a lawyer of the Andy Warhol Foundation (the artist died in 1987) that his work was sufficiently transformative so as not to trigger copyright concerns. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/18/politics/supreme-court-prince-andy-warhol/index.html

Disney on Thursday upped the ante in its battle with Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, and it cost his state 2,000 white-collar jobs. Disney is scrapping plans to build a $1 billion office complex in Florida, citing “changing business conditions,” according to a memo provided by a Disney spokesperson. The decision comes at a time when the company is openly feuding with DeSantis, who is expected to officially enter the 2024 GOP presidential race next week, CNN reported Thursday. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/media/disney-florida-desantis/index.html

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the administration of former President Donald Trump have yet to be reunited with their parents despite a two-year effort by President Joe Biden. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Thursday of the 998 children still separated, 148 were in the process of reunification. Biden, a Democrat, issued an executive order shortly after taking office in January 2021 that established a task force to reunite children separated from their families under Trump, a Republican and immigration hardliner, calling such separations a "human tragedy." https://www.reuters.com/world/us/close-1000-migrant-children-separated-by-trump-yet-be-reunited-with-parents-2023-02-02/

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Despite warnings about a potential surge in migrants that sent thousands of federal personnel to the southern US border, officials said the days after the expiration of a Covid-related border restriction policy known as Title 42 saw fewer migrants arriving at the border than initially expected. Ahead of the policy’s expiration, long lines formed at checkpoints and makeshift encampments proliferated in border communities. But US authorities saw a 50% drop in the number of migrant encounters along the border over the previous two days compared to earlier in the week – before Title 42 ended – Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/us/title-42-border-immigration-monday/index.html

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