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A quiet change in US policy threatens immigrants who apply for a change in status

”non-citizens who apply for a “benefit”–such as an extension or change of status, a green card, or citizenship—would 


If it’s a 4 star that I can’t see how to improve - then it is a 5 star - this is a superb film.

Alan from the mid west, Margaret from the East Coast, met, married and started a family in Ohio.

Alan was someone who lived by the rules, so it took ‘Madge’ to show Alan an advert for a job 


Brad studied and graduated in Aerodynamics and then went on to work in Florida, before moving to Virginia as an Aeronautical Engineer.

And then he ‘had the rug pulled out from under him’.

I assumed 


”Krauthammer was - like George Will - the sort of conservative pundit who largely does not, and perhaps cannot, emerge in today’s media landscape. That is to say, he took positions that were 


Ian Bogost asks Are Apple AirPods Any Good? This caught my eye:

”The earbuds won’t disappear, just like the smartphones haven’t. But they will become invisible as they become ubiquitous.

For all his skill in envisioning a future AirPod world and the social ramifications does he really think that Airpods won’t get smaller, maybe even just embedded?

"This kind of bottom-up, self-organised business network is what Trebor Scholz, a professor at the New School in New York, calls ‘platform cooperativism’. Take Uber, currently valued in the tens of 


Pete … loud … but nice. Turkish is his ’baby’ has ‘been with him for 15 years’. Turkish looked up at me from Pete’s lap. Cute.

“You don’t sound like you’re from America” 


Riley was angry. Not visibly. But it wasn’t hard to ‘see’.

He had been fighting the fires as they encroached on his house with his father. He could see the fire down the street, but right then he felt 


“We quit taking credit cards because of the fees.”

“Couldn’t you have passed the fees back to customers that wanted to use credit?”

“That would have been too complicated.”

“And now you are closing