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Steve Peers

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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Next book: UK Trade Law after Brexit (OUP, forthcoming). Usual disclaimers.

  1. A Chicago woman went to immigration court. Her case was dismissed; she and her infant were taken by federal agents who turned her over to contractor MVM. They spent five days confined at the Sonesta O'Hare hotel without communication to the outside world.

    My first byline at @injusticewatch.org:

    Valentina Galvis' detention at a hotel raises questions about the types of facilities being turned into de facto detention centers as the Trump administration ramps up immigration detention.

    ICE contractor locked an immigrant and her baby at an O’Hare hotel for five days

    Valentina Galvis' detention at a hotel raises questions about the types of facilities being turned into de facto detention centers as the Trump administration ramps up immigration detention.

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  2. Miran has been a major defender of Trump’s income tax cuts and tariff hikes, arguing they will generate enough economic growth to reduce budget deficits. He also has played down the risk of Trump’s tariffs generating higher inflation, a major source of concern for Powell.

    apnews.com/article/trum...

    Miran has been a major defender of Trump’s income tax cuts and tariff hikes. He also has played down the risk of Trump’s tariffs generating higher inflation.

    Trump to nominate top economic aide Stephen Miran to Federal Reserve board

    Miran has been a major defender of Trump’s income tax cuts and tariff hikes. He also has played down the risk of Trump’s tariffs generating higher inflation.

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  3. Under the asylum law of the state (or group of states) where the application is made. Here's the current EU version. You can see the common rationale that these are (mostly) cases in which the applicant applied/(supposedly) could have applied/did apply before/elsewhere.

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  4. The way it works under UK law is that the asylum claims can be treated as inadmissible. The awkwardness of doing this is what happens to those who are not readmitted to France? (The EU law version of inadmissibility avoids this because it can only apply to "safe 3rd country" if the country readmits)

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  5. BREAKING on MSNBC:

    A group met to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and other topics at the White House last night. AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel were both there.

    Another topic discussed: Two fired FBI agents with ties to the Mar-a-Lago search. @msnbc.com

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  6. This obviously fails as a legal argument because the Genocide Convention defines "genocide" as certain acts committed with "an intent to destroy, in whole or in part..."

    Text of Article II of the Genocide Convention

    Netanyahu responds to genocide accusations: "As Ambassador Huckabee said, if we're practicing genocide we're surely doing a very bad job of it, because we could've basically eliminated the entire population of Gaza, but we went the other direction."

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  7. This is a popular argument among people entirely ignorant of genocide scholarship & international law. It seems unlikely that Netanyahu is one of those people.

    Netanyahu responds to genocide accusations: "As Ambassador Huckabee said, if we're practicing genocide we're surely doing a very bad job of it, because we could've basically eliminated the entire population of Gaza, but we went the other direction."

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  8. BREAKING: Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali resigns after it was revealed she had moved out tenants in her rented home and then raised the rent.

    More soon

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