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One Battle After Another ( 2025)

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 29 Mar

So the Oscar winner has arrived on streaming services in the UK so I gave it a go. It stars Leo Dicaprio in the lead and like his last Oscar chasing movies ( lets face it, he only does Oscar chasing movies now) , Killers of the...

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Name-change against your will

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Feb

Still on the subject of names, when I was in primary school, so around 1954 onwards, Australia was host to a great number of immigrants from a number of European countries. They had all been displaced by the war and came to...

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Three Things I Am Totally Flummoxed About Today

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 3 Dec

Number One: What more can this racist pig do? He has targeted illegal immigrants, legal immigrants and now he is going after those with naturalized Americans. If you were born somewhere else beware. His wife-- what about her? Her...

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Things Seem to Get Worse Every Day But I See a Light at the End of the Tunnel

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 18 Nov

I started watching YouTube last night and the backlash after ICE hit Chicago. What happened and how people have organized. It is so good to see that people are helping these immigrants. I see the brutality and downright meanness...

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Are immigrants being demonized by politicians?

Emmanuel Adelakun @ogbenishyna44 (1743) 2 Oct

These are definitely the worst times for immigrants to live in developed countries. Politicians now blame immigrants for every problem they created. Immigrants didnt asked for war in their countries, they are escaping the wars...

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The History of Tipping

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 23 Aug

Tipping actually has its roots in Medieval Europe. During that time period wealthy landowners occasionally would give small sums of money to their servants for good service. The gesture later evolved into a more formal custom. In...

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Trump’s idea of detaining immigrants is not a solution

SIDDI KIMPOLE @SIDIKIMPOLE (3480) • Eldoret, Kenya 14 Jun

It has emerged that the US president has plans of detaining and even detaining illegal immigrants. I feel that is not a good idea since most of them will be a burden as prisoners. For instance those from Kenya and other countries...

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America is only for Americans

Always smiling @allknowing (153530) • India 11 May 25

So says Trump. He wants to get rid of immigrants Has come up with a new way - self deportation He has offered a free air ticket and some incentive How successful that will be is anyone's guess. Trump has forgotten America...

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Just Be Kind

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 25 Jan 25

I am thinking of our neighbors here in the apartment complex. Many are immigrants. Many we see all the time don't speak much English. At this time in America we are seeing one of the cruelest men in the country trying to end the...

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How Much Lower Can a Man Go?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 24 Jan 25

I am so sick of him already.....and now this. Trump has said how religious he is and such a god-fearing man. He invites folks to the Washington D.C. church and hears a sermon. The Bishop spoke about most immigrants being good...

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India is a land of Immigrants!

A A @anya12adwi (10292) • India 27 Nov 24

Earlier I thought dravidians were original inhabitant of Jambudweep aka India who came from Africa! But now I learned the original inhabitants of our land are the people who are known as Adivasis!! I am really sad that history...

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Outbreak--What More Do We Need?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 9 May 24

I just read a disturbing article regarding a medical announcement. There has been an outbreak of tuberculosis in Long Beach, California. One person is dead, nine are hospitalized and 170 have probably been exposed. There have been...

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A Cuban came to give a gold medal to Chile.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 31 Oct 23

There are many interesting stories that come out at the olympic games. In another post I told of a Chinese that came to Chile decades ago. Now I learned of the story of a young Cuban man that liked to run. But he said that in...

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Q of the Day: Why are Migrants Being Given Priority Over America's Homeless and Poor?

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 2 Feb 23

I heard recently that in New York City migrants have been put up in an exclusive hotel while awaiting transfer to homeless shelters. I understand this is only temporary while accommodations are being made to house them, but...

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Bad news where I live.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 13 Jul 22

I don´t understand the planet warming. It seems to me that the weather is just insane. We are in winter now and it has been very cold. But the worst will be tomorrow at some part of the day. It seems that we will have snow. Our...

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Ventilators keep coming and not many people are dying in my country.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 9 May 20

COVID-19 has not taken a great toll in my country in spite of some people who are too stupid to keep the social distance and some that are too poor to be able to keep a distance between them. We must wear a mask when we go out...

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Immigrants in Montreal find happiness removing snow from elderly persons

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122171) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 23 Jan 20

For all of the talk of immigrants who move from their homeland to Canada have found meaningful work courtesy of the City of Montreal to work in the neighbors assisting the elderly to remove snow from their front lawns and...

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Immigration Stats

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 22 Feb 19

Between 2011 and 2016 22% of the inmates in federal prisons were non U.S. citizens. It cost $7.5 billion to detain non U.S. citizens during those five years. There were 730,000 non U.S. citizens in federal, state and local...

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Is My Friend Right?!

julito @antonbunot (11146) • Calgary, Alberta 13 Dec 18

My friend, who is my co-worker, have fun arguing/discussing during coffee breaks about President Trump. Although he thinks that the president is doing good things for the American people; he hates his attitude. According to him he...

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Interesting Facts About Ellis Island

celticeagle @celticeagle (189874) • Boise, Idaho 12 Nov 18

As most of us know, Ellis Island is where many immigrants landed in the late 1800's to early 1900's. It is said that nearly 12 million people crossed through Ellis Island. Originally the island was only 3.3 acres and it took...

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