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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 09:34 PM PDT
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The greed of VISA and the big banks is driving a return to transacting in cash. The fee is just too high to ignore. - The convenient gas station has cash pricing. - The vendors at the farmers’ market take cash or charge a fee for using a credit card. -...
by SCRW56
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on Sat Sep 02, 2023 at 11:14 AM PDT
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Well, inflation just isn’t high enough I guess because VISA and MC are increasing their swipe fees, which of course is passed on to us, the consumers. They should be making a killing off of inflation, but greed is what it is. The article says October...
by IntegrityMatters
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on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 04:22 PM PDT
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The Biden Administration is expanding the H-2B visa program despite how workers are essentially modern indentured servants.
by Maurizio Guerrero
This article was originally published at Prism .
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Fri Jan 13, 2023 at 08:20 AM PST
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There isn’t a lot of reporting yet but both Visa and MasterCard are cutting Russia off. Both companies have put out statements that they do not make this decision lightly and this is in response to the unprovoked attack on Ukraine. It may take a few...
by zenvegan
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on Sat Mar 05, 2022 at 03:42 PM PST
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This article was originally published at Prism
Somia Elrowmeim brought her 75-year-old mother from Yemen to the U.S. just before the Yemeni Civil War began in 2014. She’s been living with her ...
by Alexandra Martinez
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on Wed Feb 23, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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Last night I watched Rachel Maddow tell a very emotional story about former US Major Thomas Schueman who worked desperately and tirelessly behind the scenes to extract his interpreter Zak and his family from Afghanistan. In the final frame, Zak, his...
by liberaldad2
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on Thu Aug 19, 2021 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Posted recently in the thread on Bloomberg’s donation to the Florida Biden-Harris effort, but thought it would be good to expand a bit into a full diary. We’re the grunts in the trenches down here and while we’re not up on the policy and strategy...
by Tweedledee5
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on Sun Sep 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM PDT
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The U.S. State Department released a new rule on visas Thursday, scheduled to be published on Jan. 24, aimed at decreasing so-called birth tourism. “Birth tourism,” according to the administration, is the action of a person traveling to the U.S....
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Jan 24, 2020 at 07:04 AM PST
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Hundreds of would-be international students, most of whom have been deported, have been accused by the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of knowingly entering into an illegal “pay to stay” agreement with a fake college with no...
by Aysha Qamar
37 comments
on Fri Jan 10, 2020 at 08:24 PM PST
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On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Michael Simon in Portland, Oregon temporarily stopped the Trump administration from enacting a policy that would require visa-seeking immigrants to prove they could pay for health insurance in the United States or could...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Sun Nov 03, 2019 at 07:42 AM PST
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Late on Friday evening, Donald Trump issued a proclamation that bans immigrants who cannot prove they will have health care coverage or the means to pay for “reasonably foreseeable medical costs” within 30 days of their arrival to the United States....
by Marissa Higgins
97 comments
on Sat Oct 05, 2019 at 06:42 AM PDT
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Campaign Action When Hurricane Dorian arrived in the Bahamas, it brought 185 mph winds, storm surges up to 23 feet above sea level, and extreme levels of devastation on a low-lying string of islands. Particularly on Abaco and the Grand Bahama islands,...
by Marissa Higgins
42 comments
on Mon Sep 09, 2019 at 07:17 AM PDT
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I’ve been away from dKos for the last several years; I was working for the State Department in Consular Affairs, mostly doing visa work. (I had to retire a couple of years ago.) Given the constant stream of sludge purporting to be Trump’s words of...
by Dan K
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on Wed Jan 02, 2019 at 02:47 PM PST
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Abdullah Hassan, the two-year-old child whose Yemeni mother, Shaima Swileh, was nearly unable to visit because of Trump’s hideously racist travel ban, died on Friday. Abdullah and his father, Ali Hassan, are US citizens; his father brought the boy to...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Sat Dec 29, 2018 at 02:04 PM PST
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The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is supposed to happen on August 12, 2018. White supremacists show up, minus their robes, burning crosses and pointy hats this time, on social media sites nationwide to raise money via electronic...
by Marjani
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on Sun Aug 05, 2018 at 08:01 AM PDT
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The Republican tax law is proving great for corporate executives and major shareholders—translation: rich people—but the evidence keeps coming in that giving corporations a giant tax cut doesn’t translate into jobs or higher wages for regular workers....
by Laura Clawson
100 comments
on Fri May 18, 2018 at 09:30 AM PDT
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During the 2016 election, Melania’s immigration / visitation status was questioned. Donald said that she had it all in such beautiful order and she would be presenting it “in two weeks,” something that didn’t happen, as she was going to correct the...
by Breck
48 comments
on Sat Jan 27, 2018 at 07:49 AM PST
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges…” George Washington
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by Avaya Shamira
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on Sun Aug 06, 2017 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Unpopular President Donald Trump was out doing a press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. The subject of the United States’ visa waiver program came up—reasonable enough, seeing that our president is an isolationist wackjob.
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by Walter Einenkel
30 comments
on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 02:09 PM PDT
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