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   Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:18:49 JST Richard Stallman

   [1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/social-security-canceled-immigrants
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   The persecutor has listed 6,000 immigrants as dead to inactivate their social security numbers. How is it that these immigrants have social security numbers? Because Biden gave them temporary protected status because of chaos or repression in their home countries, and that includes permission to work in the US - therefore, social security numbers. The

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     Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:18:51 JST Richard Stallman

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     [3/3] has improved enough to end TPS for its refugees. As far as I have heard, nothing has improved in Cuba, Haiti or Venezuela. The persecutor is piling one gratuitous cruelty on another on another. With the persecutor, it's cruelties all the way down.

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     Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:18:52 JST Richard Stallman

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     [2/3] persecutor abruptly canceled this permission to work. That could deny them access to their bank accounts and pensions. This is gratuitous cruelty. If a country is no longer suffering from chaos or repression, its refugees may no longer be entitled to temporary protected status. But it is gratuitous cruelty to rush them to leave quickly. TPS has an expiration date, so why not let them stay that while so they can return home with a good plan? That is assuming that a country's situation