• Doug Holland@lemmy.world
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    They survived, and Jeremy isn’t being tortured in a Salvadoran prison, so this is good news, or as good as the news gets in 2025. But Trump & the Republicans got what they want — a productive member of society, his family, and his business all driven out of the country.

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    he plans to sell everything – the soap, the building, their home and most of their belongings. He has already started the paperwork he hopes will allow France to recognize their marriage and extend to him a long-term visa.

    Driving away great people.

    Other people who are not white and have fled persecution in their home countries are in a much more difficult situation, the men and their friends acknowledge. Those undocumented immigrants do not have friends with the governor’s office in their contacts. They cannot reach a member of the state Senate so easily. They do not have the money for a lawyer or a quick flight to France.

    They also cannot risk telling their story. That’s why Rick and Jeremy will keep telling theirs.