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Final numbers just provided to me by @statedept show that 51 Iraqi refugees with US affiliations (e.g. former military interpreters) were allowed into US in FY 2018.

FY 2017: 3051
FY2016: 5129
FY 2015: 7122
My story from August explains this issue fully: reuters.com/article/us-usa…
These Iraqis include people like the man I profiled in another story last month. He worked for the US Army for years but has been blocked repeatedly from coming here by Trump’s policies reuters.com/article/us-usa…
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A brief thread - I've been perusing the FY 2019 US refugee admissions data available on wrapsnet.org. Nearly 87 percent of the ~5300 refugees admitted to United States since Oct. 1 came from four countries: Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, and Ukraine 1/5
At the current pace (BIG caveat because admissions early in the fiscal year are often slow and then ramp up towards end of year), the U.S. will admit about 24,000 refugees, more than it admitted in 2018 but less than the 30k cap set by the Trump administration this year 2/5
So far this year, Muslims make up 14.6 percent of the refugees admitted to the United States. This is about on par with what it was last year, but two years ago, the percentage of admitted refugees who were Muslim was about 45 percent 3/5
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Read my story with @joel_schectman from August about how a series of U.S. presidents, Republican and Democrat, have tried and failed to end Iran's practice of taking Americans prisoner reuters.com/investigates/s…
As we wrote, the Trump administration faces the troubling reality that there is no easy way to stop Iran from taking Americans prisoner, a tactic the Islamic Republic has used since 1979.
Trump made a bold promise when running for office: that Iran won't take prisoners if he is president. He didn't deliver. At least one US citizen (Morad Tahbaz) has been imprisoned since Trump took office, and several others imprisoned during the Obama admin are still in jail
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Today @Reuters published my story on a tiny library straddling the U.S.-Canada border, which has become the unlikely site of bittersweet reunions for families separated by Trump's travel ban reuters.com/article/us-usa… 1/11
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits in both Quebec and Vermont, so it's in a sort of geopolitical gray zone, accessible to people entering from both the U.S. and Canada 2/11
Shirin Estahbanati, an Iranian studying in the US, hadn't seen her father for nearly 3 years, during which time he had suffered a heart attack in Iran, where he lives. She was able to see her parents in August at the library. Here she is describing the moment they embraced 3/11
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panel at the workshop on critiquing and correcting trends in ML research is starting in room 511 #NeurIPS2018. Panelists: Rich Caruana, @hannawallach, Finale Doshi-Velez, @suchisaria, @RandomlyWalking and @zacharylipton
Q: what are the top troubling trends for the near future?
A: groupthink as we all read the same papers, large companies with massive PR machines, the belief that good test set performance means you can just go ahead and deploy models in the wild #NeurIPS2018
Doshi-Velez: the issue is not so much about scholarship, publication issues and so on. It's how we interface with the real world. We're not trained to do this, we're not a professional profession.
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For the last 24 hours I've been texting & calling with refugees in Libya. 500 are apparently stuck in a Tripoli prison w/o food & water after heavy fighting broke out two days ago. They say their guards ran away, leaving them alone.
These refugees are men, women & children. They tried to cross the Mediterranean earlier this year, but were found by Italian boats, who turned them over to the EU-backed Libyan coastguard, who put them in prison. The conditions were already terrible before the fighting started.
Oh the phone earlier I could hear children crying & what sounded like bombing in the distance. The refugees say everyone's incredibly frightened. "We hear machine guns, tanks, big bombs, last night from the roof it was all fire."
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I'm currently at this #Brexit conference in Copenhagen, where the British ambassador and several #DExEU officials will be on panels with representatives of Danish trade and security. It'll be very interesting to see what's said, especially in light of May's recent Munich speech.
And now that I'm not desperately trying to keep up with livetweeting it, I shall turn my mess of self-retweets into a proper thread. #Brexit #BrexitDK
acknowledges #Brexit will have challenges; emphasises no naïveté regarding "land of milk and honey". Refreshing sense of pragmatism; we'll see how #DExEU and DK reps present it.

#BrexitDK
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This is a daily thread on some 31 ways to keep our use of English simple, short and meaningful. We will expound 1 way per day for the next 31 days.

Questions can be raised here or via DM.
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Way 01- Choose the easy path!
Actually, anything worth doing is potentially hard. Simple sentences, however, are less problematic because of their simple structures. Familiarize yourself with and use them often.

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