Chris Feliciano Arnold

The Fears of Naturalized Citizens | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Chris Feliciano Arnold talks about the threats of denaturalization against citizens not born in the U.S. by the Trump administration and the chilling effect on free speech.

On the public airwaves talking about citizenship with callers from the @wnyc.org audience. 📻 www.wnyc.org/story/the-fe...

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?

To become Americans, naturalized citizens promise to defend the laws of the U.S. What if defending them now puts their status at risk?

Chris Feliciano Arnold, a naturalized citizen, evaluates the civics test to see if it still rings true to what America has become.

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?

To become Americans, naturalized citizens promise to defend the laws of the U.S. What if defending them now puts their status at risk?

Chris Feliciano Arnold, a naturalized citizen, evaluates the civics test to see if it still rings true to what America has become.

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts our status at risk?

I wrote about citizenship @theatlantic.com.

North America is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by…

Today in everything is a metaphor, geoscientists have discovered that the craton, the enormous stable rock that forms the core of North America, is eroding away www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...

The right-wing media campaign to denaturalize and deport American citizens

“These efforts are about reproducing a social hierarchy where some individuals are protected less than others in the eyes of the law based on their religion, national origins, or political beliefs.” www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

Trump administration says it deported 17 more ‘violent criminals’ to El Salvador The Trump administration says it has deported 17 more “violent criminals” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador, as it doubles down on a policy of removing people from the U.S. to thi...

“The State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, which handled the removals Sunday, did not give detailed information about who was on the flight, their alleged crimes or under what legal authority they were removed...” apnews.com/article/el-s...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

“These dedicated ambulance workers were responding to wounded people. They were humanitarians,” said the IFRC secretary general, Jagan Chapagain. “They wore emblems that should have protected them; their ambulances were clearly marked.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation President Donald Trump's efforts to deport foreign students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations are getting help from private groups that use facial-recognition technology to identify m...

“The push to identify masked protesters using facial recognition and turn them in is blurring the line between public law enforcement and private groups.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Israel-Gaza war: Wounded Palestinians dying over lack of supplies, surgeon says Dr Mark Perlmutter says doctors are working without soap, antibiotics or x-ray facilities, as Israel has resumed its offensive against Hamas.

On Saturday the UN's humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher described the current situation in Gaza as dire: "If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them." www.bbc.com/news/article...

It feels so surreal as an American to hear about Green Card holders asking relatives of mine to delete text exchanges on their phones for fear that they'll be searched by the authorities and those private conversations will become the pretext for illegally deporting them. But here we are.

As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died When Israel unleashed a wave of bombardment this week, shattering Gaza's ceasefire, a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis was overwhelmed with wounded children.

“Just child after child, young patient after young patient,” Rokadiya said. “The vast, vast majority were women, children, the elderly.” apnews.com/article/gaza...

Video: Surveillance Footage Shows Arrest of Tufts University Student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and a Muslim, was heading out to break her Ramadan fast with friends Tuesday night when she was detained by agents from the Department of Homeland Security.

“Records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed that a person with Ms. Ozturk’s name was being held in a Louisiana detention center on Wednesday.” www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Innocent people — undesirables, political dissidents — are being sent to camps here and abroad. A scapegoated minority is being persecuted, made an example of. Wrongthink is being stricken from government institutions and civil society. There is no more "if" authoritarianism arrives. It's here.

Immigrations agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court — Chicago Sun-Times Chicago attorneys were in federal court Thursday accusing federal agents of violating immigration law and the constitutional rights of at least 22 people since January.

“I was born in Chicago, Illinois and am a United States citizen,” Noriega said in his statement…Officers took away his wallet, which had his ID and social security card. “They then handcuffed me and pushed me into a white van where other people were handcuffed as well.” apple.news/Asc0mZpnVSmC...

Immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court Chicago attorneys were in federal court Thursday accusing federal agents of violating immigration law and the constitutional rights of at least 22 people since January.

The dictatorship is here.

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There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

Texas parents of child who died of measles urge others not to vaccinate The couple, members of the Mennonite community in Gaines County, were interviewed by the anti-vaccination group Children Health Defense.

“It was her time on Earth,” the translator said the parents told her. “They believe she’s better off where she is now.” www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/t...

Strikes in Gaza kill 85 overnight, bringing the total since Israel broke ceasefire to nearly 600 Israeli strikes have killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday.

“The strike killed at least 16 people, mostly women and children, according to the nearby European Hospital…Those killed included a father and his seven children, as well as the parents and brother of a month-old baby who survived along with her grandparents.” apnews.com/article/isra...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

“This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

autocorrected: see you doom

Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be. Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in ...

“Trump’s aggressive immigration policies — such as arrest quotas for enforcement agents — make it likely that more citizens will get caught up in immigration sweeps.” www.propublica.org/article/more...

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

After Israeli Strike Kills More Than 400, Palestinians Tally the Dead For two months, a cease-fire spared Palestinians the grim task of identifying bodies. With Israel resuming its assault, they are back at it.

“Among the dead were 130 children, the U.N. Children’s Fund said, reporting that some of the airstrikes hit shelters where families were sleeping.”
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.

On Ghosts and Hauntings That there could be a singular victim, or many victims—this is terrifying to the State.

I wrote about ghosts and hauntings

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Truth, Power, Art: A Critical Manifesto on Creative Nonfiction Back in 2017, White House Press Secretary Kellyann Conway coined the phrase “alternative facts” to describe realities that were inconvenient to the first Trump Administration. Eight years later, as…

Authoritarians around the world are threatening the inherent value of facts and art. @laurenmarkham.bsky.social and I wrote about our belief in art that embraces facts. It’s why we’re hosting the Storyboard Residency this June. Read more @literaryhub.bsky.social. lithub.com/truth-power-...

The More You Have, the Less You Fight Who will and will not save us.

"If you and I sit around waiting for all of those Respectable Institutions to take the lead, we will be spending the next few years doing nothing except being crestfallen by the inaction from above. I guess we might as well get to it, then. Don’t be sad you’re not rich. Be happy that you’re free."

Columbia University admins warned international journalism students to avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine, and protests after a pro-Palestinian activist's arrest, saying their freedom and academic future could be at risk. “Nobody can protect you.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...