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Kevin Sieff
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Kevin Sieff
@ksieff
Soon: Staff Writer at The Atlantic. Before: Washington Post foreign correspondent in Barcelona, Mexico City, Nairobi and Kabul. Florida man.
Joined October 2008
Hey Tomi, Washington Post shithole bureau chief here. Love your foreign affairs reporting. Did you know there are 8.7 million Americans living overseas? Can’t imagine why they would leave home.If they aren’t shithole countries, why don’t their citizens stay there? Let’s be honest. Call it like it is.- The average undocumented immigrant in the United States pays more federal income taxes than the president.
- It is shockingly difficult for immigration attorneys to locate children separated from their parents at the border. Today I spoke to lawyers who represent more than 400 parents. They've located two children.
- They served in the army, the border patrol and the police. They have official US birth certificates. But the government is denying their passport applications and telling them they aren't American citizens.
- This photo. A father deported to El Salvador without his daughter talks to her over the phone. She's calling from a shelter somewhere in the United States. “Papa,” she said. “When are you going to take me out of here?”
- Replying to @ksieffHow can you prove that you're a US citizen? Your birth certificate? Your voter registration card? Your military ID? Your social security number? Here's what I learned: none of that is enough any more.
- Tweeting photos of the children whose visas you deny is a new kind of diplomacy.
- Mexico is building a 950-mile tourist train through one of the greatest concentrations of antiquities in the world -- the epicenter of Maya civilization. We've been documenting what is soon to be lost. 1/x
00:00 - Dear America, get ready to pay more for pretty much everything until Mexico solves a problem that no country in the world has ever been able to fix.On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP. The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,..
- Guatemala just became the first country in the world to ban Americans in order to limit the spread of Coronavirus.
- Remarkable to watch, in real-time, as the Mexican government proves that it doesn't have the firepower or willingness to take on organized crime. What an incredible glimpse into the failure of the state.
- Hello from southern Mexico, where no one covering the caravan has met anyone from the Middle East, and there is no way to discern anyone’s criminal history.Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws!
