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[@ajlamesa](/creator/twitter/ajlamesa)
""While the housing situation in continental western Europe is hardly a panacea the shocks there have been much more modest and housing security remains far more common. Young adult home ownership rates are higher as is the prevalence of secure long-term rents and tenant protections.""  
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"@AstorAaron @Smeggman32 @politicalmath "Well money is fungible" okay. If that's your only response to this you start spiraling into a place where you can make arguments that this or that state can't do anything you disagree with. It's silly. Would they prefer we not have a federal system at all"  
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"Ill confess to being sympathetic to the argument that a lot of the nice things Americans identify as socialist in Europe and Japan are actually the product of more sophisticated governments properly regulating and leveraging their private sectors"  
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""Their political worldview is far more heterodox guided less by ideological rigidities and more by their aspirations to build lives of dignity for themselves and their communities.""  
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"South Portland Maine electing a woman of Somali descent as their mayor is totally irrelevant to DHS's work. The only reason to post this out-of-context audio with the Trump image that follows is to stoke racial hatred and xenophobia. Shame on this agency's leadership"  
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"This doesnt necessarily mean aggressive policing and mass incarceration. I discuss:"  
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""On the whole voters disapprove of the presidents handling of the economy inflation tariffs and foreign policy. And yet in each case the new Journal poll found voters nonetheless say they trust Republicans rather than Democrats to handle those same issues in Congress.""  
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""Prisoner advocates say the changes make communities safer by better preparing prisoners for their eventual release and create a less stressful environment for prison workers.""  
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"Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration"  
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"Because theres some compelling evidence. Like I mentioned the other day I dont see these restrictions as a panacea and we want real estate markets as free as possible but I do think its a contributing factor especially given how Airbnb-type platforms have made these investments even more lucrative"  
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"I have to preface this by saying Donald Trump is a conman and his attempt to interfere with the Fed is appalling but how does a building renovation -- even a very important building -- cost $XXX billion Italy built a driverless metro line across Milan for $XXX billion. This is crazy"  
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"And the two DHS posts were reposted on the official White House account. Sickening"  
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"@matthewstoller Its also not a high-speed rail system in Florida. The trains are regular-speed and powered by diesel"  
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""Speaking to the BBC he acknowledged concern about the Home Office competing with local councils to find temporary homes for asylum seekers and homeless people respectively.""  
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"yeah that makes sense. some big differences that i can think of off the top of my head i guess: Vietnam visa-free for many EU countries China offers visa-free (normal not stopover trips) Turkey no e-visa for many countries Venezuela Bolivia. yeah Argentina hasn't required the entry fee (sorry i should have been more precise) for years now. and Brazil's e-visa is now like $XXX instead of the reciprocal fee when they required paper visas"  
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"New York's rental housing market is deeply broken"  
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"@Channel5iveNews July 2022. February 2023. September 2023. Rank-and-file Democrats never wanted Joe Biden to run for reelection"  
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"I like the United States -- for all its problems -- but people here have a major problem with projecting our own conditions onto other countries whether it's racial categories historical grievances or a humid subtropical climate on the East Coast that obviously requires more a/c than say highland Mexico or Northern Europe"  
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""In Germany and Spain real house prices have climbed XX and XX per cent respectively since 1995. In the US the equivalent figure is XX per cent while the UK Ireland Australia New Zealand and Canada all come in north of XXX per cent.""  
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"@BnG82 @billybinion Some parts of Europe do need more a/c and its being added to private homes and businesses. People can afford it. But much of Europe has a significantly milder climate than the United States. You dont need a/c in the mountains of Italy or Ireland UK Netherlands Scandinavia"  
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"Yeah just FWIW I haven't seen it floated as someone who casually follows this (though not as closely as you). It would be a good alternative. Like if you could eliminate the downtown bit and go straight from PCM all the way to the Muchacho/Publix or whatever. Nice straight line"  
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""The bombing in Syria caught the president and the White House by surprise. The president doesn't like turning on the television and seeing bombs dropped in a country he is seeking peace in and made a monumental announcement to help rebuild" a U.S. official said"  
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"I definitely don't think it would fix the problem and would prefer to have as much access to our housing markets as possible. But there is some evidence from a handful of other countries that as a short-term emergency measure these restrictions can help to cool overheated housing markets as new supply is introduced"  
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"One wonders how much misery has increased for the working-class and poor in Maine since the rise of Airbnb and other short-term rental apps"  
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""This is hell" Surez recalled the prison director saying "and youre never going to get out.""  
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"I did see it and I responded to it. Airbnb has almost certainly exacerbated housing issues for the poor and working-class in Maine by making it significantly easier to redirect long-term rentals to the vacation rental market. This has happened in tourist-heavy rural areas around the world"  
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"Well if it's been published to a preprint server"  
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""That is a far weaker assessment than voters give to either President Trump or the Republican Party who are viewed more unfavorably than favorably by X points and XX points respectively. A mere X% of voters view the Democrats "very favorably" compared with XX% who show that level of enthusiasm for the GOP.""  
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"@prescottbalch depends on the distance. if you have modern high-speed rail between city pairs (e.g. Barcelona - Madrid Milan - Rome Paris - Lyon Tokyo - Osaka) the train journey can be faster overall than the airport/flight"  
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""When the report published in late December without changes to the title the Biden administration ordered the famine warning be deleted from FEWS NETs website the first such retraction in the organizations 40-year relationship with the U.S. government.""  
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"Deutsche Bank Research Institute's Top XX Cities for Quality of Life Boston is the only U.S. city in the top XX -- beats Oslo"  
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"@Padraiccleary a hospital though strikes me as more complicated than a fancy office building"  
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"@MARlESREIGN yes one reason they are pulling many levers is that real estate has become wildly unaffordable. i didn't say it was a panacea"  
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"Given NIMBY and real estate costs in the Northeast I think some kind of true dedicated high-speed rail is probably impossible there. The Midwest would be better for proof of concept. Maybe you connect Chicago Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Or perhaps the Mountain West with Phoenix to Las Vegas"  
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"1) Rents would be even higher if Airbnb wasnt restricted. 2) There are quality of life issues for long-term residents from allowing random owners to turn their units into nightly hotel rooms. 3) More hotel rooms is the best path forward especially ApartHotels and tiny APA or citizenM-type rooms"  
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"Yeah San Francisco residents are so blessed"  
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"@SecKennedy @KelloggsUS How will you address the crisis of nearly XXX million uninsured or underinsured citizens"  
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""The strategy of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has not worked.""  
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"Jeffrey Epsteins Birthday Album Included Letters From Bill Clinton Leon Black"  
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"Almost like a country recovering from communism that entered the European Union in 2004 would have more space for GDP to surge than Western European countries and the United States"  
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"Munich airport plans deportation terminal to return XXX migrants a day"  
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""A Boeing XXX plane operated by Delta Air Lines was reportedly performing its takeoff roll on the same runway when Aeromxicos Embraer E190 aircraft flew over it before landing.""  
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"As U.S. Retreats on Climate China and Europe Pledge to Go Green Together"  
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"I gotta say that the "a/c discourse" in the U.S. has an element of "private luxury and public squalor" to it. Americans mock Europe for not having a/c everywhere but then attempt to cool metro platforms in New York and Atlanta -- humid subtropical climates -- with big fans"  
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"Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump own the famine in Gaza"  
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""In the past two years California Arizona and Oklahomas prison systems have shifted their focus to rehabilitation rather than punishment. In 2022 Pennsylvania opened a unit known as Little Scandinavia and last year Missouri began a similar transformation project in four prisons. Six other states have established European-style units for younger prisoners.""  
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"Hunter Biden can say and do what he wants of course but it's grotesquely irresponsible for men who claim to care about the Democratic Party (e.g. Jaime Harrison) to elevate him at this moment"  
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"Kind of crazy that transit vehicles this small are used on a major metro line in our country's second-largest city. There's literally no capacity to absorb a major increase in riders. This is the opposite of building for the future"  
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"@AndyJScott @SecKennedy @PepsiCo there's no system to guarantee coverage"  
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"@dobssi Yeah this is a pretty shocking story. Like I noted in a thread about this the other day if European and Latin American countries treated tourists with laptops the same way as the United States there would need to be tent detention facilities built in Spain and Portugal"  
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"Biden oversaw the worst inflation in decades denied it was a problem and didnt have a universal health care plan. Not Biden"  
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""U.S. sentencing practices seem especially extreme when compared with countries like Canada Germany and the Netherlands.""  
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"@sandeepvaheesan Yeah it's incredible to me how so many people "play dumb" when confronted with the fact that Airbnb introduced some profoundly problematic incentives into housing markets around the world"  
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"@imperialmog Chick-fil-a Maybe some others"  
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""What it all boils down to is the core principle human dignity" said Deputy Warden Johanna Schmid as she led the group through Tegel Prisons leafy courtyards"  
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"Something that the "europoor" a/c discourse ignores is that there is *mass uptake* of a/c happening in the EU right now. Governments are subsidizing inverter heat pumps which replace inefficient fossil fuel-powered heating systems and also provide homes with a/c"  
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""In America President Joseph R. Biden Jr.s failure to end the war split the Democratic Party and helped spur the upheaval that returned President Trump to power.""  
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"@MurielBlaivePhD I don't know. Airbnb has quality issues worse than hotels now. I'm not totally against allowing people to rent rooms on Airbnb but just playing devil's advocate by pointing out that there's also a housing market impact"  
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"Expensive groceries are a genuine policy problem in New York City -- and across the country. There are a lot of policy levers that can be pulled. I'm not sure I would prioritize government supermarkets especially in a dense city"  
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""What makes the Anglosphere affordability crunch all the more damaging is that it has happened in societies that have placed especially high value on home ownership both culturally as the go-to marker of having made it in life and financially as a means to accumulate wealth in less generous welfare systems than those of continental Europe.""  
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"Let RFK Jr. be the Make America Healthy Again Food Czar in the White House and bring a more serious individual to HHS"  
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""Differing concepts of liability also get in the way. In Germany prisoners can use the toilet behind a closed door while in the U.S. toilets are typically installed in open cells said Colby Braun director of the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.""  
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"@Matthew94091812 and Airbnb "hosts" also use informal workers without social security or tax contributions instead of formal workers"  
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"@DKThomp I'm not saying it's all Airbnb's fault. I'm saying that Airbnb has almost certainly made the situation worse for the poor and working-class people who grew up there and/or still need to exist in tourist-heavy communities to service the affluent visitors"  
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"Anti-social behavior and disorder really bothered people after Covid. Mamdani will have to articulate some ideas on stabilizing public spaces like Cuomo is doing. The primary message Lurie sent in San Francisco was that he would restore order and peace"  
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"Incredible Reddit post about CBP officers harassing travelers with a Danish middle name that apparently seems Middle Eastern to them. (No its not okay to harass actual Middle Eastern travelers either.)"  
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""Many of the voters I have spoken to say theyre not Democratic or Republican they are Trump supporters.""  
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""Before his 2016 election President Trump correctly predicted that the forces animating Brexit would go beyond the United Kingdom. But now most Britons say Brexit was a mistake.""  
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"This piece from @nicolegelinas strikes me as a reasonable critique of the public supermarket idea. And Gelinas thoughtfully questions in a comment how the policy could scale and what the impact would be on existing bodegas that Mamdani has also campaigned on defending"  
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"@cowboykulak Not lies at all. Go to Mexico City or Milan and look at where dogs are welcome"  
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"Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files"  
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"Airbnb was supposed to advance tolerance and cultural exchange but instead its fomented xenophobia and right-wing populism by disrupting housing markets around the world. Just a dogs dinner of a firm"  
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"Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump have a lot in common"  
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"@jschatman99 a lot of the poverty in rural New England is more "hidden" than in other parts of the country but yes i'm sure Airbnb has made it harder for the people who service the tourists to find stable rental housing (or opportunities to own modest homes)"  
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"Hot tip I learned from Eric Feigl-Ding--purchase a can of corned beef hash at Dollar General (with cookies active) before you buy your flight to Cancun"  
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"This is why other countries (e.g. Canada Australia) have banned or punitively taxed non-resident foreigners from purchasing residential real estate. It's just one emergency lever we can pull to cool demand until additional supply is built. It's a problem for democracy and social cohesion when young people can't afford to live in culturally and economically significant cities"  
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"@emre_mayo It's crazy how much relief was provided to Airbnb "businesses.""  
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"Yeah New York City doesn't have any of these problems. 🙄"  
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""According to a YouGov poll conducted in February XX% of Danish people hold a favorable opinion of the U.S. down from XX% in August. In a more recent poll for the Berlingske newspaper XX% of Danes described the U.S. as a threat to their nation.""  
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"They should let them work from Starbucks stores"  
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"I've seen those Rivian Amazon vans driving around and they're great -- quiet attractive safer for pedestrians and cyclists. It's incredible to me that some people are opposed to government subsidizing uptake of EVs. They are better than gas-powered vehicles in almost every way"  
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"I think Dean Phillips is right when he makes the case for Democrats prioritizing the achievement of national health insurance with private delivery of care. Our society -- and economy -- can't function at peak performance without a robust universal health care system. Parents don't feel confident about starting families. Entrepreneurs fear losing employer-sponsored insurance and won't start new businesses. And as a messaging matter I believe Phillips is wise to talk about "national health insurance" instead of "universal health care" or "Medicare for All." The latter terms have become"  
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"I totally understand that you have to be extremely careful about how you discuss achieving universal health care in this country. I get it. That's why I've praised @deanbphillips for talking about "national health insurance.""  
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"@RufusSG I feel like Starmer isnt quite as confident as Macron but lets see"  
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"Fascinating commentary from a Rwandan immigrant who worked on Barack Obama's campaign became angry with Democrats after Hillary Clinton's nomination and now works for the Wisconsin Republican Party"  
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"I just remembered that moment during Hillary Clinton's campaign when a voter complained they couldn't afford health insurance and Hillary responded by asking if they had tried "shopping" for a better plan"  
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"It's strange to me how some right-wing influencers try to convince Americans that Europe is unsafe. Major countries like Italy Germany Spain Portugal Norway and Finland -- with open borders and freedom of movement -- have homicide rates comparable to Japan and South Korea"  
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"@SecKennedy @PepsiCo Secretary Kennedy that's great but what about the fact that nearly XXX million Americans are uninsured or underinsured"  
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"Sometimes other countries believe different things or have different ways of living for rational reasons"  
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"If you want to understand why San Francisco residents are happy they have a new mayor"  
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"This is a crazy story. "As the land prices have soared developers and private-equity firms have purchased ground leases and started charging much higher rents.""  
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"Nation-states hit pause on their economies and societies as globalization and international systems simultaneously ground to a halt and maybe the socioeconomic consequences of those public health decisions were more destructive than we fully understand at this point"  
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"France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood Macron Says"  
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"Passengers rattled X crew injured after Southwest plane descends minutes into flight"  
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""English-speaking governments policymakers and societies more broadly have raised a generation to play the home ownership game. They have then not so much ripped up the rule book as confiscated the board and all the pieces without explanation.""  
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""Trains show up at 12:16 when they are scheduled for 12:16. No one blinks if you turn up in sneakers at a fancy restaurant and a swim in a clean harbour is possible even in January if you are feeling brave" said Copenhagen resident Thomas Franklin CEO of fintech company Swapped(dot)com. "Copenhagen wins me over every time with its calmness. Streets are wide bikes outnumber cars and the city runs on common sense.""  
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"I Want to Clear My Name: Deported Migrant Takes First Step to Sue the U.S. Neiyerver Adrin Leon Rengel who was held in a prison in El Salvador filed a claim Thursday against Homeland Security accusing it of wrongful detention"  
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