It Could Happen Here Weekly 237
6/20/20263 hr 39 min
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- How the United States Shaped the Dominican Republic’s Immigration Enforcement Machine
- Settler Colonialism with Andrew
- Anti-ICE Protesters in Minnesota Charged with Conspiracy
- The Necessary War on Data Centers
- Executive Disorder: Iran Deal, UFC at the White House, Dialog Hack
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Sources/Links:
How the United States Shaped the Dominican Republic’s Immigration Enforcement Machine
Help Bring Ezra Home and Seek the Truth
(https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring-ezra-home-seek-the-truth)
More than a Massacre; Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican
Borderlands by Sabine Cadeu
Empire of Borders by Todd Miller
Border Patrol Nation by Todd Miller
From tierra de nadie to terre brulée – From Borderland to Border in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Sabine Cadeu
(https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/barriers/July2022_papers/SabineCadeauPaper.pdf)
Haitians, Magic, and Money: Raza and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, 1900 to 1937 by Lauren Derby (https://www.jstor.org/stable/179294)
Making the Dominican Republic Great Again? by Lorgia García-Peña
(https://nacla.org/making-dominican-republic-great-again/)
Marines in the Dominican Republic 1916-1924
US warns its ‘darker-skinned’ citizens of Dominican Republic’s migrant crackdown by Richard Luscombe
Latinobarómetro 2024 Resultados por sexo y edad Informe de estudio #LAT-2024 v1
(https://www.latinobarometro.org/latinobarometro-2024#LAT-2024-selected-country-header)
Ten Years After a Fateful Court Decision, the Dominican Republic Still Has a Statelessness Problem by Kevin Appleby
(https://cmsny.org/dr-statelessness-problem-appleby-102323/)
Addressing the Next Displacement Crisis in the Making in the Americas by Valerie Lacarte (https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/haiti-next-displacement-crisis-americas)
‘They grabbed us like dogs’: deportation quotas tear Haitian migrants’ lives apart by Shandra Back
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/central-romana-homeland-security-sugar/)
“They Just Came and Started Breaking Houses”
(https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/12/central-romana-sugar-hoyo-de-puerco-demolished/)
Despite US Import Ban, Sugar Cane Cutters Still Face Abuse in Dominican Republic
10 years fighting for nationality in the Dominican Republic
(https://www.institutesi.org/news/10-year-anniversary-of-dr-court-ruling-stripping-nationality)
LEA Training Schedule 2024
(https://sansalvador.ilea.state.gov/training-schedule?c=fr-FR)
International students graduate from elite federal law enforcement program
Dominican Republic students graduate from elite US law enforcement program
El misterio de Ellen Frances Hulett | El Informe con Alicia Ortega
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKIg2np081M)
How Far Will the Dominican Republic Go in Deporting Haitians? by Marius Loiseau
(https://inkstickmedia.com/how-far-will-the-dominican-republic-go-in-deporting-haitians/)
Fearing Deportation, Mothers Give Birth in Shadows by Hogla Enecia Pérez and Luis Ferré-Sadurní
Dominican Republic and Haiti at the Crossroads of the Massacre River by Simón Rodríguez (https://nacla.org/dominican-republic-and-haiti-crossroads-massacre-river/)
US team reveals weaknesses at the Dominican-Haiti border
Dominican Republic begins building border wall with Haiti
A 101-Mile Wall Goes Up to Block Haitians Pouring Over Border by Danielle Balbi
“A Veil of Legality” by Amelia Hintzen
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S1382237316000234)
Dominican border wall threatens environment, mangroves by Esteban ROJAS
(https://phys.org/news/2023-03-dominican-border-wall-threatens-environment.html)
Dominican Republic deports pregnant women in ‘inhumane’ migrant crackdown
La muerte de Ellen Frances Hulett se debió a infartos agudos al miocardio, confirma autopsia
La muerte de la estadounidense Ellen Hulett: una cadena de preguntas sin respuestas by Ana A, Elina M (https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/sucesos/2025/07/03/muerte-de-ellen-hulett-una-cadena-de-preguntas-sin-respuestas/3170413)
Alert: Ongoing Dominican Migration Enforcement
(https://do.usembassy.gov/alert-ongoing-dominican-migration-enforcement/)
87 Aniversario de la Dirección General de Migración
(https://migracion.gob.do/87-aniversario-de-la-direccion-general-de-migracion/)
Haitians displaced by violence face deportation after fleeing to Dominican Republic
Settler Colonialism with Andrew
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe
https://www.britannica.com/place/Liberia/History
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy by Mary H Moran.
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
Anti-ICE Protesters in Minnesota Charged with Conspiracy
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234418/gov.uscourts.mnd.234418.1.0_1.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ0hYCF60og
Executive Disorder: Iran Deal, UFC at the White House, Dialog Hack
Short Stories:
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-ipo-makes-elon-musk-worlds-first-trillionaire-2026-06-11/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-complaint-challenging-virginia-mask-ban-and-identification
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2065442267502882838?s=20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rjZqvbMIk
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-06-11/ty-article/israeli-firm-blackcore-suspected-of-meddling-in-nyc-scotland-elections/0000019e-b7d1-d892-adde-f7df71710000
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-06-15-raskin-to-patel-fbi-re-bonuses.pdf
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/05/removing-unnecessary-and-counterproductive-restrictions-on-access-to-federal-lands/
https://www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/2026/6/business-meeting-to-consider-pending-legislation
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/02/18/an-update-on-the-roadless-rul
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73486770/united-states-v-warrant/
Police Shooting:
https://capitalbnews.org/mississippi-police-shooting-kohen-kartier-wiley/
https://wreg.com/news/local/ms-town-looks-for-answers-after-walmart-shooting-that-killed-1-year-old/
https://wreg.com/news/local/mother-of-toddler-killed-in-walmart-shooting-speaks/
https://abcnews.com/US/officer-involved-shooting-walmart-killed-1-year-boy/story?id=133965022
Iran Deal:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116743808155352167
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/middleeast/us-iran-war-mou-text-intl
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/245340/Islamabad-says-Iran-US-reach-peace-deal
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/245343/Iran-s-top-security-body-confirms-Iran-US-finalization-of-MoU
https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2065467425408405712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2066268332832194810?s=20
https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/2066392115027050781
https://x.com/phildstewart/status/2066552634803155267?s=20
World Cup:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/restricting-and-limiting-the-entry-of-foreign-nationals-to-protect-the-security-of-the-united-states/
https://www.state.gov/fifa-world-cup-26-visas https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/world-cup-ice-visas-iran/
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/49017941/iran-players-say-us-visa-policies-create-world-cup-tension
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/somali-world-cup-referee-omar-artan-talking-to-very-bad-people-andrew-giuliani/
UFC Freedom 250:
https://time.com/article/2026/06/15/ufc-fight-white-house-hokit-obama/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/five-men-arrested-and-charged-plot-attack-and-kill-government-officials-and-others-attending
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1446021/dl?inline
https://cnycentral.com/resources/pdf/99a48b49-11dc-4b9c-a158-6487087ab779-Propercomplaint.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rSE1tw7lI0
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5927733-ufc-white-house-attack-plot/
Dialog:
https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/
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