Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and green cards
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Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and green cards
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#2going to comment on my own submission: it's hard to underestimate the damage done to these people. Leaving aside the life /torture/death cases, and just assuming that they are regular immigrants: They have sold everything they own and probably gone heavily in debt to finance the trip....to essentially paradise. And now?
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#3What's with the empty brackets in the title?
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#4What's with the empty brackets in the title?
I meant to say that the title is redacted. IIRC [...] would do it but the site skipped the ....
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#6What's with the empty brackets in the title?
I meant to say that the title is redacted. IIRC [...] would do it but the site skipped the ....
FWIW, a plain ellipsis should replace any number of words redacted for brevity. E.g., "The US government is violating the due process, equal protection, and habeas corpus rights of immigrants," becomes "The US government is violating the... rights of immigrants."
If replacing a word with another word to convey missing contextual meaning- e.g., "I won't do business with [Mr. Trump] in the future," that's when you pull out the brackets.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I meant to say that the title is redacted. IIRC [...] would do it but the site skipped the ....
You mean elided. Redacted normally refers to "blacking out" or censoring something confidential in a larger document.
Thanks guys. In old days I knew that ... meant that something is being omitted but I forgot :)
Anyway, I wanted to say that the title is not as it is on the original site. I edited it thanks to your advice
Re: Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and green cards
#8going to comment on my own submission: it's hard to underestimate the damage done to these people. Leaving aside the life /torture/death cases, and just assuming that they are regular immigrants: They have sold everything they own and probably gone heavily in debt to finance the trip....to essentially paradise. And now?
A similar thing happened to 91 Cuban refugees that were in transit to the US when Obama ended the policy of granting residency to any who reached the US.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I meant to say that the title is redacted. IIRC [...] would do it but the site skipped the ....
FWIW, a plain ellipsis should replace any number of words redacted for brevity. E.g., "The US government is violating the due process, equal protection, and habeas corpus rights of immigrants," becomes "The US government is violating the... rights of immigrants." If replacing a word with another word to convey missing contextual meaning- e.g., "I won't do business with [Mr. Trump] in the future," that's when you pull…
Bracketed ellipses are often used in quoted material to mark elisions to make clear that the ellipses are inserted by the party relaying the quote to mark a elision, not ellipses present in the original text.
Most (maybe even all) formal sources that I've encountered use this style, not unbracketed ellipses.
Re: Dozens of immigrants ... coerced into giving up visas and green cards
#10going to comment on my own submission: it's hard to underestimate the damage done to these people. Leaving aside the life /torture/death cases, and just assuming that they are regular immigrants: They have sold everything they own and probably gone heavily in debt to finance the trip....to essentially paradise. And now?
A similar thing happened to 91 Cuban refugees that were in transit to the US when Obama ended the policy of granting residency to any who reached the US.
True, many don't appreciate the power of a US Visa. Think of "FU money" in USA, only to find out that the stock you had your money in has crashed.