What unfolded in Minnesota shows how immigration authority can be used as leverage — pressuring state officials blurring the line between law enforcement and election control.

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Mnangagwa dangles landas MP loyalty ‘bait’ Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bid to extend his rule to 2030 has taken a dramatic turn. This comes after revelations that both Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members of parliament (MPs) have been allocated residential stands by the government – raising serious allegations of bribery and political coercion. According to a press statement issued by the Zimbabwean ministry of local government and public works on 9 April, at least 70 residential stands were disbursed across three key locations: Killarney in Goromonzi (15), Penrose in Zvimba (15), and Mabelreign in Harare (40). The ministry insists the move is a continuation of a non-monetary benefit programme dating back to the eighth parliament, meant to ‘empower’ MPs and lessen accommodation burdens. “The ministry of local government and public works in 2013 partnered with the parliament of Zimbabwe to make residential stands available . . . This facility is a once-off entitlement … part of their conditions of service,” the ministry said. However, the timing of the allocations – just weeks before a planned vote on a controversial constitutional amendment that would allow Mnangagwa to run for a third term beyond 2028 – has triggered widespread suspicion that the stands are being used to buy votes. Inside sources within Zanu-PF told Daily News that internal resistance to Mnangagwa’s succession plans remains strong, with some senior MPs wary of violating the constitutional two-term limit. “They are trying to silence dissent through perks and perks alone,” says a senior Zanu-PF legislator, who declined to be named. “The party is deeply divided, and this latest move could backfire.” The CCC has yet to issue an official statement, but a party insider described the allocations as “a clear act of inducement” that compromises parliamentary independence. The opposition has consistently opposed Mnangagwa’s alleged push for lifetime leadership, warning that such manoeuvres undermine democracy. The government maintains there is “nothing untoward” about the allocations. Yet the optics suggest a calculated move to win loyalty in the parliament. “Implementation of programmes aimed at providing housing to targeted communities is being done in fulfilment of provisions contained in the constitution of Zimbabwe,” the local government ministry added, attempting to distance the allocations from political motivations. To date, the parliament has received over 263 stands, including 188 at Goromonzi, 49 in Bulawayo, 12 at Chiredzi, nine at Kadoma, and five at Beitbridge. While the initiative is not new, analysts say the sudden acceleration of stand allocations at such a politically sensitive time cannot be ignored. Zimbabwe’s political temperature is rising as the ruling party weighs its next move. With the parliament expected to sit later this month to debate the amendment, the focus will be on whether the ‘empowered’ MPs will toe the line or resist. The post Mnangagwa dangles landas MP loyalty ‘bait’ appeared first on The Namibian.

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Trump’s Deportations Are a Throwback to Red Scare Politics The recent detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, raises concerns about political repression. #FreeKhalil #ProtectFreeSpeech #BorderControl #DeportationHistory #PoliticalCoercion #DissentStifled

Trump’s Deportations Are a Throwback to Red Scare Politics

The recent detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, raises concerns about political repression. #FreeKhalil #ProtectFreeSpeech #BorderControl #DeportationHistory #PoliticalCoercion…

It can be #EconomicCoercion - normalising the idea that sick/ older/ disabled people are nothing but an impediment to economic growth (a view voiced in the UK Covid Inquiry); that the value of human lives is solely measured by how much profit powerful people can extract from them It can be #MedicalCoercion: the progressive destruction of our NHS so what you get depends on ability to pay, not need; by epic long-term underfunding; by making healthcare settings unsafe; dumbing down expertise with Physician Associates & neutralising regulators. It’s about destroying trust in medics (see CV & Long Covid groups surveys) while giving even more power to them. The issuing of DNARs we saw in the early days of the pandemic, defining clinical need by budgetary restrictions & often ill-informed judgements on quality of life. All underpinned by #PoliticalCoercion (or that of multinational masters/ oligarchal overlords?): leaving sick/older/disabled people in deprivation without #AssistanceToLive; bullying sick/ disabled people to work on the fictional basis that if they made more effort they could. Only yesterday our Government threatened that if disabled people & people with a health condition don’t want to be written off they would be offered a ’pathway to work’. No pathway can lead to work people too sick or disabled to work. And no! They don’t want to be ‘written off’. Coercion can be generated by withdrawing support to live a good life. This is #ConstructedCoercion: political choice to generate conditions that render lives intolerable, removing all possibilities of choice to live well &dignity in life, & offer it only in choice to end it.

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