CHETICAMP, Nova Scotia — In the middle of the 18th century, Great Britain undertook a deportation program in the New World with many of the elements of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to expel hundreds of thousands of immigrants, perhaps even more than a million, from the United States. It did not go well. This episode is lost in the memory of most North Americans, but is vivid today, some 270 years later, in the lives and cultures of descendants of the French colonists who lived, generally peaceably, among Indigenous peoples for a century and a quarter. It was a mass deportation known variously as the Acadian Expulsion or the Great Upheaval, and it remains a blot on British history — and, perhaps, an object lesson for the new administration as it is contemplating an even more massive expulsion. “What Trump wants to do in terms of moving people has a real parallel,” said Donald Savoie, Universite de Moncton scholar with Acadian roots. “It was extremely painful, and Acadians have not forgotten that experience.” Here in the land of what Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in “Evangeline,” called “the murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded with moss,” are the successors to the Acadians ruthlessly expelled from Nova Scotia between 1755 and 1763 and deported to the American Colonies, Great Britain and France. In all, about two-thirds of the Acadians were expelled in a brutal effort that provides the backdrop of Longfellow’s epic poem about lost land and lost love. Some of the Acadians and their descendants later returned here, to the fishing village of Cheticamp on Cape Breton Island, where Acadian culture is nurtured and Acadian recipes are renewed and revered. Everywhere flies the flag of Acadia, a yellow star (the stella maris, or “star of the sea,” signifying the Virgin Mary) affixed to the familiar blue-white-red rectangles of the French flag. Just as the Acadian lovers Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse were separated during the Great Upheaval in the Longfellow poem, so too were hundreds of Acadians in an expulsion that began when Col. John Winslow summoned males over the age of 10 to the Grand-Pre Church, where he read a decree ordering “That your Land & Tennements, Cattle of all Kinds and Livestocks of all Sorts are forfeited to the Crown with all other your effects Savings your money and Household Goods, and you yourselves to be removed from this Province.” The appointment of Tom Homan, who has promised “a historic deportation operation” as the Trump administration’s border czar, and the strong role that Stephen Miller, the administration’s leading anti-immigrant figure, will play as Trump’s deputy chief of staff make it clear that the new president intends to set in motion what he has called “the largest deportation in the history of our country.” There are, however, obstacles to a mass deportation of those in the country illegally that could affect as many as 11 million people — about a quarter of the immigrants in the United States now. One is the backload of cases in the nation’s immigration courts; the Supreme Court has ruled that migrants facing deportation have the right of due process. The American Immigration Council, sometimes criticized for being an advocacy group for immigrants, puts the cost of such an operation above $315 billion for arrests, detention, processing and eventual removal. The group argues such an operation would reduce GDP by 4.2 percent to 6.8 percent and would lead to a reduction of more than $47 billion in federal tax revenue and $29 billion in state and local tax revenue. More than half the country wants drastic changes at the border. A year ago, 41 percent of Americans wanted immigration decreased, according to the Gallup Poll. The figure now: 55 percent. The poll found that 42 percent consider immigration a crisis. Only four years ago, the public was split between those wanting to admit fewer immigrants and those favoring more. The number of foreign-born people in the United States reached a record 47.8 million last year, about 14.3 percent of the population, according to the Pew Research Center, just below the record figure (14.8 percent) set in 1890. Miller has spoken of creating staging grounds that would include runways for military aircraft near the Texas border. Trump confirmed the other day that he would use military personnel for deportations and has talked of using local police in the effort. No plans have been made in Mexico for the reception of those sent back across the border, no shelters have been created, and no means of feeding or employing the migrants are available — challenges that face Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president for less than eight weeks. “This will be a great burden on President Sheinbaum, who will need time to put a plan in place, and it will be highly disruptive to U.S.-Mexico relations,” said Patrice Franko, a Colby College expert on Latin America. “This is going to be a complex process that merits great discussion, a lot of interagency work, and negotiations in how to do this in a way that does not spill over into other areas, including the drug war.” The Acadian precedent offers no comfort, only disruptions in the short term and anxieties in the long term. Professor Savoie, the leading Canadian expert on government operations, remembers the 1955 bicentenary commemorations of the Acadian expulsion. “The celebration was that we were still alive and kicking,” he said. “To this day, Acadians have never let go. They have demanded an apology. It’s still a part of who we are. I think people and entire generations will be marked forever by the Trump expulsions. The United States will make enemies for generations.” The big difference between the 1755 expulsions and the ones that Trump is planning is the media technology of the time. The Trump expulsions will be visible globally in a way that was inconceivable when the Acadians were deported after refusing to swear oaths to the British crown without assurances that they would be free to practice their religion and could remain neutral in case of war with France. “This Acadian precedent to the Trump plan didn’t work out very well,” Savoie said. “It did not work out for us, as it is still a bone in our throat. We Acadians have never turned the page. And it didn’t work out for the British crown, because centuries later it is still a stain on their history.” David M. Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.BEST OF BOTH WORLDS | Filipino-American Rapper MBNel on using heritage as strength10jili com 。

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Democrat Bob Casey concedes to Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate contestIntech Investment Management LLC bought a new position in PTC Therapeutics, Inc. ( NASDAQ:PTCT – Free Report ) in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm bought 18,806 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock, valued at approximately $698,000. A number of other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of the stock. BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. raised its holdings in shares of PTC Therapeutics by 6.0% in the third quarter. BNP PARIBAS ASSET MANAGEMENT Holding S.A. now owns 472,288 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $17,522,000 after buying an additional 26,773 shares during the last quarter. Quest Partners LLC increased its position in shares of PTC Therapeutics by 433.9% in the 3rd quarter. 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The press has given Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra the nickname "Paetongphoey" -- a reference to her dependence on prepared scripts at important occasions -- as part of the year-end tradition among Government House reporters to come up with monikers for senior government officials. The nickname "Paetongphoey" is a mash-up between the first two syllables of the prime minister's name, and phoey -- the Thai word for "script". When asked to comment on the name, Ms Paetongtarn insisted it didn't upset her, before adding good-naturedly that "Paetongpad" would have been more accurate, as she reads the scripts off her iPad (as her critics have noted). Government House correspondents also dubbed Ms Paetongtarn's administration as "the dad-backed government", due to her father's -- former prime minister Thaksin -- prominent role in her government. Meanwhile, they also viewed her remarks about her husband's southern origin, brought up when the South was hit by severe floods last month, as quote of the year. In the wake of widespread public criticism for her decision to supervise flood clean-up operations in the North instead of visiting the South when the floods there were at their worst, the premier responded by saying her husband "is a Southerner," so would not let her ignore the area's plight anyway. She said she would have loved to inspect the flooded areas herself, but the widespread nature and timing of the disasters meant she had no option but to delegate tasks to various lawmakers and members of her cabinet. "I feel like I just have to take a step back from anything that makes me feel bad, because hating someone is tiresome," said Ms Paetongtarn at Government House on Monday. When asked about her goals for next year after receiving the feedback from the press, Ms Paetongtarn said she will put her focus on chronic social issues plaguing the country, before pledging to expedite the nation's economic recovery.

I have the fashion sense of an American toad so I’ve never been on the cutting edge of fashion trends. I’ve been wearing essentially the same clothing since the ’90s, my hairstyle hasn’t changed much since I lopped off my long hair in college, and I’ve had a goatee—or some form of one— since Alice in Chains played unplugged on MTV. So it was only last summer, when I was writing some articles for Ink Link about the New Hampshire Fisher Cats , that I started to notice that many of the young men on the team had mustaches—and they didn’t appear to be ironic. Lately, my 19-year-old son has been trying his hand at growing a mustache, and the results have not been good. Like me, he struggles to grow thick facial hair—I barely had to shave until my 20s—and the mustache makes him look like he is the starting center for a middle school basketball team. “You need to shave that,” I said to him last weekend. My son stared down at the floor like he dropped some hair. “I guess you’re right,” he said, defeated. To be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about the resurgence of the mustache. While I’m vehemently opposed to the revival of the mullet— which I shamelessly flaunted long after the trend originally passed —I’m ambivalent about the mustache. We recently started watching “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” in the films class that I teach, and there is no denying that the mustaches on Tuco and Angel Eyes (Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef) are truly magnificent. Not only do they characterize, but they’re also powerful feats of facial growth. Make no mistake, the robust mustache is a statement. It says, “Here I am, and you need to deal with it.” To be completely honest, a strong mustache can also be intimidating, almost frightening. While I can’t grow one myself, I can admire it. Meanwhile, I’m on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. If I were to shave a mustache and let it grow out, I would look like a guy who should be guessing your weight at a carnival. You see, the chintzy mustache is also a statement. It says, “I’m here, and I’m trying, but it’s just not working.” It has an air of quiet desperation, an emasculating quality. In the end, if you can’t grow a strong mustache, it’s best not to grow one at all. Which might be the only sage advice that I can pass on to my son. Ultimately, the mustache is almost impossible to ignore and not pass judgement, one way or the other. Maybe that’s why it is coming back in style for younger Gen. Z men who grew up on social media and want to be seen because there is no way to be anonymous with a mustache. Even if it is shaved Clark-Gable-pencil-thin, it is a statement. I wrote a poem 1 about mustaches in one of my poetry collections that is now out-of-print, so I’ll share it here. “Men with Mustaches” A man with a mustache must be watched closely, like a storm cloud concealing lightning in its coat. A man with a mustache might be a porn star, a scrawny guy with three legs, sweating pools of sex. A man with a mustache might sell you a used car and promise it will change the way you drive. It will. A man with a mustache might wear his shirt unbuttoned, his chest hair screaming like a room full of fangirls. A man with a mustache might sell tickets for a Ferris wheel and piss behind dunking booths. A man with a mustache might try to write like Hemingway but only succeed in drinking himself to sleep. A man with a mustache might, in fact, be me before I shaved it after scaring myself in the mirror. A man with a mustache must be watched closely; I guarantee he’s looking at you, chewing on a toothpick. Originally published in My Next Bad Decision (Artistically Declined Press, 2014) Warning: There is some NSFW content here. ↩︎

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