I'll tell you why the English have ignored the fact that Scotland voted remain.
It's because they're trying to subordinate the idea of Scotland to nominally the United Kingdom, but effectively to England.

The English dominate the United Kingdom in Parliament. The English have got a virtual monopoly on the government of the United Kingdom. They pretend they don't, but they do.
The thing is, Brexit is the only time the dominance of England over the United Kingdom has been tested.
And the English have quite evidently failed.
If there was any truth to the English illusion of the United Kingdom, they would have never imposed this English nationalist Brexit on Scotland.

And I don't think any previous government would have ever dreamed of doing this.
No. This is an outburst of English nationalism using the built-in dominance of England over Parliament to kick the other nations aside.
If the dominant member of a union behaves like this, then it's quite obvious that the union is fake. It's not a union with Scotland. It's an English occupation of Scotland
I think it's the stupidest thing the English have ever done. Not Brexit in itself. But this. This . . . this mad fuck. This total disregard of Scotland.
You've destroyed the union, you know. But not only that. it's going to keep going, eating through everything
And all because you took the political decision to disregard Scotland as a separate nation.
And that was the thing that did it.

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My piece in the NY Times today: "the Trump administration is denying applications submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services at a rate 37 percent higher than the Obama administration did in 2016."

Based on this analysis: "Denials for immigration benefits—travel documents, work permits, green cards, worker petitions, etc.—increased 37 percent since FY 2016. On an absolute basis, FY 2018 will see more than about 155,000 more denials than FY 2016."
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"This increase in denials cannot be credited to an overall rise in applications. In fact, the total number of applications so far this year is 2 percent lower than in 2016. It could be that the higher denial rate is also discouraging some people from applying at all.."

Thanks to @gsiskind for his insightful comments. The increase in denials, he said, is “significant enough to make one think that Congress must have passed legislation changing the requirements. But we know they have not.”

My conclusion:

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