It's a gutsy position to be sure. I know I wouldn't want to be the tallest Israeli target around when the missiles are flying.

Well this is certainly an interesting local development.

Trump : we stand with the brave iranian people fighting oppression People : so iranians in the us with asylum claims will b- Trump : deported, yes

They keep telling me there have been no US casualties yet as if that would remotely be my concern.

Build a dock in the Senate.

I think we've finally perfected the de facto prorogation of Congress.

I see another show cause order in their future.

So much for U visas I guess.

I would like to request a New Colossus.

New from me at @documentedny.bsky.social : New Trump plan: stop processing work permits for asylum-seekers until the asylum application backlog goes down. But they’re not gonna put more people on fixing that backlog. Which they estimate could take 173 YEARS. documentedny.com/2026/02/27/y...

Are Americans better off now than they were in 1893?

Can prison phones call emergency lines without the price-gouging call rates? On the one hand, I think that's required for any connected phone. On the other hand, where is the profit in that?

✈️😳 50,000 ICE Air flights since Jan 2020….and growing each day!

Our communities didn’t ask for this. It’s going to overwhelm their infrastructure with potentially catastrophic consequences, and we do not want them here.

These cases got somewhat more interesting after the tariff ruling I think.

Summary: You can defend against removal for prior misrepresentation with a waiver. The waiver is easier than a fraud waiver at admission: it doesn't require hardship and allows broader qualifying relatives, like children.

There wasn't enough going on, so the BIA just eliminated removal defense fraud waivers for a massive class of people.

Yet another thing where I would be so mortified I would just walk into the ocean and never be seen again, and he probably won't give it a second thought.

I had to doublecheck and, yes, the CEO of CoreCivic is Patrick Swindle. Henceforth, all contracts for the concentration camps shall be known as "Swindle swindles." Please contact your elected representatives and demand they use this updated terminology at every opportunity.

I first wrote about ICE's use of ruses and misrepresentations — which are explicitly recommended in their training manuals — almost eight years ago. This sounds like a particularly bold implementation but this has been part of their toolkit for a long time

Ask for $10 billion each (total damages would be about five times the gross world product) but then settle for green cards and a personal apology.

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

Fun (?) fact: Dairy workers can't get agricultural worker visas because the work is insufficiently seasonal.

<whispers> there's local immigration enforcement beyond 287g

This analogy is absurd. Voting is _already_ decidedly safer than buying beer. I don't need to be on a preäpproved list to buy beer. I'm not assigned to a single bar that's the only place I can buy it. And they don't keep a ledger of everyone who drank that day so they can't buy beer a second time.

This will probably work. The Eighth Circuit is filled with partisan miscreants and corrupt hacks.

Considering contacting Fetterman's staff to see if they can give me a list of all of the other corrupt sexual assailant pedophile felons that the Senator is proud to have shaken hands with. That's the type of thing they probably keep a list of at the ready for inquiring constituents, right?

Immigrants were shoring up our social safety net, you Nazi dipshit.

I guess we know whose primary he's running in in 2028.

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Well, you know, bullets aren't reusable.

The correct response is, WTF is a fourth-generation immigrant? The fourth consecutive generation to immigrate? Has there ever been such a person in the history of the country? We _can_ refer to a fourth-generation American because _every_ succeeding generation is one. But not to them.

Except they're well-trained. They're trained to do those things, and trained well.

I'm up to four Democratic text begs already. I don't know what makes them think I'd give them a cent.

How does a speech reach into a second hour when it doesn't even have a fifteenth word?

Do you remember the end of the movie Dave when he gives a televised speech just so he can collapse on camera? Of course there it was so the real President could be revealed to have been in a coma the whole time, but it works just the same if you're really the President and want out.

2A. And PA magistrates are _often_ ex-police.

This is breaking me a little. I was writing about chilling effects, and immigrants being terrorized out of public life, for this website, in 2017 and frankly earlier. www.vox.com/policy-and-p...

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

He's also the borough manager (as if that conflict of interest should be allowed). The General Assembly should start impeachment proceedings from both positions.

This story is focused on her because she was detained notwithstanding a valid visa, but completely overlooks that her husband should have benefitted from automatic visa revalidation and also should just have been readmitted.

ICE is raiding Pittsburgh and we need your help to cover the fightback paydayreport.com/help-cover-i...

The BIA just discovered Russia is big.

Can't help assuming we're going to get another round of 212(f) insanity to placate the toddler-in-chief.

There's a thousand comments to make here, each more horrified than the last, so I'm just going with: Why are the soccer fields only the size of eight to twelve showers?

“To get the general strike, that means that we have to learn how to participate in local solidarity, too. If we can't manage local solidarity, we can’t scale it up.” Congresswoman Summer L. Lee talks building for a General Strike paydayreport.com/congresswoma...

I'm still not sure why we should care what IIRIRA says when the conditions of confinement violate both the US Constitution and CAT anyway.

There's a certain efficiency in knowing that accepting the appointment is itself an impeachable offense regardless of who it is. Though since impeachment is a dead letter, it's just going to have to be a jurisdiction-stripping provision later.