Normally I prefer my heated debates about immigration to be heated by something other than the immolation of the immigrants in question.

Nothing concerning there

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

I don't think they can write what it's for into the law. It would make a facial challenge too easy.

This is neither here nor there, but the location of this interview was so immediately recognizable I had to go look at what a Congressional candidate from Tennessee was doing in Philadelphia.

Yeah I could see 500 babies and toddlers fitting down there, but it's an unorthodox choice of restraint.

CBP Fargo is going to make those passengers pay for this.

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Literally all the referees, including the American ones, should boycott. But nobody will because most people excuse racism unless it's happening to them personally.

It's a term we're good to see more and more. I wish more people had recognized it earlier.

Not the point of this post, but maybe we should have law that any agency that can function without a confirmed director for over nine years should just cease to exist.

not polite to call some people stupid, but it is genuinely a party of stupid people

I mean, if you work for one of the private prison contractors or local government partners and know things about how this money is being misspent, please contact my office.

Democrats gave up all their leverage because Republicans couldn't possibly push an immigration reconciliation bill through.

I testified before the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on Constitutional Rights and Institutional Abuses at a hearing entitled: "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy." I told them the only amnesty happening now is for ICE agents who violate our rights.

Can't wait until everyone who cheers the US team's opponents gets a personal warrant of expulsion from Marco Rubio on account of un-American sentiment.

Let's see. 47,000 people and we know the going rate is apparently $10 billion apiece. Say, does the US have half a quadrillion dollars lying around?

In theory I'm in favor of premium processing options, but the DOS creating a fee expedite option for visitor visas (thereby increasing the cost more than 400%) necessary only because of their own giant backlog is untenable. I note it will only be at "limited posts" and we know where those will be.

"Inadmissible due to vetting concerns" is not a thing.

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Pittsburgh is not this. Locals are constantly trying to claim me as a Pittsburgher against my will. I don't know if they really like me personally or just desperately need more people.

“don’t have discretion” here is slippery language. The govt has had and always has discretion except for the specific circumstances where the law says mandatory detention. Those aside: if DHS pretends that marching orders emanating from S Miller removes their discretion, that is false.

Easier for ICE just to execute them, and actively or passively doesn't matter much anymore.

The $100,000 tax on H-1B workers was illegal from the first minute. The US president has no such power, as federal court just ruled. —> www.reuters.com/world/trumps... I wrote at @piie.com why White House economists' own justification for the tax was spurious—> www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

What non-delegation doctrine?

Unless he's individually inadmissible somehow (the coincidence required would be unimaginable), the refusal would have to be one of the least justifiable 214b/212a7 decisions ever. So is this just a straight 212f refusal?

This is unquestionably correct, but their next move is presumably using 212(f) to block H-1B admissions at all.

After what happened during the fake 1995 Stanley Cup Final here in Pittsburgh, I can't say I blame them for the caution.

"Plan" is a little charitable, I think. Ahab strikes back at the municipal white whale while everyone around him can't (and/or won't) convince him how foolish it is.

It should be added that it sometimes takes many months or even approaching a year to get employment authorization through, and also they eliminated temporary automatic extensions after timely filing for them. So when you get your EAD, go ahead and file for the extension that same day, I guess.

But I was told that spending money is a legitimate form of speech. Which is it?

Thought we'd make it through a Friday without the BIA being heard from. But they had to get one in before they felt uneasy all weekend having not hurt refugees.

I suspect the statue will remain but "The New Colossus" will not. We already know that his hench-Miller has a vendetta against it, and that's on top of Republicans' typical enmity for the arts.

Trump didn't tear down the Statue of Liberty already?

Can we though? Politicians giving money to law enforcement so they can influence who is elected to give them more money is an intractable problem at the local level certainly.

Running for governor in a state where they're straight up murdering people and getting away with it, and she's still on the line about how we have to get the cost of living in line. If it did anything to lower costs for families but still gave $70B to ICE it would still be a fucking problem.

We're up to, what, 25 years of funding at 2024 levels?

Which is ironic because voting against it to protect their colleagues from themselves and their own terrible politics would have been by far a more politically savvy maneuver.

A man at Moshannon spoke out about abuse & neglect. ICE and GEO threw him in solitary, cut him off & transferred him. This is retaliation. It’s how Trump punishes dissent, silences the truth & disappears detainees. Shut ICE down. Shut Moshannon down. www.witf.org/2026/06/04/i...

I'm surprised they bothered writing it. I thought we'd mostly moved on to jurisprudence by vibe.

I assume "all the Republican Senators" will, per tradition, include Fetterman, if he deigns to show up.

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

I really need to go back in time to make use of the Biden open-border policies that certainly existed.

Guys. We can’t let our country be at war with humanity and decency.

While we're still slogging through the criminal effects on discretion (with criminal meaning even nolle prosses, even acquittals) I think the latest rash of BIA decisions is building up to a §212.7(d)-ish "universal refusal of discretion absent the most extraordinary circumstances possible" rule.

I'm sure the first gentleman of Meta has to say these kinds of things.

60 Minutes, but it's an angular measure as compared to Anderson Cooper 360° or whatever

Yeah but I'm sure she'll turn around and apologize for it in a couple weeks. Gotta maintain that comity so their rulings don't get worse or something. At least that's what the brown-nosing law professors told me.

"Republicans aren't going to torment white people" isn't them assimilating better.

I don't have the energy to read beyond the syllabus, but I think earlier this afternoon the BIA ordered the imprisonment of orphans, like a panel of Dickens antagonists.