Anonymizing with initials when everyone knows your name.

I have to find that sawtooth Registry chart I made a while back. You surely can get a green card if you're here long enough. It's just, long enough is currently 54 years and a bit. In 1986 it was under 15 years and it's gone up every day since.

And then they'll run to Congress which will have *no choice but to fund those things again*, so they'll say. And then the money will be taken again. Rinse. Repeat.

Thomson Reuters, whose legal division (i.e. Westlaw) is headquartered in the Twin Cities…

It's not going to be a very good job once the Democrats limit them to their original jurisdiction and give their appellate functions to a new body. I hope they like interstate riparian disputes.

The fact that they aren't just annexing Austria for the money this time is progress?

With today's Matter of AMZF, these BIA decisions are getting to the point where they're just comically absurd. We're now on the precipice of "counsel can't talk". Next up, I suppose, is, "we will let you have counsel if the law forces us, but they must be blindfolded and gagged during proceedings."

I think we are far beyond the point where a serious person can plausibly claim that the immigration courts are offering a fair adjudication consistent with foundational principles of the American legal tradition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

I have professional-level employment-based immigrant visas being held because of risk of being public charges based on nothing other than how little the administration likes the country in question. The principle of merit-based entry is and always will be complete horseshit with these types.

Implode? I'm expecting there to be Brooks Brothers chain gangs with hammers and chisels.

Today we get the next part in the 1-2-3 combination. The judge can't terminate as long as DHS writes "this person is foreign" on a piece of paper even if DHS *itself* doesn't bother showing up to the hearing. We're straining the meaning of "unequivocal" evidence.

How much higher would the US' bribe have to be to get them to not allow them to see lawyers?

I have written abt invoking the Holocaust to shut asylum seekers out. Nothing makes madder. “In a whistle-blower letter, one fired judge quoted an official on the standard for asylum: “Maybe if you were Jewish and escaping Nazi Germany in 1943, you should get it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Was their first choice unavailable?

Unless and until someone shows me the prerequisite "appropriate consultation" was undertaken on the matter, I'm assuming people processed inside their home country do not meet the technical definition of refugees without even reaching the persecution question.

Finally some good news for all those people that E-Verify declines.

People who write arguments like this should have their basements checked for foreign nationals in torture rooms.

I get calls all the time asking me how people can report their fraudulent relationships, sometimes after years, sometimes after children. But it's definitely that they duped you and not that you're a controlling psycho who would use the US government to torture your spouse.

But I would, as always, advise caution on wording with these reports: Having a valid visa does not mean you are in valid status while having an invalid visa or no visa does not mean you aren't.

It's perfectly reasonable to be a criminal lawyer. Blanche's in with Trump is that he's a criminal-lawyer.

Are those rogue folks in the room with you? No, really.

Just report them as kidnappings at some point.

Pittsburgh's City Council voted unanimously this week to formally codify its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is bigger than a symbolic gesture, here's what it actually does and why it matters. 🧵

We only have bandwidth for one big, poorly run piece of ICE at a time, and right now ERO is still on the clock.

Maybe if the federal register notices for every termination weren't carbon copies of each other, judges would believe they actually considered the country conditions.

"[Hey, cities: Conspire with the feds to violate immigrants' and protestors' rights alike. We wouldn't want to have to order any more tragedies.]"

Ditto Lebanon now. If you're from Lebanon and have TPS, you should consider suing to force a six-month extension immediately.

If only Pittsburgh Police answered to the city government…

Now there's just all the other reasons to end this administration, but everyone will forget about it.

The 25th Amendment (§4) is great if the President is in a coma or whatever. It can't be used when the President can just fire everyone who would invoke it against him (except the VP). Why would he just let that happen?

*-Offer not valid for thwarting nativist pogroms or the trans genocide already in progress.

You can't separate anti-immigrant and anti-trans politics from what is happening with Iran. When MAGA picked transphobia and nativism as its organizing principle, it selected for the capacity to treat entire categories of people as civilizational threats whose elimination is an act of self-defense.

What would be the point? The Senate cannot do anything unilaterally in this situation, unless you want to make some sort of argument that it could still ratify the Rome Statute.

Well I know what I'd be wearing to jury selection anyway. (This probably isn't a jury trial.)

It's days like today when it would be really nice if the United States were a democracy and not a series of two-year multimember dictatorships.

This seems to me like a form of coercive deficiency. "[We sunk all our money into building these camps and now we need more to handle the utility infrastructure or else they won't be usable.]"

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Could the Republicans find a more iconic supervillain team than immigration support and reading?

It can't possibly be allowed to prohibit people from filing benefits online if they have counsel, especially when you're discounting the online filing fee vs. paper. That's bribing people to forgo their right to representation.

According to the Atlantic, the right never has agency, everything they do is a reaction to the left. Therefore, everything the right does is the fault of the left.

Even as acting, it's the Republicans' platonic ideal of an Attorney General: incredibly corrupt and literally named White.

If the Citizenship Clause opinion goes the way it seems to be going, the second-best part of it is that they will have played their hand and lost. The ability to threaten this intermittently was worth a great deal more to them than actually doing it is, and now they don't have that anymore either.

Big news for Mullin who would become the only person in the line of succession who qualifies to act as President (except that his appointment would therefore have been void).

The SG is getting fired, if not tonight then whenever this opinion issues, right?

And what the 1940 Congress thought they mean has no bearing on anything, I suppose.

What I'm hearing is: Increase the size of the US House of Representatives tenfold.

If they do eviscerate the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, with the rest of §1 weakened, the Census imminently corrupted, and the Disqualification Clause gone, the only thing left of it will be the prohibition on reimbursing the Confederacy, which I assume they would also lift imminently.

I really hope @governor.pa.gov has a plan to acquire Allegheny National Forest before they sell it to logging interests. We can't afford to wait for it to regrow _again_, and Gov. Pinchot would expect it.

I'm not sure there's a policy that's seen more of a swing than military parole-in-place to…this.

That can't be right. I was told prosecutorial discretion didn't exist not three years ago.