WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

They threatened this before. It's not legal. The statute requires visas to be issued "in the order in which petitions are filed for such visas or status." A random lottery accounting for the impossibility of determining the exact filing order is one thing. 1/

What can you even say?

Santiago and Katelyn have been together for 11 years and have five children together. But that didn’t prevent him from being arrested during his I-130 interview, while he was trying to do things the right way and follow the law.

People in our government are conspiring to achieve (or at the very least ignore) these horrifying results.

Judge Kelly asks about plans for repatriation of kids from other non-contiguous countries (countries that aren't Guatemala). You represented no immediate plans, he says. Does government reserve right to do that in middle of night on weekend, as it did with these kids?

He’s not sure what the big deal is. Any problems they have will be surely resolved thru a quick production of scrawlings on past personal calendars.

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

A decision that immediately takes its place amongst the most infamous, depraved, and gratuitously harmful immigration decisions in U.S. history. And impossible to overstate the damage this will do if federal courts do not step in and quickly.

In its section dissolving INS, the Homeland Security Act prohibited combining the _functions_ of USCIS (then BCIS) and law enforcement, not just combining the agencies. The 2003 memo got this right; they seem to be getting it wrong now.

Operation Jade Helm was a slowwwww play

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

UPDATE: Allison Bustillo Chinchilla is choosing voluntary removal to Honduras after enduring six months in ICE detention at Stewart Detention Center under persistent, oppressive conditions. #AbuseofPowerWatch

In the midst of an IJ firing spree, Trump Admin cites the immigration court backlog in new rule loosening restrictions on "Temporary Immigration Judge" appointments. "Any attorney" who gets Pam Bondi's approval can be put on the bench. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-16573.p...

Excuse me, sir? I'm with the federal government. Would you say your neighbor is fully attached to the principles of the U.S. Constitution and well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States?

CNN: Dillinger Says Midwest Bank Next for Efficiency Upgrade

DHS attorneys' hot streak at the BIA rolls on, with 32/32 precedent decisions since 1/20/2025 ending up in DHS's favor. Remarkable.

New Board of Immigration Appeals precedent decision continues the work to chip away at asylum protections. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Mistaken ID or no, agents chose to do this on the school curb during enrollment hours, jumping out of their truck in masks and approaching a kid with guns drawn. Horrifying for all the kids/families/staff present. Like so many things we are seeing, unforgivable. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

DHS, the agency currently shrugging off fact that their PR guy relentlessly posted Nazi memes, today announced that anything that it deems endorsement of what DHS deems an antisemitic ideology will result in denial of any discretionary benefit application. www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

And what should the courts make of the disproportionate percentage of abhorrent legal briefs citing "disproportionate percentages?"

Congress explicitly recognized in it's naturalization requirements that many longtime legal residents, including people who've been LPRs living in the U.S. 20+ years, may struggle with English fluency. What of them?

Defend your culture?

The Board of Immigration Appeals *again* chooses to publish a case where the immigrant didn't have a lawyer. Because why consider thorough briefing on an issue as simple as... the categorical approach where there's a textual mismatch regarding the isomers of a drug? www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

We’re hearing more and more stories in Colorado of local law enforcement violating state law to attempt to engage in federal immigration law enforcement. Very happy to see Attorney General Weiser step up to show it won’t be tolerated.

So ultimately people, many of whom waited to enter w/ an appt on the CBP One app and had pending asylum applications were renditioned to another country’s torture prison to be used as leverage in negotiations for the release of political prisoners… from the very govt they’d been seeking asylum from.

“And the executioner's face is always well hidden”

Imagine if former ICE attorney Jonathan Love never had to enter an appearance in his cases. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Detention as the unthinking default means locking someone up for 100 days instead of just letting them get on the outbound flight they’ve already agreed to. Countless similar stories around the country. No one (except geo and core civic) wins. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I've got major questions about this.

"We share this story not because it is unique but because it is becoming normal. This type of kangaroo court, where the appearance of justice is kept by patient, robed individuals scheduling fictitious future court dates, betrays the dignity of our migrant brothers and sisters."

Fitting that Stephen Miller is walking the McCarthy path of calling anyone who stands up to him a communist. Like McCarthy, Stephen Miller will be remembered as a utter disgrace. The only question is how much damage he’ll inflict before his downfall.

When I say most people are good and we are going to beat these fascists, people like this woman are why I feel so confident: “The message that it sent was very clear: For us to be afraid to come back and do the work that we’re doing,” Mendez said. Stone, however, said she would volunteer again.”

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵

To be clear, being 1) a Hispanic person, 2) outside a Home Depot, 3) in Los Angeles, 4) who walks away from a government agent is NOT an "articulable" fact indicating that they have violated ANY LAW. We have a right to remain silent.

I see we've reached the point-the-finger-at-a-random-harsh-but-inapplicable-INA-provision portion of the hearing.

Museum events targeted. Catholics being advised they need not attend Mass due to ICE threats. An ICE Police State makes the country a worse place for noncitizens, citizens, civic institutions, and religious institutions. In other words, for everyone.

Something this shambolic really should’ve had Crystal Pepsi representation.

EOIR's acting director has sent a memo to immigration judges telling them they can ignore two critical laws about asylum for domestic abuse survivors and "administrative closure." Only the BIA or the Attorney General can overrule agency precedent. What this means 🧵 www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

If there are no remedies then there are no rights. This Court is as much an organ of the fascism as anything out there.

The BIA, yesterday:

It's long been clear the choice was: 1) recognize laws haven't comported with reality and do a broad-based regularization/amnesty; or 2) abandon due process and humanity to create a massive police state to deport millions My belief we'd eventually come around to the former was apparently wrong.

Leaner meaner post-purge BIA comes out again in support of Salvadoran jails. Case designated as precedent decision by the stroke of Pam Bondi's pen. The immigrant had no lawyer. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

"You may not be able to get needed medical care but just think of the pain we'll get to inflict on others" pretty much encapsulates this movement.