“We’d have fewer cases of COVID if we stopped testing”-level logic today from the BIA.

This whole tournament is an argument against blood and soil nationalism, EMBRACE IT

Left: Guy allowing a country to dream with two goals in the opening game. Right: Guy who thinks he shouldn’t even be a U.S. citizen

Ah, yes, routine inspections. (Come visit the U.S.A., everyone!)

I was way off to think Shams' reporting couldn't possibly get more embarrassing.

So disappointed with Governor Polis’ veto of SB-005, which would have allowed ICE officers to be held accountable. Here is my statement.

Polis’s rationale makes no sense. Again. With friends like these…

Yes. And also, *I* decide who to let onto my property, not some mayor giving out a "key to the city." Disgusting.

He chose his haircut. He chose that trench coat. He chose this photo.

Under Edlow’s USCIS, we now get ten minutes of: -what was your intention when you entered on a tourist visa? -why’d you overstay? -Why didn’t you apply for a green card from abroad? -Ok well why aren’t you applying from abroad now? For an applicant who last entered as a kid decades ago.

And based on what SpongeBob has heard, we could fix the housing crisis by chucking a bunch of pineapples to the bottom of the sea.

Behold the stately elegance of the White House, the solemn and dignified home of our American presidency.

The way you know this entire thing is transparent political posturing is that amphetamines and crazy schedules set by shipping companies kill a lot more Americans than undocumented truck drivers ever had, yet no state is actively going to court to do anything to fix those problems.

We know they don’t care about this but worth mentioning that in the end, denying simple adjustments and sending them to immigration courts/appeals/later consular processing w/ waivers probably will take 10 times the resources across 3 separate agencies to process an application to get a green card.

My spouse is a US citizen and I’d like to adjust status: No, follow laws for consular processing and go apply abroad. OK I’ll do the process set out in law where I get a provisional waiver and then go consular process abroad. Can you not arrest/deport me while USCIS processes the applications?: No

This innocuously-titled USCIS memo about how receiving residency in the US is a matter of "administrative grace" is a sadistic exercise of administrative violence designed to arbitrarily keep mixed-status families apart for what could quickly add up to *thousands of years.* Very quickly:

He's probably done thousands of impeachable things but this seems like the most straightforward, brazen, and easiest to articulate. Who's drafting up the articles?

Jared Polis commutes the sentence and soon Donald Trump can give her a nice payout from the new $1.7b slush fund. Heckuva job, Governor.

In yesterday's BIA decision about deporting children, the BIA decided that even though an agency regulation allows discretionary administrative closure, an IJ can't follow a regulation when it conflicts with the underlying statute. That is a new position for the BIA. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Asked for comment about Ms. Ross-Mahé’s nightmarish experience in our civil immigration detention system, DHS said “ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons…” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

It has happened. Senior Judge William Martínez is the first in Colorado -- to my knowledge -- to use the phrase "sham bond hearing" to describe what's going on in immigration court. From his order today releasing a detainee after an unnamed IJ engaged in no analysis to keep a man locked up:

Truly can't think of any good reason to designate this very fact/record-specific BIA decision for publication. links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2...

Incredible thread. The level of in person community-building and mutual aid that came out Minneapolis is unprecedented in modern American times.

Another irreparable harm: if we don’t intervene now, who’s to know if these industry titans will take us on luxury fishing excursions next summer.

Ha the BIA decides that not letting noncitizens give any closing or opening argument in immigration court isn't a due process violation, but... it still reverse the IJ's negative credibility finding. That's what he says he wanted to give a closing argument on. So... www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Sounds like she has a valid work permit based on a pending marriage-based adjustment application. Pure cruelty and indifferent wastefulness to detain her and her poor daughter rather than allow USCIS to decide the application. So many people need to be fired. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Give us more money and we will not deport U.S. citizens, which we were absolutely not doing, but we will stop. To the best of our ability.

BIA showing off a neat trick. Take 7 years to decide an appeal of an IJ decision granting a noncitizen a green card and, wouldn't you know it, they no longer have minor children and so don't qualify for that application. Ordered removed to Mexico. links-1.govdelivery.com/CL0/https:%2...

The amount of work it takes just to not have your client in jail or not shackled with an ankle bracelet or not have their ID documents illegally confiscated by ICE—for situations where this stuff never would’ve been an issue but the past—is just obscene.

BIA drops Matter of D-J-L-: TLDR: Witness had studied torture in Haitian prisons including torture of "criminal deportees" from the U.S., became expert in the field, formed opinion that returning people to such torture is bad, is thus unqualified to be an expert. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

NEW: Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubenstein (R) who prosecuted Tina Peters says Gov Jared Polis (D) giving Peters clemency "would be a gross injustice." Rubenstein points out that separate case cited by Polis to justify clemency misses the purpose of sentencing ranges.

So Congress is just a vestigial tail of the government at this point?

I really, genuinely dislike "Calvinball" analogies to most of the recent decisions of the Supreme Court. But "we have never applied this thing we invented during COVID to this other new thing" is worthy of the designation. Thanks, Justice Kavanaugh.

I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.

Starting to think Pam Bondi's Board of Immigration Appeals might not be on the level.

What is going on in the nation's immigration courts right now is an absolute scandal.

You do a few extrajudicial killings in Minnesota and no one in the lamestream media will talk about all the extrajudicial killings you do in the Caribbean.

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To anyone tempted to celebrate Noem's big announcement that ICE will use body cams and that it will be expanded nationwide as funding is available... That's already been official ICE policy for over two years. www.ice.gov/news/release....

Love that policymakers haven’t even bothered to learn how the current system works.

At a bare minimum, all these rich men were still emailing him, asking to visit the island, getting his advice on women (and obviously much worse), and generally kissing his ass for years after this.

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

"Don Lemon has been taken into custody after 9/11 attacks" would be just as accurate and informative.

new: Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain and activist Matt Moberg FaceTimed me from an ICE blanketed parking lot about his empathy for Anthony Edwards, Wemby's provocative statement about the Spurs, and the value (if any) of athletes speaking out. we ended early because ICE tried to arrest his mom.

How could it be fascism if it’s wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross?

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

"Why aren't our officers welcomed in restaurants?" people.com/ice-agents-a...