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

Dante called them circles rather than sectors but point taken.

As always this is not remotely how this provision works. It's for arriving individuals inadmissible for reasons that wouldn't subject them to expedited removal. That's almost no one. No rational reading of the statute allows anything close to this.

I spoke with a dem senator this week who was actually seriously contemplating giving DHS more money because it meant body cameras & therefore accountability. 1. That opinion was problematic always. 2. That opinion is outrageous after today’s events. Dems need to step up or move out of the way.

There is nothing immigration could do that is worse than what US immigration restriction and policing is doing to us

We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.

Grabbing people off the street is only the first layer of harm. Behind the scenes, government lawyers push a bad faith and unlawful expansion of mandatory detention. And DOJ circulates secret guidance telling immigration judges to ignore a class action ruling finding the expansion plainly illegal.

Congress in the Land of the Free:

Regardless, detention is a choice. They have all the authority in the world to just NOT detain someone and instruct them to report back in a few days with their documents through a process called deferred inspection. But the policy choice now is to lock people up whenever they can.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Person, woman, Iceland, camera, TV

Makes me think of that classic of Soviet humor: in a labor camp in Siberia, one prisoner turns to the other and says "if only comrade Stalin knew..."

We, being a major military power, *must* attack the Danes because the Danes are incapable of defending their land against a major military power. Wonder where that line of logic ends?

Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Good to see the US going back to its roots and only accepting immigrant groups who are already rich, like the Irish, Italians, and Poles were when they came to the US. Every American family has a story of an ancestor who got off the boat with a million dollars in their pocket

“These incidents will continue until morale improves”

New Board of Immigration Appeals Precedent Decision: Applicants for asylum can show requisite persecution only after they are actually murdered. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

A broad-based amnesty is a necessary part of whatever comes next and political leaders should start articulating that.

So Bovino and his band rolled into town saying they were needed to make Minneapolis safer, then proceeded to do so by committing the year's only homicide, attacking a school dismissal, and forcing kids to stay home from school city-wide.

I am begging for congressional democrats to be pushing actual amnesty/immigration reform every single day. Show us what you’re actually going to do to change this.

Good time to remind myself how powerful it is that people with no obligation other than their own conscience are showing up to bear witness to immigration enforcement and court hearings.

Had this woman not been murdered, she'd have been arrested and charged based on the allegations in the ICE statement. Then they quietly would have dismissed all charges when it became clear video and other evidence showed all the claims are B.S. We've seen it countless times. Instead, she's dead.

No immigrant Stands Alone www.immdef.org/about @immdef.bsky.social

Oh. The pack of criminals did some insider trading along the way. What a world.

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

If you’re gonna *again* violate the gag order, try to get your money’s worth at least. This is ChatGPT drivel you thought sounded profound but is just beyond stupid. Anyway, add it to the exhibit list.

Must-read piece on the top non-negotiable priority of the Trump administration: a ceaseless assault on American liberties, due process rights, and the rule of law. Also, WTF:

Merry Christmas, all. Extra love to all those who cannot be with their loved ones this holiday season. May the coming year see the tides start to turn.

Not that it should matter, but we did know that some, including Andry Hernández Romero, had listened to U.S. gov't instructions to wait outside the country until they got an appt on the CBP One app. They did exactly as they were told, only to be detained and sent to a torture prison.

Ah, well, it “has been updated.”

Highly recommend this piece weaving together the origins, history, and personal of the Diversity Visa program the Trump Administration has finally found its pretext to purportedly cancel.

If your laws can result in this, your country is being harmed by its laws, not the “lawbreaker”

An utterly pretextual decision, and one that stops the most important visa program you’ve never heard of. For most of the world the diversity visa lottery is the only thing ensuring there’s a “right way” at all. And Noem’s justification actually makes even less sense than you might think:

Meeting, getting to know, and working work with Diversity Visa selectee clients has been one of the highlights of my career. Unsurprisingly, Trump/Miller hate this law and tried to shut it down in Trump 1.0 with COVID as their excuse. Now they’ve found their pretext for Trump 2.0. Sickening.

The small, mean world our leaders are building isn’t inevitable. It’s a choice to see immigration as a source of threat rather than possibility. That was part of the story of the lottery that I love, that the admin is trying now to kill. uncpress.org/978146967304...

What is there even to say? Suspending the lottery serves the administration’s anti-Black, nativist, xenophobic goals, makes US life worse across every measure. But read about the recent past, when the US was a more open and generative country, when the future belonged to more of us:

Ivana Trump, the mother of the president's older children, was in a sham marriage to get out of Czechoslovakia. She didn't disclose it on her naturalization application (saying she'd only been married once, to Donald Trump). She could've been targeted for denaturalization under a regime like this.

Yes. As with the first travel ban, this one also appears to exempt any athletes, coaches, and their families traveling for the World Cup. However, fans are not exempted, so if they don't have tourist visas already (current visa-holders may still enter on a valid visa) they are just out of luck.

Incredible what judges, policymakers, law enforcement, and other citizens will allow to be inflicted on their fellow citizens so long as they’re confident it won’t be inflicted on them personally.

Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status. So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.

Yes, it’s one they handpicked, and IIRC is actually a judge in management who only hears a small number of cases. It’s so flagrantly corrupt and a perversion of due process you almost have to laugh; then go off and file a bar complaint against the judge for violating ethics rules.

Isn't it a completely different immigration judge than the one from years earlier? How can they claim a "scriveners error" from someone else's order?

The error wasn't the scrivener's. You can fix the clerk's (or _maybe_ judge qua clerk's) work with this doctrine, but not the judge's (qua judge) with this. This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.

Wait the IJ sua sponte issued a removal order to 2019 nunc pro tunc?! The lengths they are going to make Abrego Garcia’s life hell are beyond belief. And the sole reason he’s targeted: having been illegally sent to a Salvadoran torture prison and having the temerity to object to it

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

Judge Xinis: “Respondents SHALL release Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately”

An immigration program to ensure we can attract and import the rest of the world's Billy Madisons.

As the Irish and so many others before, each new group is the one that cannot possibly be assimilated. scalar.usc.edu/works/stereo...