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...

Bondi also directs the FBI to establish a cash reward system for information leading to identification and arrest of leadership figures within organizations expressing “opposition to ... immigration enforcement," "radical gender ideology," "anti-Americanism," and "anti-capitalism."

This makes twice Bove's said **** you to Boasberg.

Cynical as I am about politics, I am so excited at the prospect of U.S. Senator Julie Gonzales. I’ve personally witnessed the impact of her work at the Colo. legislature and her willingness to partner across ideologies to actually get things done. That's the same energy we need in the U.S. Senate.

Oof. Another mark on the “con” side of the let-people-interpret-the-gospels-for themselves question.

FIFA is monstrous. Maybe Loretta Lynch's work would have done the trick if she'd used wooden stakes or garlic or holy water.

It’s an absolute atrocity regardless. But remember that those in power telling us these nearing 100 people executed from the sky are definitely drug traffickers are the same people who told us the guy sent to CECOT based on an autism awareness tattoo was definitely Tren de Aragua.

Ah yes, the fight. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

GEO Group, currently grifting the American taxpayer for incalculable sums of money thru Trump's mass deportation ops, gave 92% of their 2024 campaign contributions to GOP candidates. GEO's favorite (only?) Dem, just got a pardon. Friends in high places, I guess. www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipie...

The head of the Border Patrol racial profiling operation calls the US citizen BABIES of immigrants criminals

Making some assumptions here but it sounds like her immigration court case resulted in administrative closure. If that's right, they didn't even have a removal order but still arrested her and unlawfully deported her within 48 hrs, actions that should get people fired. www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/u...

Repugnant all around. But this: "..opportunity to return to America the right, legal way" being directed at those who listened to the U.S. tell them to just wait for a CBP One appt to do it the legal way, waited months in impossible circumstances to get their appt, just to be treated like this.

I'm not sure what the continuation is and I'm not going there to look, but I'm assuming this is referring to them getting Social Security _benefits_, when what they're really getting is Social Security _numbers_, so they can pay for other people's benefits.

“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”

Ah yes but the fishing boats are different…

The good thing is that with the agency’s integrity and credibility at stake, every agent who falsified reports or lied in sworn testimony will face internal agency investigation and discipline… actually they’re probably minting themselves commemorative coins celebrating the whole thing

Immigration lawyers remember the gov't going down a similar road in Niz-Chavez. Didn't end great for them there.

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

So… protest was prophecy? www.cbsnews.com/news/christ-...

Masterful gambit, sir