I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

Homan's message: When we kill you, you have to be especially nice to us. Or else we will keep killing you.

Always wonder who buys the "paid disrupter" thing and how they manage to get through the day without accidentally sticking a fork in their eye.

Looks like they've lost another ACIJ this week, Claudia Cubas, who was managing the Baltimore and Hyattsville courts. So now there are 28 ACIJs (down from 39) to manage Immigration Judges at 76 immigration courts. www.justice.gov/eoir/acij-as...

There hasn't been much reporting on the absolute mess at EOIR (so much else going on), but it's genuinely frightening how hobbled this agency is. I've seen reporting on the judge firings and subtly racist IJ recruiting, but here's where we stand on the leadership vacuum at EOIR 🧵

Man, find someone who loves you as much as Donald Trump loves bribery.

This guy trafficked 400 Tons of cocaine into the United States. At least he didn't do it by boat is I guess the distinction?

Has there been any reporting on whether the Asylum Cooperative Agreements the US claims to have entered into with Guatemala and Honduras actually exist? In June Noeam claimed both had agreed to accept asylum seekers from the US. But both denied it. 🧵 apnews.com/article/guat...

Followup on my last skeet, here's a little explainer on why the DOJ's "Deportation Judge" page is so stupidly coded. Since the early 1990s the norm has been for images on websites to link (tag <a href=) to the file offsite. It uses very little code & loads fast. They did this instead:

So if the DOJ’s ‘Become a Deportation Judge’ page won’t load on your phone, here’s why: they Base64-encoded multi-megabyte images directly into the HTML. Nothing says ‘tech savvy’ like shipping a 7-million-character <img> tag.

Banning public prayer huh. That’s certainly a choice…

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."

We finally have the State Department Human Rights reports 6 months late, and it's hard to overstate how bad they are. These will get people killed. Specifically, women and LGBTQ folks have just been written out of these reports. Good luck applying for asylum... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A Chicago woman went to immigration court. Her case was dismissed; she and her infant were taken by federal agents who turned her over to contractor MVM. They spent five days confined at the Sonesta O'Hare hotel without communication to the outside world. My first byline at @injusticewatch.org:

lol at the Whitehouse spokesperson responding to my comments on stripping Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship by only pointing out that I've donated to Democrats. My dude. Get a better spokesperson, there's so much better material on me. www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/u...

These are the same lawyers who would be tasked with bringing the wave of new denaturalization cases. One of the reasons I'm doubtful that such a wave is coming, at least in the short term. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Not sure why, but Matthew J. O'Brien was listed as the Assistant Chief Immigration Judge at the Annandale Immigration Court until this week. He's no longer listed as an ACIJ at all. Might have been moved to another part of the DOJ? Hard to imagine that they fired him a month after re-hiring him idk

Just got an email that the Criminal Justice Act ("CJA") fund is depleted and CJA attorneys (appointed to represent federal defendants) can't be paid. It says to keep submitting vouchers and they'll pay "as soon as funding is available." What an absolute nightmare. www.uscourts.gov/about-federa...

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

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...

A lot of the reporting on the denaturalization priorities memo hasn't ben very thorough and some pieces have gotten the premise wrong. This WaPo piece does a pretty good job describing what the memo actually means and puts it into context. Gift link. wapo.st/44y1NTp

The for-profit prison company GEO Group has surged in value under President Trump. But despite its soaring fortunes, the ICE contractor has continued to resist having to pay detainees more than $1 a day for cleaning facilities where the government has forced them to live. (Published March)

It’s almost July. The State Department Human rights reports were due February 1. The statue requires them to produce these reports to Congress, so I guess, if Congress isn’t interested in compelling the executive to obey the law, there’s not much the rest of us can do. Still

In Denver talking with immigration buddies about denaturalization.

Every mass deportation in American history has in practice been a racial deportation www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

She resigned a few weeks ago, I believe.

Board of Immigration Appeals member Ellen Liebowitz appears to have either left or been fired. No longer listed as a BIA member as of June 4, 2025. Liebowitz had served since 2016, under Obama, Trump, and Biden, and was a senior legal advisor at the BIA before that. www.justice.gov/eoir/board-o...

How does this person attend their immigration court hearing? And if they don't go in person, where do they go? There's no website listed. There is no IJ or courtroom listed. I guess it's TBD, and we'll surely figure it out before trial. But if this person isn't represented, what do they do?

Just got some FOIA records back for a request I submitted in 2020 about the last denaturalization push. Crazy that we're once again talking about a mega-denaturalization effort. Here are the USCIS Director's emails from last time. cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2...

Some big moves at EOIR. The Acting Chief Immigration Judge is now Anna C. Little (a NY IJ). Jeffrey Miller who was hired as Acting Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge in January appears to be out. Miller was also ACIJ over the Houston courts. More... www.justice.gov/eoir/office-...

Trump's DOJ has re-hired former immigration judge Matthew O'Brien (formerly with FAIR and IRLI). Terminated in 2022 from his IJ position during his probationery period, now he's been hired in a supervisory role. ACIJ over Annandale. www.justice.gov/eoir/office-...

Starting to wonder if the State Department just isn't going to publish its annual Human Rights reports this year. For at least the last decade the annual human rights report has been published by this time. It's only been pushed into April 3 times. Never into May.

Whitehouse. gov now has a red banner at the top that says "Lo-fi MAGA Video to Relax/Study To US." If you click on it, it's just a cartoon of Trump signing a piece of paper over and over and a scrolling text of false statements. You're supposed to "relax" to this? We are in weird times friends.

So, the immigration courts have started distributing this flyer. It's being placed on the table you have to sit at for immigration court, and it's being mailed to people with their hearing notices and scheduling orders. The pamphlet is exceedingly inaccurate. I'll do my best to summarize why. 1

Welp, there were hopes that the unopposed request to halt discovery in Abrego Garcia might be a sign that they were working out a resolution. Not so, it appears. The DOJ filed another sealed motion to stay discovery yesterday, a hearing occured this morning, and Judge Xinis just denied the motion.

Another day, another memo from EOIR's acting director purporting to overrule BIA precedent. Under what authority? None that I'm aware of. The memo is about change of venue and the issue isn't particularly pressing (the use of clerical transfers). But still. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

A lengthy think piece full of anonymous leaks from folks inside DOD about how anonymous leaks coming out of DOD = constitutional crisis. Come on. Is the ultimate conclusion that military leaders are plotting a coup? Or just that Hegseth is a historically bad secretary who isn’t leading DOD at all?

New EOIR Director memo on "administrative closure" calls it "de facto" amnesty, rails on how illegal it is (it's not), and then says judges should continue to follow the regulations that allow/require administrative closure "unless they have a legal basis for not doing so." Lawless.

Boasberg holding a hearing at 5:15 PM on the new round of AEA renditions. Plaintiffs are seeking a TRO because they just received notice and now they're being loaded onto buses for immenent removal.

FOIA Monday! Today I received a heavily redacted OIG report about a then-Acting Assistant Chief Immigration Judge who had an improper romantic relationship with a subordinate. He also used his DOJ email to send a fictitious email purportedly from the EOIR Director. www.muckrock.com/foi/united-s...

EOIR says it will reduce the size of the Board of Immigration Appeals from 28 members to 15 members. They had 127,214 appeals pending at the end of the first quarter 2025. And a ton more are coming now that they're ramping up removal orders... public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-06294.p...

Also from that recalcitrant countries FOIA ... As DOJ argues in court that it's impossible to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was unlawfully sent to El Salvador, they're lying. They do it all the time. This is from their repatriation agreement with Vietnam. You just have to want to.

Since Marco Rubio has cancelled all visas for South Sudanese as a response to not accepting back their deportees - I genuinely wonder why they picked S. Sudan. They traditionally have the lowest number of removal orders on the recalcitrant countries list.

Audacity On left: Acting Solicitor General to US Supreme Court: "This case is not about whether TdA members subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act get judicial review; they obviously do." On right: US Notice to detainees: "You are not entitled to a hearing, appeal, or judicial review…"

BREAKNG: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from ending "temporary protected status" for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals — which was slated to expire next week. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Venezuala TPS order is out. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks like a big win for the noncitizens who accused the government of engaging in racism in its attempt to revoke TPS: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...