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Gov't could've sought to reopen with a motion to the imm court (they could've done so to try to get rid of the withholding order). My understanding is that Abrego Garcia has submitted his own MTR and it's already pending. If the IJ, grants it, then clear no order to execute while he seeks asylum.
Reinstatement requires an illegal re-entry per 1231(a)(5). So even if they revoke parole, they can't reinstate.
Makes intuitive sense to me. They had an order of removal. It was executed upon his departure. He was then brought back in without anyone (yet) reopening the old already-executed order. You can't execute one removal order twice (reinstatement not applicable here). No order to execute right now.
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...
GOP: no amnesty Dems: let’s find a middle ground GOP: mass deportations and end legal immigration Dems: let’s find a middle ground GOP: masked agents everywhere, deport to random countries, military occupation of cities, alligator alcatraz Dems: let’s come together and find a middle ground
(this investigation coming from an executive branch that's demonstrated its level of attachment to the principles of the Constitution by trying to eliminate birthright citizenship by fiat, etc.)
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?
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How are all the Operation Jade Helm people holding up?
Very true
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...
100%. And they are telling people that they have to set social media profiles to 'public' and arguing in court that views consistent with Pope Francis's are "anti-semitic" while shamelessly employing Nazi memers. It's all a disgusting insult to Jewish people and our country as a whole.
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...
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NORMALDEATH
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?"
*its
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?
So speaking Spanish in places named Los Angeles, San Bernadino, San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Santa Barbara can get you stopped, harassed, arrested.
The City of Denver and the State of Colorado each survive the cut and make the new elite list.
Condolences
Defend your culture?
Everything in the bubble was legit up until the AD 3.
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...
True that it could have but also likely wouldn’t have happened under administrations that recognize that it’s incredibly wasteful to charge a case that will almost certainly result in a grant of cancellation of removal. And if they did charge it they would just make him go to nondetained court.
All while gleefully talking up those new bonuses coming their way.
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.
coloradosun.com/2025/07/22/c...
The other 470 people are just out of frame, praying too.
Enter the Major Questions Doctrine.
Recently really enjoyed both Intermezzo and Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney.
“More than anything we want to express how unnecessarily violent and inhumane this was,” she said. “Everyone felt helpless. Everyone was scared.” (Violent, inhumane, helpless and scared is their goal for all of us.)
Oh I agree this wasn’t the plan. But it’s ultimately what happened
Country A accepts obligations to protect refugees and asylees. ⬇️ People flee repressive govt from country B, seek protection in country A. ⬇️ Country A detains them w/o looking at their asylum claims, has them jailed/beaten by contractors, trades them back to country B. We should be a pariah state
This is beyond f*kd. (I’m very very happy they are out of CECOT but this is so dark)
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.
I am so thrilled that he and the others are out. Genuinely. But many were seeking asylum from Venezuela and that’s where we ultimately sent them (following months of torture). What a mess.
“And the executioner's face is always well hidden”
It would have created an obstacle for the immigrant he defrauded but maybe that would have been overcome. But the attorneys on the hundreds or thousands of other cases he handled would have no way of knowing whether a disgraced forger ICE attorney been involved in *those* cases.
Imagine if former ICE attorney Jonathan Love never had to enter an appearance in his cases. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Welp I guess this isn’t happening (not that it does much anyway)
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."
How could there be exigent circumstances? The person is already in detention.
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.
Incredible hot streak for DHS arguments at the BIA. Must just be some remarkable lawyering going on.
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.
Also the Peruvians should put out a statement about ICE using an Inca Cola code name.
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...
The play is likely to have at least one case where the IJ/BIA follow this garbled roadmap to result in an unpublished decision, let the 30 days for PFR expire, then have Bondi declare it the law of the land.
Grok is a full blown nazi now.
Also worse because at least sometimes, police have their cases get thrown out for unconstitutional actions. This almost never happens to immigration cases and they don’t seem to face internal discipline either. So all incentives are to run roughshod.
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.
"Many of the deaths in Salvadoran perpetual detention camps are just from depriving people of the medications they need to live."
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.
And once you create the massive police state, it’ll always find something to do.
Not sure how they are counting the numbers now but always worth a close look given the history.
Love the trade. Way more than I thought we could get.
Listen, deaths are a natural consequence of violently arresting septuagenarians and caging them in terrible conditions away from their loved ones for alleged civil immigration law infractions. What are people complaining about?
“People die”
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.
Well that was another day full of inconceivably bad news but at least we got some comic relief: www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...
There was a proposal to charge a fee to request a continuance in immigration court?! Also to expand ER to anyone charged with a crime?!
And Congress wants to *increase* this agency’s budget?
Bad news: It turns out birthright citizenship costs $300 an hour.
Yep. No new guidance from the good folks at USCIS…
And under what theory are residents of non-plaintiff states now barred from filing new applications for DACA?
The thing about the elimination of nationwide injunctions is that we have one side that generally makes an effort to comply with the law when in power and another side that very purposefully does not.
"WE hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable* rights..." *for those who hire lawyers and sue. Very much alienable for all others.
Let the other GMs know he’s untouchable
Just read it and with that... not exactly rigorous analysis of Virginia's definition of the term "obscene," I'm not sure this Board is too concerned with its decisions having the power to persuade federal courts.
Declaring what the ambiguity means is the job
I haven't seen any of the dismissal notices from the asylum office and have no idea under what purported authority they're declining adjudicate properly filed applications.
The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ
Judge Boasberg:
Former director of the immigration court system behind the scenes telling DOJ lawyers to stop asking questions about efforts to comply with court orders on Abrego Garcia.
Where were the lawyers? Knee deep in the lawlessness, of course.
Elite mocking of JD Vance should get someone an NIW.
This is a horrifying ruling that shows a disdain for basic human rights principles — made all the more unconscionable by the fact that the Republican appointees did so with no reasoning and on the shadow docket.
Emergency stays at SCOTUS are a carnival game with no instructions or rules beyond the people running it winking at certain players.
It was great to see people, for sure! Just bummed I didn’t know @asgvisalaw.bsky.social was here or I would have stalked him to finally meet him in person.
COMMENTARY: It takes a great country to admit its mistakes. The Trump administration's new signs at Colorado's National Historic Sites reflect weakness and insecurity.
Lol. Nothing like being confronted by an old photo to see what the years have done.
The audacity of Tom Homan to say this on The Daily as ICE arrests people at their immigration court hearings—including those who waited for U.S. gov’t permission to enter the country and file their cases and who have attended every check in and hearing.
