Andrew Howard

Immigration attorney, writer and suburban mountain bike guide in the Boston area.

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

🚨 BREAKING AND DEVASTATING: Parole in Place Program aka #KFT is declared unlawful by Judge Barker:

"The court declares that defendants lack statutory authority under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A) itself (as opposed to under other provisions modifying or supplementing that authority) to grant parole “in place” to aliens, as that term is used in the final agency action published at 89 Fed. Reg. 67,459 (Aug. 20, 2024) (“Implementation of Keeping Families Together”), or to deem parole “in place” as used there to be parole “into the United States” for purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1255(a). That agency action is hereby set aside and vacated pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)."

Link here: https://t.co/oXqkn61gD1

[Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki]

Lawrence, Massachusetts
Population: 89,143
Hispanic: 82% (highest in MA)
Adults w/ college degree: 15%
Median household income: $58,079

2016: Clinton +66
2020: Biden +48
2024: Harris +17

[Charles Kuck @ckuck]

The average cost of apprehending, detaining, processing and removing one undocumented immigrant from the United States in 2016 was $10,900, according to figures released by ICE at the time. That year, ICE also said the average cost of transporting one deportee to their home country was $1,978. Since then, the costs have only grown.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

Nevada’s secretary of state, seeing high number of rejected ballots in Clark and Washoe, says one of the biggest issues is that the signatures of younger voters don’t always match what’s on their driver’s licenses:

“It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days. And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at D.M.V., and that became their license signature.”

https://t.co/3JWllKejpN

[BK @BradKutner]

NEW from me: A review of 20 years, 650 cases of election law violations in Va. found no evidence of non-citizen voting, and those who track those numbers have a theory as to why.

@JasonMiyaresVA @DelCiaPrice85 @Heritage @ReichlinMelnick @PILFoundation

https://t.co/o9tFCW4ear

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

Our team found the same in Texas.

https://t.co/DTHOcDgwiT w/ @VotebeatUS and @TexasTribune

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

New indictments filed by the Ohio Attorney General Yost shows the rarity of noncitizen voting. After an exhaustive audit of elections held from 2008 and 2020 led to 138 alleged noncitizens being referred for voting, six have been charged so far. None of the votes changed results.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

1/11

So the first 3 volumes of Smith's evidence against Trump are released. About 70% still sealed, but, pretty damning stuff, which is all either their own messages, or testimony from Republican staff under oath:

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

Immigrants shouldn't have to be exceptional to be valued. Immigrants should have the right to be as average as the rest of us and still not be targets of hatred and violence.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Former President Trump had 44 cabinet secretaries. 40 of them don’t support his 2024 campaign.

Neither does his Vice President nor any of his former chiefs of staff.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The US legal immigration system is monstrous. It is impossible to describe the mundane evil it imposes on people. Look at this: nearly 4 years of waiting just at the petition stage for an immediate relative of a US citizen. That's insane.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Totally false. The funding was mandated by Congress and has been reauthorized 4 times since 2019. It's not a Biden admin program.

As @adam_wola shows with this chart, the program — which involves FEMA administering funds from CBP — is 99.8% smaller than the Disaster Relief Fund!

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

With millions of US citizen children living in mixed-status families, mass deportations means children being put into the foster system, single parent families, mass disruption in schools, and more.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

Native-born Americans have an incarceration rate 3.5 times higher than that of all Haitian immigrants

[Isidro Marino @theisidromarino]

@KrisKobach1787 is using his powers as attorney general of kansas to block a program that would give legal status to 500,000 spouses of U.S. Citizens. How many mixed status Kansas families will actually be harmed by extreme AGs like Kobach? #ksleg

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

BREAKING: Finally, USCIS has published some info on the upcoming #PIP (parole in place for undocumented spouses of US Citizens. The form will be I-131F.

Here is the brochure on the I-131F:
https://t.co/3aHDwCAurc

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

New! The Biden administration announced earlier this morning that Parole in Place program announced last month will open for applications on AUGUST 19.

Info here: https://t.co/pIYBi9DzdF