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“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” -Shakespeare

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Interesting how the administration campaigned on two big things:

- end wars
- remove illegal immigrants

And instead it has

- started a new war
- remove legal immigrants

[Steven Brown @AttyStevenBrown]

Adjustment of status is LITERALLY the legal immigration process created by Congress in 1952, and does not bypass anything. In fact, DHS is in better position to vet than DOS.

Yet another Congressperson who doesn't understand what they are talking about.

[Elp @Elpsky]

@PinstripeBungle Adjustment of status, not change of status to another nonimmigrant visa. AOS is going from NIV to green card.

[Cyrus Mehta @cyrusmehta]

While adjustment of status is discretionary under INA 245 it has never been interpreted as an extraordinary form of relief and USCIS is inventing a new standard to deprive noncitizens from getting green cards in the US.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a radical change to immigration policy, forcing anyone applying for a green card to leave the country indefinitely, forget whether they have American kids, spouse, etc.

The talking point that we do want legal immigration, we just want people to get in line and follow the rules, is BS. This is an attempt to blow up the line, blow up the rules, and make it insanely difficult to immigrate legally.

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).

This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The post he's commenting on shows that immigrants represent only 6% of the street homeless, which means that they are 82% less likely to be street homeless than the US-born.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Almost everyone who says they want "immigration" reduced also wants legal immigration reduced. It's not, nor has it ever been, about illegal immigration.

[Sam Peak 🇺🇸💡 @SpeakSamuel]

This H-1B worker has lived in the US for nearly 20 years and built a family here. His mom was dying in India. To visit her, he would need to wait months to book a consular appointment--with the soonest one available likely being scheduled one year out.

He made the difficult choice of not visiting his dying mom because leaving without an appointment would mean separation from his children, job, and his other obligations.

Much of the commentary around immigration focuses on how such bureaucratic burdens undermine immigrants’ ability to contribute and innovate. But we must remember that this red tape also prevents these people from being fully engaged with their own lives and meaningfully present in the lives of others. This matters too, and these seemingly non-economic problems will eventually translate into economic costs.

If America is no longer a place where people feel empowered to be the best versions of themselves as they celebrate, struggle, and grieve, it ceases not just being the land of opportunity, but also the land of dignity and purpose.
https://t.co/k17YL25nc5

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

What the Trump administration is doing to spouses of US citizens who are ELIGIBLE for green cards is sickening. Utterly abhorrent and unnecessary. Purposeful evil... to Americans for the sin of marrying the "wrong" person.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives?

A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit.

Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit?

A: No, we didn’t.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

It was never about illegal immigration

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Just hours after Trump told Oil Tankers to enter the Strait of Hormuz, regardless of Iran's threats, an oil tanker is reportedly targeted and decimated by Iran in the Persian Gulf, just past the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump's horrific advice may have just gotten people killed.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

As you process the devastating news that another tragic shooting may have taken the lives of innocent students at Brown University, remember the shooter didn't act alone.

He was assisted by 220 House members, 53 Senators, 6 Supreme Court justices, 1 President, and the NRA.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Hi @DHSgov,

We’re the folks who reported the facts you’re now dismissing.

So just a reminder:

We found 170+ cases of immigration agents detaining U.S. citizens this year. In dozens of cases, charges have never been filed or the cases were dismissed.

Among the detained: nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
https://t.co/earUjOP2bC

[Elp @Elpsky]

Fuccckkkkkk. Yes let’s spend our already stretched extraordinarily thin resources on reviewing and re-interviewing every green card holder from these countries from the last 5 years.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

USCIS says it will use this pause to conduct a “comprehensive re-review, potential interview, and re-interview of all aliens from [the 19 travel ban countries] who entered the United States on or after January 20, 2021,” or even outside that timeframe “when appropriate.”

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

It should not matter at all, none, zilch! what is the nationality of the spouse of a United States citizen seeking 245(a) adjustment; nor the occupation of the USC!!!!

The only reason these 3 sets of spouses were separated by punitive arrests and detention is likely that the non citizen spouse overstayed a visa.

But Congress ***specifically*** made a choice to waive expired status or violation of non immigrant status in these situations.

So these people will be released on bond and will get their green cards if the only issue is overstay.

Why is DHS doing this, you ask? Coz they are told thay can arrest and do whatever they want. f****ers!

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

For all the millions of people out there screaming about “legal immigration” & how “they should have followed the rules”:

For most, the rules make legal status impossible. For others, even when they follow the rules, they get caged, separated, disappeared.