John L. Pinnix

Senior Immigration Attorney at Allen & Pinnix, P.A.; reuniting our immigrant families for over 35 years. Retweets and likes are not an endorsement.

[John L. Pinnix @J_Pinnix]

The Trump Regime's regulation providing for indefinite detention of migrant families is unconscionable. Its supporters have learned nothing from history and do not respect American values and the rule of law. #shame

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Art Buchwald Couldn't Make This Man Laugh https://t.co/9u1r6LDKKw via @CBSNews

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A new @DHSgov notice effective tomorrow will expand expedited removal to apply throughout the United States to anyone who cannot prove they have been in the U.S. for more than two years. Read and share @AILANational’s practice alert: https://t.co/EWZNrdXhQa

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.@DHSgov’s new notice on expedited removal will subject thousands to deportation while robbing them of a #FairDayInCourt. Read @AILANational’s press release. https://t.co/nsATIPzk9v

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David Price is one of the most respected members of Congress. After touring the Southern border, with 18 other members, he reports that we are not only facing a humanitarian crisis but a moral crisis and a collapse of policy. Please read his report. #RestoreAmericanValues

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Recall Thoreau's legendary response to Emerson's query as to why he was in jail- 'Why are you not here'. Similarily history will judge where we stand on today's border crisis https://t.co/i9D9jDWEG0 #StandwithImmigrants; #AILA4Immigrants

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The American Dream and Promise Act passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 237 to 187. The bill offers permanent legal status for "Dreamers" and thousands of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) holders. #Blessthisnationofimmigrants

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I recently joined hundreds of immigration lawyers in AILA’s Lobby Day, results: bipartisan oversight letters expressing concern about processing delays, the administration’s misuse of the certification process, & asking the GAO to investigate USCIS delays. #AILA4immigrationreform

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Starting today the AG Sessions is requiring immigration judges to meet performance-based case completion quotas. The National Association of Immigration Judges calls this the "death knell for judicial independence"; AILA notes judges will rush through often life-or-death cases.

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@AILAExecDir Exactly. Sadly this is a further orchestration of the Administration's divisive anti-American xenophobic policies.

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A train wreck is on the horizon as USCIS implements its ill conceived 'Guidance for the issuing NTAs for "Inadmissible & Deportable aliens". The overburdened and inefficient immigration courts will likely gridlock. Again pandering to the base TRUMPSs the public good.

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I'm pleased that Mrs. Trump's parents have naturalized thus fully securing family reunification--a cornerstone of our immigration policy. I expect their naturalized daughter and USC grandson will greatly benefit from their stabilizing influence. #immigrtionistheAmericanway

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From the American Immigration Lawyers Association: U.S. Must Reunify Families, Stay Their Removal, and Provide for the Return of 400+ Parents Deported Without Their Children https://t.co/4GomkDuq7f

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Thank You David Price! The Appropriations Committee reversed Sessions' prohibition on asylum claims for victims of domestic and gang violence. Appropriations also passed Price's amendment increasing oversight and transparency of Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy.

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Everlasting shame. NYT Reports nearly 500 parents have been deported without their children. One is too many. https://t.co/oGnU9nyuj9

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At long last has the GOP forgone all pretense of being the party of family values? https://t.co/fwt9Mtn5YD

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Latest wasteful administration move on #immigration - New USCIS Policy Will Needlessly Push Thousands of Cases into the Deportation Machinery https://t.co/WmmFugBkNH @ailanational #EndFamilyDetention

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The fact that the Court has upheld the legality of the travel ban does not alter its immorality, bigotry, raw cynicism and betrayal of bedrock American values.

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@AILANational The administration is engaging in a cruel farce. How dare use our government to tear infants from their parents under the pretext of national security. Its time to end this madness

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Trump's cynical backtracking fools no one. Separating families was never required by law. The Executive Order expands jailing families. Detention of families is inhumane and Un-American. End the zero tolerance policy; re-institute the successful alternatives to detention