Kate Melloy Goettel

[Kate Melloy Goettel @KateGoettel]

Great conversation w/ Ben Kieffer yesterday on IPR’s River to River. We discussed recent federal court ruling halting Iowa’s illegal reentry bill as well as Biden’s new policies on parole in place and the border. https://t.co/BiIeQwxuDx

[Iowa Law @IowaLawSchool]

Iowa Law is thrilled to welcome Kate Melloy Goettel (07JD), a national leader in immigration law and federal court practice, to the faculty this summer. Professor Goettel will start and lead a federal civil rights clinic with an immigration focus. ➡️ https://t.co/SxewPncuiy

[Steve Vladeck @steve_vladeck]

For those trying to understand what the heck is happening with #SB4 (Texas's controversial new immigration law, which is back on hold as of Tuesday night despite #SCOTUS's ruling earlier in the day), I have a summary of how we got here—and what happens next—over at "One First."

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

1/5: Today, along with @SPLCenter, @ACLU, @ACLUFL, and @Am4ImmJustice, we filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida's anti-immigrant law #SB1718. https://t.co/t3K2c7ywXn

[Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa @ppadvocatesia]

🌟 MAJOR WIN ALERT 🌟

The Iowa Supreme Court just preserved abortion access in Iowa by blocking a near-total abortion ban from taking effect. This is a resounding victory for Iowans and reproductive freedom. #BansOffOurBodies

[Kate Melloy Goettel @KateGoettel]

@ReichlinMelnick That’s why we sued!

[AILA @AILANational]

NEW: Class Action Filed Against @USCIS for Extreme Processing Delays that Leave American Families Stranded. READ more here: https://t.co/6sCURHvqAy

@immcouncil, @IMMpactLit, @immlawACHall, @ckuck, @blesjm1, @gsiskind, and Gibbs Houston Pauw #601ADelay

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

Late yesterday, a group of immigrants filed a federal class action lawsuit in #Seattle against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services @USCIS, challenging bureaucratic logjams that have left them in a multi-year limbo. Read More: https://t.co/hHNbW6cAY7

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

This week, #SCOTUS heard oral arguments for the U.S. v. Texas, a dispute over the Biden Administration's authority to set immigration policy. Listen to our senior attorney, Emma Winger, explain the potential impacts of this case w @AndrewCraft @LiveNowFox:
https://t.co/Mp0dIKmF9f

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

In a new @washingtonpost opinion piece, @ThePlumLineGS illustrates how lawmakers may be able to protect Dreamers during this lame duck session. In response, our Executive Director @JeremyARobbins shares his thoughts: (1/2)

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

📢 "Immigration detention centers deny justice" Read the latest from @immcouncil Legal Director Kate Melloy Goettel and Alexandra Miller, Director of our Immigration Justice Campaign in the Dallas Morning News➡️https://t.co/tFYAKTeTFR
@amorganmiller @KateGoettel @JeremyARobbins

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

#Breaking: Judge Sullivan declared today that #Title42 violates the law. This new judgment should restore normal immigration law at the border, after 2.5 million expulsions in the past two years since the program's inception.
Read our full statement ➡️ https://t.co/vBGQTIVCut

[Kate Melloy Goettel @KateGoettel]

@iowasoccerclub Can you please post weather updates to Twitter?

[Kate Melloy Goettel @KateGoettel]

@ReichlinMelnick @immcouncil Lucky to have worked with you for 1/3 of your Council tenure! :)

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

After 4 years of litigation, today’s order means the government will drop its appeal, making final a court order that required ICE to change its policies on the detention of 18-year-old migrants.

This lawsuit was filed with @nijc and @kirkland_ellis. https://t.co/8xadPMvxGM

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

#BREAKING: Today, a judge approved our settlement agreement in the Garcia Ramirez lawsuit challenging the unlawful detention of unaccompanied children who turn 18 while in detention. 🧵(1/2) https://t.co/CuZ58CP8sx

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

For the next week, C.M. had no idea where her son was. She was bounced around several different ICE detention centers. When she finally got a chance to talk to him, he "sounded terrified and heartbroken" and kept asking her when she was coming to get him.

Remember, he was 5.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

When C.M. realized that the Border Patrol agents wouldn't budge, she turned to her son and had to tell him that he was going to go away and she wouldn't be there.

He begged, sobbed, and clutched his mother so hard that Border Patrol agents had to pry him from her arms by force.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

C.M. and her son were kept in the cell for two days. She was in constant fear. Then the moment came; a Border Patrol agent entered the cell and told her he was taking her son away.

She begged with the agent not to do it. But the agent just laughed and made fun of her accent.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Border Patrol agents then threw C.M. and her son into a freezing cold cell, after first confiscating all of their warm clothes. They were fed only "watered-down broth."

Other mothers in the cell told her that their children had already been taken. She spent the night sobbing.