Katrina Braun

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Primer on H-4 visas, courtesy of @immcouncil : https://t.co/meRziykUAD

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Denying employment to H-4 visa holders is bad for women. Most H-4s are women. And forget the hope of having more women choose - or be socially allowed - to come as primary high-skilled H-1B visa workers if their male H-4 spouses have to stay home.

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Thank you to @CLTgov Immigrant Community Committee and @la_coalicion for having me! With an immigration court that has one of the highest deportation rates in the US, so glad that city gov officials are engaging with these issues & the immigrant community in Charlotte.

[Larken Egleston @Larken]

Thanks @DougThie @benasnyder @KatrinaMBraun & Becca O'Neill for being on @CLTgov Immigrant Community Committee panel @la_coalicion today to discuss immigration court law + process. Very informative discussion w/ elected officials, staff & the community. @MattDNewton @JulieEiselt

[ACLU of North Carolina @ACLU_NC]

Reminder to all public schools: You have an obligation to welcome every student, regardless of their immigration status. Thanks to @DurhamPublicSch for leading by example. #Durham

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

(Great article found by the great eye of @ComoIren)

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

"In Colorado, Missouri and Rhode Island, they found that the typical public defender had two to three times the workload they should in order to provide an adequate defense. In Louisiana, defenders have almost five times the workload they should." https://t.co/kJ7ik23jWh

[AILA @AILANational]

“The need for USCIS reform is urgent... The stakes, for millions of individuals and businesses around the country, could not be higher.”

Read more about the consequences of USCIS processing delays in this blog post from AILA: https://t.co/3xkPwyNXeU

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Immigration courts coming back online today, but tens of thousands of hearings were cancelled during the #shutdown - pretty bad if you want people with good claims to get heard OR if you want to efficiently deport those without. See e.g. https://t.co/iKK4oXr7AX

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

This administration is changing asylum law behind the scenes. Not only did this Sessions rule close a door to victims of gender-based violence but also to people fleeing forced recruitment into gangs in countries that can't help them. Great video by @CGRShastings & @hrw

[CGRS @CGRS_Asylum]

After suffering over 15 years of brutal domestic violence, our client Ms. A.B. was forced to flee for her life. She sought asylum in the U.S. Then Jeff Sessions stepped in.

In our new video with @hrw, Ms. A.B. describes her harrowing quest to find safety. #ImmigrantWomenToo

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

And the backlog was already insane.

[AILA @AILANational]

Due to the government shutdown, over 40,000 #immigration hearings have been canceled. https://t.co/Joe5WnTO4Q

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Happy Election Day! Proud to be helping provide non-partisan poll monitoring with @ACLU_NC and @democracync

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Immigrants in NC work in critical industries and pay billions of dollars of taxes. We should treat them well because they're humans, but always nice to remember how materially important they are too. #immigration #ncpol https://t.co/xRy1oljWm0

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Washington becomes the 20th state to abolish the death penalty! The state supreme court cited racial bias among other reasons capital punishment is invalid under the state constitution. https://t.co/WduZNrmaZ3

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Tomorrow: oral argument in #SCOTUS re:automatic #immigration detention. Basically, if you finished serving another sentence years ago and are waiting to have your immigration case heard, you're detained with no hearing about danger/flight risk. Explainer: https://t.co/IYZLhaqSMi

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Case completion quotas are particularly a problem given recent AG decisions making it harder to close cases in ways that don't involve a removal order.

This could be dangerously close to measuring judges' performance by how many people they deport.
#immigration

[AILA Carolinas @AilaCarolinas]

More than 120 #immigration law scholars and professors denounced #DOJ’s plan to impose case completion quotas to measure #immigration judges’ performance out of concern that it would undermine #JudicialIndependence in immigration courts. https://t.co/UBh2eJuzD6

[ACLU of North Carolina @ACLU_NC]

BREAKING: Court says North Carolina law does not bar transgender people from using public restrooms & other facilities that match their gender identity

Ruling allows @ACLU & @LambdaLegal challenge to HB142's ban on local protections to go forward #ncpol https://t.co/EN6f8uzPjj

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Let's get some better voting systems. #ncpol #fairrepact

[FairVote @fairvote]

Voters in North Carolina won a major victory under federal judge ruling. But that still leaves plenty of others nationwide vulnerable to #gerrymandering. The #FairRepAct offers a remedy. https://t.co/qh1ijFy0ds

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

Keeping fewer people in prison and saving $1 billion + seems like a good idea to me. #ncpol #endcashbail

[ACLU of North Carolina @ACLU_NC]

North Carolina has a mass incarceration problem. Our new report shows ways to fix it 👉🏾 https://t.co/yJu2fCsOO6
✅More treatment & diversion programs
✅#EndCashBail
✅Sentencing reforms
✅Compassionate release for our rapidly aging prison population

[Katrina Braun @KatrinaMBraun]

This is insane. Russian hackers going against the Ecumenical Patriarch to try to stop an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church? https://t.co/yj84oIIqwg