Jeremy McKinney

'22-'23 President of @AILANational. Lawyer/Board Certified Immigration Law Specialist for #DREAMers, families, business, & deportation fighters. Opinions mine.

[Nida Allam ☀️ @NidaAllam]

Support Mohamed’s legal defense fund:

https://t.co/du0ilXTqJG

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

“The National Association of Immigration Judges brought this challenge to an employee policy that requires immigration judges to obtain permission before speaking publicly on issues relating to immigration.”

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

BREAKING: 4th Cir sends NAIJ suit back to District Court to determine whether “the text, structure, and purpose of the Civil Service Reform Act has been so undermined” that federal employees cannot “receive adequate and independent review of their claims.” https://t.co/FZ6i7DDhMN

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

Pick a lane.
Either (1) limit relief to the parties every time, or (2) admit nationwide injunctions are sometimes essential and stop feigning outrage only when the shoe is on the other foot. Until then, talk of “principle” is just politics in robes.

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

Nationwide injunctions: a “constitutional problem” only when they hit a right-wing agenda

Justice Neil Gorsuch blasted nationwide injunctions as “rushed, high-stakes, low-information decisions” (DHS v. New York, 2020). But watch how the current majority treats them in practice:

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

Pattern:
Universal injunctions are “lawless” only when they disrupt a Republican program. When a single Texas courtroom torpedoes an entire Democratic agenda, the right-wing majority looks the other way—or wields the sledgehammer itself.

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

NEW: @StateDept has updated the Exchange Visitors Skills List. This list supersedes prior lists—J-visitors subject to a prior one at the time of admission will no longer be subject to it if their country is not designated in this revised list. Colombia is not on the new list!

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

.@AILANational member Fiona McEntee wrote a moving & powerful tribute to longtime advocate Billy Lawless for #ThinkImmigration. May his memory inspire us all to continue to work toward a system that benefits all immigrants and the America we all hold dear: https://t.co/BRT66qElLg

[Dave Wasserman @Redistrict]

Pretty amazing that the House (likely 220R-215D) would have flipped to Dems this year while the White House/Senate flipped to the GOP, had it not been for Rs winning a majority on the NC Supreme Court in 2022, allowing GOP legislators to redraw three Dem seats into oblivion.

[eileen chengyin chow @chowleen]

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

Where we are headed: Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

[AILA @AILANational]

"Mass deportations could lead to a loss of about 4.2% to 6.8% of annual GDP," @immcouncil reports, "amounting to between $1.1 trillion and $1.7 trillion. For comparison, the national GDP declined 4.3% during the 2007-09 Great Recession." https://t.co/7rBB1Zx5U0

[Hamed Aleaziz @Haleaziz]

The immigration court system has a massive backlog

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

NEW from me — 

How Biden Can Still Protect Migrants From Trump

@MigrantInsider has obtained a list of 22 policy changes being circulated by advocates.

https://t.co/kOUtYGtUZm

[American Immigration Council @immcouncil]

Donald Trump says there’s no ‘price tag’ on mass deportations.

He’s wrong. Our analysis shows it would cost $88B annually to deport a million people, for a total of $967.9B over a decade. Learn more: https://t.co/GFQFE3YYkg

[Jeremy McKinney @McKJeremy]

This is what the next 4 years look like but in reverse: immigration attorneys will be challenging unlawful agency action and suddenly STANDING and the President’s expansive power over immigration will matter again.

The post election sniping of “Keeping Families Together” parole is a prime example of a lawless court. This Trump judge waited until the election was done, then ignored standing entirely and ruled against DHS.

[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

[Josh Stein @JoshStein_]

NORTH CAROLINA: If you are in line to vote, STAY IN LINE! Anybody who is in line to vote by 7:30 PM is legally allowed to cast their ballot — don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. Races in NC are always close, and it’s going to take ALL of us to ensure victory.