🚨HUGE victory for due process for immigrants.
5th Circuit is a 2-1 decision rules that long term residents who entered without inspection and set roots in the US are protected by the Due Process Clause and thus, cannot be detained without a bond hearing, if detained for more than 90 days, although they are subject to mandatory detention under 1225(b) and Buenrostro.
@bennyjohnson@StephenM If your constitutional interpretation requires you to wear a pointy white hat to make sense, your constitutional interpretation is wrong.
Born in Ethiopia, Congresswoman @MelatKirosCO entered USA on the Diversity Visa program as a kid in 1998.
And now she’ll be serving in Congress! America is such a beautiful thing! 🇺🇸
.@RepYvetteClarke has introduced legislation aimed at protecting the Diversity Visa Program and preventing its indefinite suspension without congressional oversight and transparency.
https://t.co/ZWTOAtJXxu
President Donald Trump's big ballroom project is on pause — for now.
He faced a major setback on Tuesday when a federal judge ordered that construction could not begin on the White House ballroom that he's been eager to build.
Judge Richard Leon wrote that the "president of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of first families. He is not, however, the owner!"
Liz Landers (@elizlanders) has more.
One thing that's interesting about Justice Roberts's birthright citizenship opinion is how his careful explanation of history shows how the immigration debate rarely changes. The argument that "these people are too different to join us" has just failed, socially, culturally, economically, and morally, time and time again.