Brooke 👩🏼‍💻

Immigration law nerd. Talks law & policy in @Slate, @BuzzFeed, @HuffPost +. She/her.

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

Hello! I quit Twitter a while ago, but I’m now on threads! https://t.co/L3PsSkrXm6

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

Wow my new @TexasObserver merch got here right in time for latest Greg Abbott scandal! Truly a timeless sentiment!

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

@ReichlinMelnick When they wanted us to provide friend of the court help for expedited family unit cases the full extent of what was offered to us was use of a closet at the court to talk to respondents. When WE tried to provide much needed FOC help at MPP hearings they kicked us out. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

If you want people to have access to council, let them out of detention prior to a CFI/RFI.

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

I’m not at a border legal services provider anymore but when I was, anytime Biden said “increased legal services” it meant asking non-profits to step up to “help”give the processes a sheen of validity with no resources in a system that makes “help” impossible

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

🚨The Biden admin is moving to restart another of Trump's anti-asylum programs, this time the Orwellianly-named "Prompt Asylum Claim Review" program (PACR), instituted in 2019, which fast-tracked "credible fear" interviews while keeping people locked in Border Patrol stations.

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

Legal service providers do not exist to do whatever the government wants them to do to make it look like people get due process, which is what access to attys in HARP/PACR is.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Wow! 🚨Two guards at the Mexican detention center where 40 people died confirm that those who were locked up on the day of the tragedy were those who couldn’t (or wouldn’t) pay a bribe to be let out.

Another way in which US deterrence policies fuel corruption in Mexico.

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

Is it just me or has USCIS slightly updated Emma and made getting to live chat easier? #immigrationtwitter

[Lauren Villagran @laurenvillagran]

Mexican president faces protest in Juárez over deadly fire at immigration center

https://t.co/Uh1qSWMATa

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

I asked if maybe the arraignment could happen in night court and she said no, they don’t do arraignments on indictments in night court because you need a Supreme Court judge for that.

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

My public defender wife setting boundaries about the indictment conversation in the group chat

[Dianne Solis ✍🏽 @disolis]

NEW: Our portrait of a city in pain, following deadly fire at a Ciudad Juárez detention center.

Advocates call for policy change.

Migrants ask to be seen as human. “We’re not animals,” he said. "Have mercy on us.”

| Latest w @ajcorchado @imegarcia https://t.co/WcWCLxcwPK

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is an awful tweet. The "risks" here were made worse by the US government itself, which sent Venezuelan migrants back to Ciudad Juárez and then made them wait day after day to get an appointment through Asylum Ticketmaster!

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

“The killed and injured were people who had been expelled from the United States under a public health law known as Title 42, or others seized this Monday by Mexican agents in a special operation carried out in Juárez…”

[El Paso Matters @elpasomatters]

The catastrophic fire comes as tensions have been increasing between Juárez officials and Venezuelan migrants. Many of those killed and injured had reportedly been rounded up earlier Monday. https://t.co/hQ8zlWKPSA

[Martha Pskowski @psskow]

Unsafe and illegal conditions at Mexican immigration detention centers have been documented for years. This is tragic and could have been avoided.

https://t.co/DCh11ZIw7s

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

Oh my god, I have no words

[Alfredo Corchado @ajcorchado]

BREAKING reports out of Juarez indicate more than 37 migrants have died this evening in a fire at a national immigration building. Dozens were sent to local hospitals. The death toll is expected to rise in the coming hours. The fire started just hours after authorities rounded up hundreds of migrants from street corners where they peddle things like candy and wipers to make ends meet. Tensions high!

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[Gabriel Arana (he/him/his) @gabrielarana]

The staff of the @TexasObserver have set up a @gofundme to ask for help after the board voted to shutter the magazine. Please give if you can’t and share even if you can’t. https://t.co/9SxBNkqT7C

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

I am gutted by the @TexasObserver news as a news consumer, former Texas resident, and as an immigration attorney. Their coverage of immigration issues has been a bright spot in the sometimes dire world of immigration journalism.

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

My late husband Rob loved Civil Procedure when he was a student at Brooklyn Law School. His classmates are trying to raise $25k to fund an endowed award in Rob’s honor for BLS students who have a similar aptitude + passion for the subject ♥️ #BLSGivingDay https://t.co/XqKdZGIsJ2

[Brooke 👩🏼‍💻 @bea_bisch]

@LilySAxelrod Make it make sense 😩😩😩