Cris Ramón

Immigration wonk. Proud @Macalester @ElliottSchoolGW @FulbrightPrgrm alum, LA 🇸🇻 kid, and Horus Heresy fan. Views are my own

[Cris Ramón @CramonMigration]

It's been a long time coming, but I'm happy to share this brief I co-authored with on adopting policies and messaging approaches to advance more humane approaches to immigration policy in Germany and the United States https://t.co/dTsAxcMLkB

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

"The green card applicant self-deportation memo doesn't really say that adjustment of status is only for extraordinary cases." No, it literally does. The press release and the memo did actually match. And USCIS's ad hoc soft-peddling how terrible it is doesn't change that....

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

US Travel Association warns against Mullin's idea of halting CBP processing at airports in so-called sanctuary jurisdictions.

[Nicholas Dawes @NicDawes]

Anyone who has travelled on a weak passport will celebrate investigative reporting into VFS global, the near monopoly intermediary that handles visa applications for 71 countries. https://t.co/ALB7KQM9e3

[Elizabeth @suasoptics]

Hey lazy people: the Vatican made infographics for you

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

I know a lot of people are in a frenzy over the new #AOSMemo and what to do/expect going forward.

I will break my own rule (yet again!) and provide this **limited** legal advice to anyone potentially affected:
if you have a pending adjustment or if you plan on filing one this year, PLEASE, Please, Please talk to a qualified immigration attorney. Checking @aila search feature or your state's bar association referral options are a good start if you do not know or have one yet.

But please, do yourself (and your family) a favor and do not rely or look for meaningful legal advice on this or other social media platforms. You are not going to get one, trust me!

A lot of experts are sharing and providing general analysis and this is extremely valuable, follow the experts. But the information provided is not tailored to anyone's specific case and does not address your specific circumstances!!!

[NFAPResearch @NFAPResearch]

DOL’s proposed rule to price H-1B and employment green card holders out of the US labor market is likely illegal. DOL invents facts and uses a questionable methodology to justify raising prevailing wages by up to 33%. @David_J_Bier @cyrusmehta @SIIA_US https://t.co/8pTHUlMNVI

[Amy Nice @AmyMNice]

Can USCIS eliminate the ability of noncitizens to adjust status to permanent resident in the US, requiring them to return home and consular process at the American Embassy in their home country before returning to obtain green card status? Nope.

Because _Congress_ said adjustment of status is available. In 1960. And since then has amended the adjustment of status law 20 times, setting new restrictions. This is not a “loophole.”

Is USCIS establishing a new standard in its May 21st Policy Memo that any noncitizen must prove “extraordinary circumstances” in order to be eligible for adjustment of status to permanent resident here in the US?

Well, nowhere in the Policy Memo does the agency use the term “extraordinary circumstances” - Crtl-F, it’s not there.

USCIS has binding regulations that set out the requirements for adjustment of status, and if it wants to change those rules, it must comply with the Administrative Procedure Act and propose a new regulation.

A Policy Memorandum cannot conflict with a law that has been on the books for 65 years.

Does USCIS have discretion when it reviews applications to adjust status? Yes!

Can it do through the back door what it cannot do through the front door? Nope.

[Steven Brown @AttyStevenBrown]

Adjustment of status is LITERALLY the legal immigration process created by Congress in 1952, and does not bypass anything. In fact, DHS is in better position to vet than DOS.

Yet another Congressperson who doesn't understand what they are talking about.

[CEAR @CEARefugio]

⚖️ Celebramos que el Supremo desestime medidas cautelares para paralizar la regularización. Un fallo que refuerza aún más un proceso impulsado por movimientos de personas migrantes y organizaciones sociales, con un enorme respaldo de la ciudadanía.

https://t.co/jVaacxRZe1

[Nicolette Glazer @NicoletteGlazer]

New: USCIS announces a new policy in a memo to the field, in essence trying to eliminate adjustment of status under section 245(a) by declaring that the "intent" of the law is for people to go through consular processing except in "extraordinary circumstances". Sounds to me like they intend to use the discretionary nature of AOS to deny prima facie cases on such things as overstayes for immediate relatives, lapses, and whatever else they deem detogatory to deny cases in the exercise of discretion.

[Gil Guerra @gildeguerra]

In a recent @CityJournal piece, I respond to an argument by @CIS_org scholar Jason Richwine that Miami is a failure of the assimilation model. Richwine has a reasonable basis for this claim. As one example of the growth of Spanish in Miami, he finds that the share of native-born residents aged 20 to 29 who speak Spanish at home has dramatically grown from 11 percent in 1980 to 49 percent in 2024.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

From 2024 to 2025, the unemployment rate of the foreign-born remained at 4.2 percent, while the jobless rate for the native born increased to 4.3 percent. In 2025, the foreign-born accounted for 19.1 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility:
• In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest
• Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15
Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture).
• The younger the age group, the sharper the drop.
• in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years
• Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user
• Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa
• Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing.
Excellent again @jburnmurdoch.
https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

@greg_price11 Well, hopefully we don't deport their families, but you never know with the lunatics in charge today. One in five residents being in a household with an illegal immigrant is actually common in many places, and it's a reason mass deportation is insane. https://t.co/6UjbClYUuI

[Hannah Liu @hanjliu]

The newest ICE data drop distinguishes 'targeted' arrests from 'collateral' arrests - people who weren't the subject of an operation but were encountered during one. Since August 2025, about 1 in 4 arrests have been collateral. Over 60% of the arrests have no criminal record.

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

TEXAS — The border, mostly, with a side of disasters and mass shootings.

[Sarah Pierce @SarahPierceEsq]

Smart report out this morning by @HouseJudiciary detailing many of the ways the Trump admin is prioritizing mass deportation over public safety.

Perhaps the most bizarre: the admin has been extraditing accused criminals to the US only to turn around and deport them.

[◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps]

Little Free Library in Petworth is just three issues of Foreign Policy. DC is not a real town

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The Justice Department published a list of what it considers to be sanctuary cities last year, and I've highlighted their murder rate on this ranking of the cities with at least 500,000 people.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

I still see people claiming that Biden flew migrants into the United States. That did NOT happen. No such program existed.

The closest thing was the parole programs which allowed some Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans to come here legally for two years.