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Immigrant, tia, and cat mom.

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

[Frenemy of the Court 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @flanagancan]

Note that other outlets have found some of the Guantanamo detainees entered on CBPOne and were not amenable to prosecution for illegal entry. To reactionaries, just being an immigrant is a crime.

[Curtis Morrison @curtismorrison]

Only 56% of unaccompanied children in immigration courts were represented by attorneys, and now that drops to 0%.
Monsters.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

@thcartwright This is utter propaganda and you have to make sure not to fall for it.

There were dozens of deportation flights every single week over the last year and before that. Deportation flights never stopped. If they try to claim otherwise, they are lying to the American people.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

🚨NEW! The Trump administration has invoked a decades-old, never-before-invoked, legal authority that permits them to authorize willing state and local enforcement officers to carry out "any of the powers, privileges, or duties" of an immigration officer (ICE or Border Patrol).

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

And with that, ICE officers can now raid churches and hospitals.

[Frenemy of the Court 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @flanagancan]

I will not go insane the first day.
I will not go insane the first day.
I will not go insane the first day.
🧘🏻‍♂️🙏🏻😌

[Ben Winograd @benwinograd]

Under the Laken Riley Act, ICE would be *required* to detain immigrants who are arrested for theft, even if the accusation was false and no charges were ever filed. That would give enormous power to abusive husbands and unscrupulous employers. Here's how 1/

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

The Laken Riley Act pretends to be about stopping ILLEGAL immigrants who commit crimes. In fact, it's a Trojan horse designed to destroy legal migration because nativists cannot help themselves. They simply don't care about illegal immigration as much as legal immigration.

[Frenemy of the Court 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @flanagancan]

“How Grandma Got Legal” by Mae Ngai (2006) is an essential text here.

TL;DR: The post-1921 immigration quota regime is so unrealistic and stupid they decided to patch it over with amnesties every ~20 years until the last one in 1986. That’s not even getting into private bills.

[Senator Cortez Masto @SenCortezMasto]

President Biden has the ability to take action now that protects TPS holders, DACA recipients, and hardworking families who've spent years contributing to our communities.

I'm calling on him to finish that work and give immigrant families the certainty they're counting on.

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

With Trump months away from taking office, immigrant rights advocates are urgently calling on Biden to protect DACA recipients, extend TPS, release non-priority immigrants from detention, and rescind lingering rules from Trump I. @immcouncil

Read more: https://t.co/VPi1AA43jN

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Deeply dishonest. There is no such thing as a "catch and release" policy. Every single administration has released migrants when there are insufficient resources to detain them, or humanitarian, legal, or other issues. For example, over 750,000 migrants were released under Trump.

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Nathan Clark — the father of 11-year-old Aiden Clark, who was killed in a car accident in Springfield, Ohio — tells JD Vance and Donald Trump to stop using his son’s name and the city of Springfield to demonize Haitian immigrants. “This needs to stop now!”

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

WOW. The 5th Circuit just indefinitely halted all lower court proceedings in the Keeping Families Together case (despite neither party having asked for that). This throws the schedule into chaos, making it likely there won't be a lower court ruling for potentially months.

[Steven Brown @AttyStevenBrown]

DOS has now announced that it has hit the numerical limitation for EB1 visas. As of now, the visa bulletin has not been updated to show "U" so you can still file #EB1 cases, but for those who are pending, you will not get adjudicated until new FY

https://t.co/tVXUBnoshS

[Reuters @Reuters]

Thousands of women marched across several Indian cities overnight and Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for strict punishment for crimes against women, as outrage and protests against the gruesome rape and murder of a doctor escalated https://t.co/id6MMUWODX 1/7

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

There are over 22 million mixed-status families in the country. The average undocumented immigrant has been here for over 15 years. Over a million people grew up here as children.

They’re part of the fabric of our communities. We can’t tear them away without tearing us apart.

[KHOU 11 News Houston @KHOU]

BREAKING | The Harris County medical examiner's office is reporting three heat-related deaths caused by widespread power outages from Beryl. https://t.co/M8LblVR4BS

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

My statement on today's decision in Department of State v. Muñoz, having litigated this case for nearly a decade.