Yael Schacher

And I was thinking — jeez I can’t do that :) I would totally lose my cool.

I sat right behind him at a hearing on “Somali fraud” before the same committee a few weeks ago. David will not be got.

Aaron, you were amazing. But @davidjbier.bsky.social is, hands down, the best handler of the Congressional Rs — especially in the Senate— on immigration that exists. David, you did it again! Tremendous

Wow. This is exactly the kinda shit I have bad dreams about.

Court Blocks Attempt to Gut Right to Appeal Immigration Cases The court upheld a pause on a Trump administration rule that would have gutted people's right to appeal decisions by immigration court judges.

A federal court BLOCKED key parts of the Trump administration’s rule that would have gutted immigration appeals.

The rule would have made it harder challenge immigration court rulings that would result in wrongful deportations.

This decision helps protect basic fairness in our immigration courts.

Absolutely right.
We have abandoned the idea that opponents of regimes US opposes deserve refuge.
We’ve always been less interested in providing refuge to people fleeing U.S. or U.S backed aggression.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
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This is our POTUS! My god

This song is amazing— in my head all day—

I don't need a diamond ring
I don't wanna waste my youth
I don't wanna live on my knees
I just have to tell the truth

The actual Trump doctrine is having no plan whatsoever for the predictable consequences of their own choices. And then flailing around in a panic. It's no way to run a country.

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We don’t need another ruler, all my friends are kings.

Bring it! Friday

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Might also be coming from Denmark, which has made moves to reassess claims and make refugee status temporary, though hasn’t really deported people just thrown them into legal limbo! Created a hostile environment— presumably to coerce them to “remigrate” on their own.

Good thread below

The Refugee Convention in the 21st Century - Myths and Facts - Refugees International Enacting changes suggested by the U.S. would restrict sovereign law and policymaking; weaken global burden-sharing; and increase harm for refugees.

Please read this response to Landau from back then

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“Shelter from the storm” language is taken DIRECTLY from the Trump admin.
Secretary Landau said this BS about the Refugee Convention at UNGA last fall. That’s not what the Convention said in the slightest. See Article 34 especially.

Repeating it won’t make it so.

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God what a travesty. Such a terrible waste. Ridiculous policy of reassessing refugees. Just let people live in Britain!

Carlos Spector, pioneering El Paso immigration attorney and human rights advocate, dies at 71 Carlos Spector, El Paso attorney who fought for Mexican asylum seekers, dies at 71- El Paso Matters Carlos Spector, a prominent El Paso immigration attorney who championed asylum claims for Mexican and Indigenous migrants, died Sunday after a recent cancer diagnosis. Carlos Spector, an El Paso immig...

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I know

Two sad decisions today.

This too, from the ninth

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Thank you Sarah!!!

She really just doesn’t get what having a passport means, what being a U.S. citizen means

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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ICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows Preparations to shutter Camp East Montana in El Paso come less than eight months after facility’s opening, according to an internal ICE document.

Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo

HISTORY FOR THE WIN.

Declaration of Yael Schacher – #55, Att. #12 in COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS v. NOEM (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00872) – CourtListener.com Declaration of Yael Schacher

Finally done with this declaration: a product of months of archival research.
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As I told the litigators: keeping up the fight, especially if it means I get to go to the archives, is what is keeping me sane.

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else:

“What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

Ooh boy. It was apocalypse in Chicago and Armageddon in the Middle East. These folks are just playing with fire like it’s nothing

He looks like a peeved child when answering! Amazing

We live in a political circus.

Folks: there are important things to do. This is just a game.

Protection, Not Concession: Mexico’s Responsibility to Third Country Nationals Deported by the United States - Refugees International The United States is deporting thousands of third country nationals to Mexico using coercive tactics, including enforced disappearances.

Out latest on US subterfuge and Mexican neglect in handling removed 3rd country nationals, especially Cubans. US deportation agreements w/ far flung countries are CRAZY, but vast majority of 3rd country nationals end up in Mexico-- this needs ATTENTION!

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