@diegoatlaw
I work in immigration law for the rights of people to move, focused on helping some of the world's most vulnerable people. Dreaming of a world beyond borders and oppression. Anticarceral. Non-binary, any pronouns
Garry Malphrus, who wrote today's decision, is one of just two people left on the BIA not appointed to the role during Trump 1.0 or Trump 2.0. However, he's infamously one of the most conservative members, and was made the Chief of the Board by Trump last year.
He's also a Brooks Brothers rioter.
In 1990, when Congress created a protection for migrant children subject to abuse, it didn't anticipate backlogs would get bad enough that beneficiaries would wait years for a visa, and so never thought to explicitly bar deportation for winners.
Today the BIA greenlit deportation in that situation.
Matter of Pinzon came out today, making it even harder for kids to stay here where custody has been granted to someone in the US to keep the kids safe from having to return to abandonment or abuse in their country of origin
The GOP hates kids
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I assume it’s a matter of politics: the Cubans 4 Trump contingent would possibly object to the CAA being eliminated unless it’s paired with at v least a fig leaf of regime change in Venezuela even if it’s just 2 Maduro 2 Furious
I mean that’s always been an option but I read the discussion of regime change in Cuba as including this
I mean true already doing that
Plus the I220A shit is absurd and unlawful
It’s parole! Scotus literally said so!!
Heritage is also a driving force behind the attack on the 14th Amendment and the campaign to eradicate trans people.
Everything it does is immoral and anti-American. Its radical ideology has infiltrated corporate and elite media
I think - and others do - that the Trump regime is planning to strike Cuba in some way to call the regime as changed and deactivate the Cuban Adjustment Act route to residency for Cubans (it allows the govt to say Cuba no longer has a dictatorship and that the Act shouldn’t apply)
OK, *ongoing* thread of books to read on Palestine. Some recent, some not at all so recent.
(Granted: lawyering is really a lot of obsessed angry goose shit, truly just so much of the work)
Update: situation mostly resolved, but i don't think it's ok that I need to be like an obsessed angry goose to keep people safe
Update: situation mostly resolved, but i don't think it's ok that I need to be like an obsessed angry goose to keep people safe
Something bad happened that I can't talk about publicly (I'm safe, it's not something affecting me directly) and I really hate this period of history
The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.
Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.
Federal courthouse in Nashville
HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.
A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Oh no
This looks like someone had a 'bright idea' and just disconnected a bunch of stuff
so now ECAS (ECF but for immigration court) has been weird and down all morning - but oddly not for immigration judges or for DHS
kinda sus, but also just looks like they're hacking at the internet setup for the DOJ carelessly
Thank you! I appreciate you looking at that for me
I'll delete and repost
it's still hellishly awful
Oh cripes lemme check what stage of rulemaking it’s at then
New interim final rule narrows rights of asylum seekers further, winnows down circumstances where people can work lawfully
Dishonest, bad-faith news release by DHS talks about it: www.dhs.gov/news/2026/02...
No one outside of ppl directly affected understands this. It's just hate for its own sake
ooh gorgeous loaf
God, every day with these BIA decisions attempting to just make asylum impossible
this is so funny
oh god
“There have been previous incidents, including one in 2009, when a bird is believed to have dropped a baguette onto critical electrical systems.”
Yes!
All, or nearly all, of the arrests of anti-ICE protesters that ICE made were lawless and illegal. They're arresting them for nothing, beating them up, impounding their cars, then releasing them with an "oops". It's a terror tactic, not law enforcement.
oh for real
