Tom Jawetz
@tomjawetz.bsky.social
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Now: CAP Senior Fellow and immigration law & policy consultant
Then: DHS Deputy General Counsel (2021-22); CAP Immigration (2015-21); House Judiciary (2009-15); ACLU National Prison Project (2005-09)
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Philip Bump
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· Aug 17
More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.
Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...
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Tom Jawetz
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· May 22
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Tom Jawetz
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Tom Jawetz
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· May 16
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KatherineHawkins
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· Apr 26
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
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Tom Jawetz
@tomjawetz.bsky.social
· Apr 26
Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts
A College spokesperson said that the President “does not believe that signing open form letters like this one is an effective way to defend Dartmouth’s mission.”
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Tom Jawetz
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· Apr 19
Steve Vladeck
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
· Apr 19
144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention
Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.
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KatherineHawkins
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· Apr 18
Tom Jawetz
@tomjawetz.bsky.social
· Apr 18
![Defendants claim that an alien can raise fear-based concerns through reopening IJ proceedings or petitioning the court of appeals for review. E.g., April 10, 2025 Rough Tr. at 9:24–10:5 (“MR. ENSIGN: Your Honor, they would have needed to raise it earlier or -- and if we were in the second part of the [March] guidance, they also could manifest fear at that point and then it would go to screening. So there’s that potentially available as well. But, you know, to the extent they have awareness of that now, they should go back before the IJ and BIA.”); id. at 10:19–22 (“MR. ENSIGN: Your Honor, they would have needed to go to the BIA before [they are notified of third-country removal plans]. There’s nothing under the [March] guidance that would require additional notice or an opportunity to challenge it at that moment.”); id. at 27:10–13 (“[MR. ENSIGN:] There is -- the typical way it . . . would be raised is a motion to reopen if you haven’t raised it already, and then you can raise it to the Court of Appeals.”); id. at 44:2–11 (“THE COURT: So it happens Saturday morning, the person raises a fear that department disagrees -- they make it through the first screening, the department disagrees. That person is then going to be deported on Sunday morning. As a practical matter, there’s no judicial review of that decision, right? MR. ENSIGN: There would be administrative review potentially in the IJ. THE COURT: How would they do that? It’s Saturday. MR. ENSIGN: Your Honor, I don’t know the specifics of the IJ proceedings.”). This claim is either an effort to prevaricate or is deeply disingenuous. The suggestion that an alien must—or even can—reopen an immigration proceeding at 6:00 a.m. on a Saturday prior to being removed that same weekend is preposterous on its face. See, e.g., Exec. Office for Immigr. Rev., Boston Immigration Court, U.S. Dep’t of Just., https://www.justice.gov/eoir/boston-immigration-court (last updated Apr. 9, 2025) (“The immigration court is open Monday to…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreib2yx3a3mwqncp6ogzstgakezafalbi2x5coldqvwiy4bhs7xiega@jpeg)
Tom Jawetz
@tomjawetz.bsky.social
· Apr 17
Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
· Apr 17
U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...
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