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Posts by immigration attorney Adam S. Greenberg (IANYL (yet))
Why is it relevant that the staff were armed? Just to make him sound tough?
Hopefully this all ends up with his bar card in a shredder bin.
Hopefully this all ends up with his bar card in a shredder bin.
Tina Peters’ lawyer demands Colorado honor Trump’s pardon, threatens to take legal action
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Why is it relevant that the staff were armed? Just to make him sound tough?
Hopefully this all ends up with his bar card in a shredder bin.
Hopefully this all ends up with his bar card in a shredder bin.
And if you miraculously do win some sort of relief, DHS goes to the BIA, who has their marching orders, and then, no you didn't.
They did it twice today.
They did it twice today.
This is what asylum practice is increasingly looking like; the Trump admin is moving to "pretermit" every single claim (or nearly every single claim) as a move to avoid having to grant anyone asylum.
I was in a tribunal a week ago where DHS moved to pretermit every single asylum case on "safe third country grounds." Every. single. one.
At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."
At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."
December 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
And if you miraculously do win some sort of relief, DHS goes to the BIA, who has their marching orders, and then, no you didn't.
They did it twice today.
They did it twice today.
The federal Robinson-Patman Act is one of those laws that's just sitting there waiting to be used by someone angry about this stuff.
Inbox: State Sen. Lindsey Williams (D., Allegheny) is introducing a ban on the "surveillance pricing" which charged different customers different prices at the center of a recent @consumerreports.org investigation of groccery delivery app Instacart.
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The federal Robinson-Patman Act is one of those laws that's just sitting there waiting to be used by someone angry about this stuff.
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The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
As always, stupidity is the weapon of greatest destruction.
It's undefeated.
It's undefeated.
December 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As always, stupidity is the weapon of greatest destruction.
It's undefeated.
It's undefeated.
And why shouldn't they? The Refugee Convention can't just only apply to little countries. The US and the UK and Italy &c. have all decided it's a dead letter as far as they're concerned. It's unfair for us to expect Trinidad to abide by it.
A court in Trinidad & Tobago ruled that the government is not bound by the Refugee Convention and that authorities can deport even registered refugees
Amid a new focus on deportations, where does that leave Venezuelan migrants?
➡️ https://bit.ly/3XPjk6s
Amid a new focus on deportations, where does that leave Venezuelan migrants?
➡️ https://bit.ly/3XPjk6s
December 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
And why shouldn't they? The Refugee Convention can't just only apply to little countries. The US and the UK and Italy &c. have all decided it's a dead letter as far as they're concerned. It's unfair for us to expect Trinidad to abide by it.
A good indicator that we need a shorter lame duck period for the mayor of Pittsburgh is that the street my office is on is still not plowed.
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A good indicator that we need a shorter lame duck period for the mayor of Pittsburgh is that the street my office is on is still not plowed.
At any previous time if you told the government that you would give them a giant sum of money in exchange for which they would approve a visa you were not otherwise eligible for you would have been arrested.
so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
At any previous time if you told the government that you would give them a giant sum of money in exchange for which they would approve a visa you were not otherwise eligible for you would have been arrested.
Passport cards are easy to carry and are really cheap too. $65 for ten years. $30 if you already have a passport book.
I do carry mine everywhere, though I don't like that I should have to.
I do carry mine everywhere, though I don't like that I should have to.
Your local immigration lawyer here telling you to carry your passport or passport card (get one) on you at all times. Especially if you are not white. If a non citizen, carry your green card, I-94, approval notice, etc. on you.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Passport cards are easy to carry and are really cheap too. $65 for ten years. $30 if you already have a passport book.
I do carry mine everywhere, though I don't like that I should have to.
I do carry mine everywhere, though I don't like that I should have to.
It's probably unrealistic for everyone to run to federal court for declaratory judgment of their citizenship, but at least if you got it you would have contempt authority on your side when they pulled this shit.
Unfortunately, under our Kavanaugh Stops regime, it is entirely rational for anyone who appears Hispanic to carry proof of citizenship at all times. The worst part is that it might not be enough: ICE/CBP keep arresting people who have proof of citizenship, refusing to accept its validity.
U.S. Latinos are now more worried about being asked to prove their legal status during their daily activities (43% today vs. 31% in March), and roughly 1 in 5 have changed their daily routines because of it.
December 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It's probably unrealistic for everyone to run to federal court for declaratory judgment of their citizenship, but at least if you got it you would have contempt authority on your side when they pulled this shit.
They don't call him Mr. Whitehouse for nothing, folks.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
They don't call him Mr. Whitehouse for nothing, folks.
It may not do anything to them immediately, but state disciplinary boards need to be processing complaints about deserving OPLA and OIL counsel and IJs. This transcends good-faith representation of their client; these are flagrant rule 8.4 violations (or local equivalent).
December 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
It may not do anything to them immediately, but state disciplinary boards need to be processing complaints about deserving OPLA and OIL counsel and IJs. This transcends good-faith representation of their client; these are flagrant rule 8.4 violations (or local equivalent).
The error wasn't the scrivener's. You can fix the clerk's (or _maybe_ judge qua clerk's) work with this doctrine, but not the judge's (qua judge) with this.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The error wasn't the scrivener's. You can fix the clerk's (or _maybe_ judge qua clerk's) work with this doctrine, but not the judge's (qua judge) with this.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
This is monstrous and should result in disciplinary proceedings.
This has nothing to do with her. He couldn't possibly care because he doesn't care about anyone else but himself. This is more signaling to prospective coconspirators.
NEW: President Donald Trump says he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state charges related to tampering with Colorado's election systems. Legal experts say presidential pardons do not apply to state charges.
December 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This has nothing to do with her. He couldn't possibly care because he doesn't care about anyone else but himself. This is more signaling to prospective coconspirators.
Has Heritage driven on the Indiana Toll Road? I'm pretty sure they already stopped paving it in the '80s.
December 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Has Heritage driven on the Indiana Toll Road? I'm pretty sure they already stopped paving it in the '80s.
This is like when you used to stay home sick from school and watch pre-commercial reveals on trashy daytime talk shows.
Or so I've been told.
Or so I've been told.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is like when you used to stay home sick from school and watch pre-commercial reveals on trashy daytime talk shows.
Or so I've been told.
Or so I've been told.
Seems like a review of everyone else they've removed is in order.
This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Seems like a review of everyone else they've removed is in order.
The Gold Card program is substantively moronic, but every bit I dig deeper is an APA or PRA nightmare. The form was issued an OMB control number on an emergency basis just weeks ago without comment, after the program itself was created based on an executive order alone also with no comment.
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Gold Card program is substantively moronic, but every bit I dig deeper is an APA or PRA nightmare. The form was issued an OMB control number on an emergency basis just weeks ago without comment, after the program itself was created based on an executive order alone also with no comment.
It would probably be more efficient at some point to list instead categories of people who won't have their visas revoked by this administration. So far I can only think of two that are probably pretty safe:
–White European fascists
–H-1B3s (probably also only white ones)
–White European fascists
–H-1B3s (probably also only white ones)
“Trump May Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter”
Freeeeee speech!
Freeeeee speech!
SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
zeteo.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
It would probably be more efficient at some point to list instead categories of people who won't have their visas revoked by this administration. So far I can only think of two that are probably pretty safe:
–White European fascists
–H-1B3s (probably also only white ones)
–White European fascists
–H-1B3s (probably also only white ones)
It's more productive than paying the people who actually did overthrow the government to run what's still left of it.
Should we pay people to club police and poop on the floor while they’re trying to overthrow the government? You decide
Almost 400 people pardoned or granted clemency by President Donald Trump in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are now seeking millions of dollars in payouts from the federal government.
December 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It's more productive than paying the people who actually did overthrow the government to run what's still left of it.
DHS published a Paperwork Reduction Act notice this morning about generic clearance for its comment card for the public to tell it how it's doing. (It did so as required by a 1993 Clinton EO.)
December 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
DHS published a Paperwork Reduction Act notice this morning about generic clearance for its comment card for the public to tell it how it's doing. (It did so as required by a 1993 Clinton EO.)
The US Navy is being put in charge of the Sonoran Desert. This makes sense to people.
The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern border to support border security operations — this time in California.
The Department of Interior said Wednesday it will transfer jurisdiction along most of California's international border with Mexico to the U.S. Navy.
The Department of Interior said Wednesday it will transfer jurisdiction along most of California's international border with Mexico to the U.S. Navy.
Trump administration adds militarized zone in California along southern US border
www.stripes.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The US Navy is being put in charge of the Sonoran Desert. This makes sense to people.
Always strikes me as Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, in both appearance and temperament.
Emil Bove is 44 years old. He's worked in offices his entire adult life.
I'm 55. I've broken two vertebrae in my back, I've had hypothermia and heatstroke, I've jumped out of airplanes, and I've been shot at, mortared, IED'ed more times than I can count.
I look less like a corpse than he does.
I'm 55. I've broken two vertebrae in my back, I've had hypothermia and heatstroke, I've jumped out of airplanes, and I've been shot at, mortared, IED'ed more times than I can count.
I look less like a corpse than he does.
When I was a judicial law clerk in Montana, Pres Bush flew into the Billings airport for a rally.
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
I wanted to see Air Force One and asked the judge I clerked for if I could go. He said no, that it wouldn’t be appropriate.
And I was just a clerk. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
December 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Always strikes me as Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, in both appearance and temperament.
This was obvious to everyone who doesn't work for the administration.
(Except for six people who only _effectively_ work for the administration.)
(Except for six people who only _effectively_ work for the administration.)
Judge reaffirms removing protections from Venezuelans was illegal www.courthousenews.com/judge-reaffi...
Judge reaffirms removing protections from Venezuelans was illegal
The order, however, was stayed for two weeks, pending word from the Ninth Circuit, which could stay the ruling even longer.
www.courthousenews.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This was obvious to everyone who doesn't work for the administration.
(Except for six people who only _effectively_ work for the administration.)
(Except for six people who only _effectively_ work for the administration.)
The dumbest part of this continues to be that a company can pay a $2 million bribe on someone's behalf or else they could just give someone $1 million and let them pay the smaller bribe on their own behalf.
This is still VERY illegal. The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability" and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.
December 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The dumbest part of this continues to be that a company can pay a $2 million bribe on someone's behalf or else they could just give someone $1 million and let them pay the smaller bribe on their own behalf.