Elp
@elpsky.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer. Mom. Aquarius. All skeets explicitly represent the views of my employer.
📍 CT/NYC
📍 CT/NYC
1000% this is so he can try to justify a war with Venezuela…. Even though they don’t even produce or fentanyl or its component chemicals. Le sigh.
December 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
1000% this is so he can try to justify a war with Venezuela…. Even though they don’t even produce or fentanyl or its component chemicals. Le sigh.
Remember when Charlie Kirk was killed and immigrants quoted his own racist words with no comment and then they had their visas revoked? Yeah that was like 2 months ago.
Trump doubles down on his Rob Reiner attack: "I wasn't a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person... He became like a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome. So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Remember when Charlie Kirk was killed and immigrants quoted his own racist words with no comment and then they had their visas revoked? Yeah that was like 2 months ago.
Hero
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hero
We all know that Trump doesn't write his "truths" himself. They are drafted and he approves them and they are submitted by someone else. This means that his insane post was reviewed by multiple people before it was posted. All those heartless and deranged people are in charge of our government.
December 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We all know that Trump doesn't write his "truths" himself. They are drafted and he approves them and they are submitted by someone else. This means that his insane post was reviewed by multiple people before it was posted. All those heartless and deranged people are in charge of our government.
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The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence
December 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence
Just had a call with a bawling client who got her application denied on her birthday and now she's out of status. Happy birthday from the US government!
December 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just had a call with a bawling client who got her application denied on her birthday and now she's out of status. Happy birthday from the US government!
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Trump is just a fundamentally evil person
December 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump is just a fundamentally evil person
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
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Donald Trump is on live TV addressing the shootings at Brown University and in Australia. He quickly shifted to bragging about all of the tariff based money pouring into the US “more than four times as much as ever before.“ The network cut away from it.
December 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Donald Trump is on live TV addressing the shootings at Brown University and in Australia. He quickly shifted to bragging about all of the tariff based money pouring into the US “more than four times as much as ever before.“ The network cut away from it.
My body is ready. I have two pairs of leggings, snow pants, 3 shirts (including 2 long sleeve thermal shirts), sweatshirt, parka from the Minneapolis Super Bowl, Sorel boots, 2 pairs of socks (including Gronk socks), a gaiter, hat, waterproof gloves, and goggles. 🏈
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My body is ready. I have two pairs of leggings, snow pants, 3 shirts (including 2 long sleeve thermal shirts), sweatshirt, parka from the Minneapolis Super Bowl, Sorel boots, 2 pairs of socks (including Gronk socks), a gaiter, hat, waterproof gloves, and goggles. 🏈
You can borrow a DVD player and DVDs from my library. You can also borrow a sewing machine and pots and pans. You can get like anything there. The youths don’t understand libraries.
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
You can borrow a DVD player and DVDs from my library. You can also borrow a sewing machine and pots and pans. You can get like anything there. The youths don’t understand libraries.
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Tattoo this tweet inside the eyelids of every politician who says everything will be fine if we just give the right exactly what they demand
December 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Tattoo this tweet inside the eyelids of every politician who says everything will be fine if we just give the right exactly what they demand
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Local reports of many victims in a mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Shooter is now believed to be in custody.
December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Local reports of many victims in a mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Shooter is now believed to be in custody.
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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 5:11 PM
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.
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
The pediatrician has brochures for all sorts of issues and I immediately though “BRAT” was for if your kid is a brat 🤣
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The pediatrician has brochures for all sorts of issues and I immediately though “BRAT” was for if your kid is a brat 🤣
At Gillette we got the Get Paid to Park tickets. They literally pay you $50 to park in the lot that is staggered 75 min after the game. Free parking plus $50. We'll go to the store/restaurants in Patriot Place after the game and then leave. Score!
December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
At Gillette we got the Get Paid to Park tickets. They literally pay you $50 to park in the lot that is staggered 75 min after the game. Free parking plus $50. We'll go to the store/restaurants in Patriot Place after the game and then leave. Score!
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I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
This is their MO. Take documented people with work authorization, make them suddenly undocumented with no other options, then kidnap and detain them and demonize them as if they snuck across the border.
NEW: this morning the Trump admin moved to terminate legal status for ~20,000 people:
- Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, in place since 2022, with ~5,000 beneficiaries
- Family Reunification Parole Programs, in place since 2023 and some legacy cases from earlier, covering ~15,000 people.
- Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, in place since 2022, with ~5,000 beneficiaries
- Family Reunification Parole Programs, in place since 2023 and some legacy cases from earlier, covering ~15,000 people.
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
[CIS No. 2842-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2022-0014]
RIN 1615-ZB96
Termination of the Designation of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of
Homeland Security (DHS).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the
designation of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status. The designation of Ethiopia is
set to expire on December 12, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting
with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Ethiopia no
longer continues to meet the conditions for the designation for Temporary Protected
Status. The Secretary, therefore, is terminating the Temporary Protected Status
designation of Ethiopia as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT
DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL
REGISTER]. After [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION
IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Ethiopia (and aliens having no
nationality who last habitually resided in Ethiopia) who have been granted Temporary
Protected Status under Ethiopia’s designation will no longer have Temporary Protected
Status.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreih3jaajnftjj4cmi6rdm2ah4ccpqsprzgm4v467fckozw2m5nxhs4@jpeg)
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
[CIS No. 2806-25]
RIN 1615-ZC12
Termination of Family Reunification Parole Processes for Colombians, Cubans,
Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Haitians, Hondurans, and Salvadorans
ACTION: Notice
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) is terminating the
categorical parole processes for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members, under the Family
Reunification Parole processes announced, or updated, by DHS in 2023 (hereinafter
referred to as “modernized FRP programs”). DHS is also terminating the residual
processing of legacy cases under the Cuban Family Reunification Parole program
(“legacy CFRP”) and the Haitian Family Reunification Parole program (“legacy HFRP”)
first implemented by USCIS in 2007 and 2014, respectively (collectively, the “legacy
FRP programs”). This Federal Register notice is intended to provide context and
guidance to the public regarding the termination of all nine programs (hereinafter “the
FRP programs”), termination of parole for aliens paroled under the FRP programs, and
revocation of employment authorization based on being an alien paroled under the FRP
programs.
DATES: DHS is terminating the FRP programs as of [INSERT DATE OF
PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. The temporary parole period of
aliens who have been paroled into the United States under the FRP programs, and whose
initial period of parole has not already expired by [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER] will terminate on that](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreif6xn3rjqzmqncvd2evyiz72xh5tcdfjeuc336ydvocdze3t4rtse@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is their MO. Take documented people with work authorization, make them suddenly undocumented with no other options, then kidnap and detain them and demonize them as if they snuck across the border.
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One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
My proudest mom moment was today when the pediatrician said my just turned 4 yr old is on a kindergarten intelligence level. He’s spelling and writing his name on his own, counts to 20. She asked him to stand on one foot and he did tree pose lmao. He still has 2 years til kindergarten!
December 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
My proudest mom moment was today when the pediatrician said my just turned 4 yr old is on a kindergarten intelligence level. He’s spelling and writing his name on his own, counts to 20. She asked him to stand on one foot and he did tree pose lmao. He still has 2 years til kindergarten!