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Aaron Hall

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · Apr 17

I’m advocating for due process for Mr. Abrego Garcia and for my government not to send any person to CECOT ever.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Apr 17

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 8h

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Castro's Doctor Boasts His Client Will Live to 140

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 19h

Multiple attorneys just out of frame, describing it as air tight too.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 7d

It'll give them the convenient "SCOTUS pushes back against Trump" headline in a major case while they continue to do his bidding on almost every other issue.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

For those Venezuelans out there, some of whom have now been working and living legally in the United States for over 4 years, I am sorry. This shouldn't be happening to you. Venezuela is still not safe for you. Yet you have been abandoned by your former allies. You deserve better.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.

Shameless!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A326
KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR A STAY
[October 3, 2025]
In March of this year, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary order postponing the effective date of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to remove "temporary protected status" (TPS) from Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. See 8 U.S. C. §1254a; 5 U.S. C. §705.
In May, this Court stayed that order while the Government appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the District Court's preliminary order. Last month, the District Court entered final judgment in respondents' favor, holding unlawful and setting aside the Secretary's actions effectuating her decision— namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself.
See 5 U. S. C. §706(2). (The District Court also concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals. The Government now seeks to stay the portions of the District Court's judgment pertaining to Ven-ezuela, but not Haiti. See Application 7, n. 6.)
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.

NOEM v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE
JACKSON, J., dissenting
The September 5, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 25-cv-1766, is stayed as to the Venezuela vacatur and Venezuela termination, pending the disposition of the Government's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and JUSTICE KAGAN would deny the application.
JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting from the grant of application for stay.

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Jahd Khalil @jahd.bsky.social · 8d

ICE detains lawfully present Richmond father as son waits for school bus www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

ICE detains lawfully present Richmond father as son waits for school bus

Silviano Mora Vera's U visa should have insulated him from detention.

www.vpm.org

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free 🎶

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 9d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 9d

The motions to suppress need to be filed en masse.

Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 9d

Obligatory:

2/27/2001 Memo from Donald Rumsfeld:

"The word 'homeland' is a strange word. "Homeland" Defense sounds more German than American. Also, it smacks of isolationism, which I am uncomfortable with."

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 9d

Our Executive Branch:

Democrats and "radical left" are interchangeable terms and the radical left is terrorists.

DOJ website with banner saying "Democrats have shut down the government."

HUD website banner saying "The Radical Left" shut down the government.

White House Article:
President Trump Isn’t Backing Down from Crushing Radical Left Violence
The White House
September 22, 2025
President Donald J. Trump is right: the violence problem is on the Left. That’s why he just designated Antifa — a network of Radical Left terrorists that aim to overthrow the government through violence and agitation — as a domestic terrorist organization.

Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 10d

USCIS officers are now "Homeland Defenders" tasked with defending culture.

USCIS ad posted on twitter encouraging people to apply to be a "homeland defender" and "defend your culture."

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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 10d

"This case…squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.

The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 10d

The sound logic supporting a first strike on Costa Rica.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 13d

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 14d

So according to the Supreme Court, Congress can't enact a line-item veto because that violates the Presentment Clause, meaning it's up to the President (or the Court) to invent his (its) own line-item veto. Do I have this right?

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14d

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress.

I’ll post the link when it’s up.

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 15d

Launching countless orders to push dirt around with a bulldozer for a few months until he flails the other direction.

Planned economies are the best.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 17d

They threatened this before. It's not legal. The statute requires visas to be issued "in the order in which petitions are filed for such visas or status." A random lottery accounting for the impossibility of determining the exact filing order is one thing. 1/

Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social · 18d

The Trump administration has released a proposal to replace the current H-1B visa lottery with a weighted selection process favoring higher wages and skill levels.

#H1B #visas #immigration #tech

Trump Plans H-1B Lottery Replacement With Wage-Based Rule

The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the selection process for H-1B visas heavily used by the tech industry, basing allocation on skill-level required and wages offered for a posi...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 17d

Not to be pedantic but technically it's the Application for USA Visa *US* H1B Visa Form.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20d

What can you even say?

Megyn Kelly ® @megynkelly
X.com
We DO NOT CARE. Don't bother
@RealTomHoman he's a national treasure.
- Carol Leonnig & @CarolLeonnig•2h
A big @MSNBC scoop >>>> Trump border czar Tom Homan was under criminal investigation for potential bribery and claims he would steer fed contracts in new administration.

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