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Allen Orr

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Past President of AILA, Immigration Chair NBA, Immigration Lawyer, Immigration Strategist, SiriusXM Urbanview contributor, KBLA 1580 contributor, Morehouse '95, Howard Law '98, Tennis Fan, Opinions are my own. https://linktr.ee/AllenOrr

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · May 17

The government chose to deport Garcia by “mistake,” chose to let him stay, then chose to hide behind state secrets. These aren’t accidents. They are choices, bad faith moves in plain sight. youtu.be/nGk23r_cFXE

Allen Orr on Judge Xinis criticisms of Trump admin for failure to comply with court orders

YouTube video by Allen Orr Esq. Immigration News

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 30m

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport- Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was canceled @urbanviewradio.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 33m

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates. @urbanviewradio.bsky.social chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks and no name tags. Now some are driving cars without license plates.

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 36m

apnews.com/article/news... US governors' group faces division over Trump's deployment of troops to states

Bipartisan US governors' group faces division over Trump's deployment of troops to states

Democratic governors from California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association unless it denounces President Donald Trump's troop deployments to states.

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 38m

apnews.com/article/immi... we know about National Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland

What we know about National Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland

The first National Guard troops sent to Chicago by President Donald Trump have arrived at an Army training center outside the city.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 2h

Today is the 22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy conference in DC, a gather of the immigration policy community in our nation's capital each year. If you are attending in-person, please say hello! Let's get down to business.

www.migrationpolicy.org/events/22ndi...

22nd Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference

This conference will feature thoughtful policy and legal analysis and discussion of some of the most important immigration issues that have surfaced in the U.S. policy debate.

www.migrationpolicy.org

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 15h

How did ICE know, a month ahead of time, that this ordained minister might exercise his First Amendment rights in a way that Sen. Noem might find insulting during a future visit?

It's like "Minority Report."

And, as an aside, this is the same “pastor” who flipped
@Sec_Noem and our team the bird when we were there last week.

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 1d

Oops Callais is next week. Today is Mail in Ballots - is a U.S. Supreme Court case about whether federal candidates have Article III standing to challenge state election rules.

Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS today ,Louisiana v. Callais, the Court must decide whether Louisiana’s new congressional map, featuring a second majority-Black district, unconstitutionally prioritized race under the Equal Protection Clause #votingrightsact @urbanviewradio.bsky.social @luriedanielfavors.bsky.social

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats take legal aim at 'the Radical Left' language during shutdown

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

Democrats take legal aim at 'the Radical Left' language during shutdown

Democrats and a federal union argue the Trump administration's language posted on federal agency websites and in some emails blaming the "Radical Left Democrats" for the government shutdown is in viol...

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 2d

For @praeyesright.bsky.social I wrote this about Florida, the Everglades gulag, and 287g
politicalresearch.org/2025/10/06/f...

Florida Is the “Tip of the Spear”

The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially, and there’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than...

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 1d

@urbanviewradio.bsky.social #blacknews

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Phang: How are these Epstein victims supposed to feel about closure when you see Blanche meeting with Maxwell and then giving her a minimum-security camp move?

And now, conversations allegedly that Trump is going to have with the DOJ about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. It is an abomination

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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 1d

thank you

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SiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 1d

The @karenhunter.bsky.social show welcomes Candidate for US Senate in Mississippi; District Attorney for the 16th Judicial District of Mississippi: Scott Colom!

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#KarenRebels

Scott Colom for Senate – Mississippi Matters

Scott Colom is a seventh-generation Mississippian, proud husband and father of two, and district attorney who fights every day to keep Mississippians safe.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“It appeared that he simply stopped speaking, as he continued to stand blinking before the camera.”

"Plenary authority means complete and total power.”

Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller short circuits after saying Trump has "plenary authority" over sending troops into U.S. cities www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Stephen Miller Says Trump Has ‘Plenary Authority,’ Like A King

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Ashley DeAzevedo @afuashley.bsky.social · 1d

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

U.S Citizen Julie Moreno Returned to the United States Today, Preparing for Years of Separation from Her Husband Now in Mexico

Full press release below.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

the smugness of Stephen Miller in dealing with reporters is off the charts

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jeffries: "Why don't Republicans want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Is it the Epstein files?"

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d

I know it's tiresome to play the "imagine if the parties were reversed" game, but thinking about how Republicans (and right-wing media) would be reacting if a Democratic-controlled House was refusing to swear in a newly elected *Republican* member may be the apotheosis of this particular meme.

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 2d

"No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Wants," "Illinois and Chicago sue Trump administration over deployment of National Guard," "Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases," and more must-read #immigration news.

Immigration Reform News October 7, 2025 - America's Voice

English The Washington Post Trump presses sanctuary cities to work with ICE, but few are budging By David Nakamura October 07, 2025 The New York Times No, Trump Can’t Deploy Troops to Wherever He Want...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

DURBIN: You won't even say whether you talked to the WH about this?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any internal conversations with you

D: They're going to transfer TX Guard troops to the state of Illinois. What's the rationale?

B: I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 2d

I'm a proud lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH), which is launching an online discussion series. I'm honored to contribute to the first session! It's free and open to everyone, so check it out and spread the word!!!

www.eventbrite.com/e/abwh-maste...

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