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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 28m

There's presumably skills that are transferrable from one clown job to another.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 32m

So-called because the goal is for everything to end up entirely white?

Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 34m

Immigration Arrests in the Interior of the United States: A Primer

Sharing this Congressional Research Service report on immigration arrests in case helpful:

www.congress.gov/crs_external...

Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 53m

If not getting paid by the client tolls response deadlines, that's a game-changer for me.

Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 57m

*Update: At Justice Department request, the court just put the 15-day response timeline on hold until government goes back to work.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 3h

There's no chance he didn't do it _before_ January 20, probably before the election.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

This attracted oddly little notice, but Stephen Miller was recently asked directly if he has discussed invoking the Insurrection Act with Trump. He evaded the question.

Miller, a master manipulator of Trump, is clearly nudging him in that direction right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown reut.rs/4mQvdTF

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

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 5h

If only universities cared about students the way they care about research grants.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 5h

*"You're" on both points.

Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 5h

The idea that they wouldn't just nuke Chicago is the old thinking. We can no longer trust that that is the case, and, day after day, we see the previous worst-case scenarios clearly not having been bad enough.

Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 5h

And they don't have to repopulate those areas; they just need to prevent the other side from doing it. Which again, dead.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 5h

Targeted mass murder is a logistical challenge. Indiscriminate mass murder is not nearly as much. They could incinerate Chicago in a matter of hours with very limited personnel if they really wanted. That's sustainable because when your dead, your dead.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 5h

Winning takes a sustained invasion OR mass murder. Previously they didn't do one and they only kind of did the other but not on the scale they could have had they wanted. If they choose the latter, full-force, then they don't need the resources for occupation.

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

Minnesota gets 12 Bahamians in exchange. No tradebacks.

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

Ex-NFL star Herschel Walker confirmed as first U.S. Bahamas ambassador in nearly 15 years reut.rs/4nz4psg

Ex-NFL star Herschel Walker confirmed as first U.S. Bahamas ambassador in nearly 15 years

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed former NFL star and political candidate Herschel Walker to serve as the United States' next ambassador to the Bahamas, filling a position that has been vacant for nearly 15 years.

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Matt Szafranski @mszafranski.bsky.social · 17h

Justice Jackson is everything the con justices hate. It's not that she's liberal. They can and do outnumber that. Rather, it's that she's demystifying the Court, exposing its hypocrisies and, in effect, bringing the Court down to a human & accessible level, something the cons oppose in every way.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 17h

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation.

Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation.

Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

Excerpt of Supreme Court transcript in Chiles v. Salazar:

JUSTICE JACKSON: No, but here's what
I mean, right? In Skrmetti, we had a state
that wanted to prohibit certain medical
treatment, gender-affirming care, being given
to minors in the form of medication.
And we said that was okay. And I
understand there are particulars with respect
to how the -- the arguments, the constitutional
arguments, worked, but the state can prohibit
that.

Here, we have a state that wants to
prohibit gender-related medical treatment in
the form of talk therapy, but we now have the
First Amendment that is inhibiting the state's
ability to do that.

And I'm just, from a very, very broad
perspective, concerned about making sure that
we have equivalence with respect to these
things.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 19h

As I was saying

Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 18d

Tacky and dumb (and illegal) as this "Gold Card" idea is, it's fundamentally the same problem as the tariffs and the university protection racket and transcends immigration law: the Executive cannot be allowed to raise its own money it then gets to decide on its own whether, when, and how to spend.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 20h

Miller wants that plenary power to be the President's of course, but when Congress aren't invertebrates it's _Congress_ that is said to hold that plenary power. There are only very few places where the President holds plenary power over immigration in his own right (e.g. DED).

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

Plus all the votes they gave to the Riley Act.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, he almost sounds upset enough to stop voting for judicial nominees in committee. Almost.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Durbin: "What's happening in Illinois is outrageous. To think they're going to federalize the Texas National Guard and send them into my state is not only necessary, it's almost criminal."

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

I think if we try hard enough, we could probably get the Texas National Guard to destroy the fake Rock Ridge instead of Chicago. They are so dumb.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

Right, and why would Miller &al. want that? They'd much rather just continue their reign of terror. They don't need people to fight back to do that, since they already are doing it.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

His answer to "Is it not profiling?" was "no"?

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't it exactly. They don't want a civil war. Why would anyone already in power want that? They want only to justify a massacre. Massacres are civil wars with a violence diode in series.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

The federal government under Stephen Miller is explicitly trying to start a civil war.

That is my statement.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

Because you can rapidly naturalize in the military, it's possible for a US citizen service member to not have five years physical presence even counting the service and pre-citizenship time. Likewise if born a US citizen abroad, you might not have any physical presence until you join the military.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

I think the current state of the law is that you might possibly succeed if you're Webster Bivens himself and the exact same thing happens to you again.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

As always, giving the power to declare emergencies to the person who gets the emergency powers once there's an emergency is a terrible way to design a government.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 1d

The Posse Comitatus Act is a good idea in theory and it probably protects against lower level abuses, but the existence of the Insurrection Act means that it was never going to be useful for anything when the top of the chain of command wants to violate it.

Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act and is sending red state National Guard troops into blue states.

Colorado Dems passed a law that's unlikely to stop that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctZs...

President Trump threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act

YouTube video by Next 9NEWS

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