Clay H. Greenberg
@claygr.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer | Compassionate human
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The Trump admin is planning to say that being from Cuba (or any other travel ban country) is a "significant negative factor" that could lead to a denial of any of several discretionary immigration benefits (like green cards).
Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.
Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The Trump admin is planning to say that being from Cuba (or any other travel ban country) is a "significant negative factor" that could lead to a denial of any of several discretionary immigration benefits (like green cards).
Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.
Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.
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Enjoy :40 of tree roos having carrots.
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Enjoy :40 of tree roos having carrots.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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BREAKING: The full Ninth Circuit vacates last week’s 2-1 order granting DOJ a stay of the district court’s TRO in the case over Trump’s National Guard effort in Oregon. The court will rehear DOJ’s stay request w an 11-judge panel.
Today’s order means Judge Immergut’s TRO remains in effect for now.
Today’s order means Judge Immergut’s TRO remains in effect for now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
BREAKING: The full Ninth Circuit vacates last week’s 2-1 order granting DOJ a stay of the district court’s TRO in the case over Trump’s National Guard effort in Oregon. The court will rehear DOJ’s stay request w an 11-judge panel.
Today’s order means Judge Immergut’s TRO remains in effect for now.
Today’s order means Judge Immergut’s TRO remains in effect for now.
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Remember when it was a national scandal on the right that the White House pushed to take down a few tweets?
Apple agreed with the Trump admin’s demands that they remove apps that helped people track ICE agents from the Apple Store: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps Amid Trump Pressure Campaign
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Remember when it was a national scandal on the right that the White House pushed to take down a few tweets?
This video brought tears to my eyes. There is no justification for this behavior.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This video brought tears to my eyes. There is no justification for this behavior.
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Judge Crawford, summing up his finding on due process: "If the Government detained Mr. Mahdawi as punishment for his speech, that purpose is not legitimate, regardless of any alleged First Amendment violation. Immigration detention cannot be motivated by a punitive purpose."
April 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Judge Crawford, summing up his finding on due process: "If the Government detained Mr. Mahdawi as punishment for his speech, that purpose is not legitimate, regardless of any alleged First Amendment violation. Immigration detention cannot be motivated by a punitive purpose."
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Another horrible story of family separation.
"The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
"The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
A Mother and Father Were Deported Under Trump. But What Happened to Their Daughter?
The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Another horrible story of family separation.
"The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
"The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
Poignant opinion by Judge Wilkinson in the Fourth Circuit.
🚨NEW: 4th Circuit unanimously rejects Trump request to halt proceedings in Mr. Abrego Garcia's case.
Reagan appointee Wilkinson writes that the Trump admin's position is "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans ... still hold dear."
Reagan appointee Wilkinson writes that the Trump admin's position is "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans ... still hold dear."
April 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Poignant opinion by Judge Wilkinson in the Fourth Circuit.
This is literally DEI.
Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.
April 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is literally DEI.
Just making up the rules as they along, despite the fact that there already rules in place about this.
New justification for not returning Abrego Garcia just dropped, in a declaration from an ICE official: designating MS-13 as a terrorist org overrides the immigration court order barring his removal
It's the latest in several shifting arguments for why the govt cannot and will not try to return him
It's the latest in several shifting arguments for why the govt cannot and will not try to return him
April 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Just making up the rules as they along, despite the fact that there already rules in place about this.
More use of “tech” to enforce the whims of government. Not all that different from the strategy used in the recent SEVIS terminations. Forget about the law, just “delete”.
Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to cancel lawfully obtained Social Security numbers in an effort to pressure immigrants to “self deport” by cutting people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.
Pushing ‘Self-Deportation,’ Trump White House Moves to Cut Migrants’ Social Security
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
More use of “tech” to enforce the whims of government. Not all that different from the strategy used in the recent SEVIS terminations. Forget about the law, just “delete”.
As a jew, I do not like this one bit.
April 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
As a jew, I do not like this one bit.
The Notice to Appear filed by DHS against Mahmoud Khalil contains a glaring error in its factual allegations. Embarrassing error for such a high-profile case.
March 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Notice to Appear filed by DHS against Mahmoud Khalil contains a glaring error in its factual allegations. Embarrassing error for such a high-profile case.
My clients, colleagues, and I were blindsided by the sudden and immediate change in USCIS forms this week. Tens of thousands of applications could be affected. Thank you @aila.org and Benach Collopy LLP for bringing litigation to try to right this wrong. bit.ly/4itlvEV
AILA and Members File Litigation Against Arbitrary Mandatory Form Changes
Today, AILA and Benach Collopy, LLP, brought litigation in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia against the Trump Administration for abruptly implementing immediate form changes that wi...
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March 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My clients, colleagues, and I were blindsided by the sudden and immediate change in USCIS forms this week. Tens of thousands of applications could be affected. Thank you @aila.org and Benach Collopy LLP for bringing litigation to try to right this wrong. bit.ly/4itlvEV
So let me see if I have this right. Cancer research out, dictatorial control of the arts in? Afghans who assisted the U.S. out for refugee resettlement, white Afrikaners in? FEMA out, paper straws in?
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
So let me see if I have this right. Cancer research out, dictatorial control of the arts in? Afghans who assisted the U.S. out for refugee resettlement, white Afrikaners in? FEMA out, paper straws in?
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We told you it was about whiteness. If it was clear enough before, it’s clear now.
Trump paused the refugee program, but when it comes back online, it will focus on resettling white South Africans (Afrikaners) who are “victims of racial discrimination.” (Camilo/CBS)
America has gone off the rails.
Trump paused the refugee program, but when it comes back online, it will focus on resettling white South Africans (Afrikaners) who are “victims of racial discrimination.” (Camilo/CBS)
America has gone off the rails.
February 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We told you it was about whiteness. If it was clear enough before, it’s clear now.
Trump paused the refugee program, but when it comes back online, it will focus on resettling white South Africans (Afrikaners) who are “victims of racial discrimination.” (Camilo/CBS)
America has gone off the rails.
Trump paused the refugee program, but when it comes back online, it will focus on resettling white South Africans (Afrikaners) who are “victims of racial discrimination.” (Camilo/CBS)
America has gone off the rails.
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I made this point earlier about the birthright citizenship EO. By adopting the Heritage Foundation's maximalist position to also include children born to those here on nonimmigrant visas, they sabotaged the possibility some more NewsMax-pilled judges might buy some kind of "invasion" argument.
By choosing the broadest, least constitutional bases for several of his initial executive orders, Trump seems to be daring the courts to block them.
Trump’s Opening Gambits
His first executive orders aim to show action, but some are likely to be struck down in court.
www.brennancenter.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I made this point earlier about the birthright citizenship EO. By adopting the Heritage Foundation's maximalist position to also include children born to those here on nonimmigrant visas, they sabotaged the possibility some more NewsMax-pilled judges might buy some kind of "invasion" argument.
Musk’s use of the word “delete” is so disrespectful, flippant, and smug.
Elon Musk called Wednesday for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the nation’s most powerful watchdog agencies, signaling it could be scrapped as part of a planned review of government spending ordered by President-elect Donald Trump.
Elon Musk wants to ‘delete’ federal financial watchdog as ‘DOGE’ begins work
“Delete CFPB,” the billionaire tech executive running the “Department of Government Efficiency” said in an early-morning post on X.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Musk’s use of the word “delete” is so disrespectful, flippant, and smug.
Worth nothing that Judge Liman is a Trump appointee.
“Also, Mr. Cammarata said, Mr. Giuliani would like to attend President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, and a trial could prevent that.
“The answer, Judge Liman said, was no.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/n...
“The answer, Judge Liman said, was no.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/n...
Rudy Giuliani Loses His Lawyers, and His Cool, in Court
The subject of several cases, the former New York City mayor lashed out at a judge questioning why he had not forfeited personal assets as required.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Worth nothing that Judge Liman is a Trump appointee.
Between RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya, I really hope there’s not another outbreak of any kind.
NEWS: Trump to nominate Jay Bhattacharya for NIH and Jim O’Neill to be deputy secretary of HHS.
Bhattacharya was one of the key people behind the Great Barrington Declaration, and O’Neill is a Peter Thiel guy.
Bhattacharya was one of the key people behind the Great Barrington Declaration, and O’Neill is a Peter Thiel guy.
November 27, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Between RFK Jr. and Bhattacharya, I really hope there’s not another outbreak of any kind.
So true.
Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas, Martha Alito, John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas love it when you blame Garland and Biden for the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the cases against Trump.
November 25, 2024 at 9:17 PM
So true.