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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Jun 12

As a Californian, I am outraged to see how my Senator was treated earlier today. @SenAlexPadilla, thank you for standing up for immigrant Californians today and every day. Millions of us stand with you. 🫶

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · May 15

Justice should not be afforded only to some and without a full and fair day in court. We need a process and SCOTUS must reject the government’s emergency request for a stay that would lead to mass deportation and chaos.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · May 15

Read this thoughtful deep dive by @steve_vladeck. The stakes are high. These are attacks on tax-paying immigrants who have been in the States for years with the government's explicit permission.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · May 15

This isn’t the 1st time they have tried to skip over the lower courts. DOJ has requested SCOTUS halt a lower court’s decision 14 times in 16 weeks. In comparison, under both Bush & both Obama administrations (a total of 16 years), we have seen only 8 such requests to SCOTUS.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · May 15

These cases have MAJOR consequences for our country & shouldn’t be decided on a whim. Deporting almost a million people overnight will lead to chaos. An estimated 500,000 people are involved in our humanitarian parole case alone. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

supremecourt.gov

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · May 15

Something to keep your eye on after the birthright citizenship arguments: 2 other cases before SCOTUS- 1 involving humanitarian parole & another involving TPS- where the govt is asking SCOTUS to let it deport up to 1 million people w/o going through the proper legal process. 🧵

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Justice Action Center @justiceactionctr.bsky.social · Apr 15

🎉BREAKING: We won! The judge just officially stayed (blocked) the federal notice that was set to end humanitarian parole for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela on April 24th. The court also granted us class certification. Stay tuned for more details on what this ruling means!

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Justice Action Center @justiceactionctr.bsky.social · Apr 11

🔊🚨UPDATE on #humanitarianparole: JAC + @humanrights1st.bsky.social just had our 2nd hearing this week in Boston in Svitlana Doe v. Noem + the judge indicated that she will rule soon to stay (block) the revocation of parole. It was a packed courthouse w/ many impacted members in attendance.🧵⤵️

Photo of a group of people gathered in front of a courthouse holding signs and talking to press.

Photo of a group of people standing in front of a courthouse smiling.

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Justice Action Center @justiceactionctr.bsky.social · Apr 7

Hi from Boston! JAC and @humanrightsfirst.org were here today arguing in Svitlana Doe v. Noem to protect and preserve humanitarian parole processes from the Trump Admin’s efforts to terminate them.

Updates from the courtroom are below! (1/6)

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

To say that I am honored to be part of the legal team with @ImmDef & @AmicaCenter is a true understatement. These 2 orgs, and the 9 other plaintiffs orgs who represent immigrant kids day in and day out are the heroes of the story. They ensure no kid stands alone in court.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is good news – for now. But this shouldn’t be controversial. Kids should be treated like kids, and the government shouldn’t fight us on that.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

That’s why we took the extraordinary step of asking the court for a Temporary Restraining Order. The federal district court asked tough questions of both sides, and we ultimately prevailed.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

Trump unilaterally cut off this funding for lawyers even though he can’t do that according to our laws. As a result, legal service providers faced having to lose staff and leave kids to fend for themselves.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

Congress has made sure that those kids do not have to stand alone. The TVPRA provides a mandate and Congress provided money for lawyers, all of whom have developed the expertise necessary to treat kids like kids and help them navigate an often cruel and always confusing system.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

Imagine this: you’re a kid who came to the United States without a caretaker or loved one. Sometimes you’re brought in someone else’s arms, sometimes you’ve walked here on your own two feet. You’re alone and don’t have the words to describe what you left behind and why.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Apr 2

I stood up in court today and explained why little kids shouldn’t face a deportation system alone, while the federal government tried to block me at every turn. Here’s why this win matters: 🧵

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 2

Some excellent news late tonight!

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Apr 2

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore funds for programs that provides legal services to unaccompanied minors children in immigration proceedings.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · Mar 24

I’ll be tweeting here from Federal District Court in San Francisco as Judge Chen hears arguments in the case of National TPS Alliance v Noem which seeks to prevent Trump admin from de-documenting Venezuelans and Haitians w/ TPS.

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · Mar 24

“Outside the San Francisco courthouse on Monday, some 300 people, including T.P.S. holders from Venezuela, Haiti or other nations, protested the Trump administration’s decision…” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · Mar 24

TPS Holders Challenge Cancellation of Humanitarian Relief for 600,000 Venezuelans and Haitians ndlon.org/tps-holders-...

TPS Holders Challenge Cancellation of Humanitarian Relief for 600,000+ Venezuelans – NDLON

ndlon.org

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Justice Action Center @justiceactionctr.bsky.social · Mar 1

🚨BREAKING🚨 We're suing the Trump admin's attempt to end #HumanitarianParole, incl processes like #CHNV, #OAW #U4U. Our goal? Preserve the #FreedomToWelcome & the 70+ year-old parole authority.

@apnews.com story below ⤵️

H/T org plaintiff @haitianbridge.bsky.social + co-counsel @humanrightsfirst.org

Trump cutoff of humanitarian parole for immigrants from Ukraine, 6 other countries challenged

A group of American citizens and immigrants is suing the Trump administration for ending a legal tool presidents have used to allow people from countries with wars and political instability to come to...

apnews.com

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · Jan 24

We dared to defend 260 DACA recipients from a Trump admin by taking them on Advance Parole to Tijuana for an educational advocacy trip w/ @karentumlin.bsky.social Universidad Iberoamericana TJ & Loyola Law School. Watch the story @nbcnews.com. #homeishere
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywKp...

DNP: Inside the Dreamers' race to re-enter U.S. legally before Trump took office

YouTube video by NBC News

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Tom Cartwright @tomcartwright.bsky.social · Jan 20

From CBP One web site. It is over. Future outstanding appointments about 30,000 are being cancelled. People are receiving those email now. This afternoon presentations had been rescheduled to Feb 9 last Friday. Now to be crushed. At least this morning people were allows to present.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Nov 19

My take: “Trump’s dystopian fantasies should send a chill down everyone’s spine. Not only is what he is describing in all likelihood illegal, this move would be the exact opposite of the legacy of service in which my family members were proud to participate.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/u...

Trump Confirms Plans to Use the Military to Assist in Mass Deportations

Mr. Trump’s top immigration policy adviser has discussed using military assets to build detention centers and support civilian immigration agents.

www.nytimes.com

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Jul 7

Today, TX & the other states suing to end DACA asked for until July 14 to respond to these recent filings on the SCOTUS standing cases. This likely means the Court will wait to get that July 14 filing before ruling on the case. But that does not tell us WHEN the court will rule.

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Karen Tumlin @karentumlin.bsky.social · Jul 7

Some of those motions were notices of supplemental authority filed by the Intervenors (DACA recipients and NJ) and the U.S. on what 2 recent SCOTUS cases on standing meant for the DACA case. Standing is the legal requirement of what plaintiffs need to show to bring a lawsuit.

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