Maureen Abell
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The next time you see someone pointing to EOIR’s low approval rates as “proof” that asylum-seekers are lying or ineligible, remember that those statistics include cases like this:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He was tortured in Turkey. He faced an immigration judge who almost never grants asylum
Harrowing story of ‘ES’, fleeing persecution to seek safety in US, shines light on judges who grant claims at exceptionally low rates – or not at all
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The next time you see someone pointing to EOIR’s low approval rates as “proof” that asylum-seekers are lying or ineligible, remember that those statistics include cases like this:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅
February 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅
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funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread
February 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread
1. I am so frustrated by the failure of media outlets to invest in learning about the US immigration system.
Yes it’s complex and you may still need to talk to experts now and again, but immigration has been a hot-button issue for decades and y’all haven’t learned the basics.
Yes it’s complex and you may still need to talk to experts now and again, but immigration has been a hot-button issue for decades and y’all haven’t learned the basics.
February 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
1. I am so frustrated by the failure of media outlets to invest in learning about the US immigration system.
Yes it’s complex and you may still need to talk to experts now and again, but immigration has been a hot-button issue for decades and y’all haven’t learned the basics.
Yes it’s complex and you may still need to talk to experts now and again, but immigration has been a hot-button issue for decades and y’all haven’t learned the basics.
So refugee resettlement in the US is halted indefinitely except for (checks notes) white South Africans, or possibly only Afrikaners?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section
www.whitehouse.gov
February 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
So refugee resettlement in the US is halted indefinitely except for (checks notes) white South Africans, or possibly only Afrikaners?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Good news: there actually is someone.
Really bad news: it’s US. That’s it, just us, and we’ve already missed a LOT of opportunities waiting for someone else.
Really bad news: it’s US. That’s it, just us, and we’ve already missed a LOT of opportunities waiting for someone else.
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Good news: there actually is someone.
Really bad news: it’s US. That’s it, just us, and we’ve already missed a LOT of opportunities waiting for someone else.
Really bad news: it’s US. That’s it, just us, and we’ve already missed a LOT of opportunities waiting for someone else.
1/ The EO about designating cartels and transnational criminal groups like MS-13 as terrorist organizations will NOT help asylum-seekers overall.
One of the things that makes a person ineligible for asylum is proving material support to a terrorist organization.
One of the things that makes a person ineligible for asylum is proving material support to a terrorist organization.
February 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
1/ The EO about designating cartels and transnational criminal groups like MS-13 as terrorist organizations will NOT help asylum-seekers overall.
One of the things that makes a person ineligible for asylum is proving material support to a terrorist organization.
One of the things that makes a person ineligible for asylum is proving material support to a terrorist organization.
1/ All this talk about how unlawful entry is a federal misdemeanor (on par with not paying child support - 18 USC 228) reminded me that the US is a party to the 1967 refugee protocol, which, among other things, forbids imposing penalties for unlawful entry on refugees.
February 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
1/ All this talk about how unlawful entry is a federal misdemeanor (on par with not paying child support - 18 USC 228) reminded me that the US is a party to the 1967 refugee protocol, which, among other things, forbids imposing penalties for unlawful entry on refugees.
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Ensuring access to legal representation is critical: Immigrants facing deportation who have a lawyer are up to 10.5X more likely to win their right to stay in the #UnitedStates.
January 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ensuring access to legal representation is critical: Immigrants facing deportation who have a lawyer are up to 10.5X more likely to win their right to stay in the #UnitedStates.
heard that the administration is trying to revoke TPS for Venezuelans and thought I should mention:
Although people are generally required to apply for asylum within one year of arriving in the U.S., 8 CFR 208.4(a)(5)(iv) says that maintaining lawful status such as TPS is an exception to that rule.
Although people are generally required to apply for asylum within one year of arriving in the U.S., 8 CFR 208.4(a)(5)(iv) says that maintaining lawful status such as TPS is an exception to that rule.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
heard that the administration is trying to revoke TPS for Venezuelans and thought I should mention:
Although people are generally required to apply for asylum within one year of arriving in the U.S., 8 CFR 208.4(a)(5)(iv) says that maintaining lawful status such as TPS is an exception to that rule.
Although people are generally required to apply for asylum within one year of arriving in the U.S., 8 CFR 208.4(a)(5)(iv) says that maintaining lawful status such as TPS is an exception to that rule.
With the administration trying to expand expedited removal (deportation without a court order), now seems like a good time to point out that 8 USC 1225(b)(1)(A) says anyone who expresses a fear of persecution in their home country HAS to be interviewed by an asylum officer.
January 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
With the administration trying to expand expedited removal (deportation without a court order), now seems like a good time to point out that 8 USC 1225(b)(1)(A) says anyone who expresses a fear of persecution in their home country HAS to be interviewed by an asylum officer.
Updating Know Your Rights presentations to reflect the current administration’s various decisions.
I really hate Stephen Miller. Dumb and evil is so much easier to deal with.
I really hate Stephen Miller. Dumb and evil is so much easier to deal with.
January 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Updating Know Your Rights presentations to reflect the current administration’s various decisions.
I really hate Stephen Miller. Dumb and evil is so much easier to deal with.
I really hate Stephen Miller. Dumb and evil is so much easier to deal with.
In declaring his authority to declare a national emergency, Trump cites 50 USC 1601, which terminated then-existing declared national emergencies. Sure, he said 1601 et. seq., but still…
I look forward to years of similarly well-drafted pronouncements from this administration.
I look forward to years of similarly well-drafted pronouncements from this administration.
January 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
In declaring his authority to declare a national emergency, Trump cites 50 USC 1601, which terminated then-existing declared national emergencies. Sure, he said 1601 et. seq., but still…
I look forward to years of similarly well-drafted pronouncements from this administration.
I look forward to years of similarly well-drafted pronouncements from this administration.
Why do refugees or stateless people need to be subjected to background checks “beyond that required of any other alien seeking admission or entry to the United States?” Do they even have a justification ready beyond the obvious - that they want to get rid of asylum and refugee protections?
January 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Why do refugees or stateless people need to be subjected to background checks “beyond that required of any other alien seeking admission or entry to the United States?” Do they even have a justification ready beyond the obvious - that they want to get rid of asylum and refugee protections?
When he says the justice department will seek to overturn ALL precedents that limit state and federal authority to impose capital punishment, does he want to go back to executing children? How about people with mental illness or cognitive deficits?
January 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When he says the justice department will seek to overturn ALL precedents that limit state and federal authority to impose capital punishment, does he want to go back to executing children? How about people with mental illness or cognitive deficits?
It is currently the policy of the United States government to execute noncitizens illegally present in this country whenever the Attorney General can legally justify doing so, even where the department of justice would not seek federal jurisdiction over the same crime committed by a U.S. citizen.
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It is currently the policy of the United States government to execute noncitizens illegally present in this country whenever the Attorney General can legally justify doing so, even where the department of justice would not seek federal jurisdiction over the same crime committed by a U.S. citizen.
So the cartels in Mexico “function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society” but people seeking asylum can safely wait in Mexico for years while their cases wind through US immigration courts?
Yup, makes sense, not designed to kill people off before we have to help.
Yup, makes sense, not designed to kill people off before we have to help.
January 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
So the cartels in Mexico “function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society” but people seeking asylum can safely wait in Mexico for years while their cases wind through US immigration courts?
Yup, makes sense, not designed to kill people off before we have to help.
Yup, makes sense, not designed to kill people off before we have to help.
I had no idea that respecting trans identities would weaken “the validity of the entire American system.” Wow, these Executive Orders are really restrained and well-reasoned. Not overwrought or hyperbolic in the least.
January 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I had no idea that respecting trans identities would weaken “the validity of the entire American system.” Wow, these Executive Orders are really restrained and well-reasoned. Not overwrought or hyperbolic in the least.
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Wundern würde mich rein gar nix davon! 🤷♂️🤨
Und ich wurde attackiert, weil ich dieses Bild von Xoebbels 2.0 nutzte. Es hätte nicht treffender sein können. 🤨
Und ich wurde attackiert, weil ich dieses Bild von Xoebbels 2.0 nutzte. Es hätte nicht treffender sein können. 🤨
January 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Wundern würde mich rein gar nix davon! 🤷♂️🤨
Und ich wurde attackiert, weil ich dieses Bild von Xoebbels 2.0 nutzte. Es hätte nicht treffender sein können. 🤨
Und ich wurde attackiert, weil ich dieses Bild von Xoebbels 2.0 nutzte. Es hätte nicht treffender sein können. 🤨
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one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies
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Die Zeit won't even show the salute.
January 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Die Zeit won't even show the salute.
If you became a US citizen automatically as a child when a parent naturalized and you haven’t filed an N-600 for that certificate yet, I would advise doing that now. Yes, it’s expensive, but it’s better to have ICE know from their own records that they have no authority over you.
January 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If you became a US citizen automatically as a child when a parent naturalized and you haven’t filed an N-600 for that certificate yet, I would advise doing that now. Yes, it’s expensive, but it’s better to have ICE know from their own records that they have no authority over you.
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I've been writing about birthright citizenship for 20 years. This thread strings together my opinion pieces (not law review tomes, which I will post separately). I wrote a book about the Fourteenth Amendment and I debated John Eastman 20 years ago about his vile plan to end birthright citizenship./1
January 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I've been writing about birthright citizenship for 20 years. This thread strings together my opinion pieces (not law review tomes, which I will post separately). I wrote a book about the Fourteenth Amendment and I debated John Eastman 20 years ago about his vile plan to end birthright citizenship./1
Obviously there’s a lot going on today, a lot of it very relevant to my work. But I am in Mexico, enjoying a few days of rest before I have to deal with this shit-show.
I’ll see you all on Wednesday, temptation to stay here be damned.
I’ll see you all on Wednesday, temptation to stay here be damned.
January 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Obviously there’s a lot going on today, a lot of it very relevant to my work. But I am in Mexico, enjoying a few days of rest before I have to deal with this shit-show.
I’ll see you all on Wednesday, temptation to stay here be damned.
I’ll see you all on Wednesday, temptation to stay here be damned.