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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
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The official White House line, straight from the President, is now "immigrants are the cause of all of your problems."

I do not think that argument is going over well in our nation of immigrants.
Chart showing Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S., from Gallup, showing a record high percentage of people (79%) believe that on the whole, immigration is a good thing for the country.
December 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Anecdotal evidence that the indefinite "pause" on adjudication of immigration benefits for countries on the travel ban has been expanded to include the 20 countries added yesterday. On reddit, a user posted that their naturalization oath ceremony — the final step to becoming a citizen — was halted.
r/USCIS icon Go to USCIS r/USCIS • 5h ago Key-Moose8321 Oath ceremony canceled N-400 (Citizenship) My country of birth was added to the partial restricted country list released yesterday. I was scheduled to have my oath ceremony tomorrow after waiting for almost 45days since my interview was approved. Got an email that my oath has been canceled today. I’m so sad. Does anyone have an idea how/when this will be resolved?
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders."

It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.
Homeland Security, @DHSgov, tweets the following: "This administration is slamming the door shut on the foreign invaders who have undermined our national security. DHS, under the leadership of @POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem, will relentlessly enforce our nation’s immigration laws." Underneath is a QTed post from the White House Rapid Response account listing details about the new travel ban. The DHS post was posted at 4:38 PM on December 16, 2025.
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Out of the 39, Nigeria is also the country most heavily impacted by the ban on non-immigrant visas. Excluding the COVID years, from FY 2015 to 2024 an average of 128,000 Nigerians were granted nonimmigrant visas each year. These were primarily tourist and student visas, which are now barred.
Chart showing average nonimmigrant visas granted, FY 2015 to 2024 excluding the COVID years of 2020 and 2021. Nigeria has 128,300 average, followed by Venezuela at 81,800, then Haiti at 24,7000, Iran at 17,500, Burma at 13,300, Cuba at 11,500, and Zimbabwe at 11,000. Tanzania, Cote D'Ivoire, Angola, Senegal, and Syria each have between 5,000 and 10,000. Every other country is below 5,000.
December 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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For sense of scale of how the immigrant visa ban may impact people, here is a count of green cards issued in Fiscal Year 2023 (the most recent data we have) by country of origin.

Of the newly-added countries, Nigeria has the largest immigrant population (over 15,000 green cards issued in FY 2023).
Chart showing Green Cards Issued in FY 2023, by Country, excluding those granted refugee or asylee status. The chart shows there are nearly 40,000 Cubans who got green cards, nearly 30,000 Afghans, 15,000 Haitians and 15,000 Nigerians, 13,700 Venezuelans, 10,800 Iranians, 5,500 Yemenis, then between 3,000 and 1,200 for Sudan, Syria, Burma, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire, Senegal, and Zimbabwe, and every other country is below 1,000.
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular.

Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.
Map of the table above, with full travel ban in red and partial travel ban in orange.
December 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Under the expanded ban:

- 19 countries are subject to near-total bars on immigrant or non-immigrant visas.
- 19 countries are subject to near-total bars on immigrant visas and a bar on tourist, student, and exchange visitor visas.
- Turkmenistan is subject to a near-total bar on immigrant visas.
Countries Affected by the 2025 Travel Bans 19 Countries Under a Full Travel Ban Ban on all immigrant and non-immigrant visas* Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Laos, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Yemen 19 Countries Under a Partial Travel Ban Ban on all immigrant visas and tourist, student, and exchange visitor visas (B-1, B-2, B-1/B-2, F, M, and J visas) Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burundi, Cuba, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Venezuela 1 Country Under a Partial Travel Ban Ban on all immigrant visas Turkmenistan * Subject to limited exceptions, including the entry of lawful permanent residents with green cards, existing visa holders, “certain visa categories like athletes and diplomats, and individuals whose entry serves U.S. national interests,” and a case-by-case waiver process for family of U.S. citizens.
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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NEW: President Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.
STRENGTHENING NATIONAL SECURITY THROUGH COMMON SENSE RESTRICTIONS BASED ON DATA: .... The Proclamation continues the full restrictions and entry limitations of nationals from the original 12 high-risk countries established under Proclamation 10949: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. It adds full restrictions and entry limitations on 5 additional countries based on recent analysis: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria. It also adds full restrictions and entry limitations on individuals holding Palestinian-Authority-issued travel documents. It imposes full restrictions and entry limitations on 2 countries that were previously subject to partial restrictions: Laos and Sierra Leone. The Proclamation continues partial restrictions of nationals from 4 of the 7 original high-risk countries: Burundi, Cuba, Togo, and Venezuela. Because Turkmenistan has engaged productively with the United States and demonstrated significant progress since the previous Proclamation, this new Proclamation lifts the ban on its nonimmigrant visas, while maintaining the suspension of entry for Turkmen nationals as immigrants. It adds partial restrictions and entry limitations on 15 additional countries: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Gabon, The Gambia, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tonga, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Proclamation includes exceptions for lawful permanent residents, existing visa holders, certain visa categories like athletes and diplomats, and individuals whose entry serves U.S. national interests. The Proclamation narrows broad family-based immigrant visa carve-outs that carry demonstrated fraud risks, while preserving case-by-case waivers.
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The Trump admin, in its quest to eliminate the entire concept of asylum from the law and get rid of all asylum applicants without hearing their cases, wants to deport a Chinese dissident to Uganda, despite the fact that he has a slam-dunk asylum claim.
In 2020, a Chinese citizen had heard reports about China’s mass detention and surveillance of Uyghurs. But he wanted to see if they were true for himself. So the citizen, Heng Guan, 38, said that he made a hugely risky decision, driving across the country from eastern China to Xinjiang, where he tracked down and secretly shot video of hulking re-education and detention centers mostly holding Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic group. The footage later became rare visual evidence of the scale and forcible nature of China’s clampdown, despite Beijing’s claims that they were voluntary re-education camps. In 2021, Mr. Guan fled to the United States, where he applied for asylum. Then, this August, as he was living in New York, he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His supporters and family members feared he might be sent back to China, where human rights activists say he would almost certainly face retribution from the government. On Monday, after a public outcry, the Trump administration moved to continue deportation proceedings against Mr. Guan, but argued that he should be sent to Uganda, which has close economic ties to China.
December 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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DHS is shockingly incompetent.
Shortly after the arrest, the federal Department of Homeland Security issued a news release highlighting 11 people that it called "the worst of the worst" immigrants arrested in Memphis. Delmar Gomez, it said, was arrested for aggravated assault. In another version of the release, the department published his mug shot, but listed the wrong name and called him a drug dealer and car thief from Mexico. None of this is true.
December 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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The government is very deliberately NOT trying to deport Mr. Abrego Garcia. Since August, he has been asking them to deport him to Costa Rica, yet the Trump admin keeps refusing to do it (and lying about why) because they want to send him to Africa to punish him. Here's how Judge Xinis summed it up.
Respondents serially “notified” Abrego Garcia—while he sat in ICE custody—of his expulsion to Uganda, then Eswatini, then Ghana; but none of these countries were ever viable options, and at least two had not even been asked to take Abrego Garcia before Respondents claimed supposed removal to each. See ECF No. 52 at 28:10–13 (Schultz confirming the “United States has not had a discussion with Eswatini regarding Abrego Garcia”). See also ECF No. 52 at 32:18–19 (Schultz stating the notice of removal identifying Ghana was “prematurely sent” to Abrego Garcia). At the same time, Respondents did not take any steps to remove Abrego Garcia to the country which had offered to take him, Costa Rica. This inexplicable reluctance seemed at odds with continued detention for purposes of third-country removal. So the Court asked repeatedly during oral arguments to address the disconnect. ECF No. 48 at 37:24–38:17; ECF No. 52 at 205:11–207:13; ECF No. 107 at 124:1–125:12; and twice compelled testimony to that effect, ECF Nos. 47 & 90. These orders were ignored without justification. Respondents instead found a fourth African country, Liberia. This time, when the Court sought information about Liberia and Costa Rica so to fairly assess the validity of Abrego Garcia’s claims, Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal. They announced that Liberia is the only viable removal option because Costa Rica “does not wish to receive him,” ECF No. 85 at 9, and that Costa Rica will no longer “accept the transfer” of him, ECF No. 75-6 ¶ 5; ECF No. 85 at 14. But Costa Rica had never wavered in its commitment to receive Abrego Garcia, just as Abrego Garcia never wavered in his commitment to resettle there. See ECF No. 108 at 1; Maria Sacchetti, Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S., WASH. POST (Nov. 21, 2025), https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/21/kilmartrumpdeport-costarica/. See also Laura Romero, Costa Rican official says country willing to accept Abrego Garcia, contradicting Trump administration officials, ABC NEWS (Nov. 21, 2025), https://abcnews.go.com/International/costa-rican-official-country-accept-abrego-garciacontradicting/story?id=127775855. This evidently remained an inconvenient truth for Respondents. But more to the point, Respondents’ persistent refusal to acknowledge Costa Rica as a viable removal option, their threats to send Abrego Garcia to African countries that never agreed to take him, and their misrepresentation to the Court that Liberia is now the only country available to Abrego Garcia, all reflect that whatever purpose was behind his detention, it was not for the “basic purpose” of timely third-country removal. Zadvydas, 533 U.S. at 697.
December 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I’m sorry, what?!
Tom was always a right-of-center guy. Wealthy, in tech, but never particularly partisan: "I was never a card-carrying anything.” 9/11 changed that. The smoke had hardly cleared before, he felt, the mainstream talking heads were suggesting that the US had essentially asked for it. Then, language changed. You weren't supposed to say the word "terrorist" anymore. "I was just appalled," he told me.
December 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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*me, looking forwards to skiing at local southern PA “mountains” next weekend*
Sickos meme
December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Another guy DHS put on their "worst of the worst" from the NOLA raids is this guy, who DHS breathily touts as having been ticketed for disturbing the peace and peeing in public.

So yeah, the term "serious offenders" will be stretched long past the breaking point, likely to just mean ever arrested.
A guy in handcuffs in the back of a DHS vehicle gives thumbs up to the camera. Underneath, DHS writes "Jesus Vazquez-Guillen, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador, issued an order of removal in 2016 and previously arrested for urinating in public and disturbing the peace."
December 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Another very true aspect of this. The DHS propaganda machine treats anyone with any prior contact with the criminal justice system as "serious offenders."

They put this guy arrested in the NOLA raids on their "worst of the worst" list. He has a single arrest (no conviction?) for simple battery.
Picture of a man arrested in the backseat of a DHS vehicle. Underneath it says: "Roberto Pacheco-Dominguez, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, who has illegally entered the United States at least four times and was previously arrested for simple battery."
December 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The Twitter meme, but with the word Twitter scratched out crudely and replaced with Blue sky , so it now reads about “Blue Sky the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. You can say " like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?" No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.
December 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Wow, shades of the 2019 Border Patrol Facebook scandal of Trump’s first term, when dozens of agents were part of a group posting mocking memes about migrants kids who died crossing the border.

This particular officer went viral in the Chicago raids for pulling his gun on people.
Timothy Donohue, 38, was a member of lead commander Gregory Bovino's maurauding so-called "Green Army" during "Operation Midway Blitz" in Illinois, part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Donahue was cited-though not by name-in a blistering opinion by U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis after he was filmed threatening someone watching an arrest in Evanston. Underneath is a picture of the guy, a bald man with a red beard, somewhat heavyset, wearing sunglasses, and pointing a handgun at someone off camera. A screenshot of a post the agent left on X. The post says “Two men film themselves attacking a gay man simply because he's gay. Congrats fellas. This is a hate crime.” Underneath, the agent writes “based.” A segment of the article continues below, saying “When asked to ‘share an unpopular opinion,’ in January 2023, he wrote: ‘Some cultures are better than others..’”
December 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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He was a 2021 Fellow at the James Wilson Institute, so he's a relatively recent law grad.
James Wilson Institute On Natural Rights and the American Founding. Tiberius Davis Tiberius Davis is a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Julius N. Richardson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He will clerk for the Honorable Judge Benjamin Beaton of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky for the 2021-2022 term. Previously, he served as a summer clerk in the U.S. Attorney Office for the District of New Mexico and as a summer associate at Kirkland & Ellis. Tiberius holds his B.A. in history and political science from the University of New Mexico. He graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as a programing director for the University of Chicago chapter of the Federalist Society, a staffer for the Legal Forum, and a research assistant to Professor Richard A. Epstein.
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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This is Tucson's Miracle Mile. The idea that saying there's an ICE operation ongoing in that general area is "doxxing" is so ridiculous it hardly bears repeating, and yet the person saying it has close personal ties to the Department of Justice (remember the Epstein invite?).
Map of downtown Tucson with the Miracle Mile highlighted.
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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"I'm a socialist and therefore employers should not be permitted to fire someone who is on camera hurling racial slurs at customers without first going through an 'exhaustive' adjudication process" is quite the take!

I'm all for stronger labor protections but... come on.
Cinnabon was quick to terminate Wilsey’s employment and declare that her actions didn’t reflect the “values of Cinnabon.” Progressives who abhor racism may applaud this move. But as a socialist, I can’t easily take the side of a billion-dollar corporation over that of an ordinary worker. (Cinnabon is owned by the Georgia-based conglomerate GoTo Foods, which also owns Auntie Anne’s, Schlotzsky’s, and many other brands popular in the South.) Sure, Wilsey might not be a great fit for a customer-facing position. Her critics online also point to her long rap sheet, which includes charges of child endangerment, disorderly conduct, marijuana possession, and driving while intoxicated. We should nevertheless resist the urge to tell a simple moral story that celebrates someone losing their livelihood. That job at the shopping mall may be the bare minimum she needs to support herself. I am not arguing that all workers should have guaranteed jobs for life. Employees sometimes lose jobs for cause, such as when they fail to do assigned tasks or they endanger either their co-workers or their employer’s business. But the impulse to celebrate a worker’s firing is one we should check. Employers should be held rigorously to account for their reasons and procedures when they fire workers, even those who are guilty of repugnant acts such as hurling racist abuse or calling a customer “racist” because they ordered Kirk’s favorite drink. This is especially true in the United States, which lacks a strong social safety net. Losing a job can be catastrophic. In a better America, firing a worker would require an exhaustive process, including disciplinary action prior to dismissal, and involve representation by workers’ bodies. Such a process might still have ended by terminating Wilsey’s employment. In this better world, unemployed workers would also have the means to support themselves until they return to the workforce.
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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WILD story in which I think both parties here made a LOT of mistakes.

- The masked HSI agent (who allegedly displayed a badge) jumped into the front seat of a running car.
- The person in the car took off, fearing kidnapping (a not unreasonable fear), and refused to stop despite lights and sirens.
Frazier, 23, pulled up next to the Kia in a Jeep SUV with Bamigboye, 24, in the front passenger seat. When Bamigboye spotted the unmarked Explorer, he allegedly pulled a mask over his face and got out of the Jeep. According to the FBI affidavit, the HSI agents walked up to the Jeep, displayed their badges, identified themselves as law enforcement officers and told Bamigboye that they wanted to talk about his immigration status. Bamigboye then allegedly jumped into the Jeep’s back seat and yelled at Frazier to drive away. One of the HSI agents got into the front seat of the Jeep in an effort to stop Frazier while Bamigboye tried to push him out and a second agent tried to pull Bamigboye out of the back seat. Frazier allegedly put the vehicle in gear and drove off. The HSI agent “was now being involuntarily carried in the Jeep as it drove,” according to the FBI. The HSI agent tried to put the Jeep in park, but Frazier continually pushed his hand away, allegedly threatened to crash the car and said that they were taking him to a police station. The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.” From the back seat, Bamigboye called 911, a detail confirmed in an incident report from the Plymouth Police Department. HSI agents pursued the Jeep from close behind with their lights and sirens on, “at one point inadvertently hitting it from behind in the snow.” Even after the agent inside Frazier’s Jeep drew his gun and ordered her to pull over, she allegedly continued driving and stopped only after reaching the New Hope Police Department.
December 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Correcting myself on this thread: DHS did in fact submit a filing to the judge claiming that there was a "scrivener's error," so there was a filing at the immigration court.

That still does not make the issuance of a removal order six years after the fact "correcting a scrivener's error."
ORDER OF THE IMMIGRATION JUDGE Immigration Court's Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener's Error Order: On December 11, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) filed a District Court Order with the Immigration Court. That District Court Order ordered the Respondent released from DHS custody based on a belief the Respondent had not been previously ordered removed by the Immigration Court. The DHS filing with the Immigration Court noted a scrivener's error in the Immigration Judge's original final written decision in this case. That scrivener's error was that while the Respondent was granted the benefit of withholding of removal to El Salvador, the Immigration Judge had not expressly stated in the written order that the Respondent was ordered removed to El Salvador. Although the parties have not raised this issue with the Immigration Court throughout the past five years of litigation in this matter, the Immigration Court will take this opportunity now to correct that scrivener's error. Procedurally, the Respondent admitted the factual allegations contained in the Notice to Appear and conceded removability as charged at a master calendar hearing on May 29, 2019. Based on the Respondent’s admissions and concessions, the Court found his removability was established by clear and convincing evidence. The Court further designated El Salvador as the country of removal. The Respondent agreed with that country designation. On July 25, 2019, the Respondent filed a form I-589 application for asylum, withholding of removal, and for protection under the Convention Against Torture. A full evidentiary individual merits hearing was held on September 27, 2019, and the Immigration Court issued a written decision on October 10, 2019. That decision is incorporated by reference herein (See Immigration Judge's written decision of October 10, 2019). In the written decision, the Immigration Judge found that the Respondent's removability was established by clear and convincing evidence (Immigration Judge's October 10, 2019, decision, p. 2.) Following the full evidentiary trial, the Immigration Judge denied the Respondent's request for asylum and for protection under the Convention Against Torture. (This order does not amend or change those determinations.) The Immigration Judge, however, granted the Respondent the benefit of withholding of removal to El Salvador. While the Respondent was previously found to be removable and El Salvador was designated as the country of removal, the Immigration Judge's final written order stated that "the Respondent’s application for withholding of removal pursuant to INA § 241(b)(3) is GRANTED," but the order of removal to El Salvador, which should have preceded the order granting him withholding of removal to El Salvador, was erroneously omitted. Matter of I-S- & C-S-, 24 I&N Dec. 432, 434 (BIA 2008) clarified that “when an Immigration Judge decides to grant withholding of removal, an explicit order of removal must be included in the decision.” The Immigration Court now corrects that scrivener's error and amends the written decision in this case by adding the following: The Respondent is ordered removed to El Salvador based on the charge contained in the Notice to Appear, but the Respondent’s application for withholding of removal to El Salvador pursuant to INA § 241(b)(3) is granted. The Court also corrects the reference to Guatemala to read El Salvador at page 13 of the written decision. These corrections are hereby issued nunc pro tunc to the Immigration Court's written decision and order of October 10, 2019. (The Judge issuing this correction states that he has familiarized himself with the record in this matter as required pursuant to 8 CFR 1240.1(b)).
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Yes, because the original judge who issued the 2019 order had retired, they assigned it to an IJ appointed in Trump 1.0. On the bench, he was harsher than average. In Trump 2.0 he's been promoted into the highest tier of management over immigration judges.

So, you know, not exactly uninterested.
Nationwide Comparisons Compared to Judge Taylor's denial rate of 88.9 percent, Immigration Court judges across the country denied 57.7 percent of asylum claims during this same period. Judges at the Atlanta Immigration Court where Judge Taylor decided these cases denied asylum 84 percent of the time. See Figure 2. Judge Taylor's asylum grant and denial rates are compared with other judges serving on the same court in this table. Note that when an Immigration Judge serves on more than one court during the same period, separate Immigration Judge reports are created for any Court in which the judge rendered at least 100 asylum decisions. Underneath is a chart showing the figures above in bar chart form.
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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NEW: this morning the Trump admin moved to terminate legal status for ~20,000 people:

- Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, in place since 2022, with ~5,000 beneficiaries
- Family Reunification Parole Programs, in place since 2023 and some legacy cases from earlier, covering ~15,000 people.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2842-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2022-0014] RIN 1615-ZB96 Termination of the Designation of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status. The designation of Ethiopia is set to expire on December 12, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Ethiopia no longer continues to meet the conditions for the designation for Temporary Protected Status. The Secretary, therefore, is terminating the Temporary Protected Status designation of Ethiopia as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. After [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Ethiopia (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Ethiopia) who have been granted Temporary Protected Status under Ethiopia’s designation will no longer have Temporary Protected Status. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2806-25] RIN 1615-ZC12 Termination of Family Reunification Parole Processes for Colombians, Cubans, Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Haitians, Hondurans, and Salvadorans ACTION: Notice SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) is terminating the categorical parole processes for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members, under the Family Reunification Parole processes announced, or updated, by DHS in 2023 (hereinafter referred to as “modernized FRP programs”). DHS is also terminating the residual processing of legacy cases under the Cuban Family Reunification Parole program (“legacy CFRP”) and the Haitian Family Reunification Parole program (“legacy HFRP”) first implemented by USCIS in 2007 and 2014, respectively (collectively, the “legacy FRP programs”). This Federal Register notice is intended to provide context and guidance to the public regarding the termination of all nine programs (hereinafter “the FRP programs”), termination of parole for aliens paroled under the FRP programs, and revocation of employment authorization based on being an alien paroled under the FRP programs. DATES: DHS is terminating the FRP programs as of [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. The temporary parole period of aliens who have been paroled into the United States under the FRP programs, and whose initial period of parole has not already expired by [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER] will terminate on that
December 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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SO unethical, Diego! Seriously though it’s time for practitioners to have motions to disqualify for systematic due process violations ready to go.

Look at this crap! Star chambers, here we come.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM