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Jay retweeted
The habit of inviting the entire world to chime in on your every personal interaction to judge “who was right or wrong” is a destructive and nasty one that no civilized person should cultivate.
During my naturalization test I went face to face with my examiner.
There was a webcam recording everything, and I swore an oath before we continued.
Our conversation was formal, but friendly. It was not adversarial. It had the tone of “you made it this far! I can’t help you over the finish line but I won’t make it hard for you either.”
On a rolling cart beside his desk was a stack of file folders of varied thicknesses. It was the complete paper trail of everyone he was examining that day. Mine, starting from 1994, was about three inches thick. Some barely had fifty pages in them.
Before we proceeded with the quiz he saw me looking at my file while he was reviewing it and asked “it’s you. Do you want to see?”
“Sure.” He didn’t hand me the folder but he leafed through a few highlights: my sister’s original paperwork, in her handwriting. Original reports of my physical and psychological evaluation in Manila, right before I left. I smiled and said “I’m ready.”
I just had to get six answers correct, with ten chances. I got it in seven, and whiffed on “who wrote the Declaration of Independence?”
“Uh, the Founding Fathers?”
“It was one of them specifically.”
“Pass.”
After the exam he said “congratulations. It was Jefferson.”
And just like that, I said thanks and walked out the door. Treated myself to a good lunch. Mom was at work. Texted her the good news soon after.
The ceremony came a few months after, unlike my Mom’s where she swore in the same day.
Most people who are legally immigrating here through family-based petitions or even work-based sponsorships can tell you chapter and verse which laws qualified them for entry, the eligibility category they fell under, who their green card sponsor was, what forms they filed, what fees they paid, all that jazz. Many of whom have never hired an immigration lawyer.
Ask anyone of dubious status and they could never give you these details; they will always dissemble, waffle, and deflect, because they don't know jack shit. Almost all of them have retained an immigration lawyer, who most certainly is bilking them for money in exchange for false hope.
Immigration qualifications are fairly cut and dried for most applicants. The process is tedious, requires a lot of paperwork, and can be annoying, but it is not “difficult” per se. It rewards those who have done nothing wrong, and punishes for the slightest mistakes with little recourse, because that is how the laws are set up, not just the regulations from DHS/USCIS (né INS).
This is only tangentially related to the main character of Twitter the past two days, but mostly as a way to discern whether his advocates are lying or not.
Jay retweeted
Americans really can't imagine third world fraud like this. One of the fake victims was accidentally shot during the fake crime! The guy who set up hundreds of fake robberies, because apparently victims of crimes have an easier time getting visas, only got 2 years in prison.
Ya'll, this is nuts.
Hundreds - that's right, HUNDREDS - of armed robberies between 2022 and 2024 weren't real.
They were staged by the "victims" as part of a massive immigration fraud scheme to secure U-visas for themselves and their families.
cwbchicago.com/2026/10/buckt…
Friendly reminder that Satan (and the Democrats during the immigration debate, but I repeat myself) quoted scripture too.
Jay retweeted
we take it for granted today, but a single dorito has more extreme nacho flavor than a european in the 2000s would get in his whole lifetime
The actual statute of limitations is one year, and if you’re past that without status then the re-entry bar should not be a mere ten years, but for life.
Jay retweeted
You were regularly in contact with USCIS.
When TPS was cancelled it was not "automatic." The cancellation is effective at the end of the current TPS period, or not less than 60 days later depending on which is longer.
You knew the day of departure was going to come at some point. It was your mistake to treat the situation as if you were suddenly a citizen and could built a life as such.
As a visa holder, you could have started the process to become a permanent resident alien while TPS was in place.
This is why only about 1000 Somalis are subject to removal with the ending of TPS when nearly 100,000 came into the U.S. They normalized their status while under TPS protection.
Also, this whole “overstayed for four years” thing could be misleading. Here’s a real case of someone I know, again, not my husband.
You enter with a tourist visa in 2021 to attend a relative’s wedding. While you’re visiting, TPS is granted to all Venezuelans currently in the country, and you’re legally welcome to stay through this blanket amnesty program. You’re issued a social security number. You’re issued a work permit. You’re issued a driver’s license. You file a W-2 and pay taxes.
In November 2025, TPS is discontinued. You’re now immediately “illegal.” Your last visa, the tourist visa, expired six months after you arrived, in mid 2021, and the government would consider you to have overstayed that visa for four years.
How is this possible, you ask? This person was continuously legal? How can you retroactively declare someone illegal during that four year period?
This is the girl math that’s being done and why I distrust the DHS narrative about Samuel Sey, who manifestly didn’t consider himself to be an illegal alien and voluntarily went to an airport.
Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell did it better
Update from the Seys:
“My husband Samuel Sey entered the United States legally and has been working ever since in good faith with a lawyer to obtain permanent legal status. Our family is trying to understand what went wrong in the process. In the spirit of Romans 13, our family fully supports and respects American law and are prayerfully working to get him home through the legal process.”
Jay retweeted
We have a 1 hour non-skippable, non-fast forward substance abuse video and test. They sent it at 11:30. It has to be completed by noon.
I started the video and emailed our HR team. They are confused about my complaint that it's impossible to finish a 1 hour course in 30 minutes
Jay retweeted
Absolutely not.
My good friend, an American, is married to an Italian citizen. She lives in Italy and visits him here once a year while she works through the process of getting a green card. It's not easy on them at all, but they're doing it the right and legal way.
And, no, they haven't started a GFM to defray the legal costs of having to hire an immigration attorney. They're footing the bill because they do not see themselves as victims.
Please do not call yourself a conservative if you think your friends deserve to be an exception to American law. Just ridiculous.
Please pray for Samuel Sey (@SlowToWrite) and his wife, Annie, and their kids. I feel especially for Annie and the kids. They deserve so much better. They shouldn’t have to wonder when their daddy and husband will be able to come home.
I know I differ with many conservatives on immigration. I am all for cracking down on criminals; particularly violent and sexual predators. Absolutely, kick them out.
But there are a lot of genuinely sweet people who just want a better life for themselves and their kids.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Yes, they should immigrate legally. But even legal immigration in our country is a convoluted, expensive, and lengthy process. Mistakes happen. Corners get cut in desperation.
We need to simplify it.
We need to open the door for hard working, honest, family-folks like Samuel, while keeping out malevolent threats.
This shouldn’t be complicated.
People are making it complicated.
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