Legal Director, immigration attorney, anti-trafficking advocate.🗽Previously with @CCADW and @Am4ImmJustice. Go 'Canes 🙌
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Can the new Texas governor fix the administrative closure regulations that got revoked by the Texas v. US case? I need someone less tired than me to figure that out.
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Voted in DC where the most contentious thing on the ballot is a ban on foie gras
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Parole is back!
Yep, zero release is OVER: Brazilian outlets, citing US customs/immigration records (which I presume are the I-94s), report that Flávio Bolsonaro, his wife Fernanda, and their two daughters were paroled in "DT", meaning they were found inadmissible but granted humanitarian parole under INA § 212(d)(5) which is a discretionary determination by CBP/DHS which allows them to "parole" the person in the US and out of custody for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. It generally authorizes a parole status for of up to one year.
With a parole he can now proceed to file an affirmative asylum application and of course it should be referred to EOIR without an interview coz those are the rules 🤪
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A federal judge found that an immigration court bond hearing was so egregiously stacked against an ICE detainee that he may simply order the release of ICE detainees, rather than bond hearings, from now on.
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The Trump Administration colluded with the state of Texas to circumvent the rule making process and the Supreme Court upheld it. Law is over. apple.news/AgIyaHCzATPebT4XH…
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Houston: Hundreds of Texans leaving their "I voted" stickers at the site where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot by ICE
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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband.
Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.
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Just in case you thought Trump was going after evil genius criminal masterminds, I'm currently preparing for the deportation proceedings of a ten-year-old.
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The inability of the left to distinguish between an imperfect ally and an enemy is the height of privilege and will be our downfall
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New: Lawyers for Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old shot by ICE in NYC last night, say they can't find him.
"It appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location — raising grave concerns for his health and well-being."
More TK @CourthouseNews
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This was one of the more diabolical Trump admin moves on immigration; ordering ICE to stop taking biometrics for detained immigrants seeking immigration benefits from USCIS, which meant that the agency would deny their applications by default.
JUST IN: A judge has blocked ICE's policy "to stop collecting biometric information" from detainees that they need to pursue lawful status, like visas for human trafficking survivors and other crime victims.
Failure to provide that info can result in people being denied who could otherwise be granted lawful status, the judge concludes.
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The flip side of the FBI’s gutting is ICe/HSI’s breakneck expansion
FBI staffing shortages are so significant that in many of the 56 field offices, counterintelligence squads only have 50% to 60% positions filled @relucasz reports. "It's terrifying, honestly" npr.org/2026/10/06/g-s1-1455…
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A picture that really affected me as a teenager is this one of rosaries confiscated at the border, thrown in the trash, and recovered by a janitor who worked at the border facility
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
🚨 We're Hiring: Immigration Staff Attorney 🚨
The SAFE Center for Human Trafficking Survivors is seeking an Immigration Staff Attorney to join our multidisciplinary team serving survivors of labor and sex trafficking. umb.taleo.net/careersection/…
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Absolutely wild. The $150 million ORR contract serve unaccompanied minors was not awarded to KIND or Acacia, but to a 26-person Texas law firm with seemingly no experience in immigration law. politico.com/news/2026/08/04…
