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PAY ATTENTION. Barr’s most despicable act this week wasnt lying about Muellers report. It was ruling that asylum seekers will now be *indefinitely detained.*

You can do something about it. Give to help free people like Jorge (👇): bit.ly/Melt_ICE
This is a national freedom campaign
w/ major impact.

Meet José. Living in CT for over a decade. ICE stole him from his family. Locked up on $20,000 bond. Yesterday, @migrantbailfund said “hell no!” Welcome home. #MeltICE bit.ly/Melt_ICE
Critical information here on the issue of immigrant bonds & the injustice behind it:
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Scott Hechinger
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Worked two back to back night court shifts last week. 18 hrs in Brooklyn criminal court. $35k bail set (not including $500k outlier). Witnessed: Prosecutor power. Shame. Fear. Health crises. Court watchers. Lost housing. A judge unwilling to follow law. Resilience. Observations:
Every time a prosecutor asked for bail, judge set bail. Every time they consented to release, no matter crime, the judge released. Prosecutors have power effectively to end cash bail if they wanted to. Their requests are single greatest determinant of whether bail will be set.
I called out a woman’s name. She spoke no English. Another woman walked into interview room. Didn't know her, but reassured her all would be ok. I showed her a sheet w/ various Chinese dialects. Pointed to “Fuzhou.” No interpreter available. She’d spend the night in that cell.
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Scott Hechinger
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Meanwhile, tonight in Brooklyn Criminal Court, a young man was ordered jailed on $500 bail for *knocking on the door* of a former roommate. Last week they had a fight & was ordered to stay away. He allegedly was just trying to pick up his clothes & phone. 2 systems.
Fortunately, the Liberty Bail Fund was in night court and able to bail him out. My office gave him a metro card & he’s on his way back to his brother’s house. It’s wild to even think that he’s “lucky” he’s free, but that’s the state of things.
In January 2020, the crime he was accused of will not even be eligible for bail under the recently passed NY bail bill. Mandatory release. Seems like judges are just trying to dole out as much human caging as possible over the next 8 months.
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UPDATE: After viewing this video, all charges against Chris were dismissed in “interests of justice” by @BrooklynDA. Now knowing what they did & how they lied, the office should decline to prosecute any arrests brought by these officers & review all current & past prosecutions.
My colleague @mk_esq worked so hard on behalf of this young man. Chris was also so brave. For coming forward. Putting his name out there despite what he knew these officers were capable of. They should not be allowed to patrol the streets. Should not be armed. Should be fired.
We cant expect NYPD to take adequate action. But prosecutors have the power to render bad officers powerless. By saying “no” to any arrests that they are a part of w/ *no exception* theyll be unable to work. Which means they’ll be unable to hurt or lie any more people into court.
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Rachel McGonagill
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Now that we have a #FakeTrumpEmergency on our hands, what do WE CITIZENS do to thwart #KingTrump? Do we March? Do we storm the Bastille? Do we bug out for Canada? For Mars?

--a compilation thread of stuff I've blathered hither & thither

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So, first, what's likely to happen now that he's declared his #FakeTrumpEmergency, wrt to actions in Congress. Our immediate actions:

LOTS OF CALLING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.

LOTS

REPEATEDLY

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Here's @IndivisibleTeam's guide to what happened, exactly (including what's in the bill) & what you can do. Includes script to use when calling your Electeds. Which you should be doing NOW.

Text MOBILIZE to 977-79 for updates.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
At 10AM today, CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan (@CBP_McAleenan) will be appearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee for an important oversight hearing. I'll be livetweeting the hearing and pulling out any important parts of the testimony. judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/overs…
McAleenan has already made his written testimony available. While I haven't had the chance to read it carefully, one very important thing to note is that he doesn't mention family separation or metering once. judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… …
The hearing begins with Chairman Grassley praising the "important work" of CBP, describing it as a law enforcement agency. Grassley says he was impressed on private meeting with McAleenan about all the work he's done protecting migrants, which is... debatable at best.
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Hassan Ahmad 🇺🇸
@HMAesq
Top Myths About #Asylum and why you should care:

Myth: Asylum seekers should file at US consulates in their home countries.

Reality: Asylum can only be sought at the border or inside the US. US consulates do not accept asylum applications.
Myth: Asylum seekers must present themselves at a port of entry.

Reality: The law (8 USC 1158) specifically says a person may apply for asylum whether they enter legally or not.

They can be technically prosecuted for unlawful entry, but that doesn't prevent asylum.
Myth: Asylum is only for political persecution, not for fear of gangs and terrorists.

Reality: There is NO requirement in the law that an asylum seeker's fear be politically based.

I've won many gang and terrorist related cases.
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ASYLUM IS A HUMAN RIGHT🗽
@matt_cam
UPDATE: The Presidential proclamation barring certain non-citizens from seeking #asylum after crossing the Southern border is out. How will they limit it to the #MigrantCaravan? How much more illegal can this thing get?

I haven't even read this, so let's get through ittogether
(This thread is going to be a sequel to yesterday's on the "final interim rule" rushed into effect in anticipation of this proclamation, so you might want to read that one first.)

These #s appear to be the entire justification for the proclamation, and they badly need context. They may sound scary if you're new to the issue, but check out the overall historical picture & tell me this is a natl. emergency worthy of suspending a 4,000 year-old legal right
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Greg Sarafan, Esq
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As a fmr immigration attorney let me be unambiguously clear. Crossing a boarder to claim asylum is *not* a crime; no under US or international law. Any child separated from a parent under that pretext is done so in direct contravention to the laws of the USA. ⚖ THREAD Pls RT.
If you came to the US without permission to apply for asylum, youmetjod of entry, whether legal or illegal *should* in no way effect your application process. Illegal entry is not a ground of inadmissibility for asylum applicants.
Unlike many other categories of applicants for immigration benefits, ppl seeking asylum in the US are not barred by having made an illegal entry; for example, sneaked across the U.S. border or overstaying a valid visa (one of the top ways people are in the country illegall).
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Matt Cameron 🗽
@matt_cam
1/ BREAKING: @TheJusticeDept has just authorized immigration judges to deny #asylum applications without a hearing. Like most Trump-era administrative violence, it has been unnoticed & unreported.

*sound of Scotch pouring into glass*

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2/ Important context: As head of @TheJusticeDept, the Attorney General has final say over all cases before the administrative #immigration courts. AG may snatch a case away from the Board of Immigration Appeals anytime and decide it himself by directing BIA to refer it to him.
3/ Here is the 2014 BIA holding--upholding precedent from 1989--which the AG was so intent on getting to his own desk. It may not mean much to anyone who had the good sense not to go to law school, but take a shot. (No, really: *take an actual shot* and give it a try.)
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