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Hassan Ahmad Profile picture
@HMAesq
Aug 25, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Things I wish my clients knew about being a non-citizen in Trump's America:

1. Take care of your taxes.

2. Document your life. Take pictures, keep bills, bank accounts.

3. Don't leave the country without seeing a lawyer.

4. File a FOIA and get a copy of your A file.
5. Drive carefully.

6. Don't drink.

7. Tell a citizen you need them to vote pro-immigrant.

8. Prepare a deportation plan. Get powers of attorney drafted. Who will take care of your kids?

9. Save money.

10. Get to know a good lawyer.

11. Make sure you update your address.
12. If with court, Form E-33/IC. Otherwise, Form AR-11.

13. Get a driver's license. Move to a state where it's possible.

14. Keep your license plates current.

15. Don't open the door if ICE comes to your house.

16. Don't spend too long outside the US if you have a green card.
17. Carry your papers with you. That includes your green card.

18. Become a citizen if you can. ASAP. Don't wait to see who wins in 2020.

19. Keep in touch with family back home, if they're in danger, tell an immigration lawyer.

20. Retweet this list.

#KnowledgeIsPower

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Now that my schadenfreude has calmed a bit after #TrumpsVerdict the specter of 47 and what will happen with immigrants is looming large.

I'm a lawyer and we dig in, we prepare. We don't scare.

So, in no particular order, my off-the-cuff 10 things lawyers and advocates can do:
1. File FOIA's.

Get copies of your immigration file. It's just handy to have because you never know if you're going to need to prove something to someone down the road.
2, Eligible to become a citizen? Naturalize.

Now.

Don't put it off any more. Mention this thread in an email to me and I'll let you know if you qualify. Look me up at .hma-legal.com
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May 15, 2022
The Buffalo terrorist left yet another manifesto that once again cited the Great Replacement Theory (GRT) pushed by @TuckerCarlson, @IngrahamAngle, Donald Trump, @StephenM, and others in what @DefineAmerican calls the Great Replacement Network.

defineamerican.com/research/great…
Yes, it's a movement - and a well-funded one. No longer a fringe viewpoint confined to white supremacist dens like American Renaissance or Stormfront: it's mainstream. A tribute to the success of its funders.

Talked w @shaysiggs on MSNBC:

Do you know what the antidote to GRT is?

Critical race theory.
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May 10, 2022
After a triglyceride scare in the summer of 2020, I decided to not go on a diet, but make a series of small lifestyle changes. I used a habit tracking app to help build up small habits. In particular: logging calories, and walking.
I cut out most sugar and refined carbs. And I started walking. I use the time walking to take conference calls, revise Quran, listen to podcasts, practice various languages, or just think. It didn't take up much more time than I would have otherwise spent.
Since August of 2020, I dropped 34 lbs (was 42 but yeah, some came back), triglycerides back to acceptable levels, cholesterol all in normal ranges.
I've walked 4.9 million steps, 2,086 miles (the distance from my office in Vienna, VA to Salt Lake City, UT).
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Apr 1, 2022
Nothing like a Friday #asylum approval for a whole family! Image
It took nearly 7 years. My clients survived persecution in their country and then survived again - over a legal landscape that shifted like quicksand under three administrations.

Having the future of your family on hold for year after year is mental torture.
They didn't choose to become refugees: no one does. Yes, they got it. Yes, justice was served. Yes, they deserved it.
But they had to go through nearly 7 years of mental anguish. The uncertainty eats at you, permeating every aspect of life.
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Jan 29, 2022
Five years ago, Dulles Airport, the first night of the #MuslimBan. A night that shifted the direction of so many lives, mine included. What our community endured (and continues to) has been recorded on the Wall of Shame.

facebook.com/hassanmahmad/v…
A year into the next admin, and guess what? Not much has changed. I remember 5 years ago how the stark visibility of prejudice-I felt so alien-successfully jammed up the fragile mechanisms of due process. We all blamed the admin, as if change is measured in 4 year terms.
But as our Black friends were trying to tell us, that prejudice has been around a long, long time. I today remember the words of Judge Hassan El-Amin of PG County Circuit Court, speaking to a mostly immigrant Muslim crowd after 9/11: "We're right here. All you gotta do is ask!"
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Jan 13, 2022
#TantonPapers Update - We're inching closer to breaking the seal!

Thank you to our lawyer @olcplc for a well-argued Motion to Compel yesterday before the Michigan Court of Claims.

Watch the hearing here (starts at 15:25):

At issue: @UMich has lost all of their "blanket" defenses to disclosure of the #TantonPapers. Only the personal/privacy exemption remained, which exempts info that constitutes a clear invasion of privacy (such as SSN).

So they had to go through 25,000 papers 1 by 1.
They were supposed to list everything in a Vaughn index, but they did such a poor job it didn't help the Court determine whether the exemption applied.

(They said it would have cost them $200,000 to do it, at 2 min per page. Do the math.)

I don't think the Court was happy.
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