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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
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Sep 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
After a lot of thought, I deleted this tweet. My intent in posting it was to emphasize that the allegations reveal the routine cruelty and horrors caused by ICE's utter failure to care for the health of people it locks up in private prisons—but do not reveal systematic eugenics.
Whistleblowers have been coming forward for years to reveal that people have died of preventable deaths inside ICE detention centers. We know medical services given to people in detention are routinely insufficient. Yesterday's allegations supported that. tyt.com/stories/4vZLCH…
I firmly believe that yesterday's allegations should be taken in context with the detailed reporting and activism around the appalling and horrific conditions in detention centers around the country, not just for women, but for everyone that suffers while locked in a cage.
But because my original tweet couldn't express that all in 240 characters, my point was lost and I gave the false impression to many that I was trying to downplay the allegations or shift blame away from ICE or the problems inherent in the system at large. It was not my intent.

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Sep 15
Trump here uses the phrase "remigration." I was unfamiliar with the term, so I googled it.

Wikipedia describes it as a "far-right and Identitarian political concept" largely used to describe the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants from Europe.
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Needless to say, the use of such a loaded far-right term suggesting a purge of non-white people in the US far greater than described would itself be newsworthy in a normal world. But given how much else has happened just in the last 24 hours, it's barely even been noticed.
Yep, though given how poorly Operation Janus did the first time around and how tough it is for the US government to denaturalize people, I suspect that’s more about driving support from the base than actual policy (which is not to say it shouldn’t be taken seriously).
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Sep 5
That's roughly $1,841 per person. By comparison, a bus ticket to New York costs about $215, while a flight costs about $350.

It would have WAY cheaper to just give migrants money for tickets. Abbott's effort not only made it a political stunt, it lined a contractor's pocket.
The overwhelming majority of migrants didn't want to stay in Texas. They wanted to go elsewhere. So if the question was the most efficient way to help them leave the state, the answer would be just buy them tickets and not pay millions to bus them to NYC.
They are able to live wherever they want while they go through the court process. It's just that many people used up every last cent to get here, so a free bus from Abbott was a very enticing option, especially since it was going to known option like NYC.
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Aug 19
It's here! The biggest executive action since DAPA/Extended DACA in 2014 just dropped on the Federal Register in the form of a "Notice of Implementation." Here's a 🧵on the Biden admin's new program for undocumented spouses and stepchildren of US citizens. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-18725.pdf

Screenshot of the first page of the "Notice of Implementation" of the Keeping Families Together program.
Before I dive into the fine details, a reminder of why this new program matters.

Even though spouses of US citizens are eligible to apply for green cards, a 1996 law keeps that process out of reach for many undocumented immigrants. Read 👇 for more.
In June, Biden announced "Keeping Families Together," letting undocumented spouses of US citizens receive immigration "parole."

This would not only give deportation protections, it unlocks the path to a green card without risking 10 years of separation.
americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/biden…
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Aug 16
Wow! Paxton is going after ANOTHER immigrant rights nonprofit. He's arguing that if any nonprofit engages in activities he thinks violate 501(c)(3) status, he can sue to shut it down.

That argument should send shivers through every nonprofit in the state! houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
Paxton is trying to punish @FIELHouston for social media posts which he argues run afoul of the limits federal law places on 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.

If judges accept that argument (and so far it seems they're not), it would put every nonprofit in the state at risk. Image
Paxton's efforts to destroy this particular nonprofit are happening simultaneously with two federal lawsuits in which FIEL is a plaintiff against Texas.

@MALDEF, which represents FIEL, argues this was "not accidental" and accuses him of fighting dirty. maldef.org/wp-content/upl…

The timing of Paxton’s proposed quo warranto petition is not accidental. Paxton filed his proposed petition while FIEL participates as a plaintiff in two civil rights lawsuits that challenge Texas’ election statutes, including one case that names Paxton as a defendant. This Court can take judicial notice of other litigation alleging retaliatory conduct by Paxton, including firing top assistants for good faith reporting of suspected illegal conduct. See Office of the Attorney General of Texas v. Brinkman, 636 S.W.3d 659, 663-70 (Tex. App.—Austin 2021, pet. denied). Paxton filed the instant a...
Just months earlier, on October 4, 2023, the Executive Director of FIEL testified at trial in LUPE v. Abbott regarding the negative effects of Texas SB1 on FIEL and its members (which afford the organization standing to sue and go to the merits of its claims). Paxton’s request for a temporary and permanent injunction here, including his request to temporarily “halt[] FIEL's operations in toto” and permanently dissolve FIEL’s existence (QW Pet. at 1, 4), seeks either an end-run around the federal court’s jurisdiction to determine the validity of the motion Paxton filed or to try to bootstrap...
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Aug 14
Not commenting on the election here, just noting that deporting what some estimate at half of all farmworkers in the country is the kind of thing that will cause grocery prices to go UP, not down.
The estimate I’m referring to is that half of all farmworkers are undocumented immigrants, currently.

Temporary agricultural work visas are nice, but they don’t come even close to filling the demand for labor on US farms/ranches/meatpacking plants.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture. The data is available here:

Data from the Center for Migration Studies shows that contrary many of the responses, most have been here for years, with no path to “fixing their papers” available. ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-ec…
cmsny.org/agricultural-w…



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Figure 3 depicts the percent of undocumented agricultural workers in the United States by their year of arrival. Only 8 percent of undocumented agricultural workers currently in the United States entered the country between 1990 and 1995, and 17 percent entered between 1995 and 2000. Nearly half of the undocumented agricultural workforce arrived between 2000 and 2010, having been part of the US economy for more than a decade. Only 30 percent of undocumented agricultural workers arrived in the United States within the past 10 years.
Figure 3. Percent of Undocumented Population of Agricultural Workers, by Year of Arrival Source: CMS calculations using the American Community Survey (ACS) data, Ruggles et al. (2021)
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Aug 11
Let's do a brief fact-checking 🧵 of this section on immigration. I'll start with 4 specific, provably false claims Senator Vance makes about VP Harris' record and the role she played in the Biden admin, each marked below. My count excludes claims which could arguably be opinion.
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First, Senator Vance claims VP Harris is "our border czar." As I've been arguing for years, this is simply false. Jon Karl himself pushes back on this, but I want to emphasize again that the role Biden assigned her was a diplomatic role, not a border role.
Second, Senator Vance claims VP Harris "assumed the title" of border czar.

This, again, is simply false. Since the beginning, Harris, the President, the White House, and Secretary Mayorkas have all consistently rejected the title and job description.
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