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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
@ReichlinMelnick
Sep 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Another major change to the legal immigration system; the Trump administration wants to eliminate "duration of status" visas for international students, exchange visitors, and international media.

Students would be limited to visas that last 2-4 years, with extensions allowed.
Under DHS's proposal, it seems that international journalists on assignment in the US would be effectively prohibited from remaining for long periods of time.

The proposal would limit their visas to at most 240 days, and require them to file for Extension of Statuses after that.
New restrictions on student visas would also be imposed by the rule, including limiting language training students to a maximum 24-month period of stay, requiring students to leave the U.S. more quickly after their visa expires, and setting a limit on changing educational levels.
Importantly, under the new rule international students would receive automatic six-month extensions of their status once they filed for an extension, which would in times when @USCIS was actually functional ensure that people would get an answer before their status expired.
Here's the full list of changes DHS says the rule would make for international media.

I don't know much about "I" visas, so I don't know how many foreign journalists use them to remain in the US for long periods of time. But these changes seem designed to make that impossible.
Here's another good thread going over some of the more fine details of the rule, from someone with significantly more experience in these types of visas than me.
Importantly, @doug_rand notes that the new proposed rule would effectively impose racist nationality-based limitations on some foreign students, declaring people security threats purely based on the place they were born and the nationality they posses.
Probably the biggest change in the rule would be a ban on student visas longer than 2 years for any person born in, or a citizen of, a country with a student visa overstay rate over 10%—meaning no bachelor/grad degrees.

As I show, that bans most of Africa

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May 7
WHOA. This case wasn’t even on my radar. So this guy had to go to court to get ICE not to arrest and detain him on the way to the airport where he’s planning on leaving the country?!

@johnhawkinson reports that the judge just granted a habeas petition — required so he can leave! Image
The Trump admin’s position here is that they want a judge to halt her order granting a guy the right to self-deport — because they want to instead detain him, keep him in custody for weeks/months, and THEN deport him.

She ruled that ICE is trying to punish him, not deport him. Image
Ack sorry. Hasn’t granted yet, but looks like she’s about to.
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May 7
HOLY CRAP. The D.V.D. litigators say the Trump administration’s planned flight to Libya is going to be for ASIAN nationals, including Cambodians, Filipinos, and Vietnamese people — and that say that ICE is throwing people into solitary for refusing to agree to be sent to Libya! Image
According to litigators, on Tuesday, at one detention center in Texas, ICE gathered together 1 Vietnamese, 1 Lao, and 4 other people in detention and ordered them to sign paperwork agreeing to be sent to Libya.

All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary. Image
Just moments ago, Judge Murphy issued an order telling ICE that any efforts to deport non-Libyans to Libya without giving them an opportunity to object and raise a fear of torture “would clearly violate this Court’s Order.”

He’s putting ICE on notice that it would be illegal. Image
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May 1
Here's a quick 🧵 on WHY this Trump-appointed judge ruled the way he did.

First, look at the actual text of the Alien Enemies Act itself. It can only be used during a "declared war" or any "invasion or predatory incursion" by a foreign nation or government against the U.S.

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Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act claimed that (1) Tren de Aragua is a "foreign nation or government" because it's controlled by Venezuela, and (2) that the gang was "perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion" against the US with its criminal acts.

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However, the overwhelming weight of historical evidence, as cited by the judge today, makes clear that when Congress wrote the Alien Enemies Act in 1798, "invasion" and "predatory incursion" referred specifically to MILITARY action. Here are some examples cited by the judge.

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Apr 30
NEW! Two weeks ago Trump was stopped from sending more people to be imprisoned in El Salvador. Now we're learning who they were — and the stories are OUTRAGEOUS.

One guy was accused of being in TdA because of his tattoos, which include Pikachu, Toad, and Patrick from SpongeBob! Image
Another man facing imminent risk of being imprisoned in El Salvador potentially for life is a guy working at H-E-B- and doing Doordash on the side.

His tattoos? A pocket watch with the date his father passed away, and roses to honor his family. ICE said they were gang tattoos! Image
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All of this is happening even though experts have repeatedly said TREN DE ARAGUA DO NOT USE GANG TATTOOS. They are not like MS-13, a gang with a formalized set of tattoos.

So these men were going to be imprisoned without trial or due process based on a complete fiction! Image
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Apr 28
BUT THERE'S MORE: the House GOP reconciliation package would ALSO supersize immigration enforcement through vast sums of money.

The biggest item is $45 BILLION for ICE detention through FY2029, which would be a 364% annual increase to the current $3.4 billion detention budget! Image
Another HUGE increase would occur with ICE's Transportation and Removal Operations line item, which would get $14.4 BILLION dollars through FY2029 -- an increase of 400% over the current $721 million budget for the ICE component which is responsible for deportation flights. Image
By contrast, the bill provides the immigration court system just $1.25 billion over five years; a measly 30% increase by comparison.

Other line items include:
- $1.32 billion for ICE prosecutors
- $650 million for 287(g) agreements
- $600 million for immigration prosecutions
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Apr 28
NEW: The House GOP's reconciliation package would DRAMATICALLY reshape immigration via fees, and mostly end asylum for the poor.

The bill imposes a $1,000 unwaivable fee to apply for asylum, plus $550 every 6 months for work permits and $100 for every year the case drags on.

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The reconciliation package would also charge anyone sponsoring an unaccompanied child out of an ORR shelter $8,500(!), of which $5,000 would be reimbursable if the child was not ordered deported "in absentia" for missing court.

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Defending yourself in immigration court would become FAR more expensive.

- $100 fee for ANY continuance (except in "exceptional circumstances), including continues to get a lawyer.
- $1,050 fee for ANY waiver application
- $900 fee for all appeals except bond (currently $110)
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