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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
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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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Apr 22
NEW: Judge Xinis largely rejects DOJ's opposition to discovery requests in the Abrego Garcia case, accusing the Trump admin of "a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations," citing their continued denial to acknowledge what the Supreme Court ordered. Image
Judge Xinis also denies the government's invocation of various privileges, saying the DOJ has "stubbornly refuse[d] to provide any basis" for the invocation of privilege, and says the DOJ has lost the presumption of good faith due to "repeated refusals to meet and confer." Image
Judge Xinis UNLOADS on DOJ, saying that their time of offering only "boilerplate assertions" to justify claims of privilege "ends now."

She gives them 24 hours to assert any final privileges with "required detail" — or forfeit any further assertions of privilege in this case. Image
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Apr 21
Occam's Razor suggests the Border Patrol agent lied. That's backed up by the fact that one claim made by the agent is provably false; that he was arrested near Nogales. That lie matters because this sworn statement claims he entered the day before, and Nogales is 70 miles south.
Border Patrol's clear lie on a sworn statement that the man was arrested "at or near Nogales, AZ" makes every part of the documentation of his arrest suspect.

In fact, if you read the whole sworn statement, much of it appears to be based off of that lie. Image
This story is less confusing when you realize that Border Patrol agents have been caught fudging these arrest documents MANY times in the past.

Like this case, where DHS argued that a 11-day-old baby told Border Patrol agents she had come here to work.
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Apr 18
🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review. Image
Last night multiple people detained at the Bluebonnet ICE detention center in Texas were handed sheets of paper IN ENGLISH and told by ICE officers that they were required to sign the paper (even if they only spoke Spanish).

These were reportedly "Alien Enemies Act" notices. Image
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One of the people that the Trump administration is seemingly about to deport to El Salvador as an "alien enemy" is an TEENAGER - An 18-year-old who is being accused of being in Tren de Aragua because ICE agents though a picture of a WATER PISTOL on his Facebook was an actual gun! 3. Y.S.M. is a citizen of Venezuela who was born in 2006. He entered the United States in 2022 as an unaccompanied minor. 4. Once in the United States, Y.S.M. reunited with his father I.S.G. and other extended family. I.S.G. filed a timely asylum application and included his son Y.S.M. as a derivative. 5. On March 14, 2025, Y.S.M. was detained by immigration agents, along with other relatives. Y.S.M. was later questioned by immigration and federal agents about a photograph. The agents stated that the photograph, found on Facebook, proved the Y.S.M. was a member of Tren de Aragua and that on...
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Apr 18
Wow. Diplomatic pressure absolutely worked. Van Hollen got in, met with Mr. Abrego, and becomes the first person to have ANY meeting with any of the people sent to El Salvador on March 15.
It's great that Mr. Abrego was able to connect with his wife. Now the question is, how will the U.S. government facilitate his return, as ordered by the Supreme Court.

And we can't forget the other 237 people sent to El Salvador on March 15, like Andry.
I hope that Senator Van Hollen got some information about the others.

Don't forget, it's now been a month since Andry, Neri, and other Venezuelans were sent to CECOT. All remain imprisoned.
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Apr 16
MAJOR NEWS: Judge Boasberg: “the Court ultimately determines that the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.” Image
Boasberg's full contempt opinion is here. He gives the government two options:

1. Bring back the men deported in violation of his court order; or
2. Give up the names of the officials responsible so he can impose specific sanctions on them.

HUGE news.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Boasberg is now the first judge to find probable cause to hold the Trump admin in criminal contempt of court.

This sets up a significant escalation between the judiciary and the executive at a time when the administration is already flirting with defying the Supreme Court. Image
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Apr 15
MAJOR SCOOP: The local detective who first accused Mr. Abrego Garcia of being a member of MS-31 was suspended from the police force and indicted merely WEEKS LATER for providing confidential information to a sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts. Image
This explains a big mystery in Mr. Abrego Garcia's case. When his lawyers in 2019 went to interview the detective who claimed a "confidential informant" accused him of being in MS-13, they found out he was suspended.

Now we know why. And it's pretty bad. What’s more, it turns out that Mendez was suspended, in early April of 2019, for “providing information to a commercial sex worker who he was paying in exchange for sexual acts.” That’s according to the PG County police’s own announcement of his indictment, which came a year later, in June of 2020. Strikingly, the information Mendez shared was related to “an on-going police investigation.” “This is clearly not an officer that respects the rules and protocols,” Curiel told us. “If he’s willing to do that, what else is he willing to do?” Mendez ultimately pleaded guilty to the charge and re...
Thanks to @GregTSargent, we now know that the ONLY "evidence" that any law enforcement agency has EVER provided suggesting that Mr. Abrego-Garcia was part of a gang came from a detective indicted only a few weeks later for serious professional misconduct.
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