Proud to say that I spent my Election Day winning an #asylum claim for exactly the kind of applicant the Trump administration has spent the past four years trying to keep from winning asylum, based on legal grounds they have spent the past 4 yrs years trying to eliminate.
For immigration advocates--and, far more importantly, the ppl we serve--the past four yrs have been an endless, exhausting, all-consuming nightmare of arbitrary administrative cruelty and violence. Much better lawyers than I have defended every inch, winning far more than not.
4 yrs ago, thousands of young ppl watched this country vote in the worst of us for the explicit purpose of doing violence to the most vulnerable. Many of them have just passed the bar, fresh reinforcements in a generational battle against institutional racism & xenophobia.
The past four yrs have shown many ppl in this country who never had to confront it before who we really are and the true purpose of so many of the US institutions so irreparably grounded in white supremacy--and none so much as immigration enforcement. I am thankful for that.
For as physically relieved as I will be to see Trump go, never forget that the only person we could agree on to replace him has one of the worst immigration records of any living Democratic politician.
Joe Biden will not save us. Only we can do that.
The real work begins today.
Joe Biden will not save us. Only we can do that.
The real work begins today.
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