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3 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Election night and we’re making dumplings to keep our mind off of things! Just about to combine ingredients for the filling. Image
Dumpling filling made, we are setting up to make the dumplings now. His and hers bowls of water. Image
End result of 25 minutes of filling? 38 dumplings, with a few wrappers left over because we overstuffed a bit. We’re still getting the hang of it.

We’ll freeze most of them and then eat a few tonight! Image
Pan-fried, then steamed, these are ready to go! Image

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3 Nov
!! Incredible FOIA victory from @DMRS_ElPaso, obtaining key operational documents from MPP’s early rollout, including this memo from Chad Wolf—then acting head of Office of Strategy—concluding that MPP wouldn’t have any singular effect on migration flows. dmrs-ep.org/dmrs-vs-ice-fo… This is a four page memo on MPP.
There’s also this memo from May 2019, previously reported on but never released publicly, where the decision is made to create tent courts along the border and where EOIR admits backlogs are massively growing and resolving all MPP cases timely would require 1/3 of all judges.
Here are talking points for a meeting attended by every major immigration person at DHS.

“MPP is a priority for this Administration, and we must do everything in our power to implement and expand it.”

ZERO mention of concerns about dangers in Mexico for people subject to MPP.
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2 Nov
NEW! 🚨 Public charge is BLOCKED, yet again. A federal district court in Illinois has granted summary judgment vacating the rule in its entirety.

Because the previous stay decision in that case related to the preliminary injunction, it does not apply.

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… End of opinion: "Given the Seventh Circuit's holding th
The District Court's opinion vacating the public charge rule acknowledges that the 7th Circuit's opinion upholding its preliminary injunction controls the issue and requires it to enter summary judgement in favor of the plaintiffs. So there's no new legal analysis on the merits. DHS forthrightly concedes that the Seventh Circuit’s opini
The government tried to get the District Court to limit relief only to the plaintiff, Cook County. The District Court disagreed, finding that vacating a rule in its entirety is the appropriate remedy under the Administrative Procedure Act, and it isn't a nationwide injunction. Moreover, DHS’s analogy fails to recognize that the two re
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1 Nov
I was reading this excellent story when I came across this sentence.

"The El Paso sector’s after-action report also highlighted a 64 percent reduction in illegal crossings on the border during the pilot project."

Here's what's interesting: that's not true. At all. Graph showing that apprehensions in the El Paso Sector were
Maybe the El Paso Sector meant that there was a 64% reduction in families crossing the border illegally?

Except no, again, that's ALSO not true. Family units apprehended at the border in the El Paso sector went up during the Pilot Project.
Maybe the after-action report meant there was a 64% reduction in overall apprehensions during that period, even if not at the El Paso Sector?

Well, again, no, that's just not true.
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30 Oct
Kirstjen Nielsen perjured herself. Here's the exchange from December 2018, when she was under oath:

@RepJerryNadler: Are you doing anything that would reduce your capacity to process X number of people per day at the ports?
Nielsen: No sir.

@DHSOIG today says that was a lie.
The question from @RepJerryNadler to Nielsen asked about reducing CBP capacity "to process X number of people" per day, and @DHSOIG reveals that Nielsen not only knew that "X = 650," she personally signed off on those policies herself five months earlier.

oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/… In May 2018, DHS and CBP leaders anticipated an increase in
Here is the full clip of Kirstjen Nielsen testifying under oath in December 2018 about metering at ports of entry.

I strongly encourage listening to this 90 second clip, then going back one tweet and reading what @DHSOIG found.

It seems clearly perjury.
c-span.org/video/?c491962…
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29 Oct
A comprehensive new @HouseJudiciary report on family separation puts to bed any suggestion that the Trump administration intended to reunite families.

One damning new revelation? Former CBP head Kevin McAleenan tried to keep separations going after a court ordered them to stop. While HHS and ICE attempted to comply with the executive ord
The @HouseJudiciary report also sheds more light on the fact that family separation was the goal of the Trump administration from Day One.

High-level administration officials met to begin planning separations within a month of Trump taking office, and floated plans to CNN. In mid-February 2017, just weeks after the presidential inau
Within six months of taking office, the Trump administration had begun a family separation "pilot project" in El Paso.

Despite separating 281 families during a four-month period, the Trump administration never disclosed the project to the agency in charge of childrens' shelters. In July 2017, CBP began an “initiative” (hereinafter the
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21 Oct
I read the status report. It’s:

- 283 children whose parents have not been found.
- 187 children whose parents have been found, but who have not been successfully contacted.
- 75 children whose parents have not been found, but telephonic outreach is expected to be successful.
The status report from today makes clear that this claim from Miles Taylor is completely wrong.

283 children remain whose parents, after “time-consuming and arduous on-the-ground searches,” cannot be found and for whom telephonic outreach is not expected be successful.
Setting aside that @MilesTaylorUSA misunderstood what today’s story was about, I want to talk about this a little more, though, because it reflects a narrative that people at DHS often used at the time reunification began—that many parents willingly gave up their kids.

Thoughts:
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