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16 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Americans peacefully standing up for Black lives in massively historic numbers = "civil unrest"

Armed white supremacists agitating to overthrow a democratically government = "protests"
The "civil unrest" this account was warning about were also nothing more than planned protests.
*democratically elected
More than one of these protests were immigration-related

As I noted last summer, DOJ had its own reasons for the constant use of the phrase "civil unrest" during the Floyd protests, and this contrast with the coming "protests" really couldn't bring it home more

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13 Jan
Anyone else thinking about #immigrationcourt dates scheduled for for clients in 3 yrs and wondering if there will be a federal government to hear them by then, or is that just me
Fun times for someone who grew up believing as a matter of fact that the world would end in his lifetime!
I opened today's class on asylum/refugee policy by reminding everyone that there is no reason whatsoever to assume that the phrase "American refugees" is not something that we will come to know in our lifetimes. Any given country is just a couple of bad leaders/yrs away from it
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24 Dec 20
All prisons are bad policy. Private prisons are also bad business.
DMs are open for anyone who wants to go in on* one of these and join me for some recreational arson

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*read: give me several million dollars for
Or maybe we buy one, upgrade the cell blocks into humanly habitable dorms, and team up with the Unitarians to make the thing a year-round "church camp" which does nothing but provide communal sanctuary for people whose appeals have run out
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One of the only fun things about the last few months has been watching the bubble which contains the parallel cartoon universe of Soros plots & deep state conspiracies which tens of millions live in among us pop every time it touches the actual one we're all stuck in together
I mean, the pandemic has absolutely proven that the concept of shared objective knowable truth based on sources and methods we can all agree on is dead and that it will almost certainly take us all with it soon enough but you gotta take the laughs where you find them
No doubt most of the people responsible for this fact-free garbage about "illegal votes" and a vast conspiracy which somehow includes Republican governors and secretaries of state are doing it all in the worst possible faith, & that is so weird to me. I just can't even imagine
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10 Dec 20
Just got around to reading the House #cannabis bill and actually stopped breathing for a few seconds when I saw this subtitle. This one sentence could change millions of lives by reuniting families separated by deportation and arbitrary inadmissibility.

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Some of the worst things I've seen happen to my clients have been over the kinds of transactions that John Boehner is now overseeing in a suit.

It was always a moral abomination that ppl were deported and/or denied a visa over this, but never like now

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The retroactivity here means not just expungement (also in here for federal cases), but fully removing cannabis offenses from any possibility of immigration consequences. This likely would have been inevitable with descheduling it, but it's genuinely thrilling to see it in print Image
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10 Dec 20
Do not stop reading this tweet until you've read the text below, and do not finish your day until five people around you know this

#AbolishICE
This devastating report from @DetentionWatch is the starkest example I've ever seen of how white supremacy so often harms white people directly. Take some time to read it today if you can.

detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/…
There are 221 ICE detention facilities, and most of them are not in dense urban areas. ICE's homicidal insistence on arresting and detaining people for civil administrative offenses in the middle of a deadly global pandemic is the only explanation for this deadly fact.
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8 Dec 20
1/ There are 58 immigration courts in the United States.

In the past seven days, one out of every five of them--including my own here in Boston--has been exposed to #covid19.

We can't keep doing this. Please stop making us do this.
2/ Accidentally posted Chicago twice up there, but there were a total of 11 of these #immigrationcourt exposures this week alone--just as the second wave is cresting.
3/ I haven't physically appeared in #immigrationcourt for weeks, & only then bc I felt it necessary for effective representation in a tough case.

My partner has serious pre-existing lung issues. Many asylum cases are life-and-death.

This is not a choice I should have to make
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