I particularly like the part where they scream in all caps that TPS is supposed to last "maybe a few months"—when by law initial TPS designations must be 6-18 months long and Congress fully authorized extending designations.
This tweet is also hilariously incoherent. The law requires that a person seeking TPS benefits have been "continuously physically present in the United States since the effective date of the most recent designation of that state."
So FAIR thinks Biden should have broken the law?
Also totally incoherent is this tweet, which claims that asylum is a "temporary protection" (it's not, it's a path to citizenship) for people "to work for positive change back home," which, huh?
Do they think people granted asylum are required to be human rights advocates?
Another reason the ALL CAPS tweet is hilariously wrong?
By law, TPS is *also* for an "ongoing armed conflict" or if there are "extraordinary and temporary conditions in the foreign state that prevent [people] who are nationals of the state from returning to the state in safety."
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The first lawsuit filed against the enforcement priorities memo comes from the Florida AG's office, which makes it all the way to paragraph 6 before telling an outright lie.
Florida's attempt to throw out Biden's new enforcement priorities has been assigned to District Judge Charlene Honeywell, an Obama appointee, and to Magistrate Judge Sean Flynn, a Trump appointee.
This is an important step towards creating a headquarters-level review of ICE decisions.
Getting national policies to stick at the local level is always hard, so this escalation process is vital to ensuring that the new priorities don't just get shrugged off.
The site for the new ICE Case Review process says that "cases involving individuals detained in ICE custody or pending imminent removal will be prioritized."
So if local ICE isn't budging on a case that's no longer a priority, give this new HQ escalation process a try!
Yesterday Governor Abbott ordered the entire state of Texas to be open and eliminated all mask mandates, and Fox News wants you to be afraid that on average 3-4 migrants a day have tested positive for COVID.
In reality, those numbers show that any threat is massively overblown!
Just yesterday, 7,747 people tested positive for COVID in Texas. In one day.
Several thousand families have been released at the border in Texas *since late January.* Just 108 tested positive.
Fox News splashing that 108 number across headlines shows where their priorities are.
I don't really have words to describe the feelings this news has left in me. It's not enough people, it's too slow, there's so much more to be done... but I am overwhelmed with joy that one of the most horrifically cruel policies in a generation is finally coming to an end.
The Trump administration's "clever" move after the disaster of family separation was to outsource the cruelty.
No longer would CBP agents tear children from their parents' arms; they could just toss families to the wolves and let the cartels do their dirty work.
We spent so much effort in 2019 trying to get the nation to share our outrage with what was happening with MPP.
But after family separation and "kids in cages," the externalization of the harm, out of sight of the general public, meant that the horrors never really sunk in.
We are finally getting the new ICE priorities! My first thought is that they are undoubtedly better than what we had under Obama, but they still leave out a lot of people who have long ties to the community, such as certain individuals with felon records who've served their time.
The new interim enforcement priorities, which will last for 90 days, are harsher than the ones from January 20th:
- Terrorism/espionage
- Recent entrants (after Nov 1)
- Anyone with an "aggravated felony" or ties to certain gangs who ICE determines is a public safety threat.
In order to determine if someone in that last category is a "public safety threat," ICE officers must "consider the extensiveness, seriousness, and recency of any criminal activity, as well as mitigating factors..." such as communities ties, rehabilitation, and family in the US.
We finally have the U.S. Citizenship Act Bill Text! I'm going to go through some portions of the bill right now and highlight some of the major changes and improvements that it would make to our immigration system.