Strong circumstantial evidence in this piece that Robert Law was heavily involved in creating the Kafkaesque blank spaces policy, where asylum applicants who failed to write "N/A" in every single space, no matter how irrelevant or inapplicable, had their applications rejected.
https://twitter.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1378076368538382336
Robert Law was the government relations director at @FAIRImmigration, an anti-immigrant hate group, before he became head of the @USCIS policy shop under the Trump administration. After Biden won he left and joined @CIS_org, FAIR's sister group.
Read this language and remember it came from someone who was put in charge of policy for the United States' legal immigration benefits agency.
It's filled with outrageous presumptions that almost all claims are fraudulent and "illegal aliens" shouldn't receive benefits at all.
It's filled with outrageous presumptions that almost all claims are fraudulent and "illegal aliens" shouldn't receive benefits at all.
What Mr. Law calls "applying the rejection criteria spelled out in the form" meant ordering low-level staff to reject this asylum application because the person who filled it out didn't write "N/A" in an empty box for a non-existent family member.
It was weaponized bureaucracy.
It was weaponized bureaucracy.
The Trump administration claimed that it was in favor of legal immigration.
But Mr. Law's new blog post and things like the blank spaces policy show that what they actually wanted was to cut off all legal immigration avenues for people they didn't like; i.e. brown people.
But Mr. Law's new blog post and things like the blank spaces policy show that what they actually wanted was to cut off all legal immigration avenues for people they didn't like; i.e. brown people.
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