It takes a lot of chutzpah to file a lawsuit in the 9th Circuit arguing that the Biden administration is required by law to resume a program that the 9th Circuit has already ruled is illegal. Let's see how that goes for them.
Also, hahaha good luck on a NEPA challenge on these issues. Brnovich really going for a slap-down here.

I'd be remiss not to note that "immigrants cause environmental harm" is literally the argument that led eugenicist John Tanton to start his network of anti-immigrant groups.
The extent to which @GeneralBrnovich's lawsuit adopts the rhetoric of hate groups like NumbersUSA cannot be understated. "Population control" is at their eugenicist heart, including calls for immigration restrictions on environmental grounds.

Brnovich is now making those claims.
The ONLY claim that @GeneralBrnovich makes in this lawsuit is that Biden was required to carry out an environmental policy review before making any changes at the border that may lead to more immigrants in the US.

That is, without a doubt, a white supremacist argument.
Also, this is the kind of claim that makes people like @LaikenJordahl laugh so hard they can cry.

NOT walling off the entire border is somehow worse for the environment than finishing the wall and *completely* cutting off wildlife corridors?

The chutzpah to write that!

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12 Apr
The policies the GOP are pointing to either didn't change at all or lifting them had no effect on the border.

- Just 1.19% of people encountered since March 2020 were put into MPP. Zero were subject to an asylum agreement.
- Biden has made no changes to Title 42 practices. None.
The argument that Biden's *policies* have led to more people coming to the border is laughable and those like @ByronYork who make it expose primarily how little they're tracking the actual details of border policy and just regurgitating talking points.
On the other hand, the argument that Biden's *rhetoric,* both pre- and post-election, have caused more people to come is harder to debunk. It may well have. But Biden can't go back in time and unsay things. And the pro-immigrant rhetoric is basically Reaganesque, for god's sake!
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9 Apr
It is beyond patronizing to say that it's "cruel" to let people in because being in limbo for five years due to a broken immigration system is somehow worse that being completely blocked and left to the wolves.
"Well, on the one hand, you might starve to death/be killed in your home country. On the other hand, being stuck in limbo for five years is genuinely awful. So let's just turn you away to save you the limbo."

Come. On.
Never forget that Andrew Sullivan, champion of immigration restrictions, committed immigration fraud to get a visa (lied about being gay, which was at the time a ground of inadmissibility) and used his connections to get out of a marijuana charge that threatened his green card. Image
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8 Apr
With full March border numbers out, I want to re-up and update this thread for any reporters who are writing on the news out of CBP today.

We continue to see two very different phenomena occurring at the border, and it's very important to distinguish between the two!
Single adults continue to be the biggest driver of headlines about "border numbers."

Apprehensions of single adults are going back to the 1990s-2000s, driven by many people crossing repeatedly thanks to Title 42. And like back in the day, almost all get sent back to Mexico.
When it comes to family units, we have seen a distinct increase in families beginning in January. This seems driven both by Mexico's refusal to accept many families that Trump/Biden wanted to expel, as well as a sense that now is the time. It's looking a lot like 2019.
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8 Apr
What a great article on TPS! Also so important to highlight, as @RepMcGovern notes, that "T.P.S. was a response to America’s foreign policy in El Salvador and to its discrimination against Salvadoran refugees..."

We keep trying to run from the consequences of our decisions.
Seriously, such a fantastic article. This passage quoting Maureen Sweeney is so important to understand WHY strong asylum protections were put into the law in 1996, laws that many now call "loopholes." Because the Reagan administration just flagrantly turned away asylum seekers.
When discussing "what's happening at the border" I've started making brief historical detours to the Reagan Administration's flagrant attacks on Central American refugees, because that *recent history* has an enormous impact on the laws, policies, and trends of today.
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2 Apr
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.
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. For example, the system is overrun with fraudulent, frivolou
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2 Apr
EOIR has rolled back some, but not all, of the changes from last November's "case processing flow" memo.

Big difference? No longer required to file both pleadings and relief applications. Now it's pleadings first, then relief applications 60 days after removability established.
Here are the key paragraphs on operational rules under the new memo. The big differences between the old one and new one are several additional nods to judges' discretion to set their own scheduling, and two separate schedules for removability and applications for relief.
The memo sets a new and hilariously short 90-day timeline for merits hearing, with a massive "subject to docket availability" line which means that the 90-day schedule will be in most cases anywhere from 2-4 years.
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