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Alma David @ziggysternstaub
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More bad news for immigrants: In 2015, in Rodriguez v. Holder, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed its interpretation that civil immigration detention without a chance to request bond from an immigration judge is unconstitutional if it exceeds 6 months.
The Ninth Circuit explained the backdrop: "Prolonged detention imposes severe hardship on class members and their families... While in detention, class members have missed their children’s births and their parents’ funerals. ...their children have dropped out of college."
Rodriguez is not about criminal but *civil* detention. It's not about whether non-citizens can be detained for longer than six months, only about whether they have the right to have a neutral fact finder periodically evaluate whether their continued detention remains justified.
Today, in a 5:3 decision (Justice Kagan recused herself), the Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit, finding no constitutional right to periodic bond hearings for detained non-citizens.

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The majority of asylum seekers I've represented in the past 10 years have been women, who fled to the US to escape relentless violence and psychological terror inflicted on them by men, who brutalized "their" women to the point my clients felt their choices were: flee or die. 1/
Once you've heard several stories of domestic abuse, you realize: Most of them are variations on a theme. Whether they beat their women in Mexico, Jordan, or China, men will justify it by saying "I'm the man of the house. I can do to you whatever I want. You exist to serve me."2/
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AG Sessions today will publish his decision in Matter of A-B- and will hold that victims of “private harm,” including domestic violence, don’t qualify for asylum, undoing decades of work by brilliant and visionary attorneys and advocates.

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Things will get better eventually, but for now they are only getting worse. As an immigration attorney, it’s really hard to witness the gutting of protections that were so hard fought.
Setting aside all of the rhetoric for a moment, let’s remember that real lives are on the line here. Please do what you can to stand up for immigrants in the US. They need your strengths, your talents, and your voices to make sure they aren’t trampled on and forgotten.
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R has been my client since 2009. He's Mexican, has been here since 1991, has a family, has worked for the same landscaping company for 19 years, helps his neighbors. He's the kind of guy, who asks the cashier at the store how her/his day is going and genuinely wants to know.
We lost his case four years ago, he has had a deportation order since. Every year, he has gone to check in with ICE and has asked to stay another year - and because he really has nothing bad and a lot of good things to show for himself, they have said yes.
When R called me last week about a notice to go to an "interview" with ICE today, he and I both knew we had arrived at the end of the line. We'd heard the stories in the past months of how this scenario plays out: "Dad/Mom of four deported after 30 years in the United States."
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Support @SenFeinstein’s S. 3036 KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER ACT

An agency may not remove a child from a parent solely for the policy goal of deterring individuals from migrating to the United States or for the policy goal of promoting compliance with civil immigration laws.
S. 3036 KEEP FAMILIES TOGETHER ACT

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~Child is danger to themselves or others.
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~total number of asylum seekers who were separated from their children as a result of being referred for prosecution;

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Q: So you lost in #immigration court / #EOIR. Do you get to appeal? If so, how?
A: Depends!

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Let's assume: 1st time in #immigration proceedings at all, you claimed relief like asylum &/or cancellation of removal. If not, may differ2/
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