I agree with you on a lot of things but this is a bad take.

Obviously whether a term is pejorative is determined by what society believes. If a large part of the country believes that certain words aren’t a big deal, then that’s the norm (sometimes unfortunately).

No, humanitarian parole can be revoked entirely discretionarily. There’s nothing like the protections people with actual grants of status have where you have some protections from the admin changing its mind.

Be careful of the trap of “we must do something, and this is something, so we must do it.”

Oh absolutely. CBP One was very shortsighted.

We paroled hundreds of thousands with NTAs. These people have no statutory right to be here.

By doing that, we made them vulnerable to this admin, who can hurt these people through discretion of its own because they have no legal protections.

Yeah that’s irrelevant.

You said CBP One denied a large majority of **applicants**. That was as wrong as it was confident.

I am very pro immigration btw. I’m just not interested in basing my arguments for it on falsities.

Oh come on you know that’s not true.

Even as biased as the report is, the House Committee on Homeland Security has the raw figures at over 95% for admission: homeland.house.gov/2023/10/23/n...

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that the appointments through CBP One made it very likely that you would be able to enter and spend time in the U.S. with any facially plausible claim, which incentivized many, many people to do so.

You can actually read the opinion to find out (the last page has the answer to your question).

Further on this, I imagine that the 20% are likely to include RFEs and whatnot.

I hate to do this, but that’s inaccurate.

The processing times listed are for the 80th percentile of applications—not the average.

The average processing time is likely fewer than 6 months, but yes, 20% or so of applicants are likely to have their EAD expire before the renewal gets processed.

L.G.M.L.,,

because 3 consecutive punctuation marks are the most fun number of consecutive punctuation marks.

Fool me once… shame on you…… fool me twice………. can’t get fooled again!

Curious on your take on if this signals a view change for PhDs and others that stay in the U.S. for decades in F/J status but are very largely beneficial to national interests.

Past govt position seemed to be to exercise heavy discretion re immigrant intent to capitalize on intl. researchers /end.

Always seemed to me that the nonimmigrant classification of F visas in particular has been in tension with U.S. policy goals regarding students.

See, e.g., FAM/USCIS Pol. Man. re determining immigrant intent for such aliens which is approx. 5 paragraphs of exceptions re finding immigrant intent. /2

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Any thoughts on new proposed USCIS rule eliminating duration of status admission for students & academics?

It proposes that F/J visa holders must return to their home countries every 2/4 years to renew their visa and be re-admitted to the U.S. /1

Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Abrego Garcia free and on his way home according to counsel: wcti12.com/news/nation-...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.

@annabower.bsky.social

Abrego Garcia is free and on his way home according to his counsel: wcti12.com/news/nation-...

Do democrats have no advisors running the ship?

I still remember when Republicans sent busloads of migrants to cities and people felt the effects.

Is the Democrat equivalent of disrupting the status quo really just “yeah we left for a bit lol?” How weak does that look to the average voter?

Judge Xinis order where?

I think you might have to acknowledge that BSky also has its crazies like X that are not worth taking seriously.

You cannot reason yourself into calling for murder, and I doubt you can reason these people out of these positions.

Thank you for the work you do and for the reliable info you provide.

Here you go!

chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/journal_arti...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

today.williams.edu/books/gay-ri...

The last one is a book but I trust you can verify that it claims voting differences based on appointing party on gay rights.

You genuinely think that appointments aren’t influenced by the Judges’ views on jurisprudence, which then impacts how they might rule on cases?

This cuts both ways. The alternative is much, much worse is it not?

For example, imagine if courts hadn’t been able to intervene in the recent SEVIS cancellations for international students (litigated under the APA), which appeared to lead the administration to reverse the policy.

Or @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social @joshuajfriedman.com (i really want to read this and read people’s responses to it but evidently not enough to spend $6).

Govt filed their response against sanctions in the Abrego-Garcia case; would any more well resourced PACER warriors be so kind as to RECAP? (*cough cough* @annabower.bsky.social).

But they filed a notice of appeal instead so it’s fine… right?