Pedro Gerson

Maybe it's happening more now, but people have been accepting this for over a decade.

Don't know if this is too 3D chess for them but really feels like everything (Harvard news re int'l students, tariff threats, complaints re: Apple) is to distract from the "Big Beautiful Bill" that will enact historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits.

how dare you not know all the bands?

Trump presidency is crazy bc it’s like “oh great the baby is asleep now I can finally get around to reading that 45 page opinion from the DC circuit.”

In light of todays announcements I think this debate is relatively settled
@adamtooze.bsky.social @gilliantett.bsky.social

Deporting people to torture camps where they have no recourse to get out even with due process is wrong.

That would make sense with what Columbia is reporting about their own policies. But also if they were arrested in the public space (ie building entrance) security would be useless.

Very happy that my new article "Decriminalizing Migrant Smuggling" will be coming out in the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal

Will be on SSRN soon, if you want to see it before now lmk.

It just so happens that everyone on left & right who has looked at this has concluded that the constitution means what it says. They're asking you to believe something else b/c they want to disenfranchise millions and create an entire population of stateless people. Whether they realize that or not.

Now of course one could say that about all originalist claims or arguments that go against the grain but I don't think that's the case. The issue here is a matter of degree and direction of agreement...7/n

But they don't want to defend that policy, they just want to hide behind originalism. "I'm not saying that it should be that way, it's the constitution." But that's BS. We all know it and it would be honest if they just laid out their cards on the table...6/n

In other words, they want to find evidence for the position that the children of undocumented noncitizens are not American but they pretend that they don't actually care about it. Of course they do, the fact that they are reaching for legal straws just proves it...5/n

Now you could just be interested in stone turning, but as academics we're generally more interested in looking for places where there appear to be stones to turn. So if you're going back to the rock garden that has been thoroughly ransacked you are looking for something...4/n

However, one has to wonder when everyone from across the aisle has conclusively determined that under any interpretation birthright citizenship includes the children of all noncitizens, you have to wonder what the motivation is behind turning more stones...3/n

Their position is one of feigned neutrality where they pretend not to have a particular view about whether jus soli is right or not but only about what the history says about br citizenship. This allows them to pretend they are neutral wrt to the outcome and therefore trustworthy... 2/n

I know I'm late to the party but I finally read Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett birthright citizenship article which by now has been I think pretty conclusively debunked but I'd like to add one thing which is not substantive but about the way in which they advance their political project... 1/n

Illegal/Unconstitutional: ending birthright citizenship for children both of undocumented and temporary (tourists, students, temporary workers, etc.). Instructing Attorney General to seek the death penalty of any undocumented immigrant accused of a capital offense.

Legal camp: end all refugee admissions for at least 90 days, increase resources for detaining and deporting immigrants, send the military to the border, build more infrastructure along southern border, stopping many parele programs, declare an invasion (which is crucial for his 14th Am. argument).

Within 90 days Secretary of Homeland Security will submit report saying if admissions should be resumed (shockingly I assume Noem will say they shouldn't be).

yeah it's like regardless of what you think about the book, I enjoyed but also totally get why others don't, that review is just...what?

IDK but writing a book review that misreads the book and where you basically admit you hate the writer because he get's more attention than you and so you just attack him without barely any substance is...not a good look.

There will be at least 40 people at that trial who will try to win his heart by airdropping information about jury nullification to everyone's phones in the courtroom.

“I am huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings” should enter the “all my apes gone” canon

Hey, it's my Favorite Albums of 2024! I did a Top 27 list, as is custom in the music criticism business, though I actually ended up writing about 57 albums. Really good music year, really good music list! uproxx.com/indie/steven...

A friend just sent me his wrapped and he’s listened to 96000+ minutes which works out to on average like 5 hrs a day and idk how to tell him that sometimes you just gotta sit with your thoughts

Someone referred to latinamerican constitutions as wikiconstitutions b/c Congresses edit constitutions as if they were wikipedia entries, but Mexico prohibiting vapes in the constitution shows that actually it's easier to edit the Mexican constitution than a wikipedia article.

Im sure ppl online are going to be super normal about this.

The 🇲🇽Sheinbaum Govt hates to boast about it (& the 🇺🇸Trump camp likes to glance away) but Mexico is already arresting RECORD numbers of US-bound migrants since last December when Biden closed 2 railway crossing bridges after a peak in 🇺🇸🇲🇽 border encounters

Graph by @adamisacson.com

Mexico has no other immigration policy but this one. It too has embraced Prevention Through Deterrence, Consequence Delivery System, and other CBP speak for criminalizing and detaining migrants as the way to deal with the problem of mass displacement.

The Mexican president, through the letter she wrote Trump and what she revealed of her conversation with him today has admitted what the Mexican government has not wanted to admit for years: that Mexico has indeed become the wall that Trump asked for (and Biden did too).