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The new pop up on the USCIS e-filing site is gratuitous and nasty. “Making America Safe Again America welcomes those who respect our laws. Follow the law and you will find opportunity. Break it and you will find consequences. DHS warns illegal aliens to self-deport and stay out.”

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

EOIR's Director says in a memo that the Biden admin targeted immigration court leadership unfairly, which was unprecedented, but since Biden started it, the "EOIR will continue" that practice. Good Lord. It is Biden's fault that we're breaking the law. Got it. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

submitted 13 days ago • 440 comments

So, who's gonna file this in the DACA litigation? They screamed for yeeeears that presidents didn't have the authority to create new immigration options - let alone visas. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It's FOIA day! I requested the "secret" adjudications policies that the EOIR Director described in this memo. She described "secret operational policies related to case adjudications" which "undermined confidence in the integrity of EOIR proceedings." Sounded bad! /1 www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Hahahaha the EB-5 program is already both riddled with fraud and administered so poorly that the millionaires who qualify have to wait 5 to 7 years for an answer. Now we're going to make a new, worse version that the government can profit off of. How could that go wrong?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I track pending denaturalization cases in federal court. In recent years, there have been very few. By my count, there are about 10 cases currently pending. But I just noticed this one today, and it's surprising because of how the government intends to serve the defendant - by publication. /1

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Another Sirce Owen memo! This time she's getting rid of the "longstanding" 15-day filing deadline for immigration court, writing that it had only been in place for thirteen years and that's not longstanding in her book. The new filing deadline is 30 days before trial. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

The National Park Service has removed "T" and all mention of transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument. Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed. 3 articles of clothing laws were why raids happened. Erasure.

submitted 27 days ago • 159 comments

March 2025 visa bulletin - the availability date for the special immigrant juvenile category (EB4) just went backwards by a year and a half. Last month, they said visas were available that were filed January 2021. Now it's Aug. 2019. Bummer.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

submitted 30 days ago • 491 comments

The EOIR has rescinded a memo on language access in immigration court, which had suggested that for detained cases, Immigration Judge should be aware whether the detention facility has a law library. The response is genuinely comical. I'll post screen shots comparing www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Why is this even necessary? A memo saying we don’t like fraud and all EOIR employees should focus on reporting it when they see it. Cool. Like I applaud the sentiment but was a grievance memo about it necessary? www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Acting EOIR Director: For years EOIR's been breaking the law with "secret" adjudications policies that we haven't read and don't know what they say, influencing immigration judges on who to deport, coercing the prosecutors in these cases to capitulate to what we want, etc. Immigration lawyers:

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I do genuinely wonder if Acting EOIR Director Sirce Owen is having any difficulty with having a vacant Office of General Counsel and Office of Policy as she issues these memos, either on her own accord or at the direction of someone above within DOJ. Not a lot of folks left to workshop these with.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I know there are many worse things happening in government, but Sirce Owen, the Acting Director of EOIR, isn't done issuing memos. Two new ones yesterday. These memos don't just cancel prior policies, they also scrub those policies from the web, so you can't know what those policies said. /1

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment