libbykc.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer and immigration advocate in Chicago.
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The real DOGE administrator is the friends we made along the way
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Glowing letters are generally always more helpful than not. I think thereās about a .1% chance that the IJ would google a person who provided a letter of support.
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I did not say deportation has always been widespread. But it has always happened. I do not think it's a prediction to say that certain citizens are currently more vulnerable than in the past, I think that's reflective of what the legal community is seeing. But of course others are free to disagree.
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The status quo doesnāt have to change for that to be true because itās always been true. Itās just a lot more true now because there is a lot less concern about following the law and a lot more process-free deportation.
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I mean listen. āCitizens arenāt vulnerableā is at best an un-nuanced take. āPeople donāt understand which citizens are vulnerable and whyā is an absolutely accurate take. Where illegal deportation is widespread, citizens of color with barriers to advocating for themselves are absolutely vulnerable.
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I think youāre absolutely right, yet also - if thereās no due process then there is no real guarantee that USCs will be able to exercise their rights. During 1.0 I wouldnāt have believed it but now it doesnāt seem like the biggest reach, especially for the party of birtherism and āreal Americans.ā
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TLDR if you don't like asylum call your representatives, don't support autocracy. I mean - I doubt anyone who wants to eliminate asylum is reading this. But if so - maybe learn more about what asylum is and who it helps before you make those calls. It's a widely recognized international right.
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If we as a country decided we didn't want to offer asylum anymore, congress, the representative branch of the government, could change the law. Congress hasn't done that. It would be a hugely unpopular move, b/c ultimately it's an obsession of white nationalists rather than "the will of the people."
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Facts continue to be of little value in the "immigration debate" (whatever that even is). It's an ultra complex issue and I think many people just fall back on confirmation bias because it's so hard to make heads or tales of. I sympathize. But better to listen to experts than bros with opinions.
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So far that means Apple and Microsoft for me. Iām not deleting my google account yet bc I have a lot of STUFF I need to back up first, BUT, I am logging out and using other things instead so they canāt mine my data as much or make money by showing me ads š¤·š»āāļø
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-Looking for alternatives to Google apps. I mean listen choosing one big tech corporation over another feels not that meaningful but for now choosing corporations that are staying committed to DEI and doing more to protect data, and just generally not jumping on board with Trump, feels worth it.
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-Deleted Threads. Fully leaving Meta is a long term project but I can certainly delete the platform I barely use.
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-Stopped using Chrome (mostly already did this, I go with Safari or Firefox)
-Canceled the one Amazon subscription I had and found an equivalent product at a small business
-Researching where else I can buy the things I like to buy at Whole Foods
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Weāve been talking to people with textbook asylum claims including literal torture survivors. This is I think the 5th asylum ban weāve litigated but the first time there is literally nothing anyone can do to get into a procedural posture where they can seek asylum. Itās, well, shitty.
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Team seethe
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3) no end in sight - usually we put together one big case and then things get back to ānormalā for a while. Now not only are we working on multiple big cases simultaneously, we have a to do list of additional cases waiting for us.
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2) policies are more harsh - meaning staff are exposed to ever more traumatic and just awful client stories but yet there is less recourse than ever before. Not for nothing do immigration attorneys have some of the highest burn out levels: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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1) same amount of resources for way more cases - project Iām working on now has less than half the staff weād prefer to be working on it but everyone else is needed on other equally big and urgent projects.
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"Immigration" is a very convenient panic to whip up when you are trying to conceal that you are making things worse for the issues people *actually* care about (cost of living, jobs, education, health etc)
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You can find the long explanation of how mediation works in the link, but for now I have updated the graphs to show "immigration" is only an issue when people think about their country, not when they think about them personally
The former is heavily mediated
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Canāt wait for your live posted reaction to the ending
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Anyway honestly just spitballing while I am laying on my couch trying not to think about workā¦
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Also heās trying to use expedited removal to deport people who entered the country in the last two yearsā¦harder to do if their court cases are moving forward and impossible to do if theyāve already won. So they donāt want the system to work.