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lilysaxelrod.bsky.social

US immigration lawyer, Broadway fangirl & choir nerd, appreciator of internet nonsense. "To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now." -Hadestown. she/her 🏳️‍🌈 www.axelrodlaw.com

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It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

Incredible scoop! Career officials inside the Trump administration first viewed the case of Mr. Abrego like any normal case of a wrongful deportation — they began looking for ways to bring him back, as happens normally when ICE makes mistakes. Then the White House got involved, and blew it up.

submitted 8 days ago • 84 comments

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 9 days ago • 96 comments

In my adult lifetime the Republicans went from “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” to “Vladimir, STOP!”

submitted 10 days ago • 354 comments

1/ To be clear: This is Homeland Security (a named defendant) deliberately evading an injunction preventing the admin from renditioning detainees anywhere other than their country of origin/removal - i.e., El Salvador - by first sending them to Gitmo & then having Defense Dept send them to CECOT...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

I will say this once again, the deportation fever is meant to send Hispanics out of the public sphere. To make them hide or to make them leave.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Watch out, fellow immigration lawyers. Know your rights, record anyone claiming to be law enforcement, train your staff to do the same.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really strong brief that’s worth your time if you’re interested in these issues. I was a bit skeptical of the concept of habeas class actions, but I think this brief decisively demonstrates that they are legally sound. Whether SCOTUS will agree is another story. But it should!

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Possible signs of change? "the full Court didn’t wait for the Fifth Circuit—or act through the individual Circuit Justice ... didn’t hide behind any procedural technicalities... seemed to not be content with relying upon representations by the government’s lawyers"

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice. He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama. It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

submitted 15 days ago • 293 comments

These are the birthright citizenship cases, which present honestly the single best argument for nationwide injunctions I can think of; that it would be absolutely insane to have a system where a person’s US citizenship could change when traveling from one state to another.

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

Make no mistake, it wasn't an 'accidental' deportation, it was a test. Failing to abide by a court order sets up the precedent to ignore future court orders. This is not a drill.

submitted 17 days ago • 154 comments

Right wing Star Wars fans at some level realize that throwing a wrongly accused man into an off shore mega prison where no one leaves is literally what the Empire does in Andor, right?

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

1. Deport KAG illegally. 2. Claim you can't fix it bc he's abroad now. 3. Send "you must leave the country" notices "accidentally" to US citizen immigration lawyers. 4. Prosecute critics of illegal deportation & torture. 5. "Oops, we disappeared US citizens to CECOT. They were terrorists though. 🤷‍♂️"

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

"You have 34 days to respond to this request for evidence, which is the maximum time according to this specific regulation [which says the maximum time is 12 weeks]. Oh and we've been sitting on your application for 2.5 years, so better hurry up and respond!"

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Lawgeeks, here's an interesting one. Guy had a pro se habeas petition pending when he was moved to CECOT. Asserts venue in Georgia.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

submitted 18 days ago • 831 comments

NEW: If you paid taxes for 2024, you likely paid $3,707 for weapons and war, from Pentagon contractors to nuclear weapons. That's more than you paid for Medicaid ($1,823), the Department of Education ($787), and the National Institutes of Health ($149) combined. We need to reprioritize. #TaxDay

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

We wouldn't be where we are today without the Patriot Act, which created ICE in 2003

submitted 19 days ago • 80 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 19 days ago • 719 comments

Proud of Harvard today. If that massive endowment is good for anything, it’s this.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Wanna emphasize. We did this to ourselves over DECADES. Congressional delegation after delegation, Supreme Court case after case, we created a body of pseudo-law where just labeling anything "foreign affairs" allowed a president to claim absolute power. Just sitting there waiting for Trump.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments