Immigration in the US

Pyperkub · 2019-07-03T23:08:23.994Z

Clay:

https://twitter.com/MikeSacksEsq/status/1146524615273013249?s=20

Whee!

My guess is that Trump’s new plan is to “accidentally” release the Census with the Citizenship question, and then Pardon anyone who gets in legal trouble.

It strikes me as a very Trumpian thing to do.

MikeOberly · 2019-07-03T23:31:57.008Z

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Josh Dawsey (jdawsey1)

At one point in call on citizenship question this afternoon, judge says that he does not believe he can enjoin the president to stop tweeting, but says he might consider ordering the government to "take whatever steps are necessary to counteract such message."

10:38 PM - 3 Jul 2019 560 200

sillhouette · 2019-07-03T23:33:11.842Z

DEEP STATE CONFIRMED

Strollen · 2019-07-03T23:35:01.296Z

I love this line from the judge.

“I assume, although maybe I’m wrong about this, that parties aren’t suggesting I can enjoin the President of the United States from tweeting thing.”

Please judge do this, it would be like the best birthday present the US could get this year.

MikeOberly · 2019-07-03T23:39:29.910Z

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George Conway (gtconway3d)

“Your Honor, as best as we have been able to determine, the executive power is vested in a unstable, dimwitted, subliterate reality television host who didn’t like what he saw on Fox News Channel this morning. That seems to be what’s going on, Your Honor.” twitter.com/bykowicz/statu…

9:43 PM - 3 Jul 2019 7.2K 2.1K

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Julie Bykowicz (bykowicz)

Government lawyer: “I am doing my absolute best to figure out what’s going on.” twitter.com/tierney_megan/…

9:23 PM - 3 Jul 2019 870 280

Timex · 2019-07-04T00:31:02.717Z

I feel bad for these lawyers. They are career dudes. They didn’t sign up for this crap.

scottagibson · 2019-07-04T00:32:57.984Z

(They don’t have to do it.)

Sharpe · 2019-07-04T00:37:46.462Z

I would bet US dollars that some resumes are flying around right now on behalf of some of those folks. Their department let them hang out to dry in open court on a matter of national import. I suspect we will see at least some of the DOJ attorneys leaving for “better opportunities” soon.

Strollen · 2019-07-04T00:57:33.622Z

Who could blame them.I’m sure most can make a lot more money in the private sector, or if they love public sector work, Get a job working for the state of VA or MD.

sillhouette · 2019-07-04T01:59:03.910Z

MikeOberly:

Government lawyer: “I am doing my absolute best to figure out what’s going on.” twitter.com/tierney_megan/…

Maybe they should shut the whole thing down “UNTIL OUR COUNTRY’S REPRESENTATIVES CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!”

Canuck · 2019-07-04T12:47:37.173Z

Starflightdream:

So a coworker sent me this link by email: it was interesting being visited by a relic of my upbringing, Dr. Dobson:

https://tinyurl.com/y48exb6e

He tips his hand early with “the media and leftist politicians have not been truthful about what is going on [at the border]”.

It’s hard to know what to make of the remainder of the article; there are some bizarre leaps in logic approaching doublethink.

He spends a long time building up a deserved case for sympathy for the immigrants, while carefully painting “exhausted U.S. Custom and Border Patrol agents” as “compassionate men and women, sworn to uphold federal law and protect our borders” who can’t even buy basic supplies for detainees being kept in “a huge gym-like building consisting of dozens of fenced-in areas” due to lack of funding.

OK, so we need better immigration processes? No, the answer is “President Donald Trump’s border wall”.

There is much more to it that I don’t have time for, right now… but the article made me see Dr. Dobson (who I hadn’t thought of in a long time) in a different light… I mean, I remember my parents listening to “Focus on the Family” frequently when I was 10 years old or so. I just never seemed to think of him as… this way.

I’m going to send this to my family. They used to, or still do get the Focus on the Family magazine.

scottagibson · 2019-07-04T13:09:19.154Z

ISTM that if you suddenly decide to detain a whole bunch of people who were not being detained before, for no clearly good reason, you can’t really fall back on the lack of adequate facilities and resources problem. Because you created the problem. And the solution seems, well, obvious.

sillhouette · 2019-07-04T22:17:45.513Z

POLITICO

Border agency knew about secret Facebook group for years

Border Patrol leadership knew about photos posted to the group as far back as 2016, when agents reported them, according to a DHS official.

rei · 2019-07-04T22:45:44.368Z

I would pay for a The Division 2 DLC where the new class specialization is BORDER PATROL and I get to beat down the Coloureds and shoot migrant children.

rowe33 · 2019-07-04T22:58:12.754Z

Well duh, Border Patrol leadership is almost certainly IN the group. Of course they knew about it.

Pyperkub · 2019-07-06T00:54:18.412Z

And now the cover-up (but too late…):

The Intercept

Border Patrol Agents Tried to Delete Racist and Obscene Facebook Posts. We...

Border Patrol agents quickly began deleting racist and violent posts after the existence of their private Facebook group was reported.

sillhouette · 2019-07-06T20:26:22.832Z

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cdrLogic (cdrLogic)

Why I'm not invited to Fireworks with the fam: "Wow Cousin Joe! Did you get a license for those? Oh dang that's a Class A misdemeanor. You broke the law! Exactly at the same level asylum seekers do! The ones you said 'deserve to have their kids taken away for breaking the law.'"

4:57 PM - 4 Jul 2019 29K 6.5K

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cdrLogic (cdrLogic)

"Anyway, great display! Why don't we follow it up with a demonstration at the detention center? Oh, that's illegal, too? Well geez. I bet those Boston Tea Party guys felt all weird too, probably should have thought about it, gotten a permit or something. Where are you going?"

5:04 PM - 4 Jul 2019 3.6K 330

MikeOberly · 2019-07-06T22:55:30.476Z

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Walter Shaub (waltshaub)

.@CBP's "leadership knew for months that some children had no beds to sleep on, no way to clean themselves and sometimes went hungry" nytimes.com/interactive/20…

10:30 PM - 6 Jul 2019 610 430

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Walter Shaub (waltshaub)

.@CBP agents took away the medicine for a teenage mother's baby... "the baby’s fever came back and she begged the agents for more medicine. 'Who told you to come to America with your baby, anyway?' one of the agents told her"

10:30 PM - 6 Jul 2019 640 450

Timex · 2019-07-07T16:41:21.268Z

Replace robots with immigrants, and this is basically the primetime fox news lineup.

Sharpe · 2019-07-08T02:17:13.305Z

It seems I was not the only one who suspected the career civil service attorneys for the DOJ on the census case would feel ill-served by Trump’s erratic BS. Per Rick Hasen: " DOJ Lawyers Who Had Represented Government in Census Case are Being Replaced: An Ominous Development".