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The fact that it would take me upwards of 10 minutes on a whiteboard to prove the basic context you'd need to fully understand my subsequent 10 minute rant goes a long way in itself to explain how "unspeakably inhumane" has become the default setting for US immigration policy
In short: this provision already permanently separates families over nothing. This interpretation will separate many more families in the largest federal circuit over nothing.
"If men must turn square corners when they deal with the government, it cannot be too much to expect the government to turn square corners when it deals with them." Justice Gorsuch for #SCOTUS in Niz-Chavez v. Garland today. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf… a 🧵
In June 2018, SCOTUS issued an opinion (8-1) in Pereira v. Sessions concerning the document that begins #removal (aka #deportation) proceedings against #noncitizens: the Notice to Appear or #NTA
In Pereira, Justice Sotomayor (writing for the 8-strong majority) said that an #NTA that didn't include a time or place listed for the removal proceedings was not a valid notice to appear. (The gov't typically issued NTAs staying "TBD" for time and place.)
1/ Let's talk about a few small but vital parts of the #USCitizenshipAct which may not make the kinds of headlines a pathway to citizenship does, but could make millions of people's lives better the day it passes. 
2/ Before we do that, it is very important to me that you understand just how *bad* Joe Biden's immigration record is. It is not at all unfair to say that he is directly responsible for some of the worst stuff that this bill is only now undoing.
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3/ Let's start with the definition of the word "conviction."
Every state has some form of alternative sentencing designed to divert charges & keep people from the lifetime burden of a criminal record.
Congress (& Biden) didn't like this, and changed federal law accordingly.
Every state has some form of alternative sentencing designed to divert charges & keep people from the lifetime burden of a criminal record.
Congress (& Biden) didn't like this, and changed federal law accordingly.
1/ 48 hours after Trump's ICE was given the green light to use "expedited removal" to deport non-citizens ANYWHERE IN THE US w/o seeing a judge first, #SCOTUS has today confirmed that this power is unreviewable. I'm reading the decision now, initial thoughts below
2/ Alito writes for the majority, and in case you had any doubt about where he's been getting his news he leads with the Fox/#TantonNetwork view of #asylum. (FYI, the fact that most asylum apps are not granted is not a valid argument against asylum, but that's for another day.)
3/ In 1996 Congress (working closely with the Clinton admin) passed the single worst immigration bill in modern American history, aka #IIRIRA. Among many other terrible things, this bill both created the expedited removal process & strictly limited review of ERs in the courts
