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Diego!

@diegoatlaw.bsky.social

I work in immigration law for the rights of people to move, focused on helping some of the world's most vulnerable people. Dreaming of a world beyond borders and oppression. Anticarceral. Non-binary, any pronouns

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Diego!@diegoatlaw.bsky.social · 21h ago

The Board of Immigration Appeals and Blanche: wow we gotta make a bunch of pro se decisions precedential It’s really persuasive to make case law based on no or untrained briefing

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d ago

DHS has begun summoning Haitian immigrants in Ohio to check-in appointments with officers who are outfitting them with ankle monitors, in what appears to be a new enforcement effort after the Supreme Court allowed the end their humanitarian protections.

ICE begins outfitting Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors, attorneys say

Haitian immigrants in Ohio with temporary protected status are being called to ICE offices for check-ins after federal officials said their protections had ended.

washingtonpost.com

Diego!@diegoatlaw.bsky.social · last mo.

OMFG got a filing in that just wouldn't fit in the electronic upload limits DEAD (never happened to me like this with ECF, the EOIR upload limit is a killer with large motions)

Bill Pullman independence day speech meme, where bill pullman is acting as the president in the 1996 silly action sci fi Independence day, in a shirt, bomber jacket, holding a mic for a loudspeaker, captioned as follows: "the 4th of July will no longer be known as an american holiday, but as the dey when the world declared in one voice [...] today we celebrate our independence from the motion day.
Diego!@diegoatlaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is astonishing. It's also, in my view, illegal! You can't use discretionary determinations to undermine the statutory scheme, and adjustment of status is a system set up under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The discretionary element for it can't be lawfully used like this.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services PM-602-0199 May 21, 2026 Policy Memorandum SUBJECT: Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process Purpose This memorandum reminds officers and the public that adjustment of status under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is a matter of discretion and administrative grace not designed to supersede the regular consular processing of immigrant visas. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reaffirms this consistent and longstanding approach and declares as a matter of general policy its intention to faithfully apply the statutes consistently with this understanding.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4mo ago

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

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Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please don't forget this story. They deliberately dropped off Nurul Amin Shah, a blind refugee, in freezing weather miles away from home. Less than a week later, he was dead. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Death of refugee found after being released by Border Patrol determined to be homicide

Erie County, New York, officials said the cause of death was “complications of a perforated ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration.”

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