One more FOIA thing for today. DOJ has confirmed that they had filed 92 denaturalization cases this year by mid-July. That's the highest year ever, by far. That number looks to be pretty close to accurate, but I do have one caveat about the rest of the years... www.muckrock.com/foi/united-s...

NEW: The Trump admin is proposing to impose a $103,265 fee on all H-1B visa petitions which are subject to the annual cap of 85,000 visas. The fee would apply to all those selected in the annual lottery who go on to file H-1B visa petitions. There is a 30-day comment period which starts tomorrow.

I just got a FOIA back about the EOIR's Office of Chief Administrative Hearing Officer that raises really serious questions about whether that agency is functioning lawfully. My initial review says they're not. There's no functioning CAHO. A thread, because the documents are kind of wild. 🧵

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

I wanted to point out a few more things from the Immigration Judge Training materials we received last week that are just plain false. Like, the IJs aren't getting enough training as it is, but they're also getting affirmative mis-advice during that training. Here's what I found🧵

EOIR has a new "fact sheet" out saying new immigration judges receive 5 consecutive weeks of training: intensive classroom instruction, supervised hearings, and mentoring. I got the May 2026 materials through FOIA. The fact sheet is wrong. 🧵 www.justice.gov/eoir/page/fi...

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

If you try to get help from the chat bot on the USCIS website, you now have to first answer questions about why you haven't applied for the Trump Gold Card. The only way out of the loop is to click "Connect to Live Agent," but that's not the end of it...

Next try suspending shooting people

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

* ICE SUSPENDS VEHICLE STOPS FOR US IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT -- SOURCES @reuters.com

No you’re not reading that wrong. They aren’t required to provide the terms on an Asylum Cooperative Agreement to decide that you are subject to the terms of an Asylum Cooperative Agreement even tho the reg requires the IJ to determine whether you’re subject to the terms of the Agreement.

Jackson asked at oral argument if there needed to be a racial epithet to conclude that the comments were racist. Alito’s answer is a resounding yes.

David Noll@david.noll.org · 2mo ago

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool

#OnThisDay in 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of the Tulsa race massacre: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p...

History of Jazz at Kstate with Wayne Goins. Far outside of my philosophy major but I still remember way more about jazz history than a bunch of the philosophy I read that year.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last yr.

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

i was reminded that i made a helpful tool if you're somebody who files FOIA requests for email logs (as a spreadsheet) upload them to GraphEmails.com and you can generate network graphs of who's emailing each other, which you can style and filter (or use to filter the log)

AI slop comes to OCAHO, a tiny, typically opaque agency within the Department of Justice that fines employers for unlawful employment, I-9 violations, etc. This document is a "notice of case assignment," which isn't normally published. But this one addresses AI. www.justice.gov/eoir/meet-ad...

This visualization is the asylum grant/denial/withdrawal rate since the start of the Trump administration. They've got the grant rate down to 2% since last summer. The average before that was about 20% pretty consistentlyover Trump I and Biden. www.mobilepathways.org/dashboards/a...

In yesterday's BIA decision about deporting children, the BIA decided that even though an agency regulation allows discretionary administrative closure, an IJ can't follow a regulation when it conflicts with the underlying statute. That is a new position for the BIA. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

chat roulette but for oral argument recordings, is this something?

This attorney got sanctioned last year for filing two motions with fake citations hallucinated by AI. So now they’ve done it *again* and have been sanctioned again. Is $5k a substantial enough sanction for a second offense? www.nj.com/camden/2026/...

In this clip, Kash Patel says the grand jury heard evidence that Comey deleted the '8647' post and apologized. Neither fact appears in the indictment. Hmm. Did the FBI director just disclose evidence presented before a grand jury?

Why does the Comey indictment contain a forfeiture notice? What property would they be seeking to forfeit? The seashells? That’s the only property described in the indictment…

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEWS: Read the latest Comey indictment www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

EOIR followers - EOIR has updated its list of Assistant Chief Immigration Judges to remove Brian Counihan, Eric Dillow and Todd Masters from the courts in Batavia, Boston, Buffalo, Chelmsford, Elizabeth, Fort Snelling, Newark, and Omaha. Those courts have no ACIJ now. www.justice.gov/eoir/acij-as...

Assistant Chief Immigration Judge (ACIJ) Assignments

justice.gov

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

These new bi pride uniforms the Royals are wearing are pretty great.

Can I tell y'all what a goddamn waste of resources this stupid appeal is? DHS doesn't show up to their own hearing to prosecute this woman. The judge terminates WITHOUT PREJUDICE for failure to prosecute. DHS can just file a new NTA, which takes all of five minutes www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

Sullivan & Cromwell apologizing for AI hallucinations while their letterhead is clearly hallucinating tab stops. What’s going on here

Just got a BIA Briefing Schedule in a case where the Board received the transcript in May 2023. Three years ago. The case has just been sitting at the BIA waiting for the clerk's office to issue this two-page briefing schedule for three years. For no reason. We get 21 days to file our brief.

There is a hearing tomorrow at 11 AM in the lawsuit where the AUSA in March informed the court that ICE had been lying to them all along about the import of their court arrests memo. The case is African Communities Together v. Lyons (1:25-cv-06366).

Ha the BIA decides that not letting noncitizens give any closing or opening argument in immigration court isn't a due process violation, but... it still reverse the IJ's negative credibility finding. That's what he says he wanted to give a closing argument on. So... www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...