Aaaand I’m back. 800 views a day is simply not a viable proposition. I’ll be posting here for the time being. Now to update my profile picture…
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Policy Director at @immcouncil . Views expressed here are my own. RTs =/= endorsements.
@inotterwords I obviously am not privy to their inner thoughts, but if I had to guess, you can probably explain pretty much everything restrictions do with the motivation that they truly do not like brown people.
@inotterwords There are really two different legal consequences for crossing the border without authorization.
First, it can be a crime (a misdemeanor for the first entry and a felony for repeat entry), and that crime can lead to jail time and/or civil monetary penalties.
Second, under immigration law, the US can impose a "civil" penalty of deportation for entry without inspection or being present without authorization which, for stupid 19th century reasons, is not legally a "punishment."
@msmith1047 @katherinehawkins I've been here three times over the past 4.5 years. Enjoyed it every time. Great food and great people!
Katherine HawkinsEl Paso is great. Though obviously dealing with a major logistical and humanitarian challenge right now. Delicious food, wonderful people, beautiful mountains and sunsets. Wish I had more time to explore.
@davidkubat @[email protected] As I said in my hot takes; all of this is made up.
@[email protected] Yeah, I really think it's that simple. The Executive Branch wants to have something that is still just pure executive power, unvarnished, with none of the niceties of the modern era of accountability. And if you wanted to pick one area in which the executive should have theoretically limitless power, I guess admitting people into the country is one of them?
@grandmastershah I get it. But I'm not going to let the bastards get me down, right? I still believe there is value in staying on the site and continuing to do the work that I'm doing.
@davidkubat @Diego I bet it chafed him that Justice Jackson went against him in Mezei. So 50 years later when he was asked to weigh in on Whether Immigrants In Detention Should Get Rights, he was happy to be the one who got to official say "hell no, they can just deport themselves whenever they want."
/of course, the whole point of Mezei is that he COULDN'T, no country would take him!
@grandmastershah I'll try to start posting more here, but since a lot of the work I do is responding to things on Twitter it does make a bit more tricky. But I'll try to post any free-standing tweets here, even just to repost if necessary!