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Jan Brewer, Everyone

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics

Here’s a little treat to get you through this lonely time without us – Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, stumbling all over herself in defense of Arizona’s new immigration bill: Q: What does an illegal immigrant look like? A: [Awkwardly laughs.] I do not know. I do not know what an illegal immigrant looks like. [...]

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Hiatus News

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law School

For those couple of LTMF fans who have been missing us for the past few weeks, I offer by way of explanation that this is finals season for us here at LTMF — AR and I are getting ready to graduate from law school. It is painful to be out of touch, especially at a [...]

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Another Dumb Birther Argument

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Politics, Supreme Court

George Will wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post last week called “An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship.”  How anyone got past that atrocious title to actually read the thing is beyond me.  The article should more accurately be titled, “Every year someone makes the same argument about immigrant babies and [...]

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And Now For Some Genuinely Good News

March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court

No amount of oil drilling news can ruin my good mood today, not when there are so many shockingly reasonable federal court decisions being announced. The first, Padilla v. Kentucky, finds that bad legal advice about the immigration consequences of a criminal guilty plea constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel. This is huge. As one immigrants’ [...]

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No More Arpaio SantaCake (Almost)!

December 8th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice

The Houson Chronicle reports that the Salvation Army in Houston has reversed its policy of requiring needy children to present Social Security numbers in order to receive gifts.  More good news: it was neither their intention to offend anyone nor to give the impression they were discriminating against people without Social Security numbers.  Thank goodness!  [...]

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Santa Wants Cookies, Milk, And Proof Of Citizenship

December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice

It’s that time of year again, the time when a small sect of religious crazies forget what Christmas is all about: celebrating the birth of the pagan god of winter, Santa Claus.  It’s the time of year that inspires weirdos to boycott Best Buy for wishing Muslims a happy Eid el-Adha, for example, when what [...]

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Dahlia Lithwick Kicks Serious Ass

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics

Check out DL’s Jurisprudence blog post for this week, where she takes issue with all the nutty objections to trying KSM in New York. In sum: It’s one part fear-mongering (“KSM will explode into a lethal ninja and kill people with his laser-eyes the very minute we bring him stateside!”), one part war-mongering (“We are [...]

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Feds Make Lame Example of American Apparel

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Uncategorized

American Apparel is being pressured by an ongoing federal investigation of its workers to fire about 1,800 employees in the next few days based on irregularities in the employees’ identity documents, according to a story in the NY Times. (I would cite to the LA Times, but they seem to have been scooped. Surprise.) This [...]

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Turns Out, Local Police Sure Like Trying To Deport People

September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Uncategorized

A new study by the Warren Institute just came out this month analyzing some extremely rare arrest data from Irving, Texas. The ACLU of Texas managed, by some wild miracle, to get arrest records for a 23-month period during which Irving started participating in the Criminal Alien Program (“CAP”). (Get it? ICE CAP? I know, [...]

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Pity the Fool

September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Technology

For those of us no-name types, Twitter provides an outlet for the little germs of wisdom we come up with while drunk and/or pathetically lonely. For political types, however, Twitter is an easily mockable (and equally misguided) excuse for a soapbox. Josh Treviño (former Bush writer of some sort, who now runs a “strategies & [...]

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