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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Immigration'
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 [...]
Tags: 14th Amendment·African-Americans·birthright·Chinese·citizenship·Civil War·common sense·conservative logic·conservatives·Dred Scott v. Sanford·George Will·Immigration·Indians·jus soli·Mexicans·racism·slavery·Washington Post·welfare
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’ [...]
Tags: Antonin Scalia·Clarence Thomas·criminal law·deportation·drugs·immigrants' rights·Immigration·ineffective assistance of counsel·John McCain·John Paul Stevens·Justice Department·justices·legal advice·N.S.A.·oil drilling·Padilla v. Kentucky·Sixth Amendment·U.S. Constitution·Vaughn Walker·warrantless wiretapping·Wonkette
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 [...]
Tags: Best Buy·Houston Chronicle·Immigration·Joe Arpaio·Salvation Army·Santa Claus·SantaCake·The Gap·undocumented children·War on Christmas
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 [...]
Tags: American Apparel·hot pants·Immigration·Janet Napolitano·Legalize L.A.·Obama Administration
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, [...]
Tags: ACLU·ACLU of Texas·CAP·ICE·Immigration·Irving Texas·local immigration enforcement·racial profiling·racism·Texas·Warren Institute
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 & [...]
Tags: 287(g)·ACLU·Border Patrol·civil liberties·conservative logic·idiocy·immigrant rights·Immigration·Josh Treviño·racial profiling·Texas·Twitter
A Modest Proposal
June 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AS, Arts and Entertainment, Immigration
I thought for sure Sandra Bullock would crawl off onto an ice floe after the one-two movie flop punch that was Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous and The Lake House. But like Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Bullock’s acting career continues to exist despite all reason and human decency. The latest from still-acting-for-some-reason-Bullock is The [...]
Tags: Anne Fletcher·Immigration·Rachel Griffiths·Richard Jenkins·Ryan Reynolds·Sandra Bullock·Six Feet Under·Step Up·The Proposal·The Visitor
. . . instead of watching TV Land. . .
May 31st, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Arts and Entertainment, Immigration
Over the past few months, I’ve (very) slowly been compiling a list of things which I thought existed only as plot devices in sitcoms, but have since learned actually occur in real life as well. So far, the list includes: 1) Immigrants getting married to get citizenship, 2) High school students being forced to carry [...]
Tags: Immigration·pregnancy·reality·sitcoms·Vito Spatafore·water·whiplash