Let me get this straight: The current administration can get away with life-threatening "administrative errors" and ignoring court rulings, but asylum seekers can have their case thrown out for a typo? Sounds about right.
Thanks for sharing your analysis of this disturbing development, Austin. I wrote about this with a lot more snark earlier this week. Now the New York Times has covered it as well. The real question is: will anybody care?
We need to re-write the poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty: "Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.... Don't come. Just don't bother. We won't let you in--unless you're white and a billionaire with connections."
Let me get this straight: The current administration can get away with life-threatening "administrative errors" and ignoring court rulings, but asylum seekers can have their case thrown out for a typo? Sounds about right.
Thanks for sharing your analysis of this disturbing development, Austin. I wrote about this with a lot more snark earlier this week. Now the New York Times has covered it as well. The real question is: will anybody care?
https://careenshannon.substack.com/p/kangaroo-immigration-courts-become
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/immigration-asylum-judges-policy.html?smid=li-share
Oh just starting reading yours too! Excellent, I'm adding it to my post. :)
We need to re-write the poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty: "Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.... Don't come. Just don't bother. We won't let you in--unless you're white and a billionaire with connections."