Should say “asylum on the spot”… https://t.co/Lx3yvhLVdh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2025

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April 20, 2025 at 02:33PM
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Links: https://t.co/gNNhzfmCD6 [search for “on the spot”] and https://t.co/ZWFSPajImS [search for “I Called It”]

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Apr 20, 2025

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April 20, 2025 at 02:36AM
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The Mayorkas/Lankford “bipartisan” border bill pushed by Democrats allowed relatively low level asylum officers to decide claims of illegal migrants in “non-adversarial” interviews — and in effect grant amnesty on the spot. Why not empower similarly low-level DHS officials to https://t.co/rsBAKxAoWV

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Apr 20, 2025

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April 20, 2025 at 02:35AM
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The Mayorkas/Lankford “bipartisan” border bill pushed by Democrats allowed relatively low level asylum officers to decide claims of illegal migrants in “non-adversarial” interviews — and in effect grant amnesty on the spot. Why not empower similarly low-level DOJ officials to https://t.co/rsBAKxAoWV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2025

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April 20, 2025 at 02:28AM
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Huh? That seems absurdly overoptimistic–like saying “I don’t see why civil service protections would set back attempts to speed firing federal workers.” Of course they would. Maybe there’s some bare-bones due process system that wouldn’t dramatically slow down deportations. https://t.co/TK7rN7IGlU

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 20, 2025

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April 20, 2025 at 12:56AM
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What did happen with the Epstein files? https://t.co/IeJIU5VgKm

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2025

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April 19, 2025 at 02:40AM
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“Howard Lutnick, who detests Mr. Bessent.” Am I the last to know this? https://t.co/IjnQ0l3RXD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 19, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 11:15PM
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On yesterday’s brash, transgressive Revolution-Has-Come David Brooks column … https://t.co/oljK2Af61y

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 03:41PM
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Seems like a wildly implausible strategy for Dems to “ride…to a midterm victory” … https://t.co/ya67swu23e

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 03:29PM
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.@DLeonhardt praises Obama’s “hardheaded approach to … deporation,” presumably c̴o̴n̴n̴e̴d̴ impressed by the same bogus stats https://t.co/VD5RU9vvaX https://t.co/gnXnLOo1aD

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 03:19PM
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Shapiro vs. Schumer https://t.co/2COm437uRj

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Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 02:48PM
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Obama’s high deportation numbers were bogus, inflated by counting “removals” that wouldn’t have been counted in previous years https://t.co/0htTliFr1F https://t.co/W9Cfa0Br6q

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Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 02:18PM
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Link to Friendly article: https://t.co/DYrFwNrms6

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Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 02:45AM
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Friendly does not seem to grapple with the possibility that even the most rudimentary due process “hearing” (stopping short of the right to call witnesses, etc) for a clearly important interest (loss of ability to stay in the country) might be sufficient to jam up the system so https://t.co/Q8YVa45Fz9

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 02:16AM
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Link to Brooks column this is about (maybe X will give it a picture): https://t.co/dQZfaRfT5U

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Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 01:32AM
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Shorter (but more pretentious): You don’t get Aufhebung with Thermidor, mister. https://t.co/oljK2Aeyc0

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 01:18AM
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Part 1: Pre-Trump, Law firms and USAID and civil servants were the “sinews of civilization,” built up over centuries. Trump threatens all of it.
Part 2: “Whether it’s the universities, the immigration system or the global economy, we can’t go back to the status quo that

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Apr 18, 2025

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April 18, 2025 at 01:15AM
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Excellent teaser https://t.co/oR1Xcp3aod

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 17, 2025

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April 17, 2025 at 04:35PM
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“Laurene Powell Jobs‘ Deputy: Hit Americans with ‘Surround Sound‘ PR to Get More Migration” https://t.co/O3os9rVnte Also “flood the zone.” Apparently not a lot of introspection in LaureneWorld.

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Apr 17, 2025

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April 17, 2025 at 04:30PM
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“become”?? https://t.co/RJjrtgTvIX

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Apr 17, 2025

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April 16, 2025 at 09:04PM
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Not a strong initial response … https://t.co/uMszcbecvZ

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Apr 16, 2025

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April 16, 2025 at 06:34PM
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Not a strong response https://t.co/uMszcbecvZ

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 16, 2025

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April 16, 2025 at 06:24PM
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Admit I’m now 100% allergic to the “[our hero] destroys” style of tweeting. (I mean, is @csnews ever going to tweet “Scott Jennings off night, Julie Roginsky has a point”?) https://t.co/BBe52QD5Eh

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 16, 2025

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April 16, 2025 at 06:22PM
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Abolish asylum? OK. Instead, “anyone claiming fear of return should automatically be sent to a third country with which we’ve made arrangements,” suggests @MarkSKrikorian. Seems complicated, though. If the 3d country is a horrible place, it’s harsh for those genuinely in fear. If

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 16, 2025

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April 16, 2025 at 04:09PM
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If the president’s party controls Congress, and they actually have some discipline, that’s the most obvious potential solution to the Constitution’s barriers to getting anything done. Don’t mock it when it happens! https://t.co/7icJYOKRDG

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 16, 2025

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April 16, 2025 at 02:34PM
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