Should say “asylum on the spot”… https://t.co/Lx3yvhLVdh
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Apr 20, 2025
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Should say “asylum on the spot”… https://t.co/Lx3yvhLVdh
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Apr 20, 2025
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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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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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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
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Apr 20, 2025
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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
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Apr 20, 2025
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What did happen with the Epstein files? https://t.co/IeJIU5VgKm
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Apr 19, 2025
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“Howard Lutnick, who detests Mr. Bessent.” Am I the last to know this? https://t.co/IjnQ0l3RXD
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Apr 19, 2025
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On yesterday’s brash, transgressive Revolution-Has-Come David Brooks column … https://t.co/oljK2Af61y
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Apr 18, 2025
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Seems like a wildly implausible strategy for Dems to “ride…to a midterm victory” … https://t.co/ya67swu23e
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Apr 18, 2025
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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
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Apr 18, 2025
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Shapiro vs. Schumer https://t.co/2COm437uRj
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Apr 18, 2025
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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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Link to Friendly article: https://t.co/DYrFwNrms6
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Apr 18, 2025
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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
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Apr 18, 2025
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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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Shorter (but more pretentious): You don’t get Aufhebung with Thermidor, mister. https://t.co/oljK2Aeyc0
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Apr 18, 2025
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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— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Apr 18, 2025
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Excellent teaser https://t.co/oR1Xcp3aod
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Apr 17, 2025
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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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“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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Not a strong response https://t.co/uMszcbecvZ
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Apr 16, 2025
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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
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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
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Apr 16, 2025
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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
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Apr 16, 2025
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