Below is my column on Fox.com on the two immigration decisions yesterday from the Supreme Court. One of the cases turned on a Clintonesque debate of what the meaning of “in” is. In the end, however, the Court went “all in” with executive authority over immigration policy.
Here is the column:
“In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place … before the person enters that place.”
Those words may seem ripped from the pages of Dr. Seuss but they are taken from the 6-3 majority opinion of Justice Samuel Alito in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. They captured the lost-in-translation character of the Court’s fight over whether undocumented persons must be physically present in the United States to make an asylum claim. In one of a pair of major immigration wins for the Trump Administration, the Court ruled that asylum seekers who are stopped on the other side of the Southern border are not present in the United States. If treated as inside the country despite being outside it, these individuals would be allowed to enter and remain while their asylum claims are pending.
The case highlights the lengths to which the Biden Administration went to facilitate the entry of undocumented persons into the country. It rescinded a policy of “metering” that was put into place by the Obama Administration (and later restored and expanded by the Trump Administration).
In seeking to bar Trump from enforcing the same policy as the Obama Administration, the three liberal justices sounded positively Clintonesque in debating what the meaning of “in” is. Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced the majority’s “illogical interpretation is driven almost entirely by a fixation on a single word: ‘in.’ Words, however, must be read in context and with attention to how they fit into the statute as a whole.”
In their view, “contextual” reading means that you can be “in” the United States without actually being “in” the United States.
The sharp disagreement in the opinions spilled over to the release of the opinions. Justice Alito read a summary of his opinion, followed by a more lengthy reading by Justice Sotomayor of her dissent. The stinging dissent produced a rare rebuttal from the bench by Alito, who was surprised by the extended comments and said that, if he had not been blindsided, he would have said more, including how “the policy in question was adopted by two very different administrations.”
The court also delivered a major victory in Mullin v. Doe, upholding the right of the Administration to strip more than 356,000 Syrian and Haitian immigrants of temporary protection status. Again, lower courts afforded the Obama and Biden Administrations greater leeway in granting such status than Trump in rescinding it.
The combination of the two opinions offers significant advances for the Administration in addressing millions of undocumented persons in this country.
In her dissent in Mullin, Sotomayor invoked the image of the voyage of the M. S. St. Louis, where Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were not allowed entry in various countries only to be returned to Germany, where many died in the Holocaust.
The problem with the analogy is that all of those on the St. Louis were demonstrably in flight from lethal persecution. Virtually all of the asylum claims made at our borders are rejected as unsupported or invalid. Immigration groups hand out material across the border, coaching immigrants to claim asylum status to guarantee that they can stay in the country for years before any final adjudication can be made. The acceptance rate of these claims is currently below five percent.
The question is how to limit such constructive entries if being “in” the United States does not require actually being in the United States. More importantly, absent a clear legal basis for such constructive entries, it is not clear why courts should be able to dictate such policies. The control of our borders has long been an area marked by heavy deference to the Executive Branch. During the Biden Administration, courts often embraced that discretion as the Administration allowed over ten million unvetted immigrants to enter.
Trump was elected on the pledge to reverse these policies by using the same discretion that his predecessor employed to open the border.
The dissent shows how untethered these opinions are from not just “ordinary speech,” but principles of judicial restraint. Placing these disputes in “context” is a liberating construct that allows a court to read the words “arrives in the United States” to include those outside of the United States. It also gives a glimpse at the likely approach of the new expanded Supreme Court that Democrats are pledging if they regain power.
The decisions in Mullin v. Doe and Mullin v. Al Otro Lado will not erase the backlog in immigration cases or remove millions of unvetted immigrants. That will require both an expansion of our immigration courts and real reforms to further streamline the removal process. However, in two 6-3 opinions, the Administration regained substantial authority in the management of our borders.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Gigi is obsessed with abortion. She lies awake at night, warming herself to the thought of all that blood oozing out of the human fetus that was alive just three seconds ago. “A human body mangled and dead,” she says to herself with glee. “Dialation and curettage, what a lovely sound that has,” she thinks to herself with a smile. She imagines the burned skin from a saline solution, the ripped-apart limbs, the brain oozing out of the skull that was just bashed in. These are the things that keep her and all abortaholics in the Dem party warm at night. They think about these things and go, mmmm, ahhh, yesss! yess! yesss! She imagines a woman on a cold steel table with the baby growing inside her being ripped to shreds, and says, “I’ll have what she’s having” in orgasmic ecstasy.
The above comment is Estovir having a Trump-size tantrum because he can’t respond to all the arguments on today’s topic.
^ The moron who thinks everyone else is named Estovir ^
All of that sounds like what you imagine. An orgy of torture.
I picture a child with cigarette burns on it’s behind, in a diaper that filled two days ago, begging for feeding from a mother who doesn’t care, a child that only gets a bath because the mother broke it’s arm and they cannot stand the continuous crying and hopes that a clean baby will attract less attention at the ER. A child who grows up reminded they are the cause of all their mother’s problems. When they cut school the mothers don’t care. When they commit robberies the mothers says they knew they would turn out no good, but only to close friends. If interviewed they lie and say they didn’t raise their child to be a criminal. If the child is a girl they are so bereft of love they get pregnant at 12 or 13 just so they have someone who they know will love them for being the mother. They use drugs or alcohol to numb their pain.
They end up homeless or in subsidized housing to some old man from Kansas can complain about the waste of his tax dollars on worthless human beings.
Alito’s Confounding Argument
In a confoundingly circular argument, Alito argued that Trump and his administration were not racially motivated in their decision to deny TPS to Haitians. To prove this, Alito cited how Trump’s Department of Homeland Security “terminated the TPS designations for every country that came up for review” – including countries in South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A policy cannot be racist, he argued, if it also antagonises not only Black Haitians, but also many other groups of people of colour.
“That conclusion is deeply troubling not just for immigration cases, but for the state of racial justice in this country more broadly,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney for the Syrian plaintiffs in the case.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/trump-supreme-court-immigration
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Alito’s argument seems to be, ‘This administration is consistently racist to all non-Whites’.
That’s a SCOTUS argument?
The demand for racism exceeds its supply. Liberals see racism where none exists. They’ve been playing the race and victim cards for nearly a century now. The don’t fool anyone except themselves.
This is obvious from the above comment. Notice how it basically equates “non-whites” with “anyone who is in another country besides America.”
Consider the source: The Guardian. Arguably the most left wing mainstream media outlet in Britain, which is currently on the verge of collapse because of…wait for it…unrestrained illegal immigration. Not exactly a source I think we here in the US should be taking advice from.
The Chinese Communist Party bot you responded to always relies on the most left-wing deceitful, lying sources. Earlier today it was the NY Times, a former newspaper which is now a communist propaganda publication.
The “Joe Biden” administration tried to destroy America with open borders. Trump ran on reversing that policy, closing borders, and deporting illegal aliens.
People had a choice: more of the same with cackling Carmela, or restoring American sovereignty with Trump.
People voted for Trump over Carmela. Trump is now doing exactly what he promised, and what people voted for.
Biden followed the law as written by Congress. Trump added conditions that are not part of immigration law.
Be specific. In what way did Biden follow the law by opening the border and letting 10 million unvetted migrants in?
What conditions did Trump add that are not part of immigration law?
A generic statement like that which is directly opposite of everything that has been reported in the last 6 years, without any elaboration or evidence, is really kind of pathetic, don’t you think?
It’s all the left has Oldman.
They have tried more than once to murder Prez Trump. Given the chance, they would do the same to us.
“They” who tried to go after Trump were raised in good Christian conservative homes.
What are good Christian conservatives doing to drive their children to try to kill Trump?
They applied for asylum as the law allows, and they are allowed to stay while that application is reviewed. That is the law Biden followed.
Trump said that applying for asylum is not allowed by a Catch-22 argument.
I think the US Supreme Court just said you are wrong.
Here’s a portion of what I wrote today regarding Alito’s explanation as to why obvious racism isn’t overt racism and can be ignored:
Ten Exact Quotes Trump or His Officials Made About Haitians, Africans, or TPS Countries — the ones Alito says “aren’t overtly racial”
These are the statements the plaintiffs cited — and the ones Alito dismissed as “not overtly racial.”
1. “Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.”
— Donald Trump, Oval Office, June 2017 (reported by New York Times)
This was said during a meeting about ending TPS for Haiti.
2. “They all have AIDS.”
— Donald Trump, referring to Haitian immigrants, June 2017 (NYT)
This was cited directly in the TPS litigation record.
3. “Haitians eat cat. They eat dog.”
— Trump DHS official (reported by Politico, WaPo, and sworn testimony)
This was cited in the TPS case as evidence of animus toward Haitians.
4. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
— Donald Trump, January 2018 (multiple outlets)
Said during a meeting about TPS for Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations.
5. “We should have more people from places like Norway.”
— Donald Trump, same meeting as above
This was cited as evidence of a racial preference for white immigrants.
6. “Nigerians will never go back to their huts once they see the United States.”
— Donald Trump, 2017 (reported by The New York Times)
This was cited in the TPS case as evidence of animus toward African TPS holders.
7. “We don’t want more people from Africa.”
— Donald Trump, 2018 (reported by Washington Post)
Said during a discussion of TPS and refugee admissions.
8. “Haiti is a shithole. They all have AIDS.”
— Donald Trump, 2017 (NYT)
This is the combined version cited in the TPS litigation record.
9. “We should be bringing in people from countries like Norway, not Haiti.”
— Donald Trump, 2018 (multiple outlets)
This was cited as evidence of racial preference in immigration policy.
10. “TPS is being abused by people from countries that send us their worst.”
— Senior Trump DHS official (reported by AP and Reuters)
Alito manages in his opinion to racesplain the comments by Trump and others, declaring these statements weren’t overtly racist. Here are nine claims Alito made when absolving the Trump administration of racist intentions:
1. Claim: “None of the statements were overtly racial.”
Actual words:
“None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary was overtly racial…”
This is the Court’s foundational reframing move. I invite you to read the statements above and find them not racially overt. What are they, minimally racist?
2. Claim: “All statements could rest on race‑neutral justifications.”
Actual words:
“…and in substance all expressed policy views that could rest on race‑neutral justifications.”
This is the Court’s alternative‑explanation move. Alito says if those statements could have been written in a non-racist manner, we have to pretend that’s what they meant instead of what they said.
3. Claim: “One may oppose TPS or describe countries harshly without racial bias.”
Actual words:
“One may oppose TPS… for economic or other reasons that have nothing to do with race.” “A person without racial bias can provide a harshly unfavorable description of living conditions…”
This reframes derogatory comments as policy critiques.
4. Claim: “Haiti is poor, but that’s not racial.”
Actual words:
“Haiti is no exception. It is a very poor country… But poverty and deprivation are no reflection on character…”
This separates negative statements about Haiti from racial animus. But Trump, et. al. did talk about the character of the people from TPS nations.
5. Claim: Plaintiffs themselves offered a race‑neutral explanation.
Actual words:
“Ironically, respondents themselves offer a race‑neutral explanation… that the current administration… simply opposes the TPS program…”
The Court uses the plaintiffs’ own argument against them. Alito is saying that if some of the objections to ending TPS weren’t based on race, none of them were.
6. Claim: Because TPS was terminated for many countries, it can’t be racist.
Actual words:
“Included are nations in East Asia… Central Asia… the Middle East… Africa… Central America… South America… and the Caribbean (Haiti).” “Most would regard this as a racially diverse group of countries…”
This is the “equal‑opportunity termination” argument. Except none of those countries were predominantly white nations.
7. Claim: Plaintiffs define ‘non‑white’ too broadly.
Actual words:
“Respondents’ definition of a predominantly non‑white nation is broad, apparently encompassing major European countries.”
This attempts to undermine the racial‑impact argument.
8. Claim: No European TPS case has arisen, so racism can’t be inferred.
Actual words:
“No such test case has come up… Only one European nation — Ukraine — had a TPS designation… and that designation has not yet come up for review.”
This is a counterfactual defense: “We never had the chance to prove we’re not racist.” Alito explains that because we’ve never [persecuted a European nation, and just people of color. You can’t prove we wouldn’t have treated white people the same.
9. Claim: Heated language is not evidence of racial motive.
Actual words:
“Political discourse… is increasingly couched in terms that would have scandalized the public…” “Whatever one may think of the cited statements, they are insufficient to show…”
This reframes racist‑coded statements as “just politics.” Alito reduced the racist language to “heated language” and thinks of it as politics as usual. He may have a point that racism is politics as usual, but not that it isn’t racist.
https://medium.com/@williamspivey/racesplaining-when-people-doing-racist-shit-try-to-explain-why-it-isnt-racist-cf583cb45440
Thank you, Enigma. We’ll documented.
Respondents gave the answer to race-neutral in their own argument. Paraphrased, the government is terminating every TPS designation…that has come up for renewal. The government simply opposes the TPS program.
The Heritage Foundation opposes the TPS program for racist reasons.
I read the first two and skipped the rest. Why? Because they aren’t true. Typical of Enigma.
Enigma told us that Trump was a known racist 20 years before Donald Trump was born. Does that sound crazy? It was a Queens Memorial Day march held every year. Trump was reportedly arrested during a sweep when the KKK made a countermarch. He was let go, reportedly because he was an innocent caught up in the sweep. There is no evidence of Trump supporting the KKK. They wouldn’t have had him because Fred Trump supported Jews and donated money to synagogues, Jewish centers, and other Jewish organizations.
It appears that the site Medium allows slanderous posts. Why would anyone choose to believe Enigma?
I was waiting for my personal troll to comment. You claim direct quotes with sources aren’t true. Did you even attempt looking them up or is your belief that because you weren’t aware they must not be true?
I’ve been meaning to thank you because the article you inspired has now been restacked on Substack, 1,728 times. The number is posted in the upper left since you won’t believe that either.
https://williamspivey.substack.com/p/ten-years-ago-i-wrote-about-fred
Someone brought to my attention the song, “Old Man Trump,” written by Woody Guthrie between 1950-1952 when Guthrie lived in a Trump apartment building (Fred Sr., Donald was about four at the time). I can’t depend on you to look it up so I’ll print out the lyrics.
Old Man Trump
Words by Woody Guthrie Adapted by Ryan Harvey, Music by Ryan Harvey
Contact Publisher — Woody Guthrie Publications/BMG Chrysalis
I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project
Beach Haven ain’t my home!
No, I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!
I’m calling out my welcome to you and your man both
Welcoming you here to Beach Haven
To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place
To have your kids raised up in.
Beach Haven ain’t my home!
No, I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!
Woody Guthrie was writing about Fred’s racism before I was born. You can find the song on YouTube as well. Tell everyone it’s all not true so I can keep laughing about your purposeful ignorance.
https://williamspivey.substack.com/p/the-song-woody-guthrie-wrote-about
And Lucy made fun of Ricky Ricardo.
And Bob Seger’s Night Moves joked about ‘And points all her own, sittin’ way up high
Way up firm and high.”
So what’s your point, enigma. Get over it. Seems like you suffer your own purposeful ignorance, trying to stir up old junk not relative to now. Blacks have been given 60 years to get over it. RIcky did. Women did. Now you do it.
Lucy was a fictional character.
tell that to Lucille Ball, married to Ricardo.
Guthrie: You are a fellow Marxist and don’t believe in property rights even though you are a realtor.
Back to your use of racism to tar anyone you don’t like. I saw a bunch of those claims when they were made by the NYT, but not documented. You are the one who didn’t bother looking them up. We can’t expect much from you, as stated earlier, but at least you had a job.
You need not thank me. I believe in free speech, and I am sure you can attract a lot of the brain-dead with your hate, but as with the French Revolution, like Saturn, they kill their own.
Read these accomplishments that don’t include groveling for alms:
Franklin’s Kite Experiment, First Practical Telegraph, First Telephone Call, First Electric Power Grid, First Skyscraper, First Oil Boom, First Powered Flight, First Assembly Line, First Commercial Radio Network, First Transatlantic Solo Flight, First Nuclear Chain Reaction, First Atomic Bomb, First Sound Barrier Crossing, First Commercial Computer, First Transistor, First Integrated Circuit, First Nuclear Submarine, First Artificial Satellite Navigation, First American In Orbit, First Moon Landing, First Computer Network, First Microprocessor, First Mobile Phone Call, First Personal Computer, First Graphical User Interface, First Commercial Internet Service, First Search Engine Giant, First Online Retail Giant, First Smartphone Revolution, First Social Media Platform, First Cryptocurrency Revolution, First Reusable Orbital Rocket, First Private Spacecraft Docking, First Practical Artificial Intelligence, First Four-Trillion-Dollar Company, First Trillion-Dollar Company, First Trillionaire
Yawn……………. same BS day after day from you.
You can’t handle the truth. Try arguing the facts instead of dismissing the messenger.
SCOTUS Oddly Deferential To Trump
Even before the start of the second Trump term, Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion in Trump v. United States granted Mr. Trump extraordinarily broad immunity from criminal liability for acts taken while in office — along the way offering a vision of the presidency beyond the reach of most checks on government power.
This posture has continued. Again and again on the shadow docket, the court has issued entirely unreasoned orders siding with Mr. Trump — allowing immigration enforcement agents to stop citizens and noncitizens alike simply because they speak Spanish or appear to be Latino, allowing the president to remove individuals to third countries without complying with the Convention Against Torture and permitting the expulsion of all transgender service members from the military, among many such orders.
In the T.P.S. case, the court has permitted the administration to terminate the immigrants’ protected status in the face of considerable evidence that it flouted statutory requirements for doing so and that key decision makers — including the president — were motivated by unconstitutional racial bias.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/opinion/supreme-court-ruling-tps-immigration-trump.html?smid=
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To at least half the country this court seems mysteriously uncritical of Donald Trump.
Surely this court knows that Trump was spouting lies regarding Hatians in Ohio eating dogs and cats. Yet the court found no racial animosity coming from this administration.
The Old Gray Lady died a long time ago. Not a credible source.
Wow, and you think Kate Shaw is an unbiased journalist. she was dropped several times from gigs. pretty funny.
oh, and i haVen’t seen the word “flouted” for a very long time,,,until,,,,,oh yes, earlier today, right here on this blog!
So you think that Kate Shaw is a journalist who has been “dropped several times from gigs”.
Pretty funny, as you so aptly put it.
She is a professor of law at University of Pennsylvania where she teaches Constitutional law.
This is what passes for factual information on this worthless blog.
You MAGA morons simply make stuff and live in an alternative universe of fantasy and lies.
here’s the “factual information” on this “worthless blog” that for some reason you cannot stay away from-even for a day:
“In a fiery Senate Judiciary Committee exchange with law Prof. Kate Shaw, Sen. John Kennedy uses Shaw’s own words to expose her political bias.”
https://buffoonoftheweek.com/2025/06/kennedy-shaw-bias/
“WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) confronted University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw on referring to conservative United States Supreme Court justices as “evil colleagues” as Supreme Court justices have faced threats of intimidation at their homes by those seeking to influence their decisions. Professor Shaw denied these comments despite being under oath and her comments being on tape.”
https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/6/general/video-blackburn-confronts-law-professor-for-calling-conservative-justices-evil-and-urges-passage-of-protect-our-supreme-court-justices-act
I’m limited to two hyperlinks. If you want more, let me know. There’s quite a few about Shaw.
So what is your point ???
She speaks the truth to MAGA morons who live in a fantasy world of lies and misinformation.
Are you saying that political bias is a bad thing? Look in the mirror. Do you see a completely unbiased individual?
The fact that Anon @4.58 believes she is a journalist is evidence that MAGA morons are strangers to the truth. You simply make stuff up
you clown.
“Kate Shaw is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she teaches constitutional law, administrative law and other courses. She writes about the presidency, the law of democracy, the Supreme Court and reproductive rights and justice.”
Here is a partial list of her published articles.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/kate-shaw
To the Biden/’Bama bimbo from the MAGA moron.
Trump is fulfilling his campaign promises – the ones that people voted for. Winning!
No wars, lower prices? Those promises?
Yes, and yes. The war is over. Iran’s nuke program is gone. Its terrorism network is a shadow of what it once was. Prices are lower, the border is closed, energy production is way way up, men are being removed from women’s sports, locker rooms, and showers, reverse discrimination in admissions and public programs is down, tax rates are down, illegal criminals are being deported.
Winning!!
No wars means not starting them. He’s attacked 7 different countries so far. But then, for Trump, “no” doesn’t mean “no.” It means Trump will do whatever he wants, including grabbing women and sexually assaulting them.
Prices have gone up. They were supposed to be lower than when Biden left office. They aren’t, mainly because of Trump’s unstable policies and green-lighting price gouging.
That is because Trump is carrying water for the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. They love when the plan to deliver the US to the oligarchs comes together.
LOL… stop drinking during the day. (Federalist Society) is the boggy man with all you libs.
Five of the nine current Supreme Court justices are current or former members of the Federalist Society.
These justices are:
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas
Associate Justice Samuel Alito
Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch
Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett
More than coincidence.
Chief Justice John Roberts, not an official member – he was on the steering committee for the Washington branch.
They have a clear agenda.
Ahhhhhhhhh hey fool. What NY paper supported Stalin and all the death he brought to his own people.
Heck they even gave the paper an award for it.
The American Founders established by law a Nation, a Constitution, and a Population.
A society of laws must adhere strictly to its laws, lest it descend into chaos.
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
Wait! George is now George? Wut? Will the real fluffer please raise their hand?
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Fluffer Acts of 1769, 1869, 1969, 2069
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Fluffers,” Feb 29, 1769
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Fluffer being a free wet willy person, who shall have fluffed within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of 4.5″, may be admitted to become a bona fide fluffer….
That is not funny! I do not fluff anyone anywhere anytime. Only if they are generous
Congresses from 1870 –> 1965 gradually expanded pathways to US Citizenship:
1870 – Black Africans
1924 – Native Americans
1942 – Chinese
1944 – Arabs
1965 – entire globe
The part of the 1790 Nationality Act still relevant today is the way children of immigrants obtain their US Citizenship. If under age 21, they are automatic US Citzens by Derivation on the same day their parents become Naturalized.
After Congress clarifies who is eligible for automatic birthplace citizenship, those ineligible will still have a pathway to Citizenship by Derivation if their parents follow the law, immigrate legally, complete the 5 year residency, and stay out of trouble with the law.
Secession was fully constitutional. The Civil War was utterly unconstitutional. Everything Lincoln did was unconstitutional. The Naturalization Act of 1802 was never legislatively abrogated but was illicitly nullified by violence and was in full force and effect on January 1, 1863. Reprehensible slavery was allowed by legislation and must have been repealed by legislation.
Most people believe it important, nay, imperative to obey the law in a democratic republic.
From May 26
WHITE South Africans Welcome
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans into the U.S. as refugees this year, increasing its historically low annual cap but still blocking people from other countries from entering through the program.
Trump suspended the refugee program on his first day in office and, since then, has turned it into a vehicle to allow Afrikaners — a group of white South Africans descended mainly from Dutch settlers — into the U.S. Advocates say the decision to focus a decades-old program on one group has left people around the world fleeing war and strife stranded and with few options.
The administration says Afrikaners are subject to persecution in their home country, a charge the government in South Africa denies.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-refugees-white-south-africa-border-cap-bfe3974adf6c655eca7a5c30c1f9197f
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Somehow, in Trumpworld, non-White immigrants are considered ‘depraved criminals’ while White South Africans are sympathetic refugees.
You forgot the part about them being legal immigrants entering legally with their proper documentation. These people are truly qualified asylum seekers as some of the governments in South Africa and surrounding areas are killing them due to their race and for their lands that their families carved out of nothing into productive agricultural enterprise.
Per South African news – farmers of both/all races are getting killed. The white ones are complaining it is about race; it’s about money and the Black farmers are tired of their majority deaths being ignored to shed a tear for the white ones.
Race card, race card, race card. No need to look at facts when you’ve got the race card. Silly
“. . . non-White immigrants are considered ‘depraved criminals’ . . .”
2026 top 4 immigrant countries: Mexico, Cuba, India, Dominican Republic (some 400k total).
Care to play the race card, lie by omission, and smear on some other topic?
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“. . . non-White immigrants are considered ‘depraved criminals’ . . .”
2026 top 4 immigrant countries: Mexico, Cuba, India, Dominican Republic (some 400k total).
Care to play the race card, lie by omission, and smear on some other topic?
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That there are top numbers of immigrants from those countries it does not counter that Trump has considered the non-White ones to be depraved criminals. He has accused, without any evidence, minority members of eating cats, dogs, and pets in an effort to raise hatred against them.
University presidents cannot bring themselves to say that advocating for the mass killing of all Jews is wrong, or contrary to the university’s code of conduct.
A representative of a “research” organization funded by food companies cannot bring herself to say that sugary sodas are not needed for human survival.
A Supreme Court nominee cannot bring herself to say she knows what the word “woman” means.
What is wrong with these people? It’s like they get in front of Congress and their brains switch off.
BTW, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) is a master class of how to calmly make these poeple look like blithering idiots through their inability to admit what everyone knows. This video is definitely worth a watch.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/see-it-snap-advocate-defends-taxpayer-funded-coca-cola-fiery-exchange-gop-lawmaker-waste
The U.S. State Department maintains a strict Level 4: Do Not Travel advisory for Haiti due to widespread kidnapping, severe gang violence, terrorism, and civil unrest. Citizens are urged to avoid the country entirely, and those currently there are advised to depart immediately due to limited emergency assistance and volatile conditions.
Key Details of the Warning
Threats:
Pervasive violent crime, including armed kidnappings for ransom, targeted killings, and attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Embassy Limitations:
The U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince has a highly limited capacity to provide emergency assistance to American citizens, as official personnel face strict movement restrictions due to the danger.
Infrastructure:
The country has experienced states of emergency, curfews, and disruptions to commercial flights and medical facilities.
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If Haiti is NOT a safe place for Americans to travel, why is it safe for Deportees?
Since the inside of your skull has brain-cell-killing acid, why is it safe for your brain to be there?
“If Haiti is NOT a safe place for Americans to travel, why is it safe for Deportees?”
It isn’t and that’s the point. It is intended to get the deportees killed and therefore act as a dangling corpse over the harbor entrance as a warning that the US doesn’t take kindly to non-Whites immigrating here.
Non-whites. Low-IQ moronic troll, thinks everything is racism, even enforcing the immigration laws passed by Congress. Pffffft.
Lucky US doctor Dr. Peter Stafford who contracted the Ebola virus in the Congo was released from a German hospital.
The SCOTUS has proved, once again, that it is out of step with the values and beliefs of most Americans, that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett do NOT belong on the court of last resort, and that they are falling into line with Project 2025, that promotes extensive power for the Executive Branch. These three all LIED about the preclusive effect of stare decisis of the Roe case in order to get onto the Court. Republicans cut off further testimony about Kavanaugh’s wild lifestyle after the bombshell testimony of Dr. Blasey-Ford, who paid a heavy price for outing Kavanaugh–last I heard, she still had not returned to teaching.
As Justice Sotomayor pointed out, this ruling, whereby the US Government prevents an asylum seeker from stepping even a toe into the US, so as to deny them any opportunity to SEEK asylum, is reminiscent of the Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi Germany by ship. They were denied admission– first to Cuba, and then to the US, and were forced to return to Nazi Germany where most of them were killed. So, what to do–? Wait for these losers to die off, or for the American people to take steps to achieve a balance on the SCOTUS of Justices who were NOT chosen by the Federalist Society and who won’t lie to get onto the Court and to implement Project 2025, which Trump lied about being his agenda. Turley calls this “court packing”, but that’s exactly what Republicans did. There’s nothing in the Constitution that prevents adding more Justices, and there have been different numbers over the years. After Scalia died, Obama was entitled to a SCOTUS pick, which Mitch McConnell denied him due to the alleged proximity of the election. After Ginsberg died, that rule was abrogated, and they shoved Barrett onto the Court.
The SCOTUS has proved, once again, that it is out of step with the values and beliefs of most Americans
That first sentence is enough to tell me this is a deluded low-IQ left-wing screed from mentally-ill Gigi. It is the job of the Supreme Court to rule on the law regardless of the “values and beliefs” of the people. The political branches set policy. The Supreme Court does not: it interprets and applies laws passed by the political branches. If the law itself is not aligned with the “values and beliefs of most Americans,” Congress can and will change it. Using the court to accomplish that is illegitimate . . . but par for the course for dim-witted leftists who don’t care what the court’s proper role is, so long as it implements an extreme left-wing political policy.
It is the job of the SCOTUS to honor stare decisis, absent significant changes in society. There weren’t any significant changes–the majority of Americans believe that the rights of privacy and freedom enshrined in the Constitution protect a woman’s right to choose prior to fetal viability. Evangelicals believe themselves entitled to control the lives of women, and just couldn’t let Roe v. Wade rest until they connived to get enough radical right wingers on the Court—whatever it took, including lying. It is the job of SCOTUS candidates to tell the truth when asked by Senators about their position on a landmark decision, and not to lie just to get power. Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh lied. It is the job of political candidates not to lie about knowing anything about Project 2025 when polls show that most Americans oppose it, and then hire the architects of Project 2025 and sign, on day one, 180 Executive Orders drafted by Project 2026. Congress had nothing to do with this. Trump doesn’t care about Congress. He thinks the US Treasury is his personal slush fund to do with as he pleases, including enriching the J6 insurrectionists who trashed the Capitol and beat up police officers. He thinks he can start wars based on a lie, after promising not to, that he can tear down part of the White House, without consent of historical preservation, to paint the reflecting pool, put his name above that of JFK on the JFK Center for Performing Arts, to build a vainglory ballroom that no one wants and which will dwarf the White House, all without Congressional approval, and build himself a vainglory arch that will obstruct the view of Arlington National Cemetery. He thinks he is a King. That’s why so many of us take to the streets and why his poll numbers are in the low thirties. That’s also why most of us do not feel festive about America’s 250 anniversary, and why several states and numerous performers want nothing to do with the little party Trump is planning to celebrate July 4th.
Notice that I don’t call you names or accuse you of mental illness. You are a perfect example of what Trump and MAGA have done to political discourse in this country.
So you now pivot to abortion – something that was not being discussed at all – because you were caught in an error on the previous topic, where you wrongly suggested the Court is a political branch of government? Really? Abortion? That is so pathetic. Can you really not see how pathetic that really is? Wow.
And I defy you to show how Roe v Wade had any grounding in the US Constitution. It was a piece of judicial legislation that was wrong from the day it was issued, and that mistake was, thankfully, corrected 49 years later.
Notice that I don’t call you names or accuse you of mental illness. You are a perfect example of what Trump and MAGA have done to political discourse in this country.
Every day you come on here and use MAGA as a swear word. You drip with loathing and disgust toward “Evangelicals” and “right-wing” people. You are just so filled with a pathalogical hatred of conservatives, and that comes through loud and clear. Spare me your crocodile tears and moralistic sermonizing, Gigi.
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It is the job of the SCOTUS to honor stare decisis, absent significant changes in society.
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So killing babies for NO good reason is honor?
Talk about one warped mind.
Dr. Blasey Ford 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😝😝🤮💩
The blog fluffer has delivered yet again!
If Dr. Ford was lying, then WHY did Republicans block at least 25 other witnesses who begged to testify about Kavanaugh and his wild ways?
Yeah, and the earth is flat and your mom is an alien. You really need some serious therapy.
I call BS on that claim. Who were these supposed other 25 witnesses? Name them. If you can’t name them, and give evidence, then you’re just making up imaginary “facts” to post a lying comment.
The “25 other witnesses” refers to a list provided to the FBI by the legal team representing Deborah Ramirez, one of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accusers during his 2018 Supreme Court confirmation. These individuals possessed potentially corroborating evidence regarding the allegations. Despite their repeated requests to speak with investigators, none of these 25 witnesses were interviewed by the FBI during its limited, supplemental background investigation.
https://www.justsecurity.org/60945/30-people-fbi-interview-kavanaugh-investigation/
“In a third and separate allegation, Swetnick claims that at several social gatherings in the early 1980s, she saw Kavanaugh drink heavily with Judge and that Kavanaugh engaged in a range of conduct that included “abusive and physically aggressive” behavior toward young women. Based on this account, and additional reports that Swetnick’s former boyfriend challenges her credibility, the FBI should interview Swetnick and Richard Vinneccy, her ex-boyfriend. If reports are correct that there are additional corroborating witnesses, they too must be located and interviewed by the FBI according to standard protocol in inquiries of this kind. On Tuesday night, Swetnick’s lawyer, Michael Avenatti, released a new sworn statement from someone he says can confirm several of Swetnick’s claims. This person should also be identified and interviewed by the FBI.
The FBI should also contact Judge’s college girlfriend Elizabeth Rasor. According to news accounts, Judge told Rasor that in high school he had engaged in group sex with a drunk young woman, an incident resembling elements of Swetnick’s claim – though Rasor’s reported account does not indicate she made any claims about Kavanaugh’s conduct.
All three allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh involve claims that he was aggressive while under the influence of alcohol. Under oath, Kavanaugh categorially denied sexual misconduct and repeatedly downplayed his alcohol consumption. This means that his pattern of drinking —and whether his behavior was aggressive when intoxicated —is directly relevant to key underlying details of each allegation and must be explored. In addition, because Kavanaugh had a history of misleading statements even before these sexual misconduct allegations surfaced, his truthfulness regarding his alcohol use and behavior in high school and college are a key factor in weighing his credibility in denying these new claims.”
One can defame a single witness, but a group would establish a pattern.
Can’t have that for old “Beer Goggles” Kavanaugh.
For fk sake this crap was dredged up from his high school days. Think about that, the Demowads are so sleazy lame they try to besmirch a sterling reputation of a good man based on some fraudulent smear he supposedly committed during adolescence.
Why stop there, I am pretty sure he suckled his own mother’s breasts and actually crapped his pants…
What a contrived bunch of meaningless tripe.
She gave zero proof.
George would be so lucky to be a fluffer.
“The SCOTUS has proved, once again, that it is out of step with the values and beliefs of most Americans . . .”
Here’s an idea: Get rid of the Supreme Court completely. Whenever a case needs final adjudication, let’s all just vote. (Just, please, not my mail-in.)
The Moscow Mitch rule was “Can I deny a Democratic nomination?”
All the rest about timing was just another McConnell lie.
Keep crying. We so love it.
Figures.
The Governor of Calif now wants a billionaires tax for the US, but doesn’t what same tax in Calif. What a fool.
How Haiti Became Dysfunctional
Haiti has a long & sad history. France required 150 million francs from Haiti following the revolution. The Independence debt was something Haiti never recovered from. Haiti only finished paying off the debt in 1947 after years of borrowing money at high interest rates. I’ve read that perhaps 80% of Haiti’s national budget at times went towards that debt & interest.
The USA funded the acquisition of Haiti’s treasury in 1911 & American investors became Haitian debt collectors. The final payment was made to what’s now Citibank. Haiti was then occupied by the US from 1915 to 1934.
Trump’s Great American State Fair begins with a most appropriate start.
A Baltimore man in what witnesses called an “Uncle Sam costume” was arrested on opening day of President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair for allegedly performing lewd acts in front of a circus audience.
Gian Rachtelli, 54, was taken into custody Thursday on the National Mall, where President Donald Trump’s Freedom250 nonprofit had launched its 16-day patriotic celebration just hours before.
Rachtelli was charged with lewd, indecent, or obscene acts — in plain terms, public indecency — a misdemeanor under D.C. Code. He was booked into the D.C. Department of Corrections’ Central Cellblock just before midnight.
^ Scraping the bottom of the barrel. This kind of desperate attempt to smear Trump is laughable because it’s just so desperate. ^
You are right that it is laughable !!!
I still haven’t stopped chuckling !!!
Glad you agree.
Laughing at you ANON!!
Catholic Bishops Urged Extension
The U.S. bishops had urged the government to extend protected status, including for Haitians, who are a majority Catholic community.
“We are deeply concerned about the plight of our Haitian brothers and sisters living in the United States,” Bishop Brendan J. Cahill, chair of the bishops’ committee on migration, and Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chair of the committee on international justice and peace, said in a joint statement in February.
“There is simply no realistic opportunity for the safe and orderly return of people to Haiti at this time,” they said.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-trump-s-asylum-policies-that-bishops-opposed
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Isn’t Turley a Catholic? Isn’t Alito a Catholic? Funny how religion goes out the window in support of Trump’s racist policies.
This is again the kind of garbage we now expect from our dim-witted low-IQ leftist trolls. You seem to think the Supreme Court is the management team for a soup kitchen. The court has one job: to interpret and apply the law. Congress and the Executive are the political branches; they set policy, not the court.
Professor Turley is a legal scholar and comments on legal points, not on his preferred societal structure for humanitarian assistance. People come here for legal analysis and discussion. You, not so much. You’re just here to show everyone what they already know: leftism is a mental disease.
The United States government is not a charity with a mission to fix all the world’s problems. It exists to protect the welfare and safety of US citizens. In your twisted tiny little mind, that is the last thing the US government should be doing.
“The court has one job: to interpret and apply the law. ”
It would be fine if the Court returns to doing that and instead of looking to back-fill Federalist Society goals with whatever they can merge together from 450 years of scraps of paper they find in the basement.
If done purely, the job can be done by ChatGPT, which is far better at reading all those scraps and putting together an opinion.
Let the church and Bishops pay for them. Instead of the US taxpayers.
Note To Supreme Court:
“No person shall be deprived of property,” without qualification and absolutely.
The right to private property is absolute, including rent, hiring, firing, wages, prices, and every other aspect, facet, and degree of dominion by owners.
The abolition of private property in any aspect, facet, or degree is unconstitutional communism.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
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“The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
– Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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5th Amendment
No person shall be…deprived of…property,….
“. . . a Clintonesque debate of what the meaning of “in” is.”
The Left also played games with the word “asylum.”
In the U.S., it always meant (and still does): permission to *stay* in the U.S. In a whimsical turn, the Biden administration morphed “asylum” into: permission to *enter* the U.S.
I am an actual American. I demand “ASYLUM” from illegal alien invaders. Wait! The government is already charged with ensuring a strong and effective border and legal immigration.
Permission should be granted for compassionate repatriation of those whose countries are no longer a “threat.”
What a brilliant move by Trump, the sycophantic GOP and the Supreme Court it has packed. Who do you geniuses think work the jobs white native-born Americans don’t want to do – in nursing homes, in factories, in construction. So cool, man – yeah – do like what Meghan Kelly says – run them all out. See how the economy responds. Send them back to their homelands that are crippled by corruption, war and famine. What a Christian thing to do from all you guys who value ‘Christianity’ so much – or your version of it.
This is the typical garbage we get from the left. They never distinguish between illegal and legal immigration. They pretend that illegal immigration is no problem, when all the facts say otherwise – including the violent crimes, the terrorist sleeper cells, the drug and child sex trafficking, the downward pressure on low-income-earners’ wages, and the drain on public resources.
Yo, anonymous low-IQ moron troll, you’re not fooling anyone here. Go back to mommy’s basement or your left-wing pot-smoking friend group, you’ll get a better reception that interacting with people who actually have brains and know how to think.
As far as the “Christian” angle – this is also typical left-wing garbage. Jesus never said that national governments must act in certain ways. His teachings relate to private interactions. Governments are established to protect the citizens of the country, not to solve all the problems in the rest of the world, or to victimize its own citizens by letting in tens of thousands of violent criminals. Idiot.
That’s a lot of crap to write, but the “terrorist sleeper cells” was the best.
As long as they are sleeping, it doesn’t matter what they have planned. Given the lack of actual terrorist attacks in the US, aside from someone dumping gallons of harsh chemicals into the Nation Mall Reflecting Pool that damaged the liner (it was a brazen, daylight attack), there seems to be far less terrorism than there is just everyday Americans doing mass shootings at grade schools. The national chant should be N-R-A! N-R-A!
Just a thought. If the majority of the people of a country consider themselves Christian, including swearing on a Christian Bible, would that not cause them to act as Christians in every aspect of their lives, even as leaders of the country? It would be the Christian thing to do.
Anyway, never go to see any doctor because of the millions of doctors, some aren’t very good and they commit crimes. Clearly it is better to avoid any benefit when there is any tiny fraction of detriment. Same goes for eating. You could get food poisoning and die, so give up on food for your own sake.
– Temporary Work Permits
– Go Home When The Job Is Done
– Never Any Path To Citizenship
– Temporary Work Permits
Those are paid for by the sponsoring employer. There are no sponsoring employers for manual labor because it costs too much. For example, the employer has to supply adequate housing, which is something of a problem when they need the worker for just a few weeks for planting or harvest.
There -used- to be temporary work visa, but the Republicans got rid of them because it made it too easy for migrant workers to leave poor paying jobs. Without the permit system, workers are off the books and if they feel mistreated the employer can call INS or ICE and have them arrested for asking for a suitable wage or suitable housing.
Keeping them “illegal” means employers can abuse them and that’s what Republicans want to happen. It keeps wages low. It means no complaints about unsafe working conditions. It means no worries about child labor laws. As long as they don’t have a work visa then they are not protected in any way by labor laws. It is a conservative’s dream.
“There -used- to be temporary work visa, but the Republicans got rid of them . . .”
You’re either grossly ignorant or lying through your teeth.
There are *currently* five types of temporary work visas — including an *increase* in H-2B visas for seasonal workers.
You know absolutely nothing about America’s work force. Let the free market work using American labor only and watch what happens. We’re $40T in debt with a $2T a year deficit. We’re funding NSA, ICE, BP, multiple holding facilities and healthcare to take care of illegal immigration. That doesn’t even consider the cost to our judicial system and the billions the blood suckers are making off of it. They do not provide or create a financial benefit to our country, it costs us more than the benefit received.
We are $40T in debt because the Republicans cut taxes while they increase spending. Trump is responsible for signing 1/3rd of the current national debt which occurred in the last 2 years.
Unpapered immigrants, to avoid arrest for tax evasion pay federal, state, and local income taxes via withholding by their employers, but cannot claim any tax refunds they may be due, so they pay more than they owe, including Medicare and Social Security (FICA). They can never claim either from the government.
Increasing ICE was a choice – there hasn’t been a notable detriment due to the unpapered immigrants. Same with holding facilities. They are mainly going after the taxpaying unpapered immigrants because the tax filings from the employers includes where they work where they live, and where their children go to school.
You may say Laken Riley 40,000 times, but good old American citizens are far more likely to commit a violent crime than unpapered immigrants. When a US citizen kills someone, they might get 3-5 years in prison before being released back to walk the streets of America; when an unpapered one does, they not only go to prison, they get sent back to a hellhole they had escaped from, which is likely to be a death sentence. Unpapered immigrants are very motivated to not go back, they work hard, keep to themselves, and don’t cause trouble.
So temporary means permanent? What jobs is it you say Americans won’t do exactly? So without these people, our country will collapse? Do you really think 🤔? So we should keep these people in our country for like slave labor to do the dirty jobs?
Pick lettuce. Pick strawberries. In fact, most any harvest that isn’t done by heavy machinery. Clean toilets, change sheets, pick up towels, put towels in rooms. In fact, most any room service job in the hotel/motel business.
It would not be slave labor except that the US won’t issue them temporary work visas. And that dirty-job management is the point of not issuing temporary work visas. Big companies benefit from this and lobby to prevent making it possible for a temporary worker to file a complaint over unsafe working conditions.
Just like an American made cell phone would cost $1000-$2000, so the market would vanish, paying $1 each for strawberries would see the American fruit industry vanish.
maybe those who take those jobs didn’t bother at least getting a GED, right? Or improving themselves in ANY way. They come here for handouts. admit it.
“. . . the US won’t issue them temporary work visas.”
You’re lying. Again.
The problem with the analogy is that all of those on the St. Louis were demonstrably in flight from lethal persecution.
A problem that is just as fundamental is, that her concerns are within the province of Congress. Arriving at the best or most humane policy is the legislature’s job, not the court’s. The law is written as it is written, and the court strays beyond its legitimate authority when it reaches unreasonable interpretations of the words of the statute in order to implement the policy it prefers. It is clear what “in” means, and trying to say “in” means “near” is a nonstarter for any reasonable person. Sotomayor says “arrives in” the United States includes people who are “in the process of arriving” even though they are still outside the United States. That doesn’t pass the most basic smell test. No rational person would endorse that meaning.
While I agree with the ruling the holding by the majority that “An alien “arrives
in the United States” only when he crosses the border.” because words mean things. However the holding might be missing an important element. I had thought, though I don’t know for sure, that the US Embassies and Consulates were considered US territory. So can an alien enter a US Embassy or Consulate and request asylum?
Arnold – I had to look that up too. The short answer is no.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-obtain-protection-us-embassy-consulate.html
If you don’t want to click the link, here is an excerpt:
There is a common misconception that U.S. embassies and consulates are basically the same as U.S. soil. It is true that international law protects national embassies and consulates from being destroyed, entered, or searched (without permission) by the government of the country where they are located (the host country). However, this does not give those embassies or consulates the full status of being part of their home nation’s territory. Therefore, U.S. law does not consider asylum seekers at U.S. embassies and consulates to be “physically present in the United States” (or at a U.S. border or point of entry). This does not mean that embassy personnel cannot offer any help at all to people who are in danger and seek their protection. In extreme or exceptional circumstances, U.S. embassies and consulates can offer alternative forms of protection, including (in most countries) temporary refuge, a referral to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, or a request for parole to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.