An Appeal To Pragmatism
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As of May, 93% of asylum is being denied in immigration courts—record high—amounting to hundreds of thousands fewer lawful migrants.

‘Immigration judges are now issuing denials in virtually every case’ after rule changes and mass firings by the Trump admin cleaned the system. Our immigration system is full of bad rules and restrictions that the Trump admin is chipping away, changing and challenging to open up the deportation pipeline and expedite immigration denial. Doing so is how we keep pumping removal numbers up, which are already historically high.
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🇺🇸🇭🇹⚡️- DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says that Haitians can still request permanent residency after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Admin was allowed to strip their Temporary Protected status.
They say this for all TPS designations because TPS by law are allowed to apply for other immigration options. That does not mean they're going to get it, as I've explained when Noem made the same statement for Venezuelans.

The Trump admin has asylum denial at 90%+, refugee entry capped and reserved for White South Africans, legal visas cut, green cards stalled and halved. The offer of a legal path to stay is more a fist than an open hand. The legal jargon is not messaging for us and does not warrant a reaction every time.
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The Trump admin has been bureaucratically reducing the privileges and positions H-1Bs have—ending the open-ended welcome they've received. The recent DOL proposal to raise wages could force out many H-1B holders of all skill levels, for example. This would seismically disincentivise employers from filing multiple H-1B visa petitions.
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NYmag: ICE Won. After Minnesota, instead of reform, DHS is receiving more police help than ever, legal support from the Supreme Court and extra funds from Congress. Migrant removals are rising and the wall is being finished with far less resistance than in first term or in 2025.

‘The most powerful immigration regime in history is becoming normal.’ I can confirm this; see my posts on 287(g), ICE removal flights, wall progress, removal orders in courts, mega master hearings, asylum denial in immigration courts, and more. More must be done, but the trend is in our favour and the left is not happy.
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The offer of a legal path to stay is more a fist than an open hand.
Secretary Mullin confirms, in a reply to our friend America First Insight on twitter (an account everyone should follow!) that lawful aliens can apply, and USCIS can and will still deny. If you are illegal, he says you should depart from the country or you'll get deported from the country.
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The Supreme Court has expanded the power of the President to fire the leaders of independent agencies, in this case of the Federal Trade Commission. This overturns a ruling from 1935, Humphrey's Executor, which limited the executive authority to fire independent officials. Outlets 'warn' the new stance will only empower and encourage Trump's efforts to Drain the Swamp of bad actors.
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SCOTUS made a poor ruling that states are allowed to count mail-in ballots which arrive late, within the week, of election.

This decision does however explicitly say ballots must already be correctly marked, postmarked and accurate to count, and it does not prevent or reject the restrictions of President Trump on voting rules, nor does it stop USPS from curbing states. If Congress, the Senate specifically, finally passes the SAVE America Act this issue will be largely nullified.
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DHS Secretary Mullin understands our message: Leave now or be deported.
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New Jersey Democrat Governor Mikie Sherrill, who caved to DHS in front of the Delaney Detention Center, tried to gloat that ICE will not be operating another camp in the state, so Mullin replies that ICE will be using the site for detention. DHS is currently pushing back on blue states while building up infrastructure in red states and cities around them.
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With President Trump's ever-expanding immigration enforcement machine and an almost 100 year old decision that is now pulled back, Trump has amassed the greatest, fully legal scope of presidential power in recent history. That Congress supports ICE and hesitates to restrict his war powers over repeated lethal strikes and swift military operations further cements his executive authority.

This does not mean Trump will complete all tasks within the term, it means Trump is gaining the ground to set up long-term policy-planning. That power would carry over onto Vance and thensome, to ensure Republicans can be useful in the future.
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ICE through the Greene County Sheriff's Office made 49 arrests in one operation, citing the 287(g) program as the tool of their success. The anti-White, pro-alien Governor Spanberger is currently trying to end all 287(g) in the state—already a law has been signed pulling many Virginia agencies from their cooperation.
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The Archdiocese of Miami announced that it employs many TPS holders, many of them from Haiti, and it opposes the Trump Admin's efforts to send them back. This is the leading Catholic org area in Florida admitting an attachment to Haitian migrants over Americans.
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The Supreme Court has failed to side with Trump on birthright citizenship, saying unlawful and temporary migrants are still subject to our jursiduction and therefore 'Constitutuonally' allowed to receive the benefit of citizenship to whatever anchor and burden they birth.

Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Alito and Justice Gorusch stood with Trump. It is now up to Congress to change the law or amend the Constitution, or up to the executive branch to respond in dissent.
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President Trump shares a link saying he will push to end birthright citizenship 'with or without the Supreme Court'. This means through Congress or a course of alternative executive action.
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Justice Thomas in his dissent, in support of Trump, says this decision is so weak it is bound to be undone because the Court has foolishly devalued our citizenship.
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this decision is so weak it is bound to be undone
Justice Kavanaugh in the Court opinion wrote an exit door for us to use, saying Congress can amend the Constitution or enact new legislation to exclude aliens from birthright citizenship.

This door underlines exactly why voting matters, because getting a better Congress where people like Eric Schmitt and Andy Ogles are more and more the majority to pass these legal changes.
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A lot of people are saying the SCOTUS ruling just ruined everything we're working on, that's obviously not the case.

Nothing changed—America was already granting birthright citizenship to everyone for the past 100 years. This decision is bad because it says the status quo is good, so we need to eliminate that status quo. Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship is the first time it's ever been tried, so we'll have to try another way.
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In response to the birthright citizenship decision dozens of Republicans have decided to introduce or reintroduce laws that would limit or end the loopholes of birthright citizenship for legal and illegal immigrants. Multiple Senators are among the list, representing a possibility of one legislative change passing. It is unlikely to happen soon but is now plausible.
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After hundreds of endorsements, appointments, and challenges both the Legislative Branch and the Judiciary are becoming viable institutitions for us to use, through the Republican Party, because of President Trump. As this continues to tilt farther right we gain stronger politicial power, meaning more solid support behind our laws & goals.
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Warren Balogh
I totally, 100% believe the Trump administration's legal challenge to birthright citizenship was designed to fail so that the SCOTUS could enshrine this as the law of the land.
Birthright citizenship has already been the law of the land for 150 years, since after the Civil War. They didn't need to introduce a challenge 'designed to fail' to continue doing the thing that they were already doing. This decision just upholds the status quo, which nobody else tried to eliminate except Trump so far.
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