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róisín_dubh (12,469 posts)

My experience with DHS today

Without divulging much, I want to share a personal experience I had with DHS today. I've been around these parts for a very long time (I think it was just my 22nd anniversary at DU, something like that...anyway). Some of you may know that I've got expertise in the Americas more generally and on human rights. I sometimes do country conditions reports for asylum seekers, who need these reports to strengthen their cases when going in front of immigration judges. Now, I generally don't like to testify because I have horribly anxiety- like, I can lecture in front of a class, I can have my research questioned by experts in my field, but put me in front of a lawyer or judge and I'll freak the **** out. No idea why, but it's why I knew I'd be a better researcher than lawyer.
Anyhoo, I've done a number of these reports, but I've never been called to testify. My reports are either sufficient to help the client's case or, well I don't know what happens. But I've never had to actually testify. Tonight I was ready. I had my prep last week, I spent my entire day reviewing stats and going over some finer points just to ensure I didn't trip over anything. I even wrote down why I'm an expert despite having left academia a few years ago and moved to abroad to take on a different, non-academic role (which, frankly, is none of anyone's business because I keep publishing in my field...but I digress).
I sat by my laptop waiting and refreshing my email for the client's lawyer to let me know it was my turn to hop on Webex and do my thing to help the client with my country conditions report. And I waited. And I waited. 35 minutes in, the lawyer contacted me that DHS submitted a motion to pretermit. I had no idea what that means, as it's not my job to know how the US immigration system works- or doesn't ****ing work as the case may be. But what that means is that the judge can just toss out the case and slate the person for deportation on technical grounds (usually) or on the grounds that the claimant doesn't meant the qualifications for asylum. So the lawyer and the DHS goons were duking it out while myself and the other expert waited. And waited. And waited for another hour.
And the judge tossed the case and the client will be deported to almost certain death.

And I'm ****ing sick with rage.
Thank you for reading my rant. I had to get it off my chest so I could go to sleep, because it's very late here.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221484351

Editor's Note: On Friday morning, Maria Bartiromo's attorney released a statement countering previously reported information regarding her employment status with Fox News:
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The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false. Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise. Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth.

Bryan Freedman, Attorney for Maria Bartiromo

My guess is that these are Haitians who came to the US after the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake with Temporary Protection Status.

Temporary means TEMPORARY unless Trump does it, then it's racism or some other evilism.

My guess is that these are Haitians who came to the US after the 2010 Port-au-Prince earthquake with Temporary Protection Status.

Temporary means TEMPORARY unless Trump does it, then it's racism or some other evilism.

The deportees included TPS holders and Haitians who had served prison sentences, said Jean Négot Bonheur Delva, director general of Haiti’s National Office of Migration.

America's economy just handed Democrats their worst Friday of the year, mere weeks before the midterms.

The Labor Department's August 2026 jobs report dropped Friday morning, and it left the doom-and-gloom crowd on the Left with nothing to say. Employers added 162,000 jobs last month, crushing what economists were predicting and delivering exactly the kind of number Democrats have spent all summer insisting Donald Trump's economy couldn't produce. The new jobs were actually triple the expectations.

It gets worse for the left.

The report didn't just beat expectations for August; it rewrote the story of the entire summer. The Labor Department revised July's initial estimate of a 23,000-job loss up to a 21,000-job gain, and it revised June's payroll numbers higher, too. The "stalling economy" narrative Democrats have been pushing for months just collapsed under its own weight.