The observation that Trump hasn't distinguished between Somali migrants and citizens, whether naturalized or born on American soil, is a salient one. There are no assurances that this administration will do its due diligence in checking people's legal status before trying to deport them. As a result, the humanitarian crisis in the United States is primed to get that much worse.
This was going to be my reply! So, he understands this behavior well.
Add another projection: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he had summarily revoked Öztürk’s visa because she was a “lunatic.” Rubio works for and takes earth changing orders from a lunatic we've all come to know well!
The Somali immigrants are much better people than the ones running the tyrump administration. I have lived among them. They are generally smarter and much more honest and law abiding than the tyrump himself. Let's keep the immigrants and get rid of MAGA (as a political movement).
Legal people need to look at the implications of how a single 'hatchet woman' judge can be funneled cases from other jurisdictions on-line, distorting the whole system so Trump can attack an elected congresswoman of Somali origin - who happens to be ethical and brilliant.
Take note: this is all part of Stephen Miller's plan to undo what he considers the "Great Replacement of White Americans." It is as racist as it gets and no one is better suited to empowering it than Trump. I've often wondered/fantasized about what an appropriate punishment would be for Trump were he to be, finally and forever, convicted of his many crimes. Now I know: a one-way ticket to Mogadishu, no return possible, only one suitcase and a toothbrush.
Mogadishu is too nice, I say put him in CECOT, after America has clawed back every penny trump paid them. Then tell Bukele if he lets trump out he will take his place.
Mogadishu is dangerous as hell. I like the idea that he would be bereft of his golden trappings, have to fend for himself, and be deeply terrified until his dying days.
How do people become so cruel and so hateful? Stephen the Miller is an example of a young person who had everything: white, male, American, educated, and yet he his heart was so filled with hatred. He has nurtured this bigotry that has found power and a soulmate in Twump. Marco Rubio is dangerously close to jail time. He can share a cell with the Miller. This judge is a real prize and, once again, draws eyes to the Deep South, not even a place but an old tired racist ideology. What happened to this judge? When did she inject hatred? As it is said, hatred isn't something you are born with, it is something you are taught. All of these white supremacists have risen, like rancid cream, to the top of the power rungs in the U.S.. I suggest we pull the ladder down and let them cannibalize each other as they have their eyes picked out by big black birds Caaaaw.
I remember reading the attached article about stEVIL Miller when he 1st came into the Trump or orbit & 1st admin. Written by his uncle. It still amazes me & fills me with sadness & more. The hypocrisy & evil continue!
Lest we forget. Never until he & so many others are stopped.
Great link! I hope many posting here read it. Miller and Trump are hate-filled, despicable, entitled people. What is most sad is so many ordinary people support their perverse and evil actions.
Thanks for posting this. I had read that Miller's family was mortified by him but this article just brings it home. Horrifying to have a Nazi in your family, especially when you are deeply religious Jews. If that sentence sounds callous, I apologize but stand by it.
I ask maga all the time. Did they learn their racist, bigoted hatred on their knees at trumps feet, or from their momma. I haven't had a single one answer me.
We can only hope that they - magats - will become extinct. In the future, they will be taught and studied in high school history class like we study the German racists of the mid-20th century. I heard Steve Schmidt say that in ten years, no one will admit voting for Twump. True, most people won't but some, those face-tattooed knuckle draggers whose mommas had no time for them, will stand proudly as former magats, red hats dirty and frayed and social credibility zero as they post, "Why doesn't anybody hire white men any more? Unfair!"
Consider that this prevalent phenomenon of behaving and believing in ways we are not predisposed to at birth: that we are all colored by past life actions and reactions. [Repeat lessons]
Are you saying "past life actions" to mean lives we have lived before this one, or actions in our past which mold who we are? If it is the former, a fun game would be to describe how these people got how they are: Noem was unattractive unhappy and likely unkind to animals in a past life. She wanted more than anything to be pretty and made the deal: lose your soul for a pretty face. Yes! she said. Miller was a sad boy no one loved (oh wait that's this life...). You get the idea. If it is the latter I would point to the parents first. Apples do not fall far from the tree.
The article makes the important point that Immigration judges are not actually judges in the sense we understand the word. Once again, we see a system that Trump and his enablers are manipulating because it rested on norms rather than on specific rules when it comes to appointing immigration judges.
Is there a court case to fight the ending of TPS for Somali refugees? I know that there are cases in court for other groups.
I wish I was reading, at this point, a Democratic plan to replace “norms” with laws. We have the knowledge of how these norms were broken in the first Trump administration and we have Project 2025 as references. But I’m not aware of any organized plan by Dems to tighten loopholes or replace norms with laws. Do plans even exist? Are there people working on this? If not, why not?
We certainly have qualified people elected to the House and Senate to do what you suggest. If or when the Democrats win majorities, let us advocate increasing the funds for staffing some of these brilliant legal minds. E.G. Jamie Raskin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Eric Swalwell, etc.
At the core of all of the problems with immigration everywhere is that of identity. Everyone understands it at a deep, visceral level, but it’s devilishly difficult to define at an intellectual one. It boils down to the question of “Do you want to be an [American] of [Somali] heritage or do you want to be [Somali] living in America?”These are very different. The MAGAs answer is to adopt such a cramped, narrow view of an “American” identity that nobody can qualify. The immigration advocates, on the other hand, fail to grapple with the question at all.
You have to visualize a Venn diagram with the two sets of cultures/values and how much they overlap. The more overlap the better. Unfortunately, we tend to focus excessively on more superficial cultural trappings than on core humanity of caring for each other.
Your Venn diagram approach reminded me of learning about how America was a "melting pot" when I was in the 2nd grade. The teacher, Miss Betagh, told all of us kids about what a good thing that was. Sixty years later, I still believe it. I wonder about the rest of my classmates... And I wonder what 2nd graders are being taught these days.
The whole “melting pot” thing was a poor metaphor. It’s more useful to to think in terms of “cultural friction”. By and large, pleasurable things like food, art, and music cross cultures easily and are not friction points. However, core values like religion or gender roles are far less flexible and more likely to be friction points. If cultures insist on trying to impose their values on others rather than accepting a live and let live/respectfully agree to disagree attitude, then compatible coexistence is impossible.
I have been arguing forever the Congress needs to reconstitute immigration courts as Article 3 courts. Right now the fox is guarding the hen house. As I often mention, when ICE was simply telling judges someone had to be deported, one judge commented "we all have bosses." I have no idea whether judges in immigration court are subject to ethical rules, but that high a rejection of asylum has to mean that the judge is not actually analyzing the cases before her. Someone needs to pull her decisions (FOIA?? or easily available?) to see how she is documenting them.
Clearly getting the immigration courts into Article 3 is work that won't happen till we have a different president. Investigation into the validity of the judge's work could begin as soon as someone with investigative skills gets going.
Where is the Justice Department attorney who wants to stand on the Shoulders of Joseph N. Welsch, the Army Attorney who stood up to Senator Joseph McCarthy? To paraphrase the late Charlie Munger "we all know who is swimming naked when the tide goes out" and that describes the lawyers in the Justice Department and the lawyers of the the FBI, ICE and HS. Its easy to swear an oath to the Constitution. It is quite another to actually act on that oath. Democracy is in the streets not in the halls od Justice.
The observation that Trump hasn't distinguished between Somali migrants and citizens, whether naturalized or born on American soil, is a salient one. There are no assurances that this administration will do its due diligence in checking people's legal status before trying to deport them. As a result, the humanitarian crisis in the United States is primed to get that much worse.
tRUmp is turning the US into hell, and all he does is bitch and complain (and lie and commit crimes).
This was going to be my reply! So, he understands this behavior well.
Add another projection: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he had summarily revoked Öztürk’s visa because she was a “lunatic.” Rubio works for and takes earth changing orders from a lunatic we've all come to know well!
The Somali immigrants are much better people than the ones running the tyrump administration. I have lived among them. They are generally smarter and much more honest and law abiding than the tyrump himself. Let's keep the immigrants and get rid of MAGA (as a political movement).
Legal people need to look at the implications of how a single 'hatchet woman' judge can be funneled cases from other jurisdictions on-line, distorting the whole system so Trump can attack an elected congresswoman of Somali origin - who happens to be ethical and brilliant.
Take note: this is all part of Stephen Miller's plan to undo what he considers the "Great Replacement of White Americans." It is as racist as it gets and no one is better suited to empowering it than Trump. I've often wondered/fantasized about what an appropriate punishment would be for Trump were he to be, finally and forever, convicted of his many crimes. Now I know: a one-way ticket to Mogadishu, no return possible, only one suitcase and a toothbrush.
Mogadishu is too nice, I say put him in CECOT, after America has clawed back every penny trump paid them. Then tell Bukele if he lets trump out he will take his place.
Mogadishu is dangerous as hell. I like the idea that he would be bereft of his golden trappings, have to fend for himself, and be deeply terrified until his dying days.
He wouldn't last a day.
How do people become so cruel and so hateful? Stephen the Miller is an example of a young person who had everything: white, male, American, educated, and yet he his heart was so filled with hatred. He has nurtured this bigotry that has found power and a soulmate in Twump. Marco Rubio is dangerously close to jail time. He can share a cell with the Miller. This judge is a real prize and, once again, draws eyes to the Deep South, not even a place but an old tired racist ideology. What happened to this judge? When did she inject hatred? As it is said, hatred isn't something you are born with, it is something you are taught. All of these white supremacists have risen, like rancid cream, to the top of the power rungs in the U.S.. I suggest we pull the ladder down and let them cannibalize each other as they have their eyes picked out by big black birds Caaaaw.
I remember reading the attached article about stEVIL Miller when he 1st came into the Trump or orbit & 1st admin. Written by his uncle. It still amazes me & fills me with sadness & more. The hypocrisy & evil continue!
Lest we forget. Never until he & so many others are stopped.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351/
Great link! I hope many posting here read it. Miller and Trump are hate-filled, despicable, entitled people. What is most sad is so many ordinary people support their perverse and evil actions.
Thanks for posting this. I had read that Miller's family was mortified by him but this article just brings it home. Horrifying to have a Nazi in your family, especially when you are deeply religious Jews. If that sentence sounds callous, I apologize but stand by it.
None of them ever sat at the “cool kid’s” table.
And never will.
I believe his family has disowned him…
I ask maga all the time. Did they learn their racist, bigoted hatred on their knees at trumps feet, or from their momma. I haven't had a single one answer me.
We can only hope that they - magats - will become extinct. In the future, they will be taught and studied in high school history class like we study the German racists of the mid-20th century. I heard Steve Schmidt say that in ten years, no one will admit voting for Twump. True, most people won't but some, those face-tattooed knuckle draggers whose mommas had no time for them, will stand proudly as former magats, red hats dirty and frayed and social credibility zero as they post, "Why doesn't anybody hire white men any more? Unfair!"
Consider that this prevalent phenomenon of behaving and believing in ways we are not predisposed to at birth: that we are all colored by past life actions and reactions. [Repeat lessons]
Are you saying "past life actions" to mean lives we have lived before this one, or actions in our past which mold who we are? If it is the former, a fun game would be to describe how these people got how they are: Noem was unattractive unhappy and likely unkind to animals in a past life. She wanted more than anything to be pretty and made the deal: lose your soul for a pretty face. Yes! she said. Miller was a sad boy no one loved (oh wait that's this life...). You get the idea. If it is the latter I would point to the parents first. Apples do not fall far from the tree.
I especially liked the "rancid cream" part.
So many thanks for another scalding malfeasance exposé, Judd.
The article makes the important point that Immigration judges are not actually judges in the sense we understand the word. Once again, we see a system that Trump and his enablers are manipulating because it rested on norms rather than on specific rules when it comes to appointing immigration judges.
Is there a court case to fight the ending of TPS for Somali refugees? I know that there are cases in court for other groups.
I wish I was reading, at this point, a Democratic plan to replace “norms” with laws. We have the knowledge of how these norms were broken in the first Trump administration and we have Project 2025 as references. But I’m not aware of any organized plan by Dems to tighten loopholes or replace norms with laws. Do plans even exist? Are there people working on this? If not, why not?
We certainly have qualified people elected to the House and Senate to do what you suggest. If or when the Democrats win majorities, let us advocate increasing the funds for staffing some of these brilliant legal minds. E.G. Jamie Raskin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Eric Swalwell, etc.
It is a program of ethnic cleansing. Trump sponsored.
And let’s add all the contributions Somali immigrants make, economically and culturally.
At the core of all of the problems with immigration everywhere is that of identity. Everyone understands it at a deep, visceral level, but it’s devilishly difficult to define at an intellectual one. It boils down to the question of “Do you want to be an [American] of [Somali] heritage or do you want to be [Somali] living in America?”These are very different. The MAGAs answer is to adopt such a cramped, narrow view of an “American” identity that nobody can qualify. The immigration advocates, on the other hand, fail to grapple with the question at all.
You have to visualize a Venn diagram with the two sets of cultures/values and how much they overlap. The more overlap the better. Unfortunately, we tend to focus excessively on more superficial cultural trappings than on core humanity of caring for each other.
Your Venn diagram approach reminded me of learning about how America was a "melting pot" when I was in the 2nd grade. The teacher, Miss Betagh, told all of us kids about what a good thing that was. Sixty years later, I still believe it. I wonder about the rest of my classmates... And I wonder what 2nd graders are being taught these days.
The whole “melting pot” thing was a poor metaphor. It’s more useful to to think in terms of “cultural friction”. By and large, pleasurable things like food, art, and music cross cultures easily and are not friction points. However, core values like religion or gender roles are far less flexible and more likely to be friction points. If cultures insist on trying to impose their values on others rather than accepting a live and let live/respectfully agree to disagree attitude, then compatible coexistence is impossible.
Again this shows us that Trump/Miller/Noem will stop at nothing to achieve their nefarious aims.
I have been arguing forever the Congress needs to reconstitute immigration courts as Article 3 courts. Right now the fox is guarding the hen house. As I often mention, when ICE was simply telling judges someone had to be deported, one judge commented "we all have bosses." I have no idea whether judges in immigration court are subject to ethical rules, but that high a rejection of asylum has to mean that the judge is not actually analyzing the cases before her. Someone needs to pull her decisions (FOIA?? or easily available?) to see how she is documenting them.
Clearly getting the immigration courts into Article 3 is work that won't happen till we have a different president. Investigation into the validity of the judge's work could begin as soon as someone with investigative skills gets going.
All of this brought on by SCOTUS! There’s not sufficient conversation about it and the long term effect of its criminalization of the rule of law.
Where is the Justice Department attorney who wants to stand on the Shoulders of Joseph N. Welsch, the Army Attorney who stood up to Senator Joseph McCarthy? To paraphrase the late Charlie Munger "we all know who is swimming naked when the tide goes out" and that describes the lawyers in the Justice Department and the lawyers of the the FBI, ICE and HS. Its easy to swear an oath to the Constitution. It is quite another to actually act on that oath. Democracy is in the streets not in the halls od Justice.
Haitians are next too with revoking TPS and I’m sure this terrible judge will be called on to be horrific to those migrants as well.