There have always been young undocumented people who chose to not apply for DACA because they didn’t trust the government with their data. The DACA application process is pretty thorough and requires everything from your home address to a biometric appointment where applicants are fingerprinted. Read more

What I gathered was that the author of this story was mocking Nussbaum for watching a 30-minute sitcom featuring brown people using the term Latinx and still questioning whether she herself had the correct pronunciation. Read more

Keep LiveJournal out of this mess! Read more

You know I love a good tip. Tweet me, email me. Anything! Read more

From my experience in daily TV newsrooms, it still works like this. Often times young producers are scramming looking for guests and apparently don’t bother to Google them. Read more

Off topic, but related to this: Read more

Well, according to Stephen Miller the poem is not relevant because it was added later to the Statue of Liberty.

Looking into the story more just makes this make even less sense. Read more

When the number of illegal crossings at the border are at historic lows you move inland and start targeting 7-Elevens. Read more

Jose Guevara starts treatment again on Friday morning. His friends have set up a GoFundMe fundraiser to help him financially.  Read more

ICE reports the average daily population in its detention facilities was a little more than 38,000 for the 2017 fiscal year. However, this doesn’t mean these same 38k people will be deported. Most folks in detention are awaiting a judge to decide whether they’ll be deported or not.   Read more

Both men came to the United States as children after their families fled the Khmer Rouge regime. Read more

You’re right that pardons are not issued out like candy. But this decision does allow other attorneys to follow the same strategy... which is a precedent they didn’t have before. Read more

The ACLU has interviewed 59 veterans from 22 countries, all of whom have either been deported or are currently fighting deportation. Read more

Permanent residents are eligible to apply to join any branch of the U.S. military. Read more

Thanks for your comment. The local immigrant rights groups I spoke with had similar things to say. Though, they were surprised to hear about the hospital’s policy on patients who have been transferred to a jail. Read more

If your intention is to shut shit down, then yes, tell Uncle Jack to “shut the fuck up.” Read more

And hope you can open that door...

Riiiiight. Read more

A commenter had a great analogy: when a car is out of gas, it stops running.  Read more