No, actually, it doesn’t.

Should have.  You’d be surprised how many criminal defense attorneys still aren’t following the rules for effective assistance of counsel under Padilla.  

If his mom is a permanent resident, he’s not an immediate relative. So even if she petitions for him, he has to wait for a visa to become available, then go back to his home country for a visa interview before he can get his greencard.

Enough with the narrative that someone who is here “illegally” has simply neglected to rectify their immigration status. Seriously. Enough.

I commented yesterday not knowing the full facts of the case and allowing ICE’s lies to affect my opinion. I am an 80's Salvadorean refugee who gained citizenship over-time, and I critiqued 21 Savage for having a felony. Getting in trouble with the law in our community is viewed as a massive personal fuck-up, one…

I’m an immigrant, and have lived and witnessed the process my whole life, I am still learning things. It amazes me that a law enforcement entity can determine bond and not a judge. I can’t think of any other scenario where this is possible. Did the Constitution burst into flames recently?

The ACLU has entire section devoted to ICE and CBP with hundreds of documented Constitutional Violations.

It’s already been heard in federal court, so unless his conviction was expunged based on mistakes by the police or prosecutors, it won’t go anywhere

I’d at least like to see them fight this fight with the federal court system since they’re effectively defying the federal judiciary by refusing to honor the expungement.

My understanding is that the lawyer is able to say he has no criminal record because his conviction was expunged, but DHS can look at the criminal record even if the record is sealed or expunge. To immigration, the conviction still stands.

Yeah...I’m kinda not getting how this is anti BLM, unless if maybe I’m missing something. Otherwise...

Do we really want to say that anti-cop-killer legislation is also anti-Black-Lives-Matter legislation? I could have sworn that it was Republicans who insisted that BLM was about killing cops, and in doing so they were deliberately misrepresenting what BLM was about.

THANK you. I remember reading that thread, but I couldn’t track it down.

For the record, the Clinton hot sauce thing was debunked as just pandering. From an interview back in 2012:

There may be a couple ways to interpret this. Dude was a Texas Congressman, and being seen as anti-police might have been more political risk than he was willing to take. That said, I tend to admire the courageous stances more, though it’s much easier to call for courage when someone else has to do all the couraging.

The Thin Blue Line Act essentially makes police officers a protected class—similar to minorities, LGBTQ people or women.

Wait, is Kamala Harris not considered black? 

Let’s see: ran on Willie Horton, let a generation of gay men die, Iran-Contra, ex-head of the CIA...and yet he’s still better than what’s in the WH now.

There’s people who say they miss George W Bush because of Trump so why wouldn’t they fall over themselves for his daddy? Short term memory like Rick James.

I have to say, just having watched the coffin loaded unto Air Force One and watching all those white people board that plane, especially the large contingent of younger male Bushes, made me nauseous. White people will never understand their privilege and I was sickened to think that my children will have to work…