What laws are you referring to that need to be overturned? I mean deportation is ugly but it has to exist in some form or fashion, assuming you want to regulate immigration.

Those things take about two years to process and it requires local law enforcement to certify that she is cooperating with a prosecution of some sort. If she already has a removal order, they won’t delay removal for two years.

The surprising part of this bag is that 47% of Americans support the travel ban. 47%! Think about that in the context of all the protests, all the lawsuits, the judicial orders and the outrage. And still 47%.

Just a quick note - affected visa holders already in the country would not never deported without a hearing in immigration court, which would actually turn into several hearings dragging out over several years.

This isn’t true. They turned away people who had dual citizenship in listed and non-listed countries, e.g. some holding Franch and Iraqi citizenship. No US citizens, dual or otherwise, were kept out. Rumors to the contrary were the result of misleading headlines, and people who only read headlines.

Ehhhh..... The executive branch has pretty wide discretion over the various visa programs and hitching the constitution to non-citizens and non-residents outside of our borders is a stretch.

I don’t think federal courts have the authority to reinstate visas. That power lies exclusively with the executive branch.

The EDNY order is a stay on Removal, but doesn’t say anything about detention. I’m not sure about the other orders - I’ve lost track. Then there’s the question of whether the judicial orders can apply to immigrants other than those specifically named in the suit. The Boston one as applied to those not named is on…

I think that refers to those with dual citizenship of countries other than the U.S., e.g. UK and Iran. Not U.S. citizens. The WSJ and others have been reporting on that since last night.

I don’t outwardly chuckle at many internet comments. This one did it.

The judicial stay is on removal, not detention. CBP can detain these individuals without violating the order.

So your contention is that even though it’s constitutional for ICE to detain suspected undocumented immigrants, it’s unconstitutional for municipalities to do it on ICE’s behalf until ICE can pick them up? I understand a few federal district court judges have agreed, I just don’t see how they reconcile the disparity.

It will pass with ease now, because “had there been a good guy with a gun in that airport, the shooter may have met his demise sooner.” Or something along those lines.

Question for you since you’ve worked in the industry: When I am browsing / shopping a luxury retailer, are salesfloor employees taking stock of my buying power according to my appearance or is my middle class self consciousness making it up in my mind?

Working retail and making $7.50 an hour, apparently.

How many people making minimum wage working retail jobs have “lived the luxury life”?

I think the issue is that we don’t know why Delta kicked him off the flight. He claims it was because he was speaking Arabic. But that’s not on the video. I guess it’s just hard to take the word of a YouTube prankster with a history of profiling related hoaxes seriously without corroborating.

My initial reaction was that this miniseries might show the viewing public how horrid these people are.

Agreed. But we already knew Exxon did business in Russia. Now we know they do it through a subsidiary, which is to be expected. He’s just as unqualified and conflicted as he was 24 hours ago. I guess I’m just shrugging my shoulders at this new information.

I think you’re misunderstanding my point, which may have been ill communicated. All I’m saying is that this new information doesn’t make him less qualified or more conflicted than we knew he already was (respectively, unqualified and very conflicted).