The Gold Card is a residency permit, so unless rules change again Gold Card holders wouldn’t need visas so wouldn’t have to pay the new fee.

And I don’t think it’s that we want only rich tourists. It’s that we are treating all foreigners as criminals. If you think of it more like “every foreigner belongs in jail, but you can pay bail to get out” it makes more sense. You only get your “bail” refunded if you “behave”…

His early career arc is kind of bonkers. He was one of only a small handful of black law students at Yale, and graduated with honors. But he had trouble finding a job after graduation, because the racist mid-70’s law partners thought he only got his law degree because of affirmative action. He ended up blaming Yale for giving him a worthless degree, when he wouldn’t have gotten into Yale at all, no matter how talented he was, if it weren’t for affirmative action.

If he had blamed the systemic racism in the profession instead, we might have had a very different Clarence Thomas.

He did all that, we all found out about it, and we still re-elected him…

Not as a whole, but the margins were so thin in some states that Trump won that if Harris didn’t lose that small percentage of Black voters, she might have swung enough states to win the election.

What’s really heartbreaking is that when these veterans, who took bullets for us, get told by our country that they need to leave, they just say “Yup, I guess I gotta leave”, and don’t make a huge deal about it. Donald Trump whines, in an extremely public matter, whenever he doesn’t get his way, and these people just continue to do what their country asks them to, even when the country tells them to leave.

Life just isn’t fair.

… then later he will complain about all these things that he wil claim he didn’t see coming. Maybe we should call Elon’s new party the Not-See’s…

Deep down, I think this guy knows all those reasons are bullshit, too. But he uses them because he doesn’t want to publicly admit the real reason – he would never vote for anyone with a vagina.

The article states

The government can only do this in specific situations. It must prove someone “illegally procured” citizenship by not meeting the requirements, or that they lied or hid important facts during the citizenship process.

So, basically, it all goes back to that person’s naturalization process, and the notion that there was something wrong with it. But for this administration, “hiding important facts” might mean “didn’t tell us this tiny detail”, or “didn’t tell us they intended to vote for Liberals”…

Don’t worry, by the time the next election comes along he’ll be back in the GOP’s good graces, because there’s no way he’d vote for a liberal…

The article doesn’t discuss details, only that she “legally migrated” and was in the “process of obtaining her permanent residency”. She could have been here legally on a student or other type of temporary visa, and looking to stay permanently. Or, she could have come here in a visa, complying with the laws, only to have the government yank that visa and make her illegal after the fact. (Edited because I missed the part where she came here legally…)

Not that it matters, the immigration courts here have been calling people into immigration court to cancel their ongoing applications, only to release them to ICE, waiting outside the courthouse door. So the status of her paperwork isn’t actually an issue. If the government wants you gone, they will get you gone, one way or the other.

The only real protection is US citizenship: and even that may not be enough if the masked ICE goon decides your proof is “fake” and confiscates it. At least citizens do have a better chance of getting out of detention, but first their lawyer has to find them, in a detention system specifically designed to lose people.

Like most Republicans, these Long Island Republicans cannot express empathy at all until bad things happen to someone they know personally. So if there’s a silver lining to Trump’s pogroms targeting immigrants, it’s that they are so widespread that they are having the direct impact that will be necessary if these people would ever be able to see past the brainwashing.

Time and time again, these misguided people say shit like “I thought he was only getting rid of the bad ones”. News flash - it was never about the criminals, it was about getting rid of everyone who wasnt born here, and then moving on to other undesirables, like gays, Liberals, and so on. Given time, we will all be the “bad ones” for one reason or another…

“The founders clearly intended class-action lawsuits such as this to be filed on parchment, since this was filed electronically it is invalid. Electricity didn’t even exist in 1788 when the Constitution was ratified, so any courtroom that uses it is not acting as the Founders intended…”

I know it is possible for some people to get a second, valid passport if they travel often enough, so that they can travel when one is being renewed, or if they travel between countries where a visa stamp from some other country might deny them entry.

Maybe “I look brown so ICE may confiscate my passport without due process” can now be a reason to get a second valid passport …

This is why a passport card is so awesome. Only Costs $30 on top of the passport fee, you can easily keep it on your person, and if ICE confiscates it because “we think it’s fake” you have your actual passport at home that your lawyer can bring to the facility to get you out, once he finds you.

I guess I need to change the password on my luggage

Neither did he

Donald Trump has not been held accountable by anyone since his father died. Even when he was convicted of felony paperwork violations, his punishment was to get elected President (again!).

I think your best bet would be to go to the local Democratic party. You don’t have the cash to contest this; they do. They also (depending on the local laws) probably have local officials on the local elections boards, so they are in the best position to evaluate your claims. There may be a simple explanation…