I agree with you on a lot of things but this is a bad take.
Obviously whether a term is pejorative is determined by what society believes. If a large part of the country believes that certain words aren’t a big deal, then that’s the norm (sometimes unfortunately).
No, humanitarian parole can be revoked entirely discretionarily. There’s nothing like the protections people with actual grants of status have where you have some protections from the admin changing its mind.
Be careful of the trap of “we must do something, and this is something, so we must do it.”
Even as biased as the report is, the House Committee on Homeland Security has the raw figures at over 95% for admission: homeland.house.gov/2023/10/23/n...
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that the appointments through CBP One made it very likely that you would be able to enter and spend time in the U.S. with any facially plausible claim, which incentivized many, many people to do so.
The processing times listed are for the 80th percentile of applications—not the average.
The average processing time is likely fewer than 6 months, but yes, 20% or so of applicants are likely to have their EAD expire before the renewal gets processed.
Curious on your take on if this signals a view change for PhDs and others that stay in the U.S. for decades in F/J status but are very largely beneficial to national interests.
Past govt position seemed to be to exercise heavy discretion re immigrant intent to capitalize on intl. researchers /end.
Always seemed to me that the nonimmigrant classification of F visas in particular has been in tension with U.S. policy goals regarding students.
See, e.g., FAM/USCIS Pol. Man. re determining immigrant intent for such aliens which is approx. 5 paragraphs of exceptions re finding immigrant intent. /2
This cuts both ways. The alternative is much, much worse is it not?
For example, imagine if courts hadn’t been able to intervene in the recent SEVIS cancellations for international students (litigated under the APA), which appeared to lead the administration to reverse the policy.
Govt filed their response against sanctions in the Abrego-Garcia case; would any more well resourced PACER warriors be so kind as to RECAP? (*cough cough* @annabower.bsky.social).
