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Joe Gordon

@joegordon.bsky.social

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He/him. Lawyer. I defend against removal and help people reaching for their American dreams. Member of AILA, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania) Bar Assn, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel. #immigrationsky

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Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · Oct 15

Immigration to the U.S. should be simple, easy, speedy, affordable and humane. Our policies should support our values, our needs. Families should be able to be safe, and together. Workers should be able to work. We should be a beacon. We should educate and welcome the world. We could. We can.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 1h

Having read the excerpted language by the judge, I agree. This isn’t just a statement by an agency. It’s a contract they’re trying to get the schools to agree with illegal conditions in it. So my ignorance of the context meant I had an inadequate understanding of this. Thanks for disagreeing!

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 1h

bold. query: any difference between running for REELECTION in the senate - with, presumably, institutional knowledge and experience, and seniority - and running to enter the Senate?

because i would prefer new senators have some potential decades of work ahead of them.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 1h

his memory will be for a blessing. his work, too.

may all those who hurt find peace.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 2h

oh damn THIS is how I learn?

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 2h

but the crimping! it's so famous! and been used so much!

crimping is functional, closure is necessary for a closed sandwich, they're trying to get TM protection in something that's unpatentable and also just the idea of the product, despite the disclaimers OP identified upthread.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t have to hand it to them. That said… if triggers in laws are valid, this is like that.

Also I favor more contempt orders against people I am mad at.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 2h

Right. Hoping a fed ct can soon permanently enjoin that ultra vires noise

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 2h

@alttext.bsky.social

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 2h

Agree. At least the many, many folks on H visas already have some respite from anguish. I hope. We should honestly allow everyone spending more than 6 months here to get driver’s licenses etc, else what are we even doing?

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 3h

Good question. It’ll be attacked in court and it’s contrary to the statute, which would be enough to defeat it in normal times. They’ve said it won’t be enforced against doctors, which is I guess nice or something. But law should be LAW, not whim or by grace.

So a lawyer might answer: maybe no?

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 3h

@alttext.bsky.social

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 4h

That seems a little reductive.

What about shooting dogs, or planting evidence, framing innocents, racially profiling, writing tickets, gee they do so much.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 4h

I hope AC has stress dreams of that moment in the debates when Mamdani ethered him by listing off some of the things he, Mamdani, had not done. youtu.be/b2JoxRCAGd8?...

Zohran Mamdani DESTROYS Cuomo in Nyc Mayor Debate

YouTube video by TheLeftistPerspective

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve never done one. The rules seem overly complex, unnecessary obstacles for such a straightforward benefit. Gaming of visas by companies is a thing, and I favor worker power as an alternative approach. But, not my area.

Immigration shouldn’t harm workers. Immigration doesn’t harm America.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 4h

Not sure how that would be in any way different from their current behavior.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Sharing an excellent Q&A from Obama-era former ICE director John Sandweg about the ways in which operations today are totally unprecedented for the agency and the ways in which some times are unchanged — and how in his view, the admin is leaning into the aggression. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

www.politico.com

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 4h

Mazel tov and wonderful to hear you’ve got a community up under you

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 5h

Aaron, I was told in no uncertain terms that immigration lawyers only prey upon the H visa community. If that’s true, why are we celebrating the survival of a humane and reasonable fix that helps people?

Also I block those folks without mercy. No fixing angry.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 5h

That gives her credit for cleverness and strategy. I’m willing to consider the possibility that she’s one of the grifters too dumb to understand that’s what she’s doing. Just stumbling and flattering and Outrageously Truthful!ing her way to $$ and power. Useful, to the powerful. But still an idiot.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 17h

Friendly amendment that other things they want to do is punish universities, install friendly bosses of news orgs and mass media, execute people, dismantle major institutions, eliminate food aid and make people sicker. But they don’t need to build to do those.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 18h

Get off the grass! Touch screen!

Jk glad you were alive for a while there

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, looking at that 2022 post, it wasn’t struck down? They just continued their project of eliminating recourse for violations? Miranda warnings still exist and still matter as far as exclusionary rulings in criminal proceedings?

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 1d

The actual answer is that immigration arrests by ICE of noncitizens don’t require Miranda warnings because it’s not a criminal arrest.

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 1d

Still counts

Source: me, the guy with zero italic ancestry but who loves to say, if you are what you eat then my percentage of Italian goes way up

Joe Gordon @joegordon.bsky.social · 1d

Smartass