Aaron Hall
@immlawachall.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer • Colorado • Joseph & Hall
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Oof. Another mark on the “con” side of the let-people-interpret-the-gospels-for themselves question.
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oof. Another mark on the “con” side of the let-people-interpret-the-gospels-for themselves question.
FIFA is monstrous. Maybe Loretta Lynch's work would have done the trick if she'd used wooden stakes or garlic or holy water.
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
FIFA is monstrous. Maybe Loretta Lynch's work would have done the trick if she'd used wooden stakes or garlic or holy water.
It’s an absolute atrocity regardless.
But remember that those in power telling us these nearing 100 people executed from the sky are definitely drug traffickers are the same people who told us the guy sent to CECOT based on an autism awareness tattoo was definitely Tren de Aragua.
But remember that those in power telling us these nearing 100 people executed from the sky are definitely drug traffickers are the same people who told us the guy sent to CECOT based on an autism awareness tattoo was definitely Tren de Aragua.
U.S. Southern Command says that the Defense Department carried out another “lethal kinetic strike” at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s direction on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that killed four men.
U.S. Southern Command says it conducted a new 'lethal kinetic strike' on alleged drug boat
The U.S. has carried out at least 22 known strikes on alleged drug traffickers in recent months.
nbcnews.to
December 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It’s an absolute atrocity regardless.
But remember that those in power telling us these nearing 100 people executed from the sky are definitely drug traffickers are the same people who told us the guy sent to CECOT based on an autism awareness tattoo was definitely Tren de Aragua.
But remember that those in power telling us these nearing 100 people executed from the sky are definitely drug traffickers are the same people who told us the guy sent to CECOT based on an autism awareness tattoo was definitely Tren de Aragua.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
GEO Group, currently grifting the American taxpayer for incalculable sums of money thru Trump's mass deportation ops, gave 92% of their 2024 campaign contributions to GOP candidates. GEO's favorite (only?) Dem, just got a pardon. Friends in high places, I guess.
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipie...
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipie...
December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
GEO Group, currently grifting the American taxpayer for incalculable sums of money thru Trump's mass deportation ops, gave 92% of their 2024 campaign contributions to GOP candidates. GEO's favorite (only?) Dem, just got a pardon. Friends in high places, I guess.
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipie...
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipie...
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The head of the Border Patrol racial profiling operation calls the US citizen BABIES of immigrants criminals
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The head of the Border Patrol racial profiling operation calls the US citizen BABIES of immigrants criminals
Making some assumptions here but it sounds like her immigration court case resulted in administrative closure. If that's right, they didn't even have a removal order but still arrested her and unlawfully deported her within 48 hrs, actions that should get people fired.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/u...
A college freshman deported while flying home for Thanksgiving is fighting to return. Here’s what we know about her case | CNN
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza arrived at the airport in Boston excited to embark on a surprise trip home to spend Thanksgiving with her family in Texas. The 19‑year‑old freshman at Babson College was nearin...
www.cnn.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Making some assumptions here but it sounds like her immigration court case resulted in administrative closure. If that's right, they didn't even have a removal order but still arrested her and unlawfully deported her within 48 hrs, actions that should get people fired.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/u...
Repugnant all around. But this:
"..opportunity to return to America the right, legal way"
being directed at those who listened to the U.S. tell them to just wait for a CBP One appt to do it the legal way, waited months in impossible circumstances to get their appt, just to be treated like this.
"..opportunity to return to America the right, legal way"
being directed at those who listened to the U.S. tell them to just wait for a CBP One appt to do it the legal way, waited months in impossible circumstances to get their appt, just to be treated like this.
These are screenshots from an actual DHS press release that just went out offering "self-deportation" as a "gift" to "illegal aliens" this holiday season.
This administration is truly repugnant.
This administration is truly repugnant.
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Repugnant all around. But this:
"..opportunity to return to America the right, legal way"
being directed at those who listened to the U.S. tell them to just wait for a CBP One appt to do it the legal way, waited months in impossible circumstances to get their appt, just to be treated like this.
"..opportunity to return to America the right, legal way"
being directed at those who listened to the U.S. tell them to just wait for a CBP One appt to do it the legal way, waited months in impossible circumstances to get their appt, just to be treated like this.
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I'm not sure what the continuation is and I'm not going there to look, but I'm assuming this is referring to them getting Social Security _benefits_, when what they're really getting is Social Security _numbers_, so they can pay for other people's benefits.
This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller.
It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago.
If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.
It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago.
If true, Harris would’ve easily won in 2024.
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm not sure what the continuation is and I'm not going there to look, but I'm assuming this is referring to them getting Social Security _benefits_, when what they're really getting is Social Security _numbers_, so they can pay for other people's benefits.
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“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
Ah yes but the fishing boats are different…
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Ah yes but the fishing boats are different…
The good thing is that with the agency’s integrity and credibility at stake, every agent who falsified reports or lied in sworn testimony will face internal agency investigation and discipline… actually they’re probably minting themselves commemorative coins celebrating the whole thing
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The good thing is that with the agency’s integrity and credibility at stake, every agent who falsified reports or lied in sworn testimony will face internal agency investigation and discipline… actually they’re probably minting themselves commemorative coins celebrating the whole thing
Immigration lawyers remember the gov't going down a similar road in Niz-Chavez. Didn't end great for them there.
Do these federal prosecutors understand that an "indictment" is a charging *document*? Like, the actual pages that formally charge someone with a crime?
November 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Immigration lawyers remember the gov't going down a similar road in Niz-Chavez. Didn't end great for them there.
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Masterful gambit, sir
BREAKING: President Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices.
Trump drops tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruit as pressure builds on consumer prices
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Masterful gambit, sir
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okay, figured out how to find the opinion and now see fn 1; you would think something pretending to be a real court would appoint counsel or something to ensure an actual adversarial process before issuing a precedential opinion, but here we are
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
okay, figured out how to find the opinion and now see fn 1; you would think something pretending to be a real court would appoint counsel or something to ensure an actual adversarial process before issuing a precedential opinion, but here we are
What hardliners don't understand or don't care to understand is that the whole American legal immigration structure depends on there being a bit of give in the joints.
Everything collapses without it and that's the direction USCIS is headed.
Everything collapses without it and that's the direction USCIS is headed.
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What hardliners don't understand or don't care to understand is that the whole American legal immigration structure depends on there being a bit of give in the joints.
Everything collapses without it and that's the direction USCIS is headed.
Everything collapses without it and that's the direction USCIS is headed.
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Read Andrew Free: detentionkills.substack.com/p/first-geo-...
First GEO Forced Labor Case at SCOTUS
How Records About a Death in ICE Custody Helped Propel a Case to the Supreme Court
detentionkills.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Read Andrew Free: detentionkills.substack.com/p/first-geo-...
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The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
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No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.”
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them.
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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So I have a small-time elected position with my local chapter of immigration lawyers. Today, I heard from five separate lawyers that their clients being detained by ICE at the Farmville Detention Center reported that there were worms in the food they were served over the weekend.
October 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So I have a small-time elected position with my local chapter of immigration lawyers. Today, I heard from five separate lawyers that their clients being detained by ICE at the Farmville Detention Center reported that there were worms in the food they were served over the weekend.
and another thing: she's not mad. please dont put in the story that she got mad.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
and another thing: she's not mad. please dont put in the story that she got mad.
Soooooo so close.
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Soooooo so close.
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An immigration system for the West and whitest.
NEW: The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
An immigration system for the West and whitest.