Joe Gordon
@joegordon.bsky.social
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.
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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.
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I monitor the federal courts for immigration-related decisions. Six months ago, it was almost all Circuit Court rulings on things like asylum. But recently it's over 50% District Court habeas petitions -- mostly granted.
Keep it up!
Keep it up!
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I monitor the federal courts for immigration-related decisions. Six months ago, it was almost all Circuit Court rulings on things like asylum. But recently it's over 50% District Court habeas petitions -- mostly granted.
Keep it up!
Keep it up!
Plug: go see the musical in #Norristown at #TheatreHorizon “Wishing to Grow Up Brightly,” a lovely moving funny story that’s about growing up adopted, parenting, memory, finding your friends and your roots, death and life. See it with people you love. I laughed, I cried, I craved Korean food.
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Plug: go see the musical in #Norristown at #TheatreHorizon “Wishing to Grow Up Brightly,” a lovely moving funny story that’s about growing up adopted, parenting, memory, finding your friends and your roots, death and life. See it with people you love. I laughed, I cried, I craved Korean food.
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"Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation," by Marla Ramírez will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social and available for purchase in October 2025.
For more information, follow the 🔗 below 👇
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
For more information, follow the 🔗 below 👇
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Banished Citizens — Harvard University Press
A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans—mostly women and children who were US citizens—were forced to relocate across the sou...
www.hup.harvard.edu
May 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation," by Marla Ramírez will be published by @harvardpress.bsky.social and available for purchase in October 2025.
For more information, follow the 🔗 below 👇
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
For more information, follow the 🔗 below 👇
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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In her new book, Marla A. Ramírez examines the reverberating consequences of a push to deport ethnic Mexicans, many of whom were U.S. citizens, during the Great Depression. #immigration #mexico #deportation
www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author...
www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author...
‘The law didn’t respect them’: How the US deported thousands of citizens 100 years ago
In her new book, Marla A. Ramírez examines the reverberating consequences of a push to deport ethnic Mexicans, many of whom were U.S. citizens, during the Great Depression.
www.csmonitor.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In her new book, Marla A. Ramírez examines the reverberating consequences of a push to deport ethnic Mexicans, many of whom were U.S. citizens, during the Great Depression. #immigration #mexico #deportation
www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author...
www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author...
As we now live through an echo of history, official scapegoating of an ethnic minority leads to efforts of wholesale banishment of citizens of the “wrong race.”
We must learn the history. Learn from history. And fight like hell to prevent the repetition of past sins.
We must learn the history. Learn from history. And fight like hell to prevent the repetition of past sins.
Dear readers, a must read:
Banished Citizens by Marla A. Ramirez
by Harvard University Press
Brings a historical look at past displacement and deportations of Latino Americans regardless of status in the United States.
#history #Latinosky #Latinx #sociology #politicalscience #booksky #library
Banished Citizens by Marla A. Ramirez
by Harvard University Press
Brings a historical look at past displacement and deportations of Latino Americans regardless of status in the United States.
#history #Latinosky #Latinx #sociology #politicalscience #booksky #library
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
As we now live through an echo of history, official scapegoating of an ethnic minority leads to efforts of wholesale banishment of citizens of the “wrong race.”
We must learn the history. Learn from history. And fight like hell to prevent the repetition of past sins.
We must learn the history. Learn from history. And fight like hell to prevent the repetition of past sins.
Immigration is good and immigrants are people and borders are silly, and also this should be the default moderate and default conservative position too, any deviation from this is for reasons that are lackng in logic or facts or heart
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Immigration is good and immigrants are people and borders are silly, and also this should be the default moderate and default conservative position too, any deviation from this is for reasons that are lackng in logic or facts or heart
When a “whole of govt” approach is directed to the expulsion of minors who’ve been abandoned or neglected or worse, because of their national origin.
I preferred when govt was massively flawed but run by people not entireLy wicked.
I preferred when govt was massively flawed but run by people not entireLy wicked.
They pulled up this interlocutory appeal within about a month of USCIS announcing the end of deferred action for SIJS.
Seems like a multi-agency coordinated attack on children who been found to have been abused, abandoned, and neglected.
www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
Seems like a multi-agency coordinated attack on children who been found to have been abused, abandoned, and neglected.
www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...
www.uscis.gov
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
When a “whole of govt” approach is directed to the expulsion of minors who’ve been abandoned or neglected or worse, because of their national origin.
I preferred when govt was massively flawed but run by people not entireLy wicked.
I preferred when govt was massively flawed but run by people not entireLy wicked.
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ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...
www.iowapublicradio.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American.
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’.
Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared.
www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...
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Luther Vandross - Love The One You're With
YouTube video by LutherVandrossVEVO
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November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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@mluther I’ve been doing a bit of research on my own and I think the church is getting some things wrong. long thread so buckle up. 1/95
Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@mluther I’ve been doing a bit of research on my own and I think the church is getting some things wrong. long thread so buckle up. 1/95
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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If anyone needs any further context on how weird immigration law is, humanitarian visas for abused children are considered "employment-based".
This backlog is less about streamlining and more about how Congress set visa numbers in 1990, and has made effectively ZERO changes to this system in the last 35 years.
In 2000, when Congress created SIJS, they linked it to the visa system; so you can win SIJS and still wait 5 years for a visa.
In 2000, when Congress created SIJS, they linked it to the visa system; so you can win SIJS and still wait 5 years for a visa.
And no one talks about ways to make things move along more smoothly or how to streamline immigration procedures so backlogs aren’t so crazy and people can do things easier, more efficiently and legally. They just skip that part and think they can deport people for the foreseeable future.
November 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If anyone needs any further context on how weird immigration law is, humanitarian visas for abused children are considered "employment-based".
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Yep, the 10,000 limit on U Visas is so patently absurd. There are people who will have their application for a U Visa approved this year who won't get their visa until the 2040s.
it's so perverse to have visa number limits on humanitarian protections like these
"oh sorry, you're already in the US but you can't get protection because of the arbitrary magical number a senate intern dreamt up as being applicable one day and suggested"
U visas, Ts, SIJS, it's so evil
"oh sorry, you're already in the US but you can't get protection because of the arbitrary magical number a senate intern dreamt up as being applicable one day and suggested"
U visas, Ts, SIJS, it's so evil
November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yep, the 10,000 limit on U Visas is so patently absurd. There are people who will have their application for a U Visa approved this year who won't get their visa until the 2040s.
Hot take: the vengeance and racism and oppression are melded in a toxic stew with profit motive, both public and private. GEO and CoreCivic are vile machines of human misery and so is your average state correctional institution. Rikers is hell. Manhattan’s MDC likewise.
I think it’s an understandable impulse to blame corporate greed (bc it’s there) but it also elides the desire for vengeance and pain and racism that really underlies it. No one actually cares about cost at the end of the day.
People pushing all of the sins of the carceral state on “private prisons” in order to shift the conversation around policing and prisons into one about greedy corporations has been a very counterproductive narrative.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hot take: the vengeance and racism and oppression are melded in a toxic stew with profit motive, both public and private. GEO and CoreCivic are vile machines of human misery and so is your average state correctional institution. Rikers is hell. Manhattan’s MDC likewise.
Trump goons targeting clergy for roughing up and arresting! This will definitely mollify the Catholics, the Methodists, the Jews, the
Oh and the federal judges, they just looove this stuff
Oh and the federal judges, they just looove this stuff
Note: The pastor being thrown to the ground and arrested here while protesting outside an ICE facility here — who police single out — appears to be Rev. Michael Woolf, a Baptist pastor (he’s ordained by both American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists).
at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him.
situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Trump goons targeting clergy for roughing up and arresting! This will definitely mollify the Catholics, the Methodists, the Jews, the
Oh and the federal judges, they just looove this stuff
Oh and the federal judges, they just looove this stuff
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
Post is good. Replies brought joy
getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Post is good. Replies brought joy
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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Good morning. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is presiding over a status hearing in the case involving conditions inside ICE's holding facility in Broadview.
The hearing is just getting underway, and it's being held remotely.
The hearing is just getting underway, and it's being held remotely.
Magistrate judge plans visit to ICE Broadview facility amid lawsuit over conditions
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Magistrate judge plans visit to ICE Broadview facility amid lawsuit over conditions
The visit has been tentatively planned for Thursday morning, and details will be sorted out early next week.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Good morning. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman is presiding over a status hearing in the case involving conditions inside ICE's holding facility in Broadview.
The hearing is just getting underway, and it's being held remotely.
The hearing is just getting underway, and it's being held remotely.
ALERT TO PLACES CONSIDERING DOING 287(G) YOU WILL GO BROKE IF YOU VIOLATE THE LAW.
The pro-deportation folks aren’t the law-followers. It’s the so-called sanctuary places that care about the Constitution and peoples’ rights.
The pro-deportation folks aren’t the law-followers. It’s the so-called sanctuary places that care about the Constitution and peoples’ rights.
Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE
Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE
A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.
longisland.news12.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
ALERT TO PLACES CONSIDERING DOING 287(G) YOU WILL GO BROKE IF YOU VIOLATE THE LAW.
The pro-deportation folks aren’t the law-followers. It’s the so-called sanctuary places that care about the Constitution and peoples’ rights.
The pro-deportation folks aren’t the law-followers. It’s the so-called sanctuary places that care about the Constitution and peoples’ rights.
Language QOTD: saying “burp the baby” in Spanish? Translate dot google gives me “eructar el bebé” which does not sound like common talk.
French option gave me “faire le rot au bebe” which amuses
French option gave me “faire le rot au bebe” which amuses
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Language QOTD: saying “burp the baby” in Spanish? Translate dot google gives me “eructar el bebé” which does not sound like common talk.
French option gave me “faire le rot au bebe” which amuses
French option gave me “faire le rot au bebe” which amuses
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Defending them from Mom and/or Dad being home for the holidays?
Kristi Noem: "We're not gonna just be in Chicago, we're spreading out to other cities and continuing to do our work. We're not going to give Pritzker any relief from his political rhetoric. We're gonna be in there defending these families."
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Defending them from Mom and/or Dad being home for the holidays?
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New hobby: treating every "-ist" suffix word as if it has a corresponding "-ism", for example a "linguist" is someone who adheres to the tenets of the political philosophy of "linguism"
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New hobby: treating every "-ist" suffix word as if it has a corresponding "-ism", for example a "linguist" is someone who adheres to the tenets of the political philosophy of "linguism"