There’s a specific kind of person online who’s very vocal that they won’t vote for Harris under any circumstances for Left reasons and then gets mad when the Harris campaign tries to get moderate Republicans to vote for her and it’s like, well, where else can they get votes from if you’re closed?

If you're not paying attention to the process, it can seem like an entirely new policy is suddenly put into effect (because it was previously introduced fully but waiting for the injunction to break) 5/x

In a lot of circumstances, the policy changes suddenly because previously introduced policy that was enjoined by a Republican judge finally gets an appellate decision striking down the injunction. 4/

W.r.t. policies changing month to month, unfortunately Republican judges like to impose national injunctions on a Lot of immigration policy improvements that only get implemented after lengthy appeals strike down the inductions. So policy may seem to change rapidly but 3/

And Democrats willing to cave too much on draconian border policy is a thing (often coupled with quiet improvements to the system, presumably because if people paid attention, it'd be way tougher to improve. Like overturning Barr AG decisions and extending wide-ranging prosecutorial discretion) 2/

Sorry 'bout that, was giving a scheduled PERM training Anyway, politics are politics and when I go into mechanisms I try to avoid specific politics - I may prefer a liberalization of immigration or different approaches as an aspiration, but a lot of my job is to explain things how they are 1/

I've got something I have to work on now but I'm leaving a comment to remember to make a more substantive comment later

There are a lot of fair criticisms of that, too, but my read is that it: 1) raises the standards for asylum determination in credible fear interviews at the border subject to judge review (already a process that happens, the standard is just being raised) 2) Speeds up processing and review

Yeah. A huge issue has been "too few judges, too many cases." By me, there have been a ton of new immigration judge hires since 2021. Practitioners are complaining even, that cases that took years before are now being set for trial in 4-5 months

En-route to the US. Some of the ways also to rebut the presumption of ineligibility is acute medical emergency or imminent threat to life or safety, or trafficking. This is determined by an immigration judge during a trial. I have my issues with EOIR, but asylum proceedings haven't stopped 3/x