Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
Senior Fellow @immcouncil. Tweeting on immigration policy and data. Formerly immigration lawyer with @IJCorps. Views my own, retweets =/= endorsements.
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The Executive Branch has no authority to regulate states’ election decisions as to candidate qualifications, and the choice to file a lawsuit like this just days before an election speaks volumes about the political corruption festering at the top levels of the DOJ.
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An important bit of immigration law relevant here; Section 212(k) of the INA already creates a waiver by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card.
So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.
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Trump is down to a 36% approval rating on immigration, a net -19% disapproval.
Even 1 in 5 Republicans now disapprove of his actions on immigration.
1% of the American population is 3.4 million people.
If you believe this, you are an idiot. It’s that simple.
Trump has lost every single one of these lawsuits, for extremely obviously reasons. But that’s not the point, of course; it’s to impose additional costs on the media who report on him.
The Trump DOJ has lost every single lawsuit on this issue so far.
One reason the founders believed in a separation of church and state was that they knew it would corrupt religion to intertwine it with politics; and here we are.
One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States.
Here's the National Archives:
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