update - Federal Court judge issues nationwide injunction against Trump's border control order
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While the recommendations largely provide increases to immigration- and border enforcement-related funding provisions—roughly $151.3 billion—they also implicitly drive dramatic changes to immigration policy.
Legal immigration. The Judiciary bill risks turning legal immigration into a pay-to-play system, by significantly increasing fees on everything from asylum applications and work permits to family reunification and humanitarian protections like Temporary Protected Status (TPS). These fees, many of which would be layered on top of existing fees, could effectively put legal pathways out of reach for thousands of people. Take, for example, the new proposed fees for an asylum applicant who will need to wait at least 5 years to obtain a decision in the heavily backlogged immigration system: $1,000 (new application fee), $550 every six months for work authorization, and $100 every year for a pending application would result in at least $6,450 in filing fees during the 5-year wait. The new fees propose placing the burden of the backlogged immigration system on the applicants themselves. The steep fees would effectively block access to those unable to afford the new fees given that this cost alone represents nearly 43 percent of a person’s annual income who earns federal minimum wage working 40 hours per week.
Detention. The Judiciary bill provides $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This amount is 13 times ICE’s FY 2024 detention budget and would be a 364 percent increase on an annual basis that would primarily benefit private companies contracted to build and run detention facilities. With this funding, ICE could likely fund an increase in detention to 125,000 beds or higher, only just a bit below the current population of the entire federal prison system. The bill uses funding provisions to dismantle core legal protections for children by implicitly overriding protections found in the Flores litigation settlement agreement that limit the time minors can be detained.
The bill also authorizes the DHS Secretary to set minimal detention standards for detention facilities without having to go through normal review, creating a situation where private prison operators whose facilities fail to meet current standards could be granted contracts anyway. The consequences of providing such large sums of money to increase detention without commensurate oversight will exacerbate deleterious and inhumane conditions that have been endemic to the detention system for years, including medical neglect, overcrowding, overuse of solitary confinement, and preventable deaths.
Arrests. The Judiciary bill also directs $27 billion toward ICE’s enforcement and deportation operations and includes funding to hire an additional 10,000 ICE officers in five years. With this funding, the current administration will be poised to dramatically expand community arrests and expand cooperation with state and local law enforcement agencies. Given the recent dismantling of three primary DHS oversight agencies, this funding would also rapidly expand ICE’s enforcement capacity at a time when the agency has failed to provide timely, accurate information on the whereabouts of those it has arrested.
Immigration Court. The Judiciary bill provides just $1.25 billion, a 30 percent annual budget increase, for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which oversees the country’s immigration court system. By providing only small additional sums to the immigration courts while significantly expanding the arrest and detention budget, the significant immigration court backlogs will increase dramatically particularly for people held in detention facilities. Immigrants held in detention could be forced to wait months between every hearing, while those going through court outside of detention would face even longer backlogs than today up to several years per case.
Children. The Judiciary bill charges families of unaccompanied children up to $8,500 to sponsor a child and subjects them and their household members to intensive surveillance. It removes existing statutory protections regarding licensing of family residential centers, which places children at risk of prolonged detention in unsafe conditions. And by requiring children to pay $1,000 to apply for asylum or $500 to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile status, the bill may even place some children in a precarious situation just to pay for their chance at permanent safety.
Border. The Homeland Security bill invests $51.6 billion into border wall construction—more than 3 times what the Trump administration spent on the wall in his first term despite the failure of the wall to improve or contribute in any meaningful way to border management strategy. The Armed Services bill also includes $5 billion for the Department of Defense to support the military’s border operations, including deployment of military personnel for immigration enforcement, temporary detention of migrants, and deportations of migrants.
Judicial Oversight. The Judiciary bill includes provisions to limit the judiciary branch’s oversight over the federal government by limiting the ability of judges to hold the executive branch in contempt of court when it fails to obey court orders.
Legal immigration. The Judiciary bill risks turning legal immigration into a pay-to-play system, by significantly increasing fees on everything from asylum applications and work permits to family reunification and humanitarian protections like Temporary Protected Status (TPS). These fees, many of which would be layered on top of existing fees, could effectively put legal pathways out of reach for thousands of people. Take, for example, the new proposed fees for an asylum applicant who will need to wait at least 5 years to obtain a decision in the heavily backlogged immigration system: $1,000 (new application fee), $550 every six months for work authorization, and $100 every year for a pending application would result in at least $6,450 in filing fees during the 5-year wait. The new fees propose placing the burden of the backlogged immigration system on the applicants themselves. The steep fees would effectively block access to those unable to afford the new fees given that this cost alone represents nearly 43 percent of a person’s annual income who earns federal minimum wage working 40 hours per week.
Detention. The Judiciary bill provides $45 billion for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities. This amount is 13 times ICE’s FY 2024 detention budget and would be a 364 percent increase on an annual basis that would primarily benefit private companies contracted to build and run detention facilities. With this funding, ICE could likely fund an increase in detention to 125,000 beds or higher, only just a bit below the current population of the entire federal prison system. The bill uses funding provisions to dismantle core legal protections for children by implicitly overriding protections found in the Flores litigation settlement agreement that limit the time minors can be detained.
The bill also authorizes the DHS Secretary to set minimal detention standards for detention facilities without having to go through normal review, creating a situation where private prison operators whose facilities fail to meet current standards could be granted contracts anyway. The consequences of providing such large sums of money to increase detention without commensurate oversight will exacerbate deleterious and inhumane conditions that have been endemic to the detention system for years, including medical neglect, overcrowding, overuse of solitary confinement, and preventable deaths.
Arrests. The Judiciary bill also directs $27 billion toward ICE’s enforcement and deportation operations and includes funding to hire an additional 10,000 ICE officers in five years. With this funding, the current administration will be poised to dramatically expand community arrests and expand cooperation with state and local law enforcement agencies. Given the recent dismantling of three primary DHS oversight agencies, this funding would also rapidly expand ICE’s enforcement capacity at a time when the agency has failed to provide timely, accurate information on the whereabouts of those it has arrested.
Immigration Court. The Judiciary bill provides just $1.25 billion, a 30 percent annual budget increase, for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which oversees the country’s immigration court system. By providing only small additional sums to the immigration courts while significantly expanding the arrest and detention budget, the significant immigration court backlogs will increase dramatically particularly for people held in detention facilities. Immigrants held in detention could be forced to wait months between every hearing, while those going through court outside of detention would face even longer backlogs than today up to several years per case.
Children. The Judiciary bill charges families of unaccompanied children up to $8,500 to sponsor a child and subjects them and their household members to intensive surveillance. It removes existing statutory protections regarding licensing of family residential centers, which places children at risk of prolonged detention in unsafe conditions. And by requiring children to pay $1,000 to apply for asylum or $500 to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile status, the bill may even place some children in a precarious situation just to pay for their chance at permanent safety.
Border. The Homeland Security bill invests $51.6 billion into border wall construction—more than 3 times what the Trump administration spent on the wall in his first term despite the failure of the wall to improve or contribute in any meaningful way to border management strategy. The Armed Services bill also includes $5 billion for the Department of Defense to support the military’s border operations, including deployment of military personnel for immigration enforcement, temporary detention of migrants, and deportations of migrants.
Judicial Oversight. The Judiciary bill includes provisions to limit the judiciary branch’s oversight over the federal government by limiting the ability of judges to hold the executive branch in contempt of court when it fails to obey court orders.
You know how the administration found a guy willing to tell them what they wanted to hear about Kilmar Abrego García? The "star witness" is a three time convicted felon named Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes. The administration is going to release him from prison and has agreed not to deport him for at least a year in exchange for this testimony. Hernandez Reyes has previously been deported five times! He was first picked up in 2015. Hernandez Reyes has been arrested or in prison every year since. Once, he was caught firing a gun out of his pickup truck and sentenced to two years in prison. Note that Abrego García has no criminal record. But this stupid administration is so desperate to nail him that they're going to let loose an actual criminal to try to do so. These people are sick. They have no principles at all, no sense that being in control of the federal government means they have some responsibility to behave ethically. Trump said Abrego García is a criminal, so they have to move heaven and earth to "prove" it, whatever the cost. This isn't a policy disagreement. These are bad people who genuinely don't care about the country, and simply want to indulge in sadism while gratifying the ego of one man.
The majority makes up facts to justify its decision.
This isn't about finding reasonable accommodation to religious belief.
Besides, do you honestly think this is going to apply when muslims and satanists start using it?
The rule is now every parent can object to every bit of the curriculum that even implies something they don't like.
That's not a good rule.
That's just the modern media environment, you are going to find nonsense all over.
Doesn't change how fucked up the decision is, though.
The comments have already been made about flat-earthers and other odd belief systems. IDK how the system is going to handle those lawsuits without being blatantly inconsistent.
OTOH, there have been recent decisions kicking the 10 Commandments out of LA classrooms. So there's no full court press to make the school system openly Christian fundamentalist. Yet.
Is anyone reading it though?
You keep changing the title, I expect most of those views are people just clicking through and then off.
No one seems to be engaging with it other than me, because it is nice to have a bunch of things aggregated in one place.
Why would they mention it?
They seem to be actively soliciting criminals to testify against immigrants in exchange for immunity or reduced sentences.
Why would it want to not be blatantly inconsistent?
That's largely the point.
Nope.
This is death by a thousand cuts kind of work.
Just that silly, little old-fashioned thing called professional legal ethics.
Not really a strong suit in Trump's DoJ.
IDK.
The view count is astronomical. This thread probably accounts for 80% of all the views of all politics forum threads over the last year. How that is happening, IDK. And the thread is less than 5 months old.
I assume that I am providing bite-sized chunks of legal news for anyone who cares to glance at them and people are sick of the usual Notty vs Vinny vs Frankie vs Earp arguments and don't want to read those threads.
Trump administration wants to fine those illegally in the US $1,000 per day until they leave
The Trump administration aims to accelerate its ability to fine individuals in the U.S. illegally, according to a rule published Friday in the Federal Register.
Currently, the government notify individuals in the U.S. who are undocumented 30 days before issuing fines.
The rule proposed by Attorney Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice and Secretary Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security allows the government to begin fining individuals in the U.S. illegally immediately, up to $1,000 per day.
“DHS believes that the nature of the failure-to-depart and unlawful entry penalties supports the need for more streamlined procedures,” the proposed rule says.
The new process will apply to individuals who enter the U.S. illegally, fail to comply with final orders of removal, or do not comply with a judge's voluntary departure order while in the U.S.
Fines will range from $100 to $500 for each illegal entry into the U.S., up to nearly $10,000 for failing to voluntarily deport after a judge orders it, and up to $1,000 per day for those who do not comply with a removal order.
President Donald Trump introduced fines for migrants illegally in the U.S. during his first term. The program was halted during the Biden administration and then resumed when Trump returned to the White House in January.
“The law doesn't enforce itself; there must be consequences for breaking it,” said Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Thursday.
“President Trump and Secretary Noem are standing up for law and order and making our government more effective and efficient at enforcing the American people's immigration laws. Financial penalties like these are just one more reason why illegal aliens should use CBP Home to self-deport now before it's too late.”
Those who use the Customs and Border Protection's CBP Home app to self-deport will have any fines imposed on them waived, according to the DHS. As of June 13, the DHS has issued 10,000 fine notices, according to ABC News.
Meanwhile, the Senate parliamentarian has advised against a proposed $1,000 fee on immigrants seeking asylum.
The chamber’s nonpartisan arbiter of Senate rules also stated that other proposed fees on immigrants in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” would not comply with procedures and would be subject to a higher 60-vote threshold for inclusion.
Republicans are relying on the fees and cuts to food stamps and health care to help cover the costs of extending Trump’s tax cuts bill, which also includes increased funding for his mass deportation agenda.
The spending bill overhauls the system of immigration costs, with dramatic increases and new fees imposed for once-free services.
Applying for asylum, which has long been free, will now cost $1,000, with asylum seekers paying an additional $550 for employment applications.
Among other fee increases, appealing an immigration judge's decision jumps from $110 to $900, and applying for temporary protected status, which allows people from certain countries facing civil unrest or natural disasters to stay temporarily in the U.S., goes from $50 to $500.
For wealthier immigrants, the new fees will be an inconvenience. However, for the vast majority of people, even a few hundred dollars could be enough to alter their plans.
The Trump administration aims to accelerate its ability to fine individuals in the U.S. illegally, according to a rule published Friday in the Federal Register.
Currently, the government notify individuals in the U.S. who are undocumented 30 days before issuing fines.
The rule proposed by Attorney Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice and Secretary Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security allows the government to begin fining individuals in the U.S. illegally immediately, up to $1,000 per day.
“DHS believes that the nature of the failure-to-depart and unlawful entry penalties supports the need for more streamlined procedures,” the proposed rule says.
The new process will apply to individuals who enter the U.S. illegally, fail to comply with final orders of removal, or do not comply with a judge's voluntary departure order while in the U.S.
Fines will range from $100 to $500 for each illegal entry into the U.S., up to nearly $10,000 for failing to voluntarily deport after a judge orders it, and up to $1,000 per day for those who do not comply with a removal order.
President Donald Trump introduced fines for migrants illegally in the U.S. during his first term. The program was halted during the Biden administration and then resumed when Trump returned to the White House in January.
“The law doesn't enforce itself; there must be consequences for breaking it,” said Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Thursday.
“President Trump and Secretary Noem are standing up for law and order and making our government more effective and efficient at enforcing the American people's immigration laws. Financial penalties like these are just one more reason why illegal aliens should use CBP Home to self-deport now before it's too late.”
Those who use the Customs and Border Protection's CBP Home app to self-deport will have any fines imposed on them waived, according to the DHS. As of June 13, the DHS has issued 10,000 fine notices, according to ABC News.
Meanwhile, the Senate parliamentarian has advised against a proposed $1,000 fee on immigrants seeking asylum.
The chamber’s nonpartisan arbiter of Senate rules also stated that other proposed fees on immigrants in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” would not comply with procedures and would be subject to a higher 60-vote threshold for inclusion.
Republicans are relying on the fees and cuts to food stamps and health care to help cover the costs of extending Trump’s tax cuts bill, which also includes increased funding for his mass deportation agenda.
The spending bill overhauls the system of immigration costs, with dramatic increases and new fees imposed for once-free services.
Applying for asylum, which has long been free, will now cost $1,000, with asylum seekers paying an additional $550 for employment applications.
Among other fee increases, appealing an immigration judge's decision jumps from $110 to $900, and applying for temporary protected status, which allows people from certain countries facing civil unrest or natural disasters to stay temporarily in the U.S., goes from $50 to $500.
For wealthier immigrants, the new fees will be an inconvenience. However, for the vast majority of people, even a few hundred dollars could be enough to alter their plans.
Maybe.
I am using it to glance at news to see if there is something I missed elsewhere.
I think it is wildly optimistic to think people are reading it, though.
(This crowd isn't a "read things seriously" crowd.)
I don't know where the views are coming from. The thread has 147k views in under 5 months and the rate of views per day is actually increasing.. The thread has 2 - 3k views a day. That's nuts for a TERB thread. It will overtake most of the photo threads within a few days and the major spa review compilations with a month or so. And those threads have been around for years.
That makes no sense, actually.
Could the outside links somehow be recorded as views?
Those numbers just seem wildly out of line with the traffic TERB actually gets.
