Kick Everyone Out

Imagine that you’re hosting a nice dinner party. All of your friends are there, including several who are legal immigrants. Everyone is having a great time, playing games, and deepening friendships. Then, over your objections, some old man buys your house out from under you. He tells you that you and your family can stay but that all your friends have to leave. Now. And never come back. How do you think you might feel?

This is where we’re at in the White House’s fight against immigration. Legal status no longer matters. In two separate actions, the Punk administration has ordered the immediate deportation of millions of migrants who are here legally. They have been told to leave the country as quickly as possible.

The first of these orders came through Secretary of State Marc Rubio, who seems to have taken great delight in revoking student visas. He has told reporters more than once how thrilled he is to axe the visas of people he calls “lunatics” without giving any justification for what they’ve done wrong. Some are as close as less than a month away from graduating. That doesn’t seem to matter now. With their visas revoked, they are technically here illegally. They can be stopped at any time, for any reason, and taken to a detention camp. Leaving the country on their own is much less trouble and they can take their stuff with them.

“To date, no specific justification for the visa revocations has been provided to the impacted individuals or CSU,” Kathleen Fairfax, the Colorado State University’s vice provost for international affairs, said in a statement. “We are working proactively with the students to help them connect with appropriate legal resources and understand their options. CSU is providing this support based on students’ personal decisions.”

Her statement echos that of other universities who find themselves having to deliver the bad news to students. “I’ve been doing this for 25 years, and I’ve never seen 300 students lose their visas,” said Len Saunders, a Washington state immigration attorney based near the Canadian border. “To hear that something like 300 visas were canceled out of the blue … it’s all political. To read that there’s hundreds of people having their visas canceled, you know exactly what it is.”

People who entered the US legally by using the CBP One app initiated during President Biden’s term are now getting an email as well. “It is time for you to leave the United States,” the email begins. “DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole immediately.”

Starting in January of 2023, the CBP One allowed migrants to schedule appointments at legal ports of entry instead of crossing the border illegally to seek asylum. It was a central part of the Biden administration’s strategy to relieve pressure at the U.S.-Mexico border by creating temporary legal pathways under an authority known as humanitarian parole. Over a million immigrants were given legal status by using the app.

Now, in one mass email, that status is gone for all of them.

DHS is now encouraging migrants to report their departure via the same mobile app, which the Trump administration has rebranded and relaunched under the name CBP Home. “With the launching of the CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement last month.

You may remember Ms. Noem as the bitch who shot her puppy last year.

“People are really confused, especially if they have pending applications or pending court proceedings,” said Erika Pinheiro, the executive director of Al Otro Lado, a nonprofit that has worked with hundreds of migrants who used the CBP One app. “They are protected from deportation,” Pinheiro said. “But the letter seems to indicate otherwise.”

“The fear that they’re putting into individuals receiving the letter is real. And so a lot of immigrants, whether or not they have protection from removal, are scared,” Pinheiro said.

At the same time, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced it will begin screening immigrants’ social media for evidence of antisemitic activity as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests. The screenings will affect people applying for permanent residence status as well as foreigners affiliated with educational institutions. The policy will go into effect immediately.

“There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers, and we are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here,” said DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin. There’s no mention as to how or under what authority the department is using to justify these invasions into people’s private lives.

Not everyone is on board with the administration’s “sweep them all out” agenda. Two federal judges imposed restrictions on the Trump administration’s efforts to use a rarely invoked wartime statute to deport Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador. The cases, in New York and Texas, follow the Supreme Court’s decision that challenges to the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act had to be filed where the migrants were being held.

Fear has escalated, however, as insiders working in legal capacities feel threatened by the President’s desire for revenge. At least half of the front-line lawyers in the elite Justice Department office that represents the Trump administration at the Supreme Court are preparing to leave or have already announced their departures — an unusually high amount of turnover at a time of intense litigation involving the president’s initiatives.

Many are uncomfortable or turned off by directives from Justice Department leaders, including Attorney General Pam Bondi’s demand for “zealous advocacy” of President Felonious Punk’s agenda, these people said.

If you thought the immigration situation was chaotic before the election, it’s an absolute disaster now. With so many different federal departments making statements and attempting to change the rules for immigrants, it’s almost impossible for anyone to keep up with which of the 1.6 million immigrants are supposed to be leaving, how soon, and what happens to their existing court cases asking for asylum. No one has any good answers, which tends to be about the level of chaos that this administration enjoys.

We were having such a good time with our friends and co-workers. Very few were making trouble. Now, every time we look up, another group has disappeared.

Sooner or later, the number of immigrants will be at 0. Who do you think the government will want to deport then?