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Who Gave STAND DOWN Order To Remove Coronavirus Posters In Immigration Courts?
Probably a perfectly reasonable explanation for this. Like racism, probably.
March 10, 2020 01:11 PM
Staffers at immigration courts across the country had a good idea: Put up posters designed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in multiple languages, to inform people of the steps they should take to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. The posters were suggested in an email yesterday from the National Association of Immigration Judges, the union that represents judges in the US immigration courts. Because hey, immigration court is definitely one place that immigrants with ongoing cases have contact with the US government.
And then some asshole higher up in the immigration hierarchy got wind of the posters, and ordered they be removed, because it wasn't the immigration judges' turn to give a fuck about immigrants' health.
Fortunately, there's a semi-happy ending, so far: Hours after the Miami Herald reported the story this morning, the Justice Department contacted the Herald to say oops, big mistake, the order to take the posters down was wrong, no harm no foul, OK? So at least for now, they can go back up. Just run a few more off on the office printer, 'kay? All is well, and perish the thought that anyone wants immigrants to get sick and die, however popular that might be at a Trump rally.
<p>Here are the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/stop-the-spread-of-germs.pdf" target="_blank">English</a> and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/stop-the-spread-of-germs-sp.pdf" target="_blank">Spanish</a> versions of the poster that caused all the fuss; they're also available in <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/stop-the-spread-of-germs-vietnamese.pdf" target="_blank">Vietnamese</a> and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/stop-the-spread-of-germs-chinese.pdf" target="_blank">"simplified Chinese."</a> </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>The<a href="https://www.naij-usa.org/images/uploads/newsroom/NAIJ_Speaks_to_IJs_Re_Coronavirus.pdf" target="_blank"> email from the judges' union</a> was pretty non-incendiary stuff, simply passing along public health<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/guidance-business-response.html" target="_blank"> recommendations for offices</a> from the CDC and suggesting that courts take steps to reduce the chances that people in immigration cases might get or spread the virus, like limiting hearing attendance "to the attorney and respondent," or even waiving the respondent's attendance if they have a lawyer. Hearings could even be held by video, if a local outbreak made it necessary. The NAIJ made clear it wasn't recommending any of those steps, just informing judges of their options under the law. </p><p>In addition, the email attached the CDC poster files, as well as a fact sheet on COVID-19 symptoms, and suggested they be posted in public areas, to be servicey. </p><p>Someone up the line in the immigration court bureaucracy must have found the posters problematic, because an email sent from the Department of Justice yesterday<a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article241046076.html" target="_blank"> told immigration courts</a> to knock off the unauthorized helpiness and take those damned posters down, pronto: </p><blockquote>The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which falls under the Department of Justice, told all judges and staff members in an email Monday that all coronavirus posters, which explain in English and Spanish how to prevent catching and spreading the virus, had to be removed immediately.<br><br>"This is just a reminder that immigration judges do not have the authority to post, or ask you to post, signage for their individual courtrooms or the waiting areas," wrote <a href="https://www.justice.gov/eoir/office-of-the-chief-immigration-judge-bios" target="_blank">Christopher A. Santoro</a>, the country's acting chief immigration judge in a <span style="background-color: initial;">mass email to immigration court administrators nationwide.</span></blockquote><p>Even after a DOJ spokesperson contacted the <em>Herald </em>today to say that "the signs shouldn't have been removed" and "It's now being rectified," nobody at DOJ would answer the paper's questions about why the posters were ordered removed, or who told Santoro to send the No Health For Immigrants message in the first place. </p><p>A. Ashley Tabaddor, president of the judges' union, told the <em>Herald </em>the order was "baffling" and wondered why the higher-ups hadn't themselves taken "any concrete steps [...] to safeguard the health of its employees and the public." Tabbador said the EOIR seemed to be "taking an ostrich approach of sticking one's head in the sand and hoping it would all go away." </p><p>Well gosh, we're pretty sure the government wouldn't want to make immigrants <em>sick</em>. That's as silly as thinking people in the Trump administration wanted to take kids from their parents, or that leaders in the Department of Homeland Security didn't give a rat's ass about<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-explains-no-filthy-baby-jails-no-filthy-baby-jails-youre-the-filthy-baby-jails" target="_blank"> children being held in filthy, overcrowded detention centers</a> at the border last summer. Especially if anyone finds out. </p><p>The EOIR, we should remind you, is the same office that got in hot water last August after reporters found out it had been regularly <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/the-doj-sent-an-anti-semitic-rant-from-a-white-nationalist-site-to-every-immigration-court-worker-in-america" target="_blank">sending out links to white nationalist websites</a> in its daily news briefings for immigration judges. No idea how those links got there, although, <em>hell of a surprise,</em> VDARE, one of the linked sites, happened to be the same white nationalist outfit whose important work <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/stephen-miller-is-no-white-nationalist-he-just-thinks-talks-and-acts-like-one" target="_blank">Stephen Miller passed along to help Breitbart </a>report on immigration. <em>Probably just a coincidence.</em> </p><p>It's also entirely possible that the snotty email demanding immigrants not be informed of the dangers of snot had more to do with the source of the posters. Not the CDC, silly! The judges' union, which the Trump administration <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/the-doj-sent-an-anti-semitic-rant-from-a-white-nationalist-site-to-every-immigration-court-worker-in-america" target="_blank">has been trying to get decertified</a> because <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/justice-department-to-judges-no-sympathy-for-the-devil-immigrant-children" target="_blank">Stephen Miller thinks immigration judges are too sympathetic</a> to asylum seekers, especially the little kids, who are trying to take American kids' Lego-stacking jobs. (The official excuse is that the judges are managers, so they aren't allowed to have a union.)</p><p>And just to come full circle, those EOIR news briefings linked to an anti-Semitic rant <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/justice-department-immigration-judges-white-nationalist" target="_blank">full of neo-Nazi jargon</a> claiming the courts are full of evil Jews. </p><p>Or maybe the person who wanted the posters to come down simply didn't like the idea of immigration judges doing anything that didn't come straight from the Justice Department. That would be assholish, but at least less horrifying. We're not inclined to give those jerks the benefit of the doubt. </p><p>Sounds to us like something that the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/subcommittees/immigration-and-border-security-116th-congress/" target="_blank">House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship</a> might want to look into. 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March 07, 2020 11:30 AM
Wonkette, you have surely been asking, how do you do read so much news, FOREVER, and mostly about that fucking human shitbucket, without murdering everybody right in their dumb faces? Well, we don't believe in murder, for one, except via SHARP TONGUE. And second, we have a magnificent staff that YOU have given us, whether through the handy widget at bottom, or via our patreon, or perhaps you even send a check in the mail to Wonkette, PO Box 361, Polson MT 59860, for old times' sake! Yes, you buy us a staff, and the server costs, and healthcare, and SALARIES so we can do things like "take a week off the internet entirely and go to Mexico, where we still are actually, pero trabajo es mejor aqui than at home, however you say 'than at home' in Spanish."
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Judge Declares Ken Cuccinelli An Illegal
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March 02, 2020 11:26 AM
A federal judge in Washington DC ruled yesterday that Ken Cuccinelli's appointment as (acting) director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was illegal, and that two major policy changes Cuccinelli put in place are also illegal. US District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that Cuccinelli's appointment violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA), but Moss graciously didn't impose additional penalties on the administration for making him work on a Sunday.
Donald Trump has a long history of ignoring the Vacancies Reform Act, which requires that when certain top agency positions come open, they have to be filled by the "first assistant" in the chain of command. Trump prefers appointing loyalists who have no qualifications for their jobs, because he is a lawless dipshit.
Judge Moss's decision seems especially apt in Cuccinelli's case, since it underlines some basic points Trump's supporters keep yelling about immigration: If you don't enforce the law, you don't have a country; people who get their jobs illegally can't be trusted; and if Cuccinelli wants to be director of USCIS, he should get in line and be confirmed by Congress like everybody else.
<p>Moss didn't buy the Trump administration's pretense that Cuccinelli's appointment as (acting) director conformed with the law. In his <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/449647407/L-M-M-et-al-v-KENNETH-T-CUCCINELLI-II" target="_blank">decision,</a> Moss points out that after USCIS Director Francis Cissna resigned last year as part of <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/homeland-security-now-just-big-empty-building-with-stephen-miller-riding-trike-through-halls" target="_blank">Stephen Miller's purge at Homeland Security,</a> his duties were automatically taken over by the next person in line, Deputy Director Mark Koumans. But then (acting) DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan completely made up a completely new job for Cuccinelli, appointing him "<span style="background-color: initial;">to serve as the Principal Deputy Director of [</span><span style="background-color: initial;">USCIS]," and then rewrote the rules of succession at USCIS so the acting job would go to that brand-new job title, "principle deputy director," instead of the boring old "deputy director." Moss notes that</span></p><blockquote>These two changes — both of which occurred after the vacancy arose — allowed Cuccinelli to leapfrog Koumans to become USCIS's acting Director.</blockquote><p>And that's not cricket, Moss ruled, especially since McAleenan gave away the game by specifying the rule change would vanish once a permanent USCIS chief was appointed by the president and confirmed by Congress (if ever). As a result, Cuccinelli was simply not eligible to take the acting job under the FVRA.</p><blockquote><span style="background-color: initial;">He never did and never will serve in a subordinate </span><span style="background-color: initial;">role</span> — that is, as an "assistant"— <span style="background-color: initial;">to any other USCIS official.</span></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: initial;"><span></span></span>Instead, Cuccinelli was appointed to a pretend-subordinate position with the express purpose of putting him at the head of the agency, and no, said Moss, you can't do that. <br></p><p>Because he was a fake director with no legal authority, the ruling <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/01/811023475/judge-says-ken-cuccinelli-was-appointed-unlawfully-to-top-immigration-post" target="_blank">tosses out two directives on asylum</a> that Cuccinelli put in place:</p><blockquote>The first directive shortened the length of time asylum-seekers have to prepare for "credible-fear interviews" with officials from 48 or 72 hours to "one full calendar day from the date of arrival at a detention facility." With the second, Cuccinelli prohibited asylum officers from granting extensions to this new policy "except in the most extraordinary of circumstances."</blockquote><p>Like everything else in the Trump/Miller regime, the purpose was to make every single part of the asylum process harder, to keep people from meeting ever-tougher rules. </p><p>The ruling came as part of a lawsuit <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/01/federal-judge-cuccinelli-appointment-unlawful-118477" target="_blank">brought by</a> two immigrant advocacy groups, Democracy Forward and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, on behalf of <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/01/811023475/judge-says-ken-cuccinelli-was-appointed-unlawfully-to-top-immigration-post" target="_blank">five asylum seekers</a> from Honduras. The groups argued that the new rules didn't give the plaintiffs <em>— </em>two women and three children — enough time to get lawyers before they met with asylum officers. The women said they'd both been raped and faced violence if they were deported back to Honduras, but the asylum officers at their rushed hearing said nah, they didn't have a "credible fear" of harm if they were returned. You can see how having an attorney might have helped. The challenge to Cuccinelli's authority is<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ken-cuccinellis-appointment-to-top-immigration-job-was-unlawful-court-rules-invalidating-policy-memos-he-signed/2020/03/01/fdc7fda0-5bea-11ea-8baf-519cedb6ccd9_story.html" target="_blank"> just one</a> of the claims in their lawsuit. </p><p>The <em>Washington Post</em> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ken-cuccinellis-appointment-to-top-immigration-job-was-unlawful-court-rules-invalidating-policy-memos-he-signed/2020/03/01/fdc7fda0-5bea-11ea-8baf-519cedb6ccd9_story.html" target="_blank">notes </a>that Cuccinelli's very existence, as an ontological proposition, remains somewhat hazy:</p><blockquote>Senior staffers at DHS and USCIS have repeatedly expressed doubts about the legality of Cuccinelli's authority, with several unclear about where he actually works.<br><br>According to his official biography page <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/leadership/kenneth-t-ken-cuccinelli-senior-official-performing-duties-director-us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-director-vacant" target="_blank">online</a>, his title is senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and he is also the senior official performing the duties of the director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.</blockquote><p>The Trump administration is already planning to appeal the ruling, on the principle that the "president" is allowed to do anything he wants, including ignoring the law. They'll insist that Cuccinelli is doing a fine job and that he should be allowed to stay in the position regardless of petty details about whether he got there "legally." </p><p>And we suspect not a single rightwing news outlet will accuse Trump of trying to grant this particular illegal worker "amnesty." </p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/01/federal-judge-cuccinelli-appointment-unlawful-118477" target="_blank">Politico </a>/ <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/01/811023475/judge-says-ken-cuccinelli-was-appointed-unlawfully-to-top-immigration-post" target="_blank">NPR</a> / <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ken-cuccinellis-appointment-to-top-immigration-job-was-unlawful-court-rules-invalidating-policy-memos-he-signed/2020/03/01/fdc7fda0-5bea-11ea-8baf-519cedb6ccd9_story.html" target="_blank">WaPo</a> / <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/449647407/L-M-M-et-al-v-KENNETH-T-CUCCINELLI-II" target="_blank">L.M.-M. et al v Cuccinelli </a>/ Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/8008341860" target="_blank">Gage Skidmore</a>, Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" target="_blank">license 2.0</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is supported entirely by your donations — if you're among the fewer than one percent of readers who donate. 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When You See What These Kids Are Jumping In, Your Jaw Will Drop! Tabs For Friday, Feb. 28, 2020
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February 28, 2020 09:30 AM
Yr Editrix will be back (to work, not from her friend's beach house in Mexico) Monday, but for now you get guest tabs again. And don't expect any recipes either, because Yr Dok Zoom is a philistine when it comes to food. And most other things!
<p>Lotsa coronavirus news today! The <em>Washington Post</em> has a great big story on a whistleblower complaint from a Health and Human Services employee who says HHS employees were sent to assist repatriated Americans exposed to the virus -- <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/27/us-workers-without-protective-gear-assisted-coronavirus-evacuees-hhs-whistleblower-says/" target="_blank">without any training or protective gear.</a> Then she was reassigned for making HHS look bad, and if she refuses, she'll be fired. (Washington Post)</p><p>The Dow suffered its<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/02/27/dow-markets-plunge-correction-coronavirus/4889977002/" target="_blank"> biggest one-day drop in history Thursday. </a>Probably because of treason by the media! (USA Today)</p><p>More history! For the first time ever -- or at least "living memory" -- <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-02-27-20-intl-hnk/h_993a734ac2e5606d6a8e311822db68b1" target="_blank">Saudi Arabia has cancelled pilgrimages</a> to Mecca and Medina, the two most sacred sites in Islam, because of fear the coronavirus could spread. (CNN)</p><p>We keep forgetting to mention this'n from a few days ago: The Trump administration wants Congress to pay for the coronavirus response by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/25/behind-our-sluggish-response-coronavirus-an-unnecessary-battle-over-funding/" target="_blank">shifting money from the program that pays for energy assistance to the poor.</a> (Washington Post)</p><p>In a fairly brilliant response,<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/484933-warren-introduces-bill-to-redirect-wall-money-to-coronavirus#.XlgIa15mmn8.twitter" target="_blank"> Elizabeth Warren says we should pay for it by taking funds from WALL.</a> (The Hill)</p><p>In case anyone was wondering what really matters to Coronavirus Commodore Mike Pence, he's<a href="https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/02/pence-adds-larry-kudlow-and-steve-mnuchin-to-trumps-coronavirus-task-force-making-clear-what-the-actual-goal-is/" target="_blank"> added Larry Kudlow and Steve Mnuchin to the task force.</a> Expect an announcement that the virus can be killed by Bitcoin. (New Civil Rights Movement)</p><p>Eric Trump took a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/eric-trump-billed-taxpayers-dollar80k-for-two-day-business-trip-to-uruguay?via=twitter_page" target="_blank">two-day business trip to check in on a new Trump Trash Palace</a> being developed in Uruguay, and it cost taxpayers $80,000. (Daily Beast)<br></p><p>In the Wonkette Sekrit Chatcave, Liz Dye recommended this story about <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/doordash-company-arbitration-storm-workers/" target="_blank">DoorDash drivers fighting back against crappy corporate policies </a>by filing a blizzard of arbitration demands against the company. The subhed gets to the jist of the tactic: "Company to workers: You can't sue us; go to arbitration. Workers to company: Okay, here are thousands of cases." Nice! (American Prospect)</p><p>Somebody tweeted this May 2019 ProPublica story last week, on <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-some-of-americas-richest-towns-fight-affordable-housing" target="_blank">how the wealthiest communities in America make sure housing stays unaffordable, </a>and maybe I will get around to reading it! But now the link is here, so I can close the tab. (ProPublica)</p><p>Really nice <a href="https://www.twitter.com/drvox" target="_blank">David Roberts</a> thinky piece about how <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/2/27/21150341/elizabeth-warren-procedural-reform-social-trust" target="_blank">Elizabeth Warren wants to repair America's crisis of trust in government</a>. It ain't sexy, but the work needs to be done, and damn it, she's enthusiastic about it. Let's sing from the hymnal together, kids: <em>Big. Structural. Reforms.</em> (Vox)</p><p>Tim Steller, a reporter for my former hometown paper, Tucson's <em>Arizona Daily Star,</em> wrote a terrific report on the<a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/mexico-does-little-as-thousands-flee-violence-for-us-border/article_a193b95a-5598-11ea-a6d9-238f3eb5cb2c.html" target="_blank"> Mexican government's neglect of the refugee crisis coming from southern Mexico.</a> It's a lot easier to get along with the Trump administration by pretending Mexicans fleeing armed gangs are solely a Central American problem, and labeling Mexicans escaping violence "economic" migrants. This is damned good local/regional reporting, and hooray, it's the first in a series! (Arizona Daily Star)</p><p>I got this emailed pitch from someone who "LOVES our Website 😊" and wants to write for it. It's uncanny how this dude has captured the Wonkette voice, and clearly understands the high quality of the many helpful articles on our quality website. Best of all, despite his extensive experience as a writer for quality websites, he's willing to work for <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/work-should-you-pay-to-do-it" target="_blank">exposure dollars! </a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>Lions and leopards don't generally pal around together. But at Gir National Park, in Gujarat, India, researchers observed an Asiatic lioness that adopted an orphaned leopard cub and nursed him for about six weeks along with her own two cubs, up until the little leopard died of a birth defect. The <em>New York Times </em>has a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/science/leopard-lion-adoption.html" target="_blank">feature on the rare cross-species adoption,</a> or you could read the <a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3047" target="_blank">full paper </a>in the journal Ecosphere, where we grabbed these pics by one of the co-authors, Dheeraj Mittal. Squee warning, despite the sad outcome. THEM PAWS. (New York Times, Ecosphere)</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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