Greenberg Visa Law
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Posts by immigration attorney Adam S. Greenberg (IANYL (yet))
The question itself is disingenuous: Whether 8 USC §1401(a) (INA §301(a)) merely codifies the 14th Amendment is itself in dispute.
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The question itself is disingenuous: Whether 8 USC §1401(a) (INA §301(a)) merely codifies the 14th Amendment is itself in dispute.
To offer another perspective, if you're a US citizen, you should fear all the things they're doing to US citizens. You should also fear the things they're doing to your noncitizen friends and family members. You should also fear the things they're doing to complete stranger noncitizens in your name.
“You’ve got nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out,” Greg Bovino tells reporters while patrolling a neighborhood in Kenner today.
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
To offer another perspective, if you're a US citizen, you should fear all the things they're doing to US citizens. You should also fear the things they're doing to your noncitizen friends and family members. You should also fear the things they're doing to complete stranger noncitizens in your name.
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Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Anyone who has participated in or attended a naturalization ceremony knows how meaningful and joyous these ceremonies tend to be. The cruelty of this is heartbreaking and enraging.
The idea that communications between government officers and government counsel should be privileged is absurd. They do not represent officers in their personal capacities. The client is the people of the United States, to whom they owe their fidelity.
News:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is taking full responsibility for ignoring Judge Boasberg's order to turn around deportation planes back in March.
Let's see what the judge does with this.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is taking full responsibility for ignoring Judge Boasberg's order to turn around deportation planes back in March.
Let's see what the judge does with this.
December 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The idea that communications between government officers and government counsel should be privileged is absurd. They do not represent officers in their personal capacities. The client is the people of the United States, to whom they owe their fidelity.
The prospective basis is a red herring. "Jurisdiction thereof" does not mean different things if you're born before versus after February 2025. If they win this, and I'm just assuming at this point they will, there's no reason this isn't made completely retroactive the next day.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to take up a challenge to President Trump's January 20 birthright citizenship executive order.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
The court will hear DOJ's appeal of a loss below in a class-action challenge brought in the wake of June's decision limiting universal injunctions.
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The prospective basis is a red herring. "Jurisdiction thereof" does not mean different things if you're born before versus after February 2025. If they win this, and I'm just assuming at this point they will, there's no reason this isn't made completely retroactive the next day.
Still a liberal majority from when? 1969?
More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on:
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.
December 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Still a liberal majority from when? 1969?
Even better ethics experts would just say there's corruption.
New story out on how a number of White House Border Czar Tom Homan’s former clients are now winning massive federal contracts. Ethics experts say there is an appearance of corruption - w/ @dfriedman.bsky.social & @russchoma.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Border czar’s former clients cash in on Trump’s immigration crackdown
“So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan…”
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Even better ethics experts would just say there's corruption.
The US' best days are behind us. We will never recover from one stupid election.
Now official policy of the United States:
—Immigration is exclusively harmful
—All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners
—Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that
Read it yourself.
—Immigration is exclusively harmful
—All nations must “only rarely” grant citizenship to foreigners
—Immigration will “erase” Europe within 20 years and the US must act to prevent that
Read it yourself.
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The US' best days are behind us. We will never recover from one stupid election.
They made me watch Breaker Morant (1980) for a law school ethics class. I wish I remembered the movie or the underlying incident better.
Or that the US Navy did.
Or that the US Navy did.
December 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
They made me watch Breaker Morant (1980) for a law school ethics class. I wish I remembered the movie or the underlying incident better.
Or that the US Navy did.
Or that the US Navy did.
There's apparently a sort of partisan time dilation on how far you are from an election. You're really close to or far away from an election depending on how much that duration helps Republicans. See, e.g., the demise of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg.
And wtf does Purcell even mean here? The election is almost a year away! And this is a new map TX drew mid redistricting cycle! They already had selected a map! That was already partisan gerrymandered!
December 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
There's apparently a sort of partisan time dilation on how far you are from an election. You're really close to or far away from an election depending on how much that duration helps Republicans. See, e.g., the demise of Justices Scalia and Ginsburg.
"The Supreme Court shall not have appellate jurisdiction."
“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"The Supreme Court shall not have appellate jurisdiction."
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New from me and @daralind.bsky.social for @immcouncil.org: If you want to know what happened with the huge pause on immigration benefit processing at USCIS, check out our explainer here! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...
Trump Administration Responds to Tragedy By Putting Hundreds of Thousands of Legal Immigrants’ Lives On Hold - American Immigration Council
Trump has halted immigration processing, expanded travel-ban rules, and launched reviews that could upend cases approved over the last four years.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
New from me and @daralind.bsky.social for @immcouncil.org: If you want to know what happened with the huge pause on immigration benefit processing at USCIS, check out our explainer here! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...
This is DHS, a party who appears before immigration judges, recruiting ostensibly neutral (though, ha) judges for DOJ as if they were DHS' own agents.
We tried the model of having senior INS officers act as immigration judges for years, and Congress ultimately decided against it.
We tried the model of having senior INS officers act as immigration judges for years, and Congress ultimately decided against it.
DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is DHS, a party who appears before immigration judges, recruiting ostensibly neutral (though, ha) judges for DOJ as if they were DHS' own agents.
We tried the model of having senior INS officers act as immigration judges for years, and Congress ultimately decided against it.
We tried the model of having senior INS officers act as immigration judges for years, and Congress ultimately decided against it.
To say nothing of the filing fee increase. That's $695 every 18 months instead of every 60. Congress just ordered the fees increased in July to offset tax relief for billionaires and now they won't even get as much for the extra cost.
Today, USCIS announced that EADs connected to asylum, green card apps & certain other applications will be limited to 18 months validity (rather than 5 years). This, together with their ending of auto-extensions, will cause huge disruptions for employers and employees. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...
USCIS Increases Screening, Vetting of Aliens Working in U.S. | USCIS
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its Policy Manual to reduce the maximum validity period for Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) for certain categories of aliens.
www.uscis.gov
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
To say nothing of the filing fee increase. That's $695 every 18 months instead of every 60. Congress just ordered the fees increased in July to offset tax relief for billionaires and now they won't even get as much for the extra cost.
Sure. Whenever a candidate starts pushing them nonstop, I decide not to vote for them.
New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature.
How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP
How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP
Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Sure. Whenever a candidate starts pushing them nonstop, I decide not to vote for them.
Show me a better picture of irony.
Yikes. US will [attempt to] deny H-1B visas to social media fact-checkers and content moderators.
"the President himself was the victim of this kind of abuse when social media companies locked his accounts. He does not want other Americans to suffer this way."
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
"the President himself was the victim of this kind of abuse when social media companies locked his accounts. He does not want other Americans to suffer this way."
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Show me a better picture of irony.
Pretty forward thinking of Bill Barr (yeah, him) to designate Somalia for TPS in 1991 when no one would arrive from that country for another 17½ years…
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Pretty forward thinking of Bill Barr (yeah, him) to designate Somalia for TPS in 1991 when no one would arrive from that country for another 17½ years…
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(A) The border is not secure.
(B) Trump Administration efforts to “secure” the border have been morally abhorrent.
(C) Assuming, arguendo, that the border was secure that security would absolutely not be worth the cost of those morally abhorrent tactics.
What are we even doing here?!?
(B) Trump Administration efforts to “secure” the border have been morally abhorrent.
(C) Assuming, arguendo, that the border was secure that security would absolutely not be worth the cost of those morally abhorrent tactics.
What are we even doing here?!?
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
(A) The border is not secure.
(B) Trump Administration efforts to “secure” the border have been morally abhorrent.
(C) Assuming, arguendo, that the border was secure that security would absolutely not be worth the cost of those morally abhorrent tactics.
What are we even doing here?!?
(B) Trump Administration efforts to “secure” the border have been morally abhorrent.
(C) Assuming, arguendo, that the border was secure that security would absolutely not be worth the cost of those morally abhorrent tactics.
What are we even doing here?!?
@repsummerlee.bsky.social Please work to dismiss him from his position. He is utterly incompetent both as a Democrat and a leader, and so is especially unfit to be the Democratic leader.
Jeffries: "The border is secure. That's a good thing. It happened on his watch. He wants to claim credit for it, of course he'll get credit for that. In terms of making sure that we actually deal with the issues that matter, including on immigration, there's a lot that's left to be desired."
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
@repsummerlee.bsky.social Please work to dismiss him from his position. He is utterly incompetent both as a Democrat and a leader, and so is especially unfit to be the Democratic leader.
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Fine that someone is doing the thinking of how to fix a system by reforming what works poorly.
To deal with backlog and dysfunction and unfairness I’d start with fundamental rethinking, maybe starting with jubilee.
Remove the incentive to file weak or frivolous claims? Sure. Make migration easy
To deal with backlog and dysfunction and unfairness I’d start with fundamental rethinking, maybe starting with jubilee.
Remove the incentive to file weak or frivolous claims? Sure. Make migration easy
How should we fix the immigration courts? MPI has thoughts: "MPI Brief Outlines Reforms Necessary to Break the Cycle of Dysfunction in the U.S. Immigration Courts."
www.migrationpolicy.org/news/immigra...
www.migrationpolicy.org/news/immigra...
MPI Brief Outlines Reforms Necessary to Break the Cycle of Dysfunction in the U.S. Immigration Courts
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. immigration courts are facing an historic crisis, struggling to handle a backlog of nearly 3.8 million deportation cases through a system capped at a maximum 800 immigration…
www.migrationpolicy.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Fine that someone is doing the thinking of how to fix a system by reforming what works poorly.
To deal with backlog and dysfunction and unfairness I’d start with fundamental rethinking, maybe starting with jubilee.
Remove the incentive to file weak or frivolous claims? Sure. Make migration easy
To deal with backlog and dysfunction and unfairness I’d start with fundamental rethinking, maybe starting with jubilee.
Remove the incentive to file weak or frivolous claims? Sure. Make migration easy
This will be accompanied by a TPS termination notice, after 35 years, that says TPS can't be extended because it's contrary to the national interest (that interest, of course, merely being white supremacists not wanting Somalis around).
ICE turns Trump's gutter racist ramblings into federal policy. Disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Twin Cities
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This will be accompanied by a TPS termination notice, after 35 years, that says TPS can't be extended because it's contrary to the national interest (that interest, of course, merely being white supremacists not wanting Somalis around).
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This is the roughly the ratio of the foreign-born population which existed for half a century from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is the roughly the ratio of the foreign-born population which existed for half a century from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.
/note that this chart is from 2019, the percent of the population which is foreign-born is now somewhat above 15%, which is a new high.
If your naturalization case is or will be put on hold by this, especially after the interview, go see an immigration lawyer now.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the 19 travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold, just inches from the finish line.
Scoop: The Trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by people from 19 countries banned from travel to the United States earlier this year, halting green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people.
More coming soon.
More coming soon.
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If your naturalization case is or will be put on hold by this, especially after the interview, go see an immigration lawyer now.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
Naturalization is not discretionary, and federal judges have a unique role in deciding delayed naturalization cases.
There were typewriters that do this.
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
There were typewriters that do this.
I do not regret attending two D3 schools.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I do not regret attending two D3 schools.