Diego Monserratte
@diegom.esq
Miami Immigration Attorney
(not legal advice & opinions are my own)
(not legal advice & opinions are my own)
After spending two weeks in Tokyo and Seoul it really is night and day with major American cities and it’s most noticeable with public transportation and sanitation. Very impressive cities, great walkability, and it’s super convenient and accessible to eat out and shop. I couldn’t recommend more!
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
After spending two weeks in Tokyo and Seoul it really is night and day with major American cities and it’s most noticeable with public transportation and sanitation. Very impressive cities, great walkability, and it’s super convenient and accessible to eat out and shop. I couldn’t recommend more!
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. so hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through ALL OF US." - Zohran Mamdani
Beautifully said. Solidarity forever.
Beautifully said. Solidarity forever.
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. so hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through ALL OF US." - Zohran Mamdani
Beautifully said. Solidarity forever.
Beautifully said. Solidarity forever.
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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
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If anything, the Zone of Interest may have overstated the psychological self-trickery and abnormality necessary to carry out a genocide
Floridians are taking pictures of themselves next to the sign for their new death camp
As I've said before, giving this concentration camp a cutesy name is reprehensible
As I've said before, giving this concentration camp a cutesy name is reprehensible
July 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
If anything, the Zone of Interest may have overstated the psychological self-trickery and abnormality necessary to carry out a genocide
What’s coming is an industrial-scale ethnic cleansing. Not through mass murder, but through increasingly inhumane detentions and mass forced relocations across the globe. Because it can’t be hidden, the regime has leaned into the media environment and commercialized fascism with memes and merch.
July 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
What’s coming is an industrial-scale ethnic cleansing. Not through mass murder, but through increasingly inhumane detentions and mass forced relocations across the globe. Because it can’t be hidden, the regime has leaned into the media environment and commercialized fascism with memes and merch.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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This is one of America's saddest days, but it pales in comparison to the days that are coming for so many here.
July 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is one of America's saddest days, but it pales in comparison to the days that are coming for so many here.
I was at the Miami Immigration Court the other day and without exaggeration, probably every other person there was an undercover ICE agent. Terrifying for my clients and honestly I was on edge as well. They were in the halls, huddled around the bathrooms, and even sat in the courtroom. Intimidating.
June 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I was at the Miami Immigration Court the other day and without exaggeration, probably every other person there was an undercover ICE agent. Terrifying for my clients and honestly I was on edge as well. They were in the halls, huddled around the bathrooms, and even sat in the courtroom. Intimidating.
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Highly recommended thread. Just wanna say something about originalism right quick.
There is no plausible originalist argument for anything that the SG said today. None whatsoever.
There is no plausible originalist argument for anything that the SG said today. None whatsoever.
Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!
May 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Highly recommended thread. Just wanna say something about originalism right quick.
There is no plausible originalist argument for anything that the SG said today. None whatsoever.
There is no plausible originalist argument for anything that the SG said today. None whatsoever.
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What just happened in the last 48 hours is chilling. Forcing people to an offshore blacksite without due process is no different from a dictatorship disappearing people. I fear some scary times are coming.
March 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
What just happened in the last 48 hours is chilling. Forcing people to an offshore blacksite without due process is no different from a dictatorship disappearing people. I fear some scary times are coming.
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That means that people can be persecuted by this “hybrid criminal state” I guess
!! The Alien Enemies Act declaration is now out. Trump declares that the Venezuelan street gang "Tren de Aragua" is actually a "hybrid criminal state" akin to a foreign government and that authorizes rapid deportation with no due process to any accused member of the gang.
March 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
That means that people can be persecuted by this “hybrid criminal state” I guess
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“The foundation of democracy is not voting, essential as it is. It is an informed citizenry. That is why one of the paramount jobs of autocrats is to attack education, free thought, ideas, speech, knowledge and facts themselves.”
We are the midst of a war on knowledge, facts and free speech. It is not just aimed at DEI or Trump enemies. It is intended to clear the way to authoritarianism. It is broader and more dangerous than any such effort in our history. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
The Opposite of Woke is...Despotism
There is a purpose beyond prejudice to the MAGA assault on DEI and free speech
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“The foundation of democracy is not voting, essential as it is. It is an informed citizenry. That is why one of the paramount jobs of autocrats is to attack education, free thought, ideas, speech, knowledge and facts themselves.”
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👀⚖️🧑⚖️👩⚖️👨🏾⚖️ #ruleoflaw #beans
The Federal Judges Association said in a statement to its 1,100 members late on Tuesday that “continued violence, intimidation and defiance directed at judges simply because they are fulfilling their sworn judicial duties” risked “the collapse of the rule of law.” www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...
Exclusive: Judges face rise in threats as Musk blasts them over rulings
U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs and programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.
www.reuters.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
👀⚖️🧑⚖️👩⚖️👨🏾⚖️ #ruleoflaw #beans
Update: Now the main court phone numbers have also been removed from the websites. If it wasn’t for google saving the numbers when you search for the court, I’m not sure how you’d be able to contact them. What is going on?
As an immigration attorney you notice the small ways that the administration makes practicing more inconvenient like removing the names and now phone numbers of IJ clerks from the EOIR website. Effectively funneling everyone to the court’s main number which obviously can’t handle that many calls.
March 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Update: Now the main court phone numbers have also been removed from the websites. If it wasn’t for google saving the numbers when you search for the court, I’m not sure how you’d be able to contact them. What is going on?
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1/ Before the 2024 Presidential election, I frequently posted here that I believed the survival of our Republic was at risk and that a vote for anyone except Harris/Walz was a vote for fascism.
Events since the 2024 Presidential election have only heightened my fear that our Constitution is . . .
Events since the 2024 Presidential election have only heightened my fear that our Constitution is . . .
March 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
1/ Before the 2024 Presidential election, I frequently posted here that I believed the survival of our Republic was at risk and that a vote for anyone except Harris/Walz was a vote for fascism.
Events since the 2024 Presidential election have only heightened my fear that our Constitution is . . .
Events since the 2024 Presidential election have only heightened my fear that our Constitution is . . .
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Folks. We do not concede the lawfulness of something even when the president obviously does not care. The norms must be defended as institutions unto themselves.
Remind me the last time he cared about lawfulness?
March 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Folks. We do not concede the lawfulness of something even when the president obviously does not care. The norms must be defended as institutions unto themselves.
As an immigration attorney you notice the small ways that the administration makes practicing more inconvenient like removing the names and now phone numbers of IJ clerks from the EOIR website. Effectively funneling everyone to the court’s main number which obviously can’t handle that many calls.
February 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
As an immigration attorney you notice the small ways that the administration makes practicing more inconvenient like removing the names and now phone numbers of IJ clerks from the EOIR website. Effectively funneling everyone to the court’s main number which obviously can’t handle that many calls.
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The government has laid out its legal arguments in defense of the Birthright Citizenship executive order. They unsurprisingly draw on Elk v. Wilkins (Indian law) in their 3 page merits argument.
It is time to better understand this field and these cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It is time to better understand this field and these cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The government has laid out its legal arguments in defense of the Birthright Citizenship executive order. They unsurprisingly draw on Elk v. Wilkins (Indian law) in their 3 page merits argument.
It is time to better understand this field and these cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It is time to better understand this field and these cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The future of the Republic is uncertain.
I do not know whether the Department of Justice will become the tip of the spear of fascism under FBI Director (?) Kash Patel.
I do not know if ICE & CBP will be running huge internment camps.
I do know that I'll do my best to fight it.
I do not know whether the Department of Justice will become the tip of the spear of fascism under FBI Director (?) Kash Patel.
I do not know if ICE & CBP will be running huge internment camps.
I do know that I'll do my best to fight it.
January 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The future of the Republic is uncertain.
I do not know whether the Department of Justice will become the tip of the spear of fascism under FBI Director (?) Kash Patel.
I do not know if ICE & CBP will be running huge internment camps.
I do know that I'll do my best to fight it.
I do not know whether the Department of Justice will become the tip of the spear of fascism under FBI Director (?) Kash Patel.
I do not know if ICE & CBP will be running huge internment camps.
I do know that I'll do my best to fight it.
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Ending birthright citizenship needs to be sued into the ground immediately.
January 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Ending birthright citizenship needs to be sued into the ground immediately.
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It's not just undocumented immigrants. The Trump birthright citizenship EO says that every child born to a parent here on any non-immigrant visa (including student visas and other visas which allow people to live in the US for years) is not a US citizen. Unconstitutional in the extreme.
The scope of the birthright citizenship executive order is broader than some rumors had it. The denial of birthright citizenship would apply not just to U.S. born children of *undocumented immigrants* but to anyone who did not have a parent who was at least a permanent resident.
January 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It's not just undocumented immigrants. The Trump birthright citizenship EO says that every child born to a parent here on any non-immigrant visa (including student visas and other visas which allow people to live in the US for years) is not a US citizen. Unconstitutional in the extreme.
First day in the office under Trump 2.0 tomorrow. Already got a parole denial in my inbox.... it's only four years right? 😵💫
January 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
First day in the office under Trump 2.0 tomorrow. Already got a parole denial in my inbox.... it's only four years right? 😵💫
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Umm, no. Jurors decide facts, not law. Uploading legal cases would not help a juror decide if the light was red when the car entered the intersection, whether a doctor breached the standard of care in performing a surgery, or whether a statement met the elements of fraud. 1/2
I think the time has come for a "juror app" to be developed as jurors. In our information age, jurors can be influenced by media, contacts, or overhearing conversations. A computer can't. Program every legal case ever in the U.S. into the app. and let the computer program decide cases.
January 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Umm, no. Jurors decide facts, not law. Uploading legal cases would not help a juror decide if the light was red when the car entered the intersection, whether a doctor breached the standard of care in performing a surgery, or whether a statement met the elements of fraud. 1/2