Allan Wernick
@immigrationlaw.bsky.social
Former Immigration Law columnist NY Daily News, Al Dia Dallas, and King Features Syndicate. Retired Professor, Baruch College CUNY.
Since lawyer advertising is legal, I’m surprised that more aren’t trying to get these falsely detained and unnecessarily brutalized people as clients. Better call Saul.
If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Since lawyer advertising is legal, I’m surprised that more aren’t trying to get these falsely detained and unnecessarily brutalized people as clients. Better call Saul.
USCIS is going to make naturalization applicants prove that they have good character to become a U.S. citizen. Now, not committing crimes and paying your taxes when required is usually enough. Going forward applicants may need show more. USCIS memo: tinyurl.com/3zwbe8bz
tinyurl.com
August 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
USCIS is going to make naturalization applicants prove that they have good character to become a U.S. citizen. Now, not committing crimes and paying your taxes when required is usually enough. Going forward applicants may need show more. USCIS memo: tinyurl.com/3zwbe8bz
Lots of reporting that folk knew they were coming but nothing I’ve seen on how they knew. Anyone with thoughts?
MY LATEST @latimes COLUMNA: In an L.A. park, Trump unleashed his latest show of farce: The Battle of the Photo Op. Share, porfas!
Commentary: In an L.A. park, Trump unleashed his latest show of farce: The Battle of the Photo Op
But this wasn't about saving MacArthur Park from the bad guys. Instead, the deployment of masked troops in tactical gear showed Trump and his berserkers only care about optics.
www.latimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Lots of reporting that folk knew they were coming but nothing I’ve seen on how they knew. Anyone with thoughts?
Legal note: Sue the mother f**kera!
L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Legal note: Sue the mother f**kera!
Query: How come no troops were sent to Dallas where there have been demonstrations and arrests in the fight against ICE? Seems that Trumpettes have a special hatred of California.
June 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Query: How come no troops were sent to Dallas where there have been demonstrations and arrests in the fight against ICE? Seems that Trumpettes have a special hatred of California.
CUNY Citizenship Now! on Saturday provided free legal assistance to more than 300 green card holders with their naturalization applications at its annual Spring Citizenship Drive. Eligible applicants left with a completed citizenship application packet ready for submission to USCIS.
Empowering Immigrants: Over 300 Green Card Holders Receive Free Legal Assistance at CUNY Spring Citizenship Drive – The City University of New York
CUNY Citizenship Now! on Saturday provided free legal assistance to more than 300 green card holders with their naturalization applications at its annual Spring Citizenship Drive. The all-day event, h...
www.cuny.edu
May 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposted by Allan Wernick
File your FAFSA early and have a better chance of receiving aid from programs with limited funds, like federal work-study. Go to studentaid.gov/FAFSA.
May 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
File your FAFSA early and have a better chance of receiving aid from programs with limited funds, like federal work-study. Go to studentaid.gov/FAFSA.
Legal note: Mainly accurate, but in most cases one can present evidence and witnesses in deportation hearings. That said, the “judges”answer to, and can be reversed by DOJ. As one federal judge said when reviewing a deportation hearing “they call anyone judges these days.”
May 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Legal note: Mainly accurate, but in most cases one can present evidence and witnesses in deportation hearings. That said, the “judges”answer to, and can be reversed by DOJ. As one federal judge said when reviewing a deportation hearing “they call anyone judges these days.”
I'm betting dollars to donuts, this one come about. Trump is a Russian tool. This is just more blah, blah, blah.
If it materializes (I’m skeptical, but we’ll see) this would be a welcome change to the administration’s policy.
We should immediately begin intelligence sharing again, too - Russia significantly escalated their attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure once we stopped sharing intelligence.
We should immediately begin intelligence sharing again, too - Russia significantly escalated their attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure once we stopped sharing intelligence.
March 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm betting dollars to donuts, this one come about. Trump is a Russian tool. This is just more blah, blah, blah.
I'm still thinking that Trump DHS will never get to the point of arresting tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants. Logistics are almost impossible. Plus, wait until big agriculture, the construction industry and meat packing suits in the red states start weighing in. Military bases? Nah.
February 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm still thinking that Trump DHS will never get to the point of arresting tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants. Logistics are almost impossible. Plus, wait until big agriculture, the construction industry and meat packing suits in the red states start weighing in. Military bases? Nah.
Re #Gaetz:
Old Silverman cartoon about Haight Ashbury: “Here in the Haight, there is no such thing as prostitution. I have sex with you because I love you. You give me money, because you love me.”
Old Silverman cartoon about Haight Ashbury: “Here in the Haight, there is no such thing as prostitution. I have sex with you because I love you. You give me money, because you love me.”
December 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Re #Gaetz:
Old Silverman cartoon about Haight Ashbury: “Here in the Haight, there is no such thing as prostitution. I have sex with you because I love you. You give me money, because you love me.”
Old Silverman cartoon about Haight Ashbury: “Here in the Haight, there is no such thing as prostitution. I have sex with you because I love you. You give me money, because you love me.”
Old Silverman cartoon about Haight Ashbury: “Here in the Haight, there is no such thing as prostitution. I have sex with you because I love you. You give me money, because you love me.”
Unsurprisingly Matt is trying to tweet through it
December 23, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Old Silverman cartoon about Haight Ashbury: “Here in the Haight, there is no such thing as prostitution. I have sex with you because I love you. You give me money, because you love me.”
Whoops! Try cuny.edu/citizenshipnow
Hi Allan, love this but the link on my end is dead! 🥺
December 22, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Whoops! Try cuny.edu/citizenshipnow
Blue Sky: Please allow longer videos. I enjoy posting of music and movie videos on the other place.
Blue Sky team, you're building something special and great here. Keep at it. Stick with it. And please don't sell it to an evil billionaire who's going to come around waving a lot of money to gobble it up.
Sincerely, a Happy Blue Sky user.
Sincerely, a Happy Blue Sky user.
November 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Blue Sky: Please allow longer videos. I enjoy posting of music and movie videos on the other place.
For great info for immigrants, check this out:
CUNY Citizenship Now! has compiled useful resources that immigrant New Yorkers can proactively take now before the inauguration. Visit our webpage at cuny.edu/immigrationupd….
CUNY Citizenship Now! has compiled useful resources that immigrant New Yorkers can proactively take now before the inauguration. Visit our webpage at cuny.edu/immigrationupd….
https://cuny.edu/immigrationupd…
November 25, 2024 at 11:23 PM
For great info for immigrants, check this out:
CUNY Citizenship Now! has compiled useful resources that immigrant New Yorkers can proactively take now before the inauguration. Visit our webpage at cuny.edu/immigrationupd….
CUNY Citizenship Now! has compiled useful resources that immigrant New Yorkers can proactively take now before the inauguration. Visit our webpage at cuny.edu/immigrationupd….
Allan Wernick
@awernick
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Who is he going to call to get those officers? Ghostbusters? Plus, elementary school math says that if you double officers in one place, you half them in another.
Not a mandate.
I don't care how many times they say it, he didn't even win a majority of the popular vote & barely more than his opponent. A win, sure. But a narrow one.
This bluster is meant to bowl over opposition, but the reality is that they have a thin margin that they'll inevitably lose.
I don't care how many times they say it, he didn't even win a majority of the popular vote & barely more than his opponent. A win, sure. But a narrow one.
This bluster is meant to bowl over opposition, but the reality is that they have a thin margin that they'll inevitably lose.
Tom Homan: "If I gotta send twice as many officers to LA because we're not getting any assistance, then that's what we're going to do. We got a mandate. President Trump is serious about this. I'm serious about it. This is gonna happen with or without you."
November 22, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Allan Wernick
@awernick
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Who is he going to call to get those officers? Ghostbusters? Plus, elementary school math says that if you double officers in one place, you half them in another.
Whoops! Here's the link: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
November 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Whoops! Here's the link: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
I don't usually post items behind a paywall, but this article by @daralind.bsky.social best reflects my view of the deportation threat. Trump is going after immigrants, but deporting large numbers will be difficult. Lets not panic.
November 21, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I don't usually post items behind a paywall, but this article by @daralind.bsky.social best reflects my view of the deportation threat. Trump is going after immigrants, but deporting large numbers will be difficult. Lets not panic.
Despite the nominations and appointments of hard core anti-immigrants, what will happen is unclear. My advice to undocumented immigrants? Don’t panic. Be careful, stay away from bad dudes and dudesses, and viva su vida.
November 21, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Despite the nominations and appointments of hard core anti-immigrants, what will happen is unclear. My advice to undocumented immigrants? Don’t panic. Be careful, stay away from bad dudes and dudesses, and viva su vida.
Not to be pollyannaish, but the Trump cabinet appointments will make it hard for him to implement his mass deportation plans. Those plans require careful planning and an understanding of constitutional and statutory restrictions on executive action. This group ain't got that.
November 13, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Not to be pollyannaish, but the Trump cabinet appointments will make it hard for him to implement his mass deportation plans. Those plans require careful planning and an understanding of constitutional and statutory restrictions on executive action. This group ain't got that.
Today’s announcements of Steve Miller as a Deputy Chief of Staff and a nasty ICE guy Honan as the Border Czar confirm that Trump is serious about going after immigrants. But it won’t be as easy as he thinks. They say go back, we say fight back.
November 11, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Today’s announcements of Steve Miller as a Deputy Chief of Staff and a nasty ICE guy Honan as the Border Czar confirm that Trump is serious about going after immigrants. But it won’t be as easy as he thinks. They say go back, we say fight back.
It is important to emphasize just how difficult mass deportations are and that efforts under the prior Trump presidency failed. We need to fight, fight, fight but not instill fear, fear, fear.
Seriously, they held signs up at the RNC about this and got basically no pushback on what it would actually look like.
One of the reasons that we chose to write our big report on mass deportations is that nobody was asking these questions.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
One of the reasons that we chose to write our big report on mass deportations is that nobody was asking these questions.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
November 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM
It is important to emphasize just how difficult mass deportations are and that efforts under the prior Trump presidency failed. We need to fight, fight, fight but not instill fear, fear, fear.
Trump says he will end birthright citizenship first day. Nah! Even this SCOTUS won’t go for that and the law suits are ready to go to challenge.
November 10, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Trump says he will end birthright citizenship first day. Nah! Even this SCOTUS won’t go for that and the law suits are ready to go to challenge.
First post on this site:
Immigration crackdowns will happen, but not at the scale Trump promises. Likely first focus will be on those with criminal records and outstanding deportation orders just like in Trump's first effort.
Immigration crackdowns will happen, but not at the scale Trump promises. Likely first focus will be on those with criminal records and outstanding deportation orders just like in Trump's first effort.
November 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
First post on this site:
Immigration crackdowns will happen, but not at the scale Trump promises. Likely first focus will be on those with criminal records and outstanding deportation orders just like in Trump's first effort.
Immigration crackdowns will happen, but not at the scale Trump promises. Likely first focus will be on those with criminal records and outstanding deportation orders just like in Trump's first effort.
Making the move soon to ONLY BLUESKY. Posting on immigration law and policy, with focus on the pushback against restrictionism.
November 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Making the move soon to ONLY BLUESKY. Posting on immigration law and policy, with focus on the pushback against restrictionism.