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Julie Hancock
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US Immigration attorney, political activist, Dem leader in Northeast Wisconsin. Organizing to protect and fight for democracy.
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Julie Hancock @juliehancock32.bsky.social · Nov 10
⚠️ Many immigrants, migrants, and undocumented individuals are understandably anxious right now. If someone you know has questions, encourage them to speak with an immigration attorney.

My virtual practice can help worldwide.

📧 info@yourvirtualadvocate.com
📞 or WA: 920.430.0281

#ImmigrationHelp
juliehancock32.bsky.social
Bondi’s disbarment is going to be a pleasure to watch - and it will happen one day. Maybe not soon enough, but it will come.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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thebulwark.com
Murphy at #nokings: "The president of the United States during a shutdown, or even when the government is open, does not have the power to send masked men into our cities and pull off the streets our peaceful neighbors, and throw them into the back of vans and into prisons."
October 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The Trump Administration has announced measures to gut longstanding pathways based on exceptional ability, national interest, & merit in favor of pay-to-play immigration. "This sends a signal to the world’s top talent that the U.S. is closing its doors." bit.ly/4nz1XBE
AILA: Trump Administration H-1B Crackdown and “Gold Card” Visa Imperil Jobs, Innovation, and Rural Healthcare
AILA President Jeff Joseph and ED Ben Johnson responded to the Trump Administration attempting to apply a new $100,000 fee to H-1Bs and supplant existing visa programs with a “Gold Card” visa, noting ...
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September 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Join us in canceling Disney Plus. Let’s boycott ABC and Disney. If you’ve already canceled, drop a “done” in the comments.
September 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Northeast Wisco! Join us. And yes, Rep. Wied is invited and we hope he will accept the invitation to talk with his constituents. Sign up to share your story —> mobilize.us/s/XQCB5L
August 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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What does it mean if your Sheriff signed on to help ICE? How can we keep our local law enforcement accountable?Undue panic creates fear of law enforcement across our communities. I put this together to give Northeast Wisco action for accountability. 8th-district-dems-updates.kit.com/posts/what-2...
What 287(g) “Warrant Model” Agreements Mean in NE Wisconsin
Understanding 287(g) in NE Wisconsin: costs, duties, and oversight to keep law enforcement accountable.
8th-district-dems-updates.kit.com
August 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
juliehancock32.bsky.social
Contact Congressman Tony Wied for details 920-301-4500
July 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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saraforwi.com
It’s official – I’m running for Governor of Wisconsin. Here’s what you should know:
✅I’m a lifelong Wisconsinite and your Lt. Governor.
✅I’ve been an ER nurse, a public health exec, and a small biz owner.
✅I flipped a red seat in 2020 and won statewide in 2022.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRie...
Sara Rodriguez for Governor Announcement
YouTube video by Sara Rodriguez
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July 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
juliehancock32.bsky.social
Today, remember we have the freedom to choose our representatives, and when they let us down & enact laws that will cause citizens to needlessly suffer, we can dissent. We can organize. And we can elect leaders who will work for the people in their districts. My statement on behalf of WI-08.
July 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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aila.org
"A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from requiring almost two dozen mostly Democratic states to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in order to receive billions in transportation funding."
Trump administration can't require states to cooperate with ICE to get transportation funding, judge says
A judge said the Trump administration cannot tie federal transportation funding to cooperation with immigration authorities.
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June 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
juliehancock32.bsky.social
NORTHEAST WISCONSIN: Join a No Kings rally this Saturday.
Now’s the time for peaceful, collective dissent:

🚫 DC’s military parade
🚫 Military in LA
🚫 ICE raids on our neighbors
🚫 Attacks on our right to dissent

Be peaceful. Be present. Be loud.
Dissent is your right. #NoKingsDay #DefendDemocracy
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Hey Rep. Tony Wied, how long will you stay silent? You promised us you’d save our tax dollars from wast, fraud, and abuse. What gives? #WheresWied #silenceiscompliance #northeastwisconsin #brokenpromises
June 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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democracyactionnet.bsky.social Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · Jun 8
BREAKING: An enormous peaceful protest has broken out in Los Angeles in defiance of Donald Trump’s ICE raids. This is how it’s done.
June 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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originalsp.in
Regardless of your party, you should see that this is what fascism looks like.

For defying him, Trump zeroed out Harvard’s research funds and is now blocking its ability to host international students—demanding that they force 6800 current such students to transfer.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
May. 22, 2025, 11:35 AM PDT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Trump administration blocks Harvard's ability to enroll international students The Department of Homeland Security called the move "a warning to all universities."
May 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Here's the letter Noem sent Harvard, as posted on X. Nothing alleges ANY specific violation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. Nothing. She cites no law violated, no regulation broken, no policy ignored.

I don't care what you think of Harvard; this is clear weaponization of government.
Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus. It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country. Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program Decertification I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked. As I explained to you in my April letter, it is a privilege to enroll foreign students, and it is also a privilege to employ aliens on campus. All universities must comply with Department of Homeland Security requirements, including reporting requirements under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program regulations, to maintain this privilege. As a result of your refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Security pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist "diversity, equity, and inclusion" policies, you have lost this privilege. The revocation of your Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification means that Harvard is prohibited from having any aliens on F- or J- nonimmigrant status for the 2025-2026 academic school year. This decertification also means that existing aliens on F- or J- nonimmigrant status must transfer to another university in order to maintain their nonimmigrant status. This action should not surprise you and is the unfortunate result of Harvard's failure to comply with simple reporting requirements. On April 16, 2025, I requested records pertaining to nonimmigrant students enrolled at Harvard University, including information regarding misconduct and other offenses that would render foreign students inadmissible or removable. On April 30, 2025, Harvard's counsel provided information that he represented as responsive to my request. It was not. As a courtesy that Harvard was not legally entitled to, the Acting DHS General Counsel responded on my behalf and afforded Harvard another opportunity to comply. Harvard again provided an insufficient response. Consequences must follow to send a clear signal to… If Harvard would like the opportunity of regaining Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification before the upcoming academic school year, you must provide all of the information requested below within 72 hours. Please be advised that providing materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent information may subject you to criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 1001. Other criminal and civil sanctions may also apply. I expect full and complete responses to the following requests: 1. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding illegal activity whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years. 2. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding dangerous or violent activity whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years. 3. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding threats to other students or university personnel whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years. 4. Any and all records, whether official or informal, in the possession of Harvard University, including electronic records and audio or video footage, regarding deprivation of rights of other classmates or university personnel whether on or off campus, by a nonimmigrant student enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years. 5. Any and all disciplinary records of all nonimmigrant students enrolled in Harvard University in the last five years. 6. Any and all audio or video footage, in the possession of Harvard University, of any protest activity involving a nonimmigrant student on a Harvard Univer…
May 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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The government’s recent offer of $1,000 to individuals who voluntarily leave the U.S. is not as simple—or as safe—as it sounds. It is a deeply misleading and unethical trick.” Read more in a new statement from @aila.org. bit.ly/44VSrm0
AILA Statement: Trump Administration Lays Trap with Self-Deportation Offer
In response to the DHS announcement of a “stipend” for people choosing to self-deport from the United States, AILA cautioned individuals noting that “No one should accept this without first obtaining ...
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May 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 25
This is not fully accurate! Yes, an administrative warrant only authorizes ICE to arrest people in public spaces; meaning you can tell them to pound sand if they want to come inside.

But that does NOT mean you can “let the person out the back.” That could create criminal liability, as we saw here.
samwang.bsky.social Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · Apr 25
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:

An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
April 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley:
April 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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This criminal complaint seems pretty thin on the statutes charged. She allowed the defendant to leave the courtroom by a different door in her courtroom. The arresting agents literally saw him in the hallway right after going to elevator 1/
April 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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atrupar.com
Stephen Miller turns the fascism up to 11 on Fox News
April 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Well done, The Last of Us. That’s some indescribable television.
April 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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any Democratic elected who says they can't win the politics of "should we give Trump the power to disappear innocent people into a concentration camp" has a terminal case of consultant brain and should be ruthlessly hounded from office
April 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is happening at the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, TX and appears to be in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Supreme Court's ruling requiring notice "afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief."

It's been <24 hours.
"It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law" in the context of removal proceedings. Reno v. Flores, 507 U. S. 292, 306 (1993). So, the detainees are entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard "appropriate to the nature of the case." Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U. S. 306, 313 (1950). More specifically, in this context, AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a rea-sonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.
April 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
juliehancock32.bsky.social
This is how we all lose our rights - when people start to parse who is deserving of those rights rather than understand we either all deserve them or none of us do…
kenwhite.bsky.social Popehat of Serious Proportion @kenwhite.bsky.social · Apr 18
The problem with … the two problems with .. AMONG the problems with people like Natalie Jackson is their credulous and sheeplike willingness to accept the government’s narrative about who is a “hero” or a “villain” based on dubious claims,
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April 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Imagine trying to deport someone for their "expected beliefs"
(SBU) Under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(i), an alien is deportable from the United States if the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe that the alien's presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States. Under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(ii), for cases in which the basis for this determination is the alien's past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful, the Secretary of State must personally determine that the alien's presence or activities would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.
April 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM