Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

American immigration lawyer

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Long story short, no, there are not 320,000 kids missing. 32,000 kids missed court. That doesn’t mean they’re missing, it means they missed court (either because their sponsor didn’t bring them or they are teenagers who didn’t want to show up). The remaining 291,000 cases mentioned by the (Office of the Inspector General) are cases where ICE hasn’t filed the paperwork to start their immigration court cases.”
  • Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, told CNN in 2024
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The reality of the matter is that the Mexican government has very little standing to file complaints in the United States,
This would lead to flight cancellations and would snarl air traffic throughout the entire country.... The end
The Trump administration, from day one, has viewed the basic promise of DUE PROCESS embodied in our Constitution as an obstacle to be crushed, and not a principle to be upheld,
If your argument against birthright citizenship is that a foreign government might send a pregnant mother to the US, have the child born there, then bring them back and indoctrinate the baby into being a spy decades later, you've lost the plot."
This is the 12th death in ICE custody in the first 2.5 months of the year,... Last year, 30 people died in ICE custody, a record level. This year, we’re on pace for just under twice that amount.”

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She thought she had permission to be in the US. Then ICE arrested her on a jetway.

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Any certainty in her life had vanished when she was detained for three weeks this month after ICE officers stopped her while she was boarding a plane home from Atlanta

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With Trump Looking On, Justices Tread Cautiously on Birthright Citizenship

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Trump, who had suggested he wanted to attend a session last year when the court weighed his sweeping tariffs but ultimately abstained, appeared in his signature dark suit and red tie a few minutes before arguments began over his contentious executive order that would limit birthright citizenship

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Minneapolis software engineers mistaken for ICE agents harassed, insulted by left-wing agitators at deli

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Four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ate lunch at El Tapatio on January 14, a family‑owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar, a community of about 21,000 located about 95 miles west of Minneapolis, according to The Minnesota Star Tribune

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