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“The USCIS pause issue is larger than many people realize. At its core, it is about whether America remains a country that rewards talent, values fairness, supports scientific innovation, and honors due process.”
The individuals affected by this policy trusted the American system.
They immigrated legally, underwent vetting, earned degrees from American universities, and accepted job offers from American institutions. Many are researchers, engineers, and highly skilled professionals whose work directly contributes to the nation’s scientific, medical, and economic progress.
Yet since Dec 2025, thousands of legally present individuals have been left in prolonged uncertainty, unable to move forward with applications that were routinely adjudicated before this policy was implemented.
@SecMullinDHS @ChuckGrassley @SecRubio @SenGaryPeters @SenatorDurbin @SenRandPaul :
We respectfully urge you to help resolve this unlawful and harmful policy.
America’s strength has always come from its ability to attract and retain talented people from around the world. Continuing this pause undermines that tradition and harms both the individuals affected and the institutions that depend on their contributions.
#LiftTheHold
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Daniel M. Kowalski retweeted
Jun 10
We are deeply alarmed by reports that the Trump Administration plans to deport Afghan and Iranian nationals to the Central African Republic tomorrow. Third-country removals raise serious due process and humanitarian concerns. We urge immediate action to halt these transfers.
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🚨BREAKING: ICE agents have been sitting outside the Kane County courthouse in Illinois… and illegally grabbing random people.
In the video, an ICE agent walks up and physically grabs a man walking on the sidewalk.
The man pulls away and the agent keeps following, before another agent taps him, points toward the courthouse, and they just walk off like it never happened.
And what’s hard to ignore is the contrast.
We’re watching innocent people getting physically grabbed outside courthouses, like it’s normal enforcement…
While in other situations, lawmakers describe a finger tap as “assault”.
@RepLuna has been loud in support of ICE operations…
But completely silent when videos, like this one, show physical force, and constitutional violations, outside courthouses.
At some point, you have to ask why the definition of “violence” keeps changing depending on who’s doing it… and who it’s happening to.
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Daniel M. Kowalski retweeted
May 28
You have to wonder if @USCISJoe intentionally left out Matter of Arai from his Adjustment memo, or he is simply that bad a lawyer that he does not know of the seminal case on presumptively granting adjustment of status, absent negative factors.
"In the absence of adverse factors, adjustment will ordinarily be granted, still as a matter of discretion. "
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Daniel M. Kowalski retweeted
Here are the FACTS: the majority of people held in ICE detention either have no criminal record at all or have only been charged or convicted of misdemeanor offenses or traffic violations.
Less than 10% have been charged or convicted of serious violent offenses.
Sanctuary city politicians in New Jersey put criminal illegal aliens over their own constituents.
I get a list of the worst of the worst illegals in ICE detention centers every single day.
President Trump promised to Make America Safe Again by removing illegal aliens off our streets, and @DHSgov will continue to deliver.
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Daniel M. Kowalski retweeted
May 27
I have long written and spoken about the many ways US immigration policy harms international students and scholars. This has been true for as long as I can remember, including when I first came to the US on a single-entry student visa more than 20 years ago under a process formerly known as muslim registry program.
But the current administration has gone much further, through arbitrary policy changes, travel bans, and broad visa processing pauses that leave folks unable to work, travel, or train.
These policies affect a minority of scientists, and in the current state of the world they can be easy to overlook. But we should not let that happen.
I wrote about the quiet loss of Iranian scientific talent in US labs for @TheScientistLLC:
the-scientist.com/the-quiet-…
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May 28
NM AG Torrez sues counties, sheriffs over ICE agreements violating new state law open.substack.com/pub/dankow…
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Daniel M. Kowalski retweeted
May 27
EXCLUSIVE
A year ago, the Trump admin announced it was creating an Office or Remigration—named for a racist plan to expel immigrants, popularized by European far-right groups
It has since said nothing about it.
But @WIRED found out what it's doing...
wired.com/story/the-state-de…
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