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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Many of my clients were interviewed for this groundbreaking @hrw.org report, and they are so brave and generous even when in dire straits. One of the true silver linings of this work is that every day, I am truly impressed with and moved by someone's humanity in the face of unimaginable adversity.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’ve been in touch with the Vietnamese man and the man with the concussion who kept passing out on the plane. I will say this: history will not look favorably on us as a nation for a long time to come.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Third country deportations are lawless on so many levels and leverage pure cruelty to turn human lives completely upside down. Please educate yourself and speak up, just like Colonel Schmidt did. #BringKhalilBack
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He is a young Afghan man, whose family demonstrated remarkable loyalty to the U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He sought asylum in the US, was detained for 20 months, and then deported to the Central African Republic where he has no one and nothing. #BringKhalilBack
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you, @maddow.bsky.social, for talking about my client Khalil. #BringKhalilBack www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Maddow: Trump shamed by dishonor in betraying U.S. promises to Afghans, Iranians
Rachel Maddow looks at how Donald Trump's shameful dedication to deporting immigrants has led him to betray Afghans who helped the U.S. military in Afghanistan and were promised protection in the U.S....
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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An ICE Air flight originating in Alexandria, LA, w/ stops in Miami & San Juan, is en route & expected to arrive in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia at 3:28pm local. This marks the 1st time ICE Air has flown to St. Lucia, carrying third country nat’ls under a non-binding agreement w/ the US
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thank you
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The only reason my client’s asylum app was denied (and he was ordered removed but granted withholding of removal) is the Biden-era “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” (CLP) rule, which was found unlawful in June. This is true of so many of the folks I talk to who’ve been deported to third countries.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thank you for highlighting his case @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Temu Goebbels 🤭
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And still…🦗🦗🦗from Judge Chutkan
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Could it have been headed to Ghana? archive.md/yQ6eb
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Enrique is from Cuba. Nyo is from Burma. I don’t think either of them had ever heard of South Sudan before they were told that’s where they were headed on a military plane. They have been detained in South Sudan since.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is actually not correct about the deportees to South Sudan, nor for the ones to Eswatini.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
💅🕴️🌹
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Turducken of illegality…you should trademark that.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I wear a few somewhat incongruent hats these days. I am proud that, wearing one of them, I was fortunate enough to play a tiny part in bringing this phenomenal team effort to fruition. This report is hard to read because it’s heartbreaking. But please do read it - and share it widely 🙏
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
No, but here is the case number: www.courtlistener.com/docket/70384...
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Ramirez v. Lyons, 1:25-cv-11514 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Ramirez v. Lyons, 1:25-cv-11514 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Hurrah, Drew Ensign is here 😝
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Oops, yeah- he was born 1880 :)
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Speaking of story…One name appears a lot in his file: Edward Ennis, the head of the Alien Enemy Control Unit. Talk about a wild career path… someone should make a movie, “From AECU to ACLU.” encyclopedia.densho.org/Edward_Ennis
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Edward Ennis | Densho Encyclopedia
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In 1945, his Alien Enemy Proceedings were officially terminated. There is so much more to his story, and that of his family- but that’s enough for now.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
So in Nov 1943, my great grandfather got to meet my mom, his daughter Jane’s first child, who was born in Gila River Camp 11 months prior. Here he is with his wife at Gila, and the other one is my mom and her friend in the cart in which he proudly paraded his first grandchild around the camp.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thankfully, in late 1943 (we always thought 1944), the AG agreed with the Board and ordered that my great grandfather be paroled and reunited with his family at Gila River Relocation Center. The grateful letter from his family belies the sadness and trauma the separation from him caused them.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
But the reviewing authority disagreed, recommending a renewed finding that he was dangerous and should be interned.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
For his next hearing, my great grandfather, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest, wrote about his love of democracy, devotion to Buddhism, and opposition to the Shinto view that the Japanese emperor is god. He appears to have testified to the same. The Alien Enemy Hearing Board recommended his release.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
During that time, my great grandfather’s wife and children wrote many pleading letters, and my great grandfather filed a petition for family reunification, to be “released” to the same War Relocation Authority camp where his wife and 5 kids were imprisoned.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thus, the Attorney General ordered he be interned. He spent the next almost year and a half in several alien enemy camps.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
A reviewing authority concurred.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The part that seems worth sharing here is how much process alien enemies received then compared to today, even during what I think most would agree was a shameful history of American history. After his first hearing, the Alien Enemy Hearing Board recommended he be found dangerous and interned.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I requested my great grandfather’s alien enemy file from the National Records Archive. 300ish pages arrived in parts. Some is just paperwork- immigration forms, the alien enemy questionnaire, etc. Parts feel too personal to share here- letters from his young daughters, pleading for his release.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
So in Nov 1943, my great grandfather got to meet my mom, his daughter Jane’s first child, who was born in Gila River Camp 11 months prior. Here he is with his wife at Gila, and the other one is my mom and her friend in the cart in which he proudly paraded his first grandchild around the camp.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thankfully, in late 1943 (we always thought 1944), the AG agreed with the Board and ordered that my great grandfather be paroled and reunited with his family at Gila River Relocation Center. The grateful letter from his family belies the sadness and trauma the separation from him caused them.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
But the reviewing authority disagreed, recommending a renewed finding that he was dangerous and should be interned.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
For his next hearing, my great grandfather, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist priest, wrote about his love of democracy, devotion to Buddhism, and opposition to the Shinto view that the Japanese emperor is god. He appears to have testified to the same. The Alien Enemy Hearing Board recommended his release.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
During that time, my great grandfather’s wife and children wrote many pleading letters, and my great grandfather filed a petition for family reunification, to be “released” to the same War Relocation Authority camp where his wife and 5 kids were imprisoned.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Thus, the Attorney General ordered he be interned. He spent the next almost year and a half in several alien enemy camps.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
A reviewing authority concurred.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The part that seems worth sharing here is how much process alien enemies received then compared to today, even during what I think most would agree was a shameful history of American history. After his first hearing, the Alien Enemy Hearing Board recommended he be found dangerous and interned.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
100%. The bad/good immigrant trap is more harmful now than ever before if you ask me.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I think it doesn’t apply to ppl removed under INA 235, aka expedited removal
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’ve lived in Quebec for like 8 years now and this is still how I feel most days haha
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
🔥🚀🦄
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
That being said, parents of US citizen children get deported all the time, and often the US citizen children go with them- what else are they going to do? I think the last number I read just for Mexico was about 100,000 de facto deported US citizen kids who live there.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Does anyone have a gift article link? :)
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Guadalupe, CA :)
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is his letter to his family when they were “interned.” It makes me both sad and angry how accepting he and many were of all of this. In a sense, we have come a long way since then- with the ACLU et al jumping into action at the first hint of the AEA invocation. If only the courts could save us.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Looking over the notes on this “Japanese internee card,” it struck me that every time they needed to add one of the sad notations (“Ltr from Mary- Can I help in securing father’s release”), someone had to line that notecard up perfectly on a typewriter and tap it out on there.
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Alma @almadavid.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I found part of my great grandfather’s alien enemy file online at the National Records Archive today (ordered the rest). I noticed right away that he got a hearing notice and there were Board decisions in his case. At least, minimum due process seems to have been given.
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