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Merle Kahn

@merlekahn.bsky.social
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Immigration Attorney since the beginning of time. Devotee of Austen, Eliot, Gaskell, and Brontë

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I’ve been practicing immigration law for years and years and years. Noncitizens do not vote. It just doesn’t happen. People are excited to become citizens so that they can vote.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
That’s so wonderful! We really need you to continue doing your work
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Worth a re-read.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
He’s mentioned in Ragtime by Doctorow. What an amazing man.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wow! That’s just so many levels of wrong
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I have my grandmother’s N 400 from the 1950s
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’d watch that so many times!
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
She’s was young and hot and smart. She was the daughter of the town lawyer and married the owner of Longbourne! She’s fricking brilliant.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Free indirect discourse baby!
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
OMFG!
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I thought it was hilarious. As an immigration lawyer I truly appreciated it
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I shouldn’t be laughing.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
They can also be sung to “The Yellow Rose of Texas”. “Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held just but ourselves and immortality”
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
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Anti-DEI Efforts Aimed at Female Immigration Judges, Suit Says
Dozens of female immigration judges and others with ethnic minority backgrounds were fired by the Department of Justice amid the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion, acc...
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
1/4 Everyone should read the decision Matter of Blas, upon which the USCIS memo announcing its new adjustment of status policy is based. More importantly, read Maurice Roberts' dissent. www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Those are lovely shelves.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/05/2026
"No country can guarantee safety if it lacks functioning asylum laws, honest courts, impartial officials and the will to protect people from detention, coercion, disappearance or onward removal," write James A. Goldston and Natasha Arnpriester.
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The US has deported thousands to third countries. This must stop | James A Goldston and Natasha Arnpriester
Monitors estimate 17,500 people have been sent to countries they may never have visited – and where they could face further danger
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I’m part of a writing club with a brilliant novelist, a brilliant doctor, a brilliant engineer, and a brilliant accountant. It keeps me sane and grounded. Especially the novelist
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/05/2026
Overnight this Omni ICE flight landed in Guam, where it sat for 7+ hours, before continuing west. It is about to make its first deportation stop, in Cambodia. Migrants passengers onboard have likely been shackled for at least 63 hours.
A FR24 map showing a 767 (N486AX) descending toward Phnom Penh.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I quote this tweet all of the time!
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Middlingmarch
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I’m an immigration lawyer, listen to this warning⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Got it! I’ve never seen that before.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What is an “indicative ruling”? Did they mean “injunctive ruling”?
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I’ve been an immigration attorney since the dawn of time. I can’t tell you how many times people have asked me how to get an “ex” family member deported. People want revenge.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
There was a flight carrying 3rd country nationals from US to Uganda today and it’s totally unclear what the agreement is between the two governments and how they will be treated when they arrive. Just part of the Trump admin’s effort to undermine asylum and humane treatment of migrants globally.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Stop doing evil things
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
What this man did is awful. But does this mean that anyone who is in a relationship with an undocumented person will be charged with harboring?? Is there more to this story? Millions of US citizens could be at risk of federal harboring charges.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Needless to say, it’s hard to get a new visa once your visa is revoked. For anyone here on a non-immigrant visa if they are arrested for driving under the influence their visa is revoked. Once they leave the U.S. they must apply for a new visa and prove they are not an alcoholic
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’m an immigration lawyer. Revocation of a visa means that you are still in legal immigration status. Once the period of time you are allowed to be on the visa ends, you must leave and apply for a new visa. You cannot reenter on the revoked visa.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
GW? It was very different when I was there in the 1980s
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The BOSS!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The fascists will not stop and are only going to get more violent. The Democrats have betrayed us. It’s on us to stop this. We have to carry out a general strike and boycott even if we’re not ready. We have to kill this system before it kills us. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/shut-it-down
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
Shut It Down
It's time to stop participating in this awful system and bring it to its knees
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Was that gun even his or did they plant it on him?
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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 24/01/2026
Tobias Kinter Bencosme, 44, of Miami, FL, is an ICE Supervisory Detention Agent who participated in the illegal home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly American citizen in St Paul, MN on 1/18/2026. Bencosme dragged the Hmong grandfather outside in the frigid air wearing only boxers and a blanket.
VIOLENT DHS / ICE OFFICER - ARMED AND DANGEROUS
TOBIAS K. BENCOSME
SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER/TERRORIST
Miami, FL ICE
Tobias Kinter Bencosme, 44, of Miami, FL, is an ICE Supervisory Detention Agent who participated in the illegal home invasion and kidnapping of an elderly American citizen in St Paul, MN on 1/18/2026. Benscome dragged the grandfather outside into the frigid air wearing only underwear and a blanket. Benscome was arrested in Hialeah, FL in 2012 for failure to appear and driving with a suspended license.
St. Paul. MN 1/18/26
St. Paul. MN 1/18/26
DISCLAIMER: Ths is a community warning only. All info is from public sources and may be incomplete or inaccurate. We make no legal claims as to guilt. We condemn all threats, violence, harassment, or sharing private info including addresses, phone numbers, or familv member info. The First Amendment protects documentation of suspected official misconduct.
DO NOT APPROACH OR ATTEMPT TO APPREHEND THIS INDIVIDUAL.The now infamous photo of an elderly man wearing only blue boxers, no shirt, with a thin blanket draped over him being marched through the snow by two ICE agents. Bencosme is circled in red.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This!⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Immigration lawyer here. It is so the people will have a deportation order on their records and won’t be able to immigrate back to the United States for 10 years without a waiver.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! nicolemfoy@gmail.com www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
“More Lethality, Less Legality” was right there
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“More Lethality, Less Legality” was right there!
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I can’t distinguish satire anymore
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10/11/2025
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Excellent article. I also noticed that the fired Immigration Judges are predominantly women. The newly hired immigration judges and temporary immigration judges are predominantly men.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Oakton and Asbury??? That’s the quietest most ordinary spot
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Look to San Francisco. There’s a reason Trump called off the invasion. Oops, I mean “surge”.
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🤣🤣🤣
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Merle Kahn @merlekahn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Those are brave women! Kudos!
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown: Portland International Airport Seattle–Tacoma International Airport Buffalo Niagara International Airport Niagara Falls International Airport (cont'd)
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