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# ![@ReichlinMelnick Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1034469513385963521.png) @ReichlinMelnick Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick posts on X about the first, birthright citizenship, united states, countries the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 4666 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence

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[the first](/topic/the-first), [birthright citizenship](/topic/birthright-citizenship) #51, [united states](/topic/united-states) #2263, [countries](/topic/countries) #649, [strike](/topic/strike) #2077, [murder](/topic/murder), [finish](/topic/finish), [supreme court](/topic/supreme-court) #275, [native](/topic/native) #790, [history](/topic/history) #1021

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld. Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1991564393612734677)  2025-11-20T17:48Z 83.7K followers, 14.1K engagements


"For the trolls in the mentions here are some facts: immigrants use LESS federal benefits per capita than native-born U.S. citizens; and the most common is Social Security (after they paid into it for decades like everyone else). Source:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1994270563611578686)  2025-11-28T05:02Z 83.8K followers, 19.2K engagements


"This appears to be outright murder; an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone. Quite possibly a war crime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1994478517216842069)  2025-11-28T18:48Z 83.8K followers, 273.1K engagements


"This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019 and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020. Both were later sentenced to life in prison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995577370615710019)  2025-12-01T19:34Z 83.7K followers, 144.9K engagements


"Also it bears repeating; the boat was over 1000 miles from the United States and headed to Trinidad and Tobago and the Trump admin has so far presented ZERO evidence that the cocaine allegedly on board was specifically headed to the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996650298082054215)  2025-12-04T18:38Z 83.7K followers, 5099 engagements


"This is the comms department of a federal agency winking at the idea of summarily killing undocumented immigrants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996695416448950661)  2025-12-04T21:37Z 83.7K followers, 90.3K engagements


"If the boat was indeed capsized and they were clinging to a small part of the wreckage above water I've reached the point where I can't envision any way in which killing the men is not murder and/or a war crime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996697484811555222)  2025-12-04T21:45Z 83.7K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Why would I do that when the boat was carrying cocaine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996757389664514133)  2025-12-05T01:43Z 83.8K followers, 74.3K engagements


"And your evidence for that is what They blew up another boat today bringing the total killings to nearly XX people. The first strike was over three months ago. The boats are clearly continuing to operate and tons of cocaine comes into the U.S. by land as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996766503983628540)  2025-12-05T02:20Z 83.7K followers, 4024 engagements


"ICE dragged a daycare teacher out of a daycare in front of terrified children at the exact time that most parents were dropping their kids off. Unless she was a secret murderer I cannot think of any acceptable reason to traumatize kids like that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1986110691086897567)  2025-11-05T16:37Z 83.7K followers, 245.3K engagements


"This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1994267899775607005)  2025-11-28T04:51Z 83.7K followers, 109.7K engagements


"Drug smugglers are not "combatants" lawful or otherwise and the suggestion that governments should have the right to summarily execute them is just a demand for the right to murder people you don't like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1994858783886147673)  2025-11-29T19:59Z 83.7K followers, 162.3K engagements


"As Kristi Noem admits to making the decision not to turn the planes around bear in mind that the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the procedure to shove those men onto the plane to be imprisoned (and tortured) in El Salvador was a violation of due process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995173486176960944)  2025-11-30T16:50Z 83.7K followers, 127.4K engagements


"Wait so Noem is now admitting it's not fentanyl They're just pretending that they didn't make a bunch of previous statements trying to link these boats to fentanyl /and yes the claim of saving hundreds of millions of lives by blowing up some cocaine is obviously laughable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995948053132628081)  2025-12-02T20:07Z 83.7K followers, 9677 engagements


"Correct she was not present with lawful status. That is not even remotely the question here. The question is whether the government official slurring her as a criminal was telling the truth. He (or to be precise the handlers who update his social media) was not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996205691577798781)  2025-12-03T13:11Z 83.7K followers, 4387 engagements


"Yep One of the main themes of Judge Dredd is that the Judges themselves are often deeply corrupt and not much better than the people that Dredd is going after"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996702046805021174)  2025-12-04T22:03Z 83.7K followers, 7135 engagements


"These kind of comparisons are so absurd when you actually compare it to the emerging facts about what happened which is that the two survivors were apparently sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage and waving desperately for help before they were blown into bits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997327450267619534)  2025-12-06T15:29Z 83.7K followers, 6525 engagements


"We have a duty as American citizens who believe that All men are created equal to push back against the far right radicals who are trying to divide us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1994480908473188550)  2025-11-28T18:57Z 83.8K followers, 107.8K engagements


"Some of us were critics of the Obama-era strikes too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996651503747277237)  2025-12-04T18:43Z 83.8K followers, 6345 engagements


"The Supreme Court only a few years after the 14th Amendment was adopted was crystal clear; all people born in the United States are U.S. citizens with only three exceptions: - Children of diplomats - Children born to soldiers of occupying troops - Native Americans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997030324224856383)  2025-12-05T19:48Z 83.8K followers, 4814 engagements


"The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there not doing anything remotely illegal and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1975899183644356640)  2025-10-08T12:20Z 83.8K followers, 7.4M engagements


"So the ICE officer refuses to follow lawful orders and actively resists arrest while questioning whether one of the cops is Haitian (a veiled threat). If he was an immigrant DHS would call him "the worst of the worst.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1979188594435633408)  2025-10-17T14:11Z 83.8K followers, 538.4K engagements


"A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring were just gonna kill people without a trial or even a shred of due process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1981460029690486926)  2025-10-23T20:37Z 83.8K followers, 1.3M engagements


"People in this situation are XXX% eligible for green cards. ICE is not required to arrest and detain them while they go through the process. And being detained doesnt make them ineligible except now the U.S. is wasting huge sums to lock them up during a lengthy process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1994503751218921729)  2025-11-28T20:28Z 83.8K followers, 39.3K engagements


"Naturalization =/= immigration. Until 1875 all people of all races and creeds could immigrate to the US and live here for their whole lives but from 1790 to 1952 only free white people could become U.S. citizens and gain the right to vote (and other benefits of citizenship)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995859448372564265)  2025-12-02T14:15Z 83.8K followers, 5832 engagements


"Yes of course. Birthright citizenship comes from English common law dating back to the early 1600s. The exception was the infamous Dred Scott decision which was so wrong it helped set off the Civil War and was firmly killed in the 14th Amendment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995863145869705604)  2025-12-02T14:30Z 83.8K followers, 4123 engagements


"With all due respect please read the case. Justice Gray spends page after page discussing the origins and development of birthright citizenship from English common law through American colonial law through the 14th Amendment. Read it here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997797018207695240)  2025-12-07T22:35Z 83.8K followers, 6533 engagements


"Today I testified on behalf of @immcouncil in front of House Homeland's Border Security and Enforcement subcommittee. I testified about how Trump's diversion of thousands of law enforcement officers to mass deportation work is making us less safe. Watch my opening statement here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1904629070060491056)  2025-03-25T20:18Z 83.8K followers, 744.6K engagements


"In this raid they dragged naked children out of their homes and put them into U-Haul vans. And now they're bragging about it. U.S. citizens had their doors smashed down and were forced into handcuffs and held outside for hours. Senior citizens held outside their homes trashed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1973798503500689768)  2025-10-02T17:13Z 83.8K followers, 2.2M engagements


"WOW. Judge Ellis finds that Chief Bovino gave "not credible" testimony stating that he "appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition either providing 'cute' responses . or outright lying." She highlights how he denied tackling someone even though it was on video"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1991619079984279895)  2025-11-20T21:26Z 83.8K followers, 615.4K engagements


"THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1991634906074505336)  2025-11-20T22:28Z 83.8K followers, 1.3M engagements


"ICE went to a court in Rhode Island to arrest someone misidentified their target and ended up surveilling a random Latino intern and then threated to break a judge's car windows and were only stopped when court security intervened and asked them to calm down and look at IDs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1991890041577336976)  2025-11-21T15:22Z 83.8K followers, 834.2K engagements


"NEW: In a late-night filing the Department of Justice confirms for the first time that Secretary Noem herself personally issued the order not to obey Judge Boasbergs command that planes carrying hundreds of Venezuelan men to be imprisoned and tortured in CECOT be turned around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1993495537732272311)  2025-11-26T01:42Z 83.8K followers, 4.3M engagements


"A federal agent who goes out of his way to smash a private businesss surveillance camera has committed a crime. Full stop. That is flagrantly illegal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1993503346204856410)  2025-11-26T02:13Z 83.8K followers, 811.8K engagements


"President Trump just said he was going to pardon a man who bragged of "shoving drugs . right up the noses of the gringos" and who had a man hacked to death with a machete to prevent him squealing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1994594755809010088)  2025-11-29T02:30Z 83.8K followers, 255.6K engagements


"Abraham Lincoln would have beaten whoever wrote this into the ground. He despised anti-immigrant bigots who declared that certain foreigners were unworthy to come here; unworthy to be treated as equals under our Declaration of Independence. Heres what he wrote in 1855"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995662973692723445)  2025-12-02T01:15Z 83.8K followers, 145.5K engagements


"The current travel ban applies to XX countries and bans all immigrant visas (and to varying degrees non-immigrant visas). When it was first implemented the Trump admin suggested XX other countries might be added so in some ways XX new ones isn't as bad as it could have been"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995875228782920079)  2025-12-02T15:18Z 83.8K followers, 7510 engagements


"🚨The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the XX travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold just inches from the finish line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1995965229382164509)  2025-12-02T21:16Z 83.8K followers, 150.2K engagements


"NEW: The official USCIS guidance on the pause is out. Until further notice from the USCIS Director all immigration benefits (including citizenship) are indefinitely suspended for nationals of XX countries as are all affirmative asylum applications from nationals of any country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996018289097511190)  2025-12-03T00:46Z 83.8K followers, 77.4K engagements


"This is the kind of racism even Nixon kept to himself; just a level of sheer bigotry that would have been utterly disqualifying for higher office even a decade ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996367432307601748)  2025-12-03T23:54Z 83.8K followers, 330.9K engagements


"Senator Cotton appears to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight." What fight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996650021966803394)  2025-12-04T18:37Z 83.8K followers, 38.8K engagements


"The boat was split in half. X men were dead. X more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for XX minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere. Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996750826799317077)  2025-12-05T01:17Z 83.8K followers, 211.6K engagements


"A staggering amount of @BadLegalTakes in response to this post. As the Supreme Court itself has made clear being undocumented is NOT a crime. The fact that some portion of the undocumented population committed misdemeanor illegal entry years ago doesnt change that FACT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996761844573421837)  2025-12-05T02:01Z 83.8K followers, 63.7K engagements


"Absolutely nailed it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1996997747644551528)  2025-12-05T17:39Z 83.8K followers, 576.7K engagements


"I'm in complete agreement. The Trump admin has yet to convince even one judge of their interpretation of the 14th Amendment. They are arguing against a consensus which has been in place for over a century and which builds on precedent dating back to the 1600s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997029827065663842)  2025-12-05T19:46Z 83.8K followers, 63.2K engagements


"There is just no good argument that the text of the 14th Amendment does not mean what it says. The US has had birthright citizenship ("jus soli") since the colonial era. Here's what a judge wrote in 1844 in a case about a woman who would be denied citizenship under Trump's EO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997031152381530332)  2025-12-05T19:51Z 83.8K followers, 6866 engagements


"Wow original reporting suggested that the boat was heading for Trinidad and Tobago. Now it seems they were heading to Suriname which suggests the cocaine on board was eventually bound for Europe not the United States. This was absolutely nowhere near the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997069035012252147)  2025-12-05T22:22Z 83.8K followers, 258.2K engagements


"After a man from Afghanistan (who worked for the USA for over a decade) seems to have had a mental break and committed a terrible crime the Trump admin is using the tragedy as an excuse to indefinitely suspend citizenship ceremonies for Cubans Venezuelans Haitians and others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997349702568726828)  2025-12-06T16:57Z 83.8K followers, 67.5K engagements


"With respect @ilan_wurmans claim here is belied by the very prominent debates around and just before ratification about whether Congress intended to solidify birthright citizenship for children of Chinese immigrants and Gypsies seen at the time as citizens of no nation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997744174523974106)  2025-12-07T19:05Z 83.8K followers, 17.5K engagements


"This is FALSE. As the Supreme Court spelled out very clearly XXX years ago subject to the jurisdiction thereof refers to three categories of exceptions two ancient and one uniquely American. - Children of diplomats - Children of occupying soldiers - Native Americans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997756158741041418)  2025-12-07T19:52Z 83.8K followers, 155.6K engagements


"There are people out there desperately trying to make you believe that the plain text of the 14th Amendment doesnt say what it says. But as the Supreme Court has repeatedly said over the last XXX years that is just not true. Read the below excerpt. It cannot be more clear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997756995991126504)  2025-12-07T19:55Z 83.8K followers, 32.2K engagements


"Mr. Wongs parents were ineligible for citizenship in a way todays permanent residents are not. And the Court was clear that the 14th Amendment codified the ancient rule of birthright citizenship. Also Trumps EO claims to bar citizenship even for children of ppl here legally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997785707977347357)  2025-12-07T21:50Z 83.8K followers, 7471 engagements


"Ive been to a few naturalization ceremonies and they are some of the most patriotism-affirming events you can go to. So for this admin to cancel oath ceremonies for thousands of random immigrants on the cusp of citizenship just because of where they were born is heartbreaking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997802009450430642)  2025-12-07T22:54Z 83.8K followers, 39.6K engagements


"Of course a person in the latter scenario was subject to US jurisdiction when she gave birth. If she committed a crime when she was in the hospital could she be arrested for that crime If the answer is yes she was subject to the jurisdiction thereof"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997808916189811130)  2025-12-07T23:22Z 83.8K followers, 6331 engagements


"To waste law enforcement resources this way to go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997872919297327131)  2025-12-08T03:36Z 83.8K followers, 72.6K engagements


"The Coast Guard told Rand Paul they interdicted over XXX boats in a year The idea that you have to kill people is just not true. Theres also little evidence its making a difference. Despite Trump claiming no more boats are coming we keep blowing them up so they obviously are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997875042453991910)  2025-12-08T03:45Z 83.8K followers, 12.6K engagements


"The White House is really leaning into a state-sponsored hate campaign against a minority ethnic group huh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998119279405748237)  2025-12-08T19:55Z 83.8K followers, 389.2K engagements


"In every single major immigration raid so far the MAJORITY of people arrested by DHS officers have no criminal record whatsoever not even any traffic violations or misdemeanors. In Washington DC it was XX% of all those arrested. In Los Angeles 57%. In Illinois 66%"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998119772660047940)  2025-12-08T19:57Z 83.8K followers, 93.6K engagements


"Incredible. Yet another article from Ms. Swearer which claims to dive into the history yet fails to mention Lynch v. Clarke one of the first major American cases to interpret birthright citizenship a case cited X times in Wong Kim Ark and which totally contradicts her argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998128072344900056)  2025-12-08T20:30Z 83.8K followers, 34.4K engagements


"Neither of those offenses are relevant to the question of whether being undocumented is a crime nor the question of whether a person who may have committed a crime for which they weren't charged can accurately be described as "having a criminal record.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998161029562314888)  2025-12-08T22:41Z 83.8K followers, 6697 engagements


"A large portion (millions) of the undocumented population are visa overstays who came here legally and another large portion (also millions) who did cross the border to get here came as children and so have no criminal liability. This isn't complicated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998189443032002701)  2025-12-09T00:34Z 83.8K followers, 5457 engagements


"Also I lived in a neighborhood in Brooklyn for two years in mid-20s that was basically Little Bangladesh and it was great. One of my favorite places to live (despite the crappy apartment). Never felt unsafe even once when walking on the streets there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998190262800220645)  2025-12-09T00:37Z 83.8K followers, 4556 engagements


"Yes. I had a roommate who was a Ukrainian asylum seeker (she lives in the UK now I'll always remember when her dad came to the States for New Years and got hammered and went to Times Square) and we talked. I also had a female coworker who lived nearby"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998194929538101671)  2025-12-09T00:56Z 83.8K followers, 4429 engagements


"The "they're not immigrants" thing is so funny to me because for years the "patriotically correct" term you were all using was "illegal immigrant" and suddenly in the last few years you all got the message to stop saying immigrant and say "alien" instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998202126066221266)  2025-12-09T01:24Z 83.8K followers, 6977 engagements


"The Trump admins official position re: the worlds best and brightest is we dont want them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998368930562543707)  2025-12-09T12:27Z 83.8K followers, 7288 engagements


"There are 9738 people on this list. From January XX through October XX (the latest we have verifiable data from) ICE recorded 220802 arrests. So DHS is implicitly admitting that less than X% of the people it arrests are people they believe are "the worst of the worst.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998426318833389884)  2025-12-09T16:15Z 83.8K followers, 66.8K engagements


"Again this is almost word for word what they said about the Irish and Italians over a century ago. Stephen Millers nativist intellectual predecessors were wrong then and hes wrong now. America land of immigrants is the most powerful engine of assimilation in human history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998529996076531732)  2025-12-09T23:07Z 83.8K followers, 59.5K engagements


"The Trump admin is now stationing people at the southern border to arrest Mexicans who are seeking to self-deport which makes very little sense at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998535645032231331)  2025-12-09T23:30Z 83.8K followers, 39.7K engagements


"The Stephen Miller way; nothing is your fault everything is immigrants fault. Dont have any friends Immigrants. Cant pay your rent Immigrants. Your wife left you Immigrants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998564443152679102)  2025-12-10T01:24Z 83.8K followers, 46.6K engagements


"Wow the Trump admin is going to completely revamp the ESTA process and require all Visa Waiver Program entrants to use a mobile app disclose every social media handle used for the last five years and every email used for XX years and give the US a whole host of data on family"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998571222536434142)  2025-12-10T01:51Z 83.8K followers, 19.7K engagements


"Under this new proposal if you're a European who wants to visit New York City for a vacation you now have to turn over a TON of information to the United States government for them to keep forever. The days of just showing a passport will be long gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998571614527463768)  2025-12-10T01:52Z 83.8K followers, 2991 engagements


"This stuff is effectively indistinguishable from the kind of things they used to say about Italians XXX years ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1997130807656194520)  2025-12-06T02:27Z 83.8K followers, 81.9K engagements


"False. There is no singular correct "legal term." The Immigration and Nationality Act has no generic term for people who lack legal status. A smattering of laws from the last XX years has added "undocumented" "unauthorized" "illegal immigrant" and "illegal alien" to the INA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998405525763924045)  2025-12-09T14:53Z 83.8K followers, 8824 engagements


"There was a time when Trump claimed that it was a lie that he had ever called Haiti a "shithole country." Now he's openly saying it at a campaign rally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1998594912359780601)  2025-12-10T03:25Z 83.8K followers, 11.1K engagements

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"Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld. Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that"
X Link 2025-11-20T17:48Z 83.7K followers, 14.1K engagements

"For the trolls in the mentions here are some facts: immigrants use LESS federal benefits per capita than native-born U.S. citizens; and the most common is Social Security (after they paid into it for decades like everyone else). Source:"
X Link 2025-11-28T05:02Z 83.8K followers, 19.2K engagements

"This appears to be outright murder; an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone. Quite possibly a war crime"
X Link 2025-11-28T18:48Z 83.8K followers, 273.1K engagements

"This is ridiculous. It was the first TRUMP admin which developed the cases against President Hernandez. His brother Tony Hernandez was indicted in 2018 and convicted in 2019 and key ally Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez was indicted in 2020. Both were later sentenced to life in prison"
X Link 2025-12-01T19:34Z 83.7K followers, 144.9K engagements

"Also it bears repeating; the boat was over 1000 miles from the United States and headed to Trinidad and Tobago and the Trump admin has so far presented ZERO evidence that the cocaine allegedly on board was specifically headed to the United States"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:38Z 83.7K followers, 5099 engagements

"This is the comms department of a federal agency winking at the idea of summarily killing undocumented immigrants"
X Link 2025-12-04T21:37Z 83.7K followers, 90.3K engagements

"If the boat was indeed capsized and they were clinging to a small part of the wreckage above water I've reached the point where I can't envision any way in which killing the men is not murder and/or a war crime"
X Link 2025-12-04T21:45Z 83.7K followers, 11.1K engagements

"Why would I do that when the boat was carrying cocaine"
X Link 2025-12-05T01:43Z 83.8K followers, 74.3K engagements

"And your evidence for that is what They blew up another boat today bringing the total killings to nearly XX people. The first strike was over three months ago. The boats are clearly continuing to operate and tons of cocaine comes into the U.S. by land as well"
X Link 2025-12-05T02:20Z 83.7K followers, 4024 engagements

"ICE dragged a daycare teacher out of a daycare in front of terrified children at the exact time that most parents were dropping their kids off. Unless she was a secret murderer I cannot think of any acceptable reason to traumatize kids like that"
X Link 2025-11-05T16:37Z 83.7K followers, 245.3K engagements

"This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language"
X Link 2025-11-28T04:51Z 83.7K followers, 109.7K engagements

"Drug smugglers are not "combatants" lawful or otherwise and the suggestion that governments should have the right to summarily execute them is just a demand for the right to murder people you don't like"
X Link 2025-11-29T19:59Z 83.7K followers, 162.3K engagements

"As Kristi Noem admits to making the decision not to turn the planes around bear in mind that the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the procedure to shove those men onto the plane to be imprisoned (and tortured) in El Salvador was a violation of due process"
X Link 2025-11-30T16:50Z 83.7K followers, 127.4K engagements

"Wait so Noem is now admitting it's not fentanyl They're just pretending that they didn't make a bunch of previous statements trying to link these boats to fentanyl /and yes the claim of saving hundreds of millions of lives by blowing up some cocaine is obviously laughable"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:07Z 83.7K followers, 9677 engagements

"Correct she was not present with lawful status. That is not even remotely the question here. The question is whether the government official slurring her as a criminal was telling the truth. He (or to be precise the handlers who update his social media) was not"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:11Z 83.7K followers, 4387 engagements

"Yep One of the main themes of Judge Dredd is that the Judges themselves are often deeply corrupt and not much better than the people that Dredd is going after"
X Link 2025-12-04T22:03Z 83.7K followers, 7135 engagements

"These kind of comparisons are so absurd when you actually compare it to the emerging facts about what happened which is that the two survivors were apparently sprawled on a table-size piece of floating wreckage and waving desperately for help before they were blown into bits"
X Link 2025-12-06T15:29Z 83.7K followers, 6525 engagements

"We have a duty as American citizens who believe that All men are created equal to push back against the far right radicals who are trying to divide us"
X Link 2025-11-28T18:57Z 83.8K followers, 107.8K engagements

"Some of us were critics of the Obama-era strikes too"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:43Z 83.8K followers, 6345 engagements

"The Supreme Court only a few years after the 14th Amendment was adopted was crystal clear; all people born in the United States are U.S. citizens with only three exceptions: - Children of diplomats - Children born to soldiers of occupying troops - Native Americans"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:48Z 83.8K followers, 4814 engagements

"The video of this incident is just as bad as it sounds. The priest is standing there not doing anything remotely illegal and without warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him in the top of his head with a pepper ball"
X Link 2025-10-08T12:20Z 83.8K followers, 7.4M engagements

"So the ICE officer refuses to follow lawful orders and actively resists arrest while questioning whether one of the cops is Haitian (a veiled threat). If he was an immigrant DHS would call him "the worst of the worst.""
X Link 2025-10-17T14:11Z 83.8K followers, 538.4K engagements

"A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring were just gonna kill people without a trial or even a shred of due process"
X Link 2025-10-23T20:37Z 83.8K followers, 1.3M engagements

"People in this situation are XXX% eligible for green cards. ICE is not required to arrest and detain them while they go through the process. And being detained doesnt make them ineligible except now the U.S. is wasting huge sums to lock them up during a lengthy process"
X Link 2025-11-28T20:28Z 83.8K followers, 39.3K engagements

"Naturalization =/= immigration. Until 1875 all people of all races and creeds could immigrate to the US and live here for their whole lives but from 1790 to 1952 only free white people could become U.S. citizens and gain the right to vote (and other benefits of citizenship)"
X Link 2025-12-02T14:15Z 83.8K followers, 5832 engagements

"Yes of course. Birthright citizenship comes from English common law dating back to the early 1600s. The exception was the infamous Dred Scott decision which was so wrong it helped set off the Civil War and was firmly killed in the 14th Amendment"
X Link 2025-12-02T14:30Z 83.8K followers, 4123 engagements

"With all due respect please read the case. Justice Gray spends page after page discussing the origins and development of birthright citizenship from English common law through American colonial law through the 14th Amendment. Read it here:"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:35Z 83.8K followers, 6533 engagements

"Today I testified on behalf of @immcouncil in front of House Homeland's Border Security and Enforcement subcommittee. I testified about how Trump's diversion of thousands of law enforcement officers to mass deportation work is making us less safe. Watch my opening statement here"
X Link 2025-03-25T20:18Z 83.8K followers, 744.6K engagements

"In this raid they dragged naked children out of their homes and put them into U-Haul vans. And now they're bragging about it. U.S. citizens had their doors smashed down and were forced into handcuffs and held outside for hours. Senior citizens held outside their homes trashed"
X Link 2025-10-02T17:13Z 83.8K followers, 2.2M engagements

"WOW. Judge Ellis finds that Chief Bovino gave "not credible" testimony stating that he "appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition either providing 'cute' responses . or outright lying." She highlights how he denied tackling someone even though it was on video"
X Link 2025-11-20T21:26Z 83.8K followers, 615.4K engagements

"THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS repeatedly misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here"
X Link 2025-11-20T22:28Z 83.8K followers, 1.3M engagements

"ICE went to a court in Rhode Island to arrest someone misidentified their target and ended up surveilling a random Latino intern and then threated to break a judge's car windows and were only stopped when court security intervened and asked them to calm down and look at IDs"
X Link 2025-11-21T15:22Z 83.8K followers, 834.2K engagements

"NEW: In a late-night filing the Department of Justice confirms for the first time that Secretary Noem herself personally issued the order not to obey Judge Boasbergs command that planes carrying hundreds of Venezuelan men to be imprisoned and tortured in CECOT be turned around"
X Link 2025-11-26T01:42Z 83.8K followers, 4.3M engagements

"A federal agent who goes out of his way to smash a private businesss surveillance camera has committed a crime. Full stop. That is flagrantly illegal"
X Link 2025-11-26T02:13Z 83.8K followers, 811.8K engagements

"President Trump just said he was going to pardon a man who bragged of "shoving drugs . right up the noses of the gringos" and who had a man hacked to death with a machete to prevent him squealing"
X Link 2025-11-29T02:30Z 83.8K followers, 255.6K engagements

"Abraham Lincoln would have beaten whoever wrote this into the ground. He despised anti-immigrant bigots who declared that certain foreigners were unworthy to come here; unworthy to be treated as equals under our Declaration of Independence. Heres what he wrote in 1855"
X Link 2025-12-02T01:15Z 83.8K followers, 145.5K engagements

"The current travel ban applies to XX countries and bans all immigrant visas (and to varying degrees non-immigrant visas). When it was first implemented the Trump admin suggested XX other countries might be added so in some ways XX new ones isn't as bad as it could have been"
X Link 2025-12-02T15:18Z 83.8K followers, 7510 engagements

"🚨The Trump admin has paused all immigration and naturalization processes for people from one of the XX travel ban countries; including Cuba and Venezuela. Even people who fully passed the citizenship exam are having their cases put on hold just inches from the finish line"
X Link 2025-12-02T21:16Z 83.8K followers, 150.2K engagements

"NEW: The official USCIS guidance on the pause is out. Until further notice from the USCIS Director all immigration benefits (including citizenship) are indefinitely suspended for nationals of XX countries as are all affirmative asylum applications from nationals of any country"
X Link 2025-12-03T00:46Z 83.8K followers, 77.4K engagements

"This is the kind of racism even Nixon kept to himself; just a level of sheer bigotry that would have been utterly disqualifying for higher office even a decade ago"
X Link 2025-12-03T23:54Z 83.8K followers, 330.9K engagements

"Senator Cotton appears to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight." What fight"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:37Z 83.8K followers, 38.8K engagements

"The boat was split in half. X men were dead. X more clung to a floating piece of wreckage and tried desperately to flip it over for XX minutes straight. There was no possible way they were going anywhere. Then they were killed in cold blood by the U.S. military"
X Link 2025-12-05T01:17Z 83.8K followers, 211.6K engagements

"A staggering amount of @BadLegalTakes in response to this post. As the Supreme Court itself has made clear being undocumented is NOT a crime. The fact that some portion of the undocumented population committed misdemeanor illegal entry years ago doesnt change that FACT"
X Link 2025-12-05T02:01Z 83.8K followers, 63.7K engagements

"Absolutely nailed it"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:39Z 83.8K followers, 576.7K engagements

"I'm in complete agreement. The Trump admin has yet to convince even one judge of their interpretation of the 14th Amendment. They are arguing against a consensus which has been in place for over a century and which builds on precedent dating back to the 1600s"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:46Z 83.8K followers, 63.2K engagements

"There is just no good argument that the text of the 14th Amendment does not mean what it says. The US has had birthright citizenship ("jus soli") since the colonial era. Here's what a judge wrote in 1844 in a case about a woman who would be denied citizenship under Trump's EO"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:51Z 83.8K followers, 6866 engagements

"Wow original reporting suggested that the boat was heading for Trinidad and Tobago. Now it seems they were heading to Suriname which suggests the cocaine on board was eventually bound for Europe not the United States. This was absolutely nowhere near the United States"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:22Z 83.8K followers, 258.2K engagements

"After a man from Afghanistan (who worked for the USA for over a decade) seems to have had a mental break and committed a terrible crime the Trump admin is using the tragedy as an excuse to indefinitely suspend citizenship ceremonies for Cubans Venezuelans Haitians and others"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:57Z 83.8K followers, 67.5K engagements

"With respect @ilan_wurmans claim here is belied by the very prominent debates around and just before ratification about whether Congress intended to solidify birthright citizenship for children of Chinese immigrants and Gypsies seen at the time as citizens of no nation"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:05Z 83.8K followers, 17.5K engagements

"This is FALSE. As the Supreme Court spelled out very clearly XXX years ago subject to the jurisdiction thereof refers to three categories of exceptions two ancient and one uniquely American. - Children of diplomats - Children of occupying soldiers - Native Americans"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:52Z 83.8K followers, 155.6K engagements

"There are people out there desperately trying to make you believe that the plain text of the 14th Amendment doesnt say what it says. But as the Supreme Court has repeatedly said over the last XXX years that is just not true. Read the below excerpt. It cannot be more clear"
X Link 2025-12-07T19:55Z 83.8K followers, 32.2K engagements

"Mr. Wongs parents were ineligible for citizenship in a way todays permanent residents are not. And the Court was clear that the 14th Amendment codified the ancient rule of birthright citizenship. Also Trumps EO claims to bar citizenship even for children of ppl here legally"
X Link 2025-12-07T21:50Z 83.8K followers, 7471 engagements

"Ive been to a few naturalization ceremonies and they are some of the most patriotism-affirming events you can go to. So for this admin to cancel oath ceremonies for thousands of random immigrants on the cusp of citizenship just because of where they were born is heartbreaking"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:54Z 83.8K followers, 39.6K engagements

"Of course a person in the latter scenario was subject to US jurisdiction when she gave birth. If she committed a crime when she was in the hospital could she be arrested for that crime If the answer is yes she was subject to the jurisdiction thereof"
X Link 2025-12-07T23:22Z 83.8K followers, 6331 engagements

"To waste law enforcement resources this way to go after a family for no other reason than that their daughter sparked sympathy is appalling. Absolutely appalling"
X Link 2025-12-08T03:36Z 83.8K followers, 72.6K engagements

"The Coast Guard told Rand Paul they interdicted over XXX boats in a year The idea that you have to kill people is just not true. Theres also little evidence its making a difference. Despite Trump claiming no more boats are coming we keep blowing them up so they obviously are"
X Link 2025-12-08T03:45Z 83.8K followers, 12.6K engagements

"The White House is really leaning into a state-sponsored hate campaign against a minority ethnic group huh"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:55Z 83.8K followers, 389.2K engagements

"In every single major immigration raid so far the MAJORITY of people arrested by DHS officers have no criminal record whatsoever not even any traffic violations or misdemeanors. In Washington DC it was XX% of all those arrested. In Los Angeles 57%. In Illinois 66%"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:57Z 83.8K followers, 93.6K engagements

"Incredible. Yet another article from Ms. Swearer which claims to dive into the history yet fails to mention Lynch v. Clarke one of the first major American cases to interpret birthright citizenship a case cited X times in Wong Kim Ark and which totally contradicts her argument"
X Link 2025-12-08T20:30Z 83.8K followers, 34.4K engagements

"Neither of those offenses are relevant to the question of whether being undocumented is a crime nor the question of whether a person who may have committed a crime for which they weren't charged can accurately be described as "having a criminal record.""
X Link 2025-12-08T22:41Z 83.8K followers, 6697 engagements

"A large portion (millions) of the undocumented population are visa overstays who came here legally and another large portion (also millions) who did cross the border to get here came as children and so have no criminal liability. This isn't complicated"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:34Z 83.8K followers, 5457 engagements

"Also I lived in a neighborhood in Brooklyn for two years in mid-20s that was basically Little Bangladesh and it was great. One of my favorite places to live (despite the crappy apartment). Never felt unsafe even once when walking on the streets there"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:37Z 83.8K followers, 4556 engagements

"Yes. I had a roommate who was a Ukrainian asylum seeker (she lives in the UK now I'll always remember when her dad came to the States for New Years and got hammered and went to Times Square) and we talked. I also had a female coworker who lived nearby"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:56Z 83.8K followers, 4429 engagements

"The "they're not immigrants" thing is so funny to me because for years the "patriotically correct" term you were all using was "illegal immigrant" and suddenly in the last few years you all got the message to stop saying immigrant and say "alien" instead"
X Link 2025-12-09T01:24Z 83.8K followers, 6977 engagements

"The Trump admins official position re: the worlds best and brightest is we dont want them"
X Link 2025-12-09T12:27Z 83.8K followers, 7288 engagements

"There are 9738 people on this list. From January XX through October XX (the latest we have verifiable data from) ICE recorded 220802 arrests. So DHS is implicitly admitting that less than X% of the people it arrests are people they believe are "the worst of the worst.""
X Link 2025-12-09T16:15Z 83.8K followers, 66.8K engagements

"Again this is almost word for word what they said about the Irish and Italians over a century ago. Stephen Millers nativist intellectual predecessors were wrong then and hes wrong now. America land of immigrants is the most powerful engine of assimilation in human history"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:07Z 83.8K followers, 59.5K engagements

"The Trump admin is now stationing people at the southern border to arrest Mexicans who are seeking to self-deport which makes very little sense at all"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:30Z 83.8K followers, 39.7K engagements

"The Stephen Miller way; nothing is your fault everything is immigrants fault. Dont have any friends Immigrants. Cant pay your rent Immigrants. Your wife left you Immigrants"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:24Z 83.8K followers, 46.6K engagements

"Wow the Trump admin is going to completely revamp the ESTA process and require all Visa Waiver Program entrants to use a mobile app disclose every social media handle used for the last five years and every email used for XX years and give the US a whole host of data on family"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:51Z 83.8K followers, 19.7K engagements

"Under this new proposal if you're a European who wants to visit New York City for a vacation you now have to turn over a TON of information to the United States government for them to keep forever. The days of just showing a passport will be long gone"
X Link 2025-12-10T01:52Z 83.8K followers, 2991 engagements

"This stuff is effectively indistinguishable from the kind of things they used to say about Italians XXX years ago"
X Link 2025-12-06T02:27Z 83.8K followers, 81.9K engagements

"False. There is no singular correct "legal term." The Immigration and Nationality Act has no generic term for people who lack legal status. A smattering of laws from the last XX years has added "undocumented" "unauthorized" "illegal immigrant" and "illegal alien" to the INA"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:53Z 83.8K followers, 8824 engagements

"There was a time when Trump claimed that it was a lie that he had ever called Haiti a "shithole country." Now he's openly saying it at a campaign rally"
X Link 2025-12-10T03:25Z 83.8K followers, 11.1K engagements

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