Stephen Miller’s New Attack on Green-Card Applicants Is Simply a Scare Tactic

Jurisprudence

June 05, 20269:00 AM

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is pointedly citing only one immigration court precedent.

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Last month, the Trump administration sent the immigration-law world into a frenzy with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ sudden release of a memo concerning the processing of green-card applications filed within the United States. The timing of the release—right before the long Memorial Day holiday weekend—its ambiguity, and the broad potential implications sparked exactly the sort of public confusion that the administration had likely hoped for.