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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by mrguyorama »

mrguyorama wrote: post #207
OptionOfT wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can not. Neither US Citizens or Green Card Holders can be denied entry. Sources: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encounter... https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-r...

They are not legally entitled to deny you entry. That doesn't mean they can't deny you entry. It means you might win a court case some day. ICE cannot legally arrest people who are citizens for no reason, and yet they have done exactly that 30% of the time by their own admission. "Knowing your rights" is meaningless if the public chooses to vote for people who don't care about those rights, and celebrate when you do…

>ICE cannot legally arrest people who are citizens for no reason, and yet they have done exactly that 30% of the time by their own admission.

I can no longer modify, retract, edit, etc my comment. This statement is almost certainly false, and I made it without due diligence to confirm I remembered the wording of a claim ICE made.

We know ICE has arrested some people who are American citizens, but we do not have anything near enough good data to make anything close to the claim I made.

This is a record of my error. Remember this if you see my comments again.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by mrguyorama »

filleduchaos wrote: post #237
mrguyorama wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I overstated, but it's murky. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/05/despite-medias-claims-ic... Why would ICE leave the number as low as "70%" if they could be higher? Every illegal alien is a criminal as far as the law is concerned. Every illegal alien arrested is "charged with a crime". Otherwise ICE is openly stating to its supporters that they arrest illegal aliens and then release them, something their supporters…

I mean, you didn't just overstate, you flat out just made it up. The opposite of "illegal alien" is not "citizen".

I had misremembered the claim as "70% of the people ICE arrests are criminals". The inverse of criminal cannot be someone here illegally.

Doesn't matter. I made a claim without double checking something I should have, or adding nuance or fleshing out my claim. I made a false claim.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by lrvick »

monerozcash wrote: post #298
lrvick wrote: post #292

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I have heard of malware like this, and engineers that found it at Google were instructed by higher ups to ignore it and never talk about it without explanation. Good luck getting anyone close to this to go on the record about it though given such things normally come with corporate or government gag orders. There are hundreds of privileged vendor binary blobs on most flagship devices not even Google gets source code…

I think this is broadly not true. Sure, the NSA can probably pull this off. Thing is, the NSA probably does not need to do this at immigration. I seriously doubt that this is a realistic problem if your threat model is anything less than "The NSA is very interested in me". In that case I don't see how you could trust any phone, regardless of it having been in the hands of border officials or not.

> I don't see how you could trust any phone

Correct, and I do not own one.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by fantasista74 »

Hi Peter! I am Russian and changed my status from B2 to O1 in 2021. In 2023, I traveled outside the USA. Following the interview at the U.S. Embassy, my O1 visa application was placed under 221(g) administrative processing for almost two years, until the approved petition expired. In 2025, my new O1 petition was approved by USCIS. I again had a visa interview at the U.S. Embassy, and my O1 visa application was placed again under administrative processing. After 3 months, I received an email from the U.S. Embassy informing me that I had been found ineligible for a visa under 214(b). Do you know what are the best solutions in this situation? I do not know the reasons for the denial, as during both interviews the consular officers asked only general questions, such as what I do (sports management), what kind of sports I work in, etc.
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