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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 aprilthird2021 »

tome wrote: post #242
dttze wrote: post #237

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Seats mean nothing. If there is a plurality and any kind of left movement there, what opposition have they given to the right? AFAICT, Yair's biggest criticism was that the war was managed poorly by Bibi. 80% of Israeli jews support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. People are arrested for saying the oppressed have a right to defend themselves. You see videos of IDF troops calling for the death of all Arabs while they ar…

Yes, that's my point. Any plausible Israeli government, left, right or centre, would have conducted the war in roughly the same way, including the historical left governments of Ben Gurion, Meir, Rabin, Peres or Barak. Thus attempts to paint Israel as "right wing" due to its conduct of the war are fallacious. I'm just pointing out that painting falsehoods about Israel and its people (as you have continued to do in yo…

Here's a fact about Israel. It is illegally annexing other countries' land right now with impunity.

Is there any country that does this that isn't authoritarian and right wing?

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

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

blindriver wrote: post #304
darksaints wrote: post #193

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Promoting a terrorist organization is legal and well within the boundaries of free speech. It's just not cool, not a good look, and should be shamed into submission. Providing material support to a terrorist organization is where it crosses into criminal territory.

You need to educate yourself. This is 100% incorrect. It might be legal for a citizen but not a permanent resident. Endorsing terrorism is a question asked on every Green Card and naturalization application, and will get your deported. Until you are a citizen you will lose your green card for endorsing terrorism.

So if a green card holder said "I can see why people support Hamas" should he be expelled? When does just talking about a situation turn into "endorsement" or "support"?

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Post by lazyasciiart »

groos wrote: post #268
mc32 wrote: post #11

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In cases such as mine, where I am no longer the citizen of any other country except the USA, what would revocation of naturalized citizenship mean?

In theory, I believe the US is signatory to international treaties that say they will not make someone stateless. In practice, it probably depends on whether they can get any other country to accept you as a deportee.

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

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Post by lazyasciiart »

impute wrote: post #178
darksaints wrote: post #140

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Could you show me where in those rules it says that you're not allowed to support Palestine? Or possibly somewhere in the rules where you forfeit your right to free speech?

Green card holders can have their GC stripped for committing crimes. If free speech becomes a crime then the GC is at risk. Note - I don't agree with it but I think this is the logic the current administration is using.

No, the administration is using a clause that allows the Secretary of State to designate a person as a threat to the country and strip their green card. They have explicitly said it is not based on any accusation of crime.

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Post by aprilthird2021 »

yes_really wrote: post #317
brendoelfrendo wrote: post #314

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One of them is Andy Ngo, and you're asking how they're "far right?"

The comment said "Zionists and other far right twitter accounts", which means at least 2 of the accounts are "far right". Can you explain how https://x.com/canarymission and https://x.com/CampusJewHate are "far right"? Those accounts document hatred against Jewish people in Columbia and other universities. How on Earth are these accounts "far right"? Can you link to at least one post from either of those accounts tha…

Because supporting Palestine isn't hating Jews and posting people mugshot style on a website as anti-Semites because they support the Palestinian people right to have a nation and to return to the homes they were kicked out of is far-right. The same way wanting the Ukrainians to be able to go back to Crimea and other Russian-annexed lands is not hatred of Russians. And if a website posted mugshot style bios of Ukraine-supporters in such a way, we'd all know they are far right.

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

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Post by lazyasciiart »

yes_really wrote: post #317
brendoelfrendo wrote: post #314

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One of them is Andy Ngo, and you're asking how they're "far right?"

The comment said "Zionists and other far right twitter accounts", which means at least 2 of the accounts are "far right". Can you explain how https://x.com/canarymission and https://x.com/CampusJewHate are "far right"? Those accounts document hatred against Jewish people in Columbia and other universities. How on Earth are these accounts "far right"? Can you link to at least one post from either of those accounts tha…

How about this one that says Dick Durban is supporting Hamas because he has advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil? Along with all the celebration of DHS arrests on campus and advocating to deport more students, calling Khalil and campus protests terrorism, and proclaiming that support for Palestine is a mastermind plot by Iran to destroy America? I could also accept a description as “extremists out in their own far-crazy that just happen to have identified the left as the enemy and the right as their friend”, but it’s gonna get shortened to “far-right”.

https://x.com/canarymission/status/1899487784454508681

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

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Post by lazyasciiart »

attentive wrote: post #354
abaymado wrote: post #55

If my asylum application gets denied, what options do I have? I came to the U.S. as a minor and have little to no memory of my original country. I applied for asylum in 2016 and have been waiting for an interview ever since. Given my pending status, are there any other pathways to obtaining a Green Card or legal residency that would allow me to travel? Edit Additional Question - Some of us like myself, came to the U.…

Historically, bona fide marriage with US citizen allowed the best way to legalize. I don't know if that changed recently.

It’s unreliable and recently ICE has deported people who are attempting to legalize their status. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/fiance-ma...

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/south-florida-ice-hsi-mig...

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

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Post by lazyasciiart »

Alupis wrote: post #255
worik wrote: post #235

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> There have been two dozen stories of random tourists being disappeared for no good reason from all over the US. Really? That is frightening. I plan to be a tourist in the USA within a decade. Can you expand on that?

It's BS. Random tourists aren't being "disappeared for no good reason". A "tourist" that overstayed by 2 years without applying for a Visa and/or started working here are being deported back to their home nation - in accordance with the law. There's a tremendous amount of scaremongering, fearmongering, and misinformation being thrown about currently. Majority of it is very much over stated hyperbole.

A British tourist has been in immigration detention for weeks after she was accused of “working for room and board” by doing some household chores while staying with a family in Portland.

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article301877574.h...

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

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Post by Gunnerhead »

asveikau wrote: post #358
jml78 wrote: post #296

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It is as bad as it has ever been……… But border patrol has always been a bunch of small dick assholes, all the way back to Obama. My wife and I adopted a child from another country. He was 18 months of age at the time. We flew into LAX. We were exhausted from a long flight. We got to customs. Agents approached us and said that they had a few questions and said that I (the father) needed to collect our bags and they wo…

> all the way back to Obama. I, a natural born US citizen, was a student in the Bush years and I'd drive up to Canada. Coming back, the US guys were always aggro and weird. I had one guy smelling my laundry. At the time I figured it was some post 9/11 BS.

Hope it wasn’t the underwear specifically.

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

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Post by int_19h »

Natsu wrote: post #192
darksaints wrote: post #140

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Could you show me where in those rules it says that you're not allowed to support Palestine? Or possibly somewhere in the rules where you forfeit your right to free speech?

On the I-485, which you file to get a GC, you have to answer several questions like this: > Do you intend to engage in any activity that could endanger the welfare, safety, or security of the United States? > NOTE: If you answered "Yes" to any part of Item Numbers 42.a. - 45., explain what you did, including the dates and location of the circumstances, or what you intend to do in the space provided in Part 14. Additi…

He'll get a hearing in immigration "court", an administrative court where the judge is on the payroll of the agency and very few rights you have in normal courts apply. Just to give one example, these are the same courts that have been putting 3-year-old children on trial without representation and calling that "due process".
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