ICE Increased Enforcement: Advice for Immigrants & Elon Musk/Trump Feud

ICE Enforcement and Immigrant Rights

• ⚠️ ICE is reportedly aiming for a fivefold increase in daily detentions, targeting up to 3,000 individuals per day.
• 📌 For immigrants who have been in the U.S. for less than two years and are seeking asylum, attorneys advise objecting to any motion to dismiss proceedings by ICE and requesting at least 10 days to respond, as per the EOIR practice manual.
• 🚨 Failing to appear for immigration hearings will result in an absentia removal order, preventing any opportunity to pursue relief.
• ⚖️ ICE attorneys are recalendaring administratively closed cases, potentially leading to more in absentia removal orders for those who do not appear for newly scheduled hearings.
• 📞 Immigrants who had cases closed and no longer have an attorney should contact a new one or call the immigration court hotline at 1-800-898-7180 to check for future hearing dates.
• 📄 It is advised for immigrants, even citizens, to carry identification at all times due to the likelihood of racial profiling amid increased enforcement.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and SpaceX

• 🚀 A dispute between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has emerged, with Musk contemplating pulling SpaceX services from NASA's contract for the space station.
• 🗣️ Steve Bannon has been critical of Musk, suggesting that SpaceX should be seized by the U.S. government under the Defense Production Act, citing Musk's immigration status and alleged fraud.
• 💡 The argument is made that Musk's actions, such as with Starlink in Ukraine, demonstrate the risks of allowing billionaires to control programs with national security implications.
• 💰 There's a critique that allowing private individuals like Musk to control such technology, especially when it could be open-sourced, is problematic and benefits only the individual, not the public good.
• 🚫 The sentiment is expressed that no billionaire should exist due to their ability to wield power and create problems for the general population, suggesting nationalization of such critical infrastructure.