Trump DHS directs Citizenship & Immigration Services to make denials harsher

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Twitter thread by immigration lawyer Matt Cameron. Found thanks to a comment from Laurence Tribe, which I'll add after this.

Cameron's tweet starting the thread yesterday (not sure if this was posted here already; I didn't see it but could've missed it in the flood of news):

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BREAKING: Trump DHS has formally directed Citizenship and Immigration Services to remove all instances of "thank you" & "we regret to inform you" from denials of #immigration apps. Not the most important immigration news happening today, but just thought you'd like to know.


This minor cosmetic change (much like removing the phrase "nation of immigrants" from the @USCIS mission statement a couple of months ago) is being carried out for no other apparent purpose than making our nation less welcoming.


To be clear: this is *not a joke*


Remember also: in a remarkably anti-immigrant statement, @USCIS staff recently ordered to stop calling applicants for #immigration benefits "customers," & to see service as not toward immigrants whose cases they adjudicate but "for the American people." This stuff matters.

Laurence Tribe's comment this evening:

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This is worse than petty. It’s gratuitously disrespectful and cruel.

Exactly. And "gratuitously disrespectful and cruel" also describes Trump and his deplorable base perfectly.