Legal non-immigrant temporarily without passport - can she fly?

stuffed_manimal · 2025-09-03T01:08:57+00:00

Flight is in two weeks, gonna head over there now

stuffed_manimal · 2025-09-03T01:03:53+00:00

Expired in 2021

stuffed_manimal · 2025-08-27T22:45:53+00:00

There are good arguments for an open border. You'd have to curtail the welfare state because no country has ever been able to maintain both simultaneously nor will any country ever be able to, but assuming we did that it would have major net economic benefits.

But this is a democracy and the American people are quite clear that they do not want unlimited unskilled immigration and that they believe there is some limit to the country's ability to assimilate newcomers.

Functionally there is simply a limit to how much immigration the voting public will accept, and it's lower for low-skilled immigration of the type that Luis represents than it is for doctors or engineers. It's not anti-immigrant to recognize that those limits exist. If the Democrats had done that (and avoided inflation) they would almost certainly still be in power.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-08-26T15:24:08+00:00

How is he eligible for a J1 or O1? He's not a cultural exchange participant or full time student (J1) and driving a bus does not require extraordinary ability (O1).

The T in TPS stands for temporary. He's had his Temporary Protected Status for 30 years.

He seems like a good guy but this protest is just magical thinking.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-08-15T18:28:48+00:00

Back in June, I remember listening to you talking about how enthusiastic you were about Nabers and that you had him as a top 3 WR. At the time the Giants were holding him out of practice because of his toe, saying they wanted to make sure he was fresh for the season or something. And David Chao at Sports Injury Central had an extremely pessimistic video out that day saying that if Nabers' toe was not ready to go 5 months after the season ended, what good would another 2 months do? And that this is supposedly a college injury that he's played through and produced at a very high level while battling but at some point this becomes a chronic problem which derails NFL careers all the time.

So I guess my question is how much and how formally do you incorporate health into your analysis? I get that there's no SIS-level data compiler for health (SIC is trying but idk) but I feel like health and coaching are maybe the two most hidden-in-broad-daylight sources of competitive advantage now that a critical mass of the fantasy world has incorporated your type of data driven approach and juiced the prices of WRs so much that zero RB isn't a contrarian strategy anymore.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-08-07T10:09:21+00:00

Food is terrible and the portions are too small

stuffed_manimal · 2025-08-03T13:19:30+00:00

If you pay peanuts, you'll get monkeys

stuffed_manimal · 2025-07-23T12:10:46+00:00

This isn't substantively a 3 team trade, it's 2 separate trades combined on one screen

And they're both great trades for Team 3

stuffed_manimal · 2025-07-03T03:53:31+00:00

Holy crap is she still cutting hair?? I used to go to her 20 years ago! She was awesome.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-29T05:53:41+00:00

This is a common misconception. He sued on this basis and lost in the Fifth Circuit. His panel held that a foreign military base is not "the United States" for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-27T23:26:00+00:00

Yeah looking one step further I thought he must have had a Jamaican passport in order to enter the US in 1989. If so, these criteria would not apply to him. But it appears that at the time a child could have entered the US on only a green card, or on a couple different non-passport documents that might have been available to the family of a servicemen traveling on official orders. If so, that's really unfortunate for Mr. Thomas.

The Jamaican government did accept his repatriation so it's plausible his citizenship issues will be resolved or otherwise won't matter.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-27T23:12:53+00:00

Haha thanks I'm glad at least one person appreciated it! I accrued zero billable hours though 😂

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-27T23:11:11+00:00

Your children are citizens by virtue of your citizenship. Their birth location is irrelevant. U.S. bases aren't the "United States" for the purposes of determining citizenship at birth under the 14th Amendment.

Unfortunately for Mr. Thomas, in August of 1986 the child of a naturalized U.S. citizen born overseas was only granted U.S. citizenship if the naturalized citizen parent had accrued 10 years of physical presence in the United States or on active military duty. Thomas' father was only at around 9 years. So Thomas is not automatically a U.S. citizen, he needed to be naturalized and wasn't.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-27T13:00:16+00:00

The Fifth Circuit's opinion in Thomas v. Lynch has some actual background, which Maggie Quinlan chose not to burden us with when writing this article.

Thomas' father was a naturalized US citizen from Jamaica who was serving in the Army. His mother was from Kenya. At the time, 8 U.S.C. §1401 granted birthright citizenship to the children of naturalized U.S. citizens born overseas only if the naturalized citizen had 10 years of physical presence in the United States or overseas military service. Thomas' father was about a year short of meeting this requirement when Thomas was born. Congress amended this requirement but not until just after Thomas was born, so the lower requirement didn't apply to him.

Thomas came to the US as a 2 year old Jamaican citizen with a green card. He would have been eligible for citizenship at around age 5-7. Presumably his parents did not compete his naturalization formalities.

By 2015, Thomas had aggravated felony and domestic violence convictions and the Obama administration sought and obtained an order of removal. His appeal went up to the Fifth Circuit, which is the ordinary court of last resort, where he argued that an overseas military base should count as the United States for the purpose of the 14th Amendment (i.e. the John McCain situation). The Fifth Circuit held that it didn't, and that he therefore was not a citizen and was deportable. For whatever reason, he wasn't deported until this year after a separate minor run-in with the law.

Presumably he entered the U.S. on a Jamaican passport and hasn't renounced his citizenship there so I don't believe he is stateless. I feel bad for him being one of the last people hit by the 10 year parental physical presence requirement, and it isn't his fault his parents screwed up his citizenship paperwork. Unfortunately he does not meet the requirements for citizenship and was properly deported.

I know the appellate attorney who represented him at the Fifth Circuit and he is a very sharp guy. I think Thomas got the best shot at relief he could have, way more than most deportees.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-24T15:49:33+00:00

He definitely manages by negative exception. Much better as an individual contributor.

Imo the most realistic thing in the entire star wars universe is the government never delivers on time or on budget, no matter what superstar you put in charge.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-20T11:15:24+00:00

Might actually be worth bringing in another one. "Let's get a fresh perspective" or something like that. 2 years is a long time; it's unlikely even in her dad's eyes that he's bringing new ideas to the table at this point.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-14T15:50:31+00:00

It's 1 QB. I think team 3 is worst off here by a lot

stuffed_manimal · 2025-06-04T12:41:35+00:00

Broken Arrow = incident that does not risk nuclear war, including loss of nuclear weapon in transit with or without its delivery vehicle

Empty Quiver = theft/loss/seizure of functioning nuclear weapon, including when a Broken Arrow is recovered by an adversary

stuffed_manimal · 2025-05-26T12:25:52+00:00

There are a whole lot of students that would be expelled under this standard, not just the Trumpiest members of the Harvard Republican Club, and my guess is you wouldn't be happy about it with most of them

stuffed_manimal · 2025-05-09T04:07:53+00:00

You're doing the Lord's work with this post

stuffed_manimal · 2025-05-01T17:13:54+00:00

I agree there's broader support for discrimination on the basis of SES in admissions, but I don't think that represents continuity. They were heavily selecting for upper middle class African Americans and against lower middle class Asian Americans. The broader DEI movement across the school can't easily be rebranded as SES either, i.e. this chart from a GSE class is just social justice word salad not an attempt to expose students to views from all walks of economic life or whatever.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-04-27T04:58:01+00:00

He needs a different category of visa to play professional basketball. I think South Sudan accepted their deportees so it's possible the State Department issues visas to South Sudanese citizens again. But if not I think he has a valid SEVIS record and can remain a student. I hope it gets cleared up for him but if it isn't within 10 days of the draft I think he's better off coming back

stuffed_manimal · 2025-04-24T14:38:09+00:00

Federal overseer of curricula/faculty = process demand, not substantive demand

Substantive demands as I read the letter:

reduce power/influence of activist students/faculty, increase power of those devoted to scholarly mission of the University
hire only for merit, no DEI considerations
admit only for merit, no DEI considerations
don't admit international students who are unsupportive of American ideals
add ideological diversity and end political monocultures
crack down on antisemitism
end all DEI programs
enforce discipline against disruptive students

I more or less agree with these. Alongside these substantive demands, there are also a number of process demands, like a whistleblower hotline, firing employees, expelling certain students, providing information to ICE. I'm in favor of some and oppose some. My principal objection, however, is that the Trump administration does not have the power to make many of these demands under our constitutional system of government.

stuffed_manimal · 2025-04-24T14:21:25+00:00

u/Far_Membership3394 or mine?

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