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Photography

Silent Sunday Nov 12 2023

Black and white photo of an old chimpanzee, head down, hands clasped, sitting on a rope climb in the indoor chamber at the St. Louis zoo.
Old chimp in an enclosure
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Photography

Silent Sunday Oct 29 2023

Landscape scene featuring trees, palm and oak, and small garden buildings across a very calm lake. Foreground shows tall grasses. Sky is very blue, with puffy white clouds.
Georgia Coastal Botanical Gardens
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Immigration Legal, Laws, and Regs

US vs Abbott Amended Complaint

Drone photo of buoys as first deployed by Texas in Rio Grande
Buoys deployed by Texas in Rio Grande before adjustment to pull them into US waters

Pet case update time again. US vs Abbott The US has asked the court’s permission to file an amended complaint. I’ve attached a link to the redlined version showing the changes. I wondered why in the hell the US lawyers didn’t including the Mexican treaty in the original complaint. That should take priority over the […]

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Immigration Legal, Laws, and Regs

US vs Abbott and filing flurry

Aerial view of river and buoys showing them past the Mexico/US border
Court document showing the buoy placement relative to the Mexico/US border

A flurry of filings in my pet case, US v Abbott, related to Texas’ appeal. In the Texas brief, Abbott brags about all the arrests related to Operation Lone Star. Which means it’s a good time to also bring up the ProPublica piece that made mincemeat of these claims. The rest of Abbott’s filing is […]

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Immigration Legal, Laws, and Regs

US vs Abbott and preliminary hearing

Image of buoy system and line marking US and Mexico boundaries in Rio Grande River
Exhibit from court documents showing buoys and line marking US/Mexico boundaries

Re: my pet case, US vs Abbott The three panel Fifth circuit judges have scheduled a hearing for October 5th on the appeal of Judge Ezra’s preliminary injunction. In the meantime, the IBWC did another survey of the buoy locations after Texas did a middle of the night move on them once it was discovered […]