Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is VAPid Responsive Wednesday, and yes, we are, we are down someone.

So Lydia is unavailable today. We're actually going to skip, but then Matt, real-life attorney,

Matt Cameron, you had something really important that you wanted to talk about. So I'm Thomas,

and that over there is real-life attorney, Matt Cameron. How are you doing today?

Reporting to you live from the smoking ruins of the U.S. immigration system, apparently.

It's not that bad, but it's...

Still smoking after all this time? Since Friday, we're recording on Tuesday. Yeah, no, it's... People are acting like a fertilizer bomb went off against one of the major pillars of the immigration system, which... That's not totally wrong. I mean, it's pretty bad, but I'm going to talk about what this thing is and what it isn't and how the media has gotten it wrong because it's complicated and it's more than you can explain in a 30 second TikTok thing. What is it? Yes, that's important. U.S.C.I has announced a major policy change as to what's called adjustment of status. And this is actually a great follow-up to last week's show where we talked about the history of how people process visas.

And so we'll get into the difference about adjustment of status versus consular processing,

why this matters.

But the very short version is that this announcement made it look like and made it sound like

they will not be granting grade cards to anybody inside the United States forever.

And that's not what's going to happen.

And I want to show you why, just by breaking down this actual memo and kind of show you why I think

the media is doing some of the Trump administration's work for it, not for the first time.

Wow. So not being covered well. Okay, it is important to get that breakdown so we know what's actually

happening. And I know you always talk about, you know, not causing fear unnecessarily for a population

of people that doesn't need to be more scared, actually. No, they don't. And judging by the calls

and emails we've been getting from in our office, you know, people are very concerned. And

including a lot of people, once again, that have no reason to be. But certainly there are other reasons to be concerned, and I'll get into that about who actually is affected by this and who isn't. But, yeah, I think it's really important to get it straight. And I'm concerned whenever these things happen, because now the default source of news is viral video, 30 seconds, and you can't tell these stories in that time. You just can't.

Yeah, and we aren't viral.

We're over here.

We're inoculated from being viral.

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