He has a three-month-old daughter. He has a U.S. citizen fiancé. He's got everything to stay here, and he can't get out on bond because an immigration judge decided to go along with something they made up literally last week.

Boy, Matt, it's almost like they've step-by-step undermined all the protections for a certain group of people in a real premeditated way.

And we've covered every step of the way.

And yet still, it's shocking.

And here we are.

And here we are.

And having to see a whole docket full of people suffer and having to tell my client this bond that we've been preparing for for weeks, I can't even do it.

Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1174. I'm Thomas Smith.

Out of there is real life immigration attorney Matt Cameron. How are you doing, Matt? I've been

drinking. Not, you know, today, but I started having some drinks after work in a way that I don't usually.

For reasons I'm going to be talking about. Yeah. Nothing to worry about. I'm okay. I'm not really, I've never been much of a drinker anyway. But ever so often, government makes you want to drink. That's just not work sometimes. I get it. This is one of those situations where as a practitioner, I can come in and tell you about something that has not really hit the news in a way that anybody understands yet.

And I'm going to tell you...

Oh, wow. This is one of those situations where as a practitioner, I can come in and tell you about something that has not really hit the news in a way that anybody understands yet. And I'm going to tell you some, unfortunately, some pretty bad news. And I'm not going to say that it's not bad news. And it ties into some of the things we've been talking about. I think that people deserve to hear it for me about what's going on and how I've seen it play out already in immigration court and how this plays into the mass

deportation and the big bill that was just signed. Well, those who listen to the show know that

Matt, this is not normal for Matt. So if there's anybody new, normally Matt's got the, got the,

I don't know, I wouldn't say spin or anything, but you normally you're optimistic more and you're

positive about what's going on. So this is ominous. I'm really worried about this. I think if there's any new listeners, maybe won't understand quite how big of a difference this is from your normal demeanor. I mean, I jumped on substack. I couldn't even bring myself to write about it the day that I realized a couple days ago when this was really good getting bad. And I was angry. You actually get to see a clip of me being angry, which is not that different from the way I'm talking right now. But I felt shaking with rage, furious and livid. Wow. I've never heard of you not being able to write. You write like you breathe. I can't imagine. I didn't have time. I mean, it was literally just, I had 10 minutes for lunch, and I'm like, I'm going to eat lunch and eat my frozen Amy's pad tie meal and rant into a microphone for 10 minutes, which is a good use of subject, it turns out. Yep. So now I get to rant into a microphone for much longer than that with citations. So I'm going to go deep a little bit and explain some important concepts of immigration law that people need to know to understand just how bad this is. I don't think you're going to hear this anywhere else, so I'm happy to bring it. And then we've got some much better news from Central California that I do want to talk about. Matt's making an effort to give us some good news and also, I'm sure we must have a delightful footnote, right? Do we have something? It's a good news footnote. I don't know if it's delightful, but it is good news. Unqualified. I'll take it. You know, Matt, we'll take it.

All right. sure we have a must have a delightful footnote right do we have something it's a good news footnote I don't know it's delightful but it is good news unqualified I'll take it you know Matt I'll take it sold promise I'm not gonna haggle let's hold on you'll make it we can do this all right

well yeah we better get to it sounds like there's a lot to talk about so we'll take this break

which patrons can avoid at patreon.com slash law. And we'll get to

whatever has Matt drinking. Okay, well, I'm in the dark here. What's going on, Matt?

I'll tell you, this was actually our top patron request this week. Patrons are plugged in,

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