🧚🏽‍♀️NEVERNEVERLAND: Inane Immigration Agency Misinterpretation 🤯 Leads Conservative Judge To Fashion Fairytale Ending!👰🏽‍♀️ — U.S. Circuit Judge Frank Easterbrook👨🏻‍⚖️ With The Immigration Quote Of The Week!😎 — Cinderella Was The Answer!

Wicked Stepmother from Cinderella
W. Stepmother
Photo: Chris Alcoran
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From Arguijo v. USCIS, https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca7/20-1471/20-1471-2021-03-12.html?utm_source=summary-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-03-13-us-court-of-appeals-for-the-seventh-circuit-f8355cff23&utm_content=text-case-title-5

“Stepchild” is hardly a new word, without legal roots.  Nor is it new to common usage.  Does anyone think that Cinderella stopped being the wicked stepmother’s stepchild once Cinderella’s natural father died, ending the marriage? She was still a stepchild even after she married Prince Charming and moved to the palace.

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Thanks to my good friend, fellow blogger, and Round Table colleague “Sir Jeffrey” Chase ⚔️🛡for sending this in!

I never thought of Judge Easterbrook as being a particularly jocular jurist.😎 But, after working in immigration for awhile, I guess it comes down to either laughing 😆 or crying 😢 . And, I definitely see the benefit of the former.

Thanks, Judge Easterbrook for both getting it right and giving me new material for my Immigration Law & Policy class!

🇺🇸⚖️🗽😎Due Process Forever!