US immigration law is a funny thing.

On the one hand, you have loopholes that allow for some genuinely parasitic and conniving behavior to be rewarded with citizenship or at least the ability to remain in the country and receive social services, often at significant cost to those paying for said services.

On the other hand, there are also some particularly nasty thorns that make life hard on those who might want to do things the legal way and become naturalized citizens, which is, I'm told, far more frustrating than it already was now that everyone who wasn't born in bumfucksville Nebraska is planning to blow us all up until proven innocent.

To hone this all into less-than-meaningless rambling: it's good to see someone tackling the latter issue, now we just need some work on altering the laws such that the latter -and- the former are properly addressed and resolved, or at least triaged.

Forgive the half-on-topic nature of the criticism, but it seems that reports on things like this are growing ever more filled with vitriolic commentary.

While this is perfectly fair, and well deserved, it does feel like it might make it easy for someone new to the blog, or any number of other people, to misidentify the editors' positions as skewed by bias and therefore not give enough weight to what you're really trying to bring attention to or what you have to say.

It's great to see you help call public attention to this sort of thing, but I always kind of wince when I see the bile-esque ire bubble forth in the post. Yes, it's understandable to feel outrage, and to show it, but it seems like the hardest hitting news is always that which is put forth as credibly unbiased, left to the reader to stand on its own, as-is. That makes it a lot harder for someone to kind of skim what they're reading, see the strong language and scathing rhetoric, and assume it's a biased opinion or otherwise dismiss it offhand. The emotion draws attention unduly away from the facts.

To use an analogy: hyperbole and emphatic opinions are great for stirring up the troops, but a simple, humble offering of facts seems best for finding new recruits. That's what we need, for more people to see the facts, think "hey, that isn't right", and join in the attempts to make things sane again.

It's slightly amusing that this is the most attention I've ever paid to a blog posts' comments.

After reading the whole response and noting his logic about it harming future attempts at bullying were they to take him to court and get smacked down, I do really hope they take him to court and get smacked down.

I hope this encourages people to remember that extortion by proxy of a legal team is still extortion and shouldn't be allowed to intimidate them.