Last week the @DOJ_EOIR quietly updated its list of "Myths vs. Fact." I haven't factchecked the new one, but it's much longer and at first glance appears to even more misleading than the previous one.

Also, EOIR uploaded the new one at the same URL as the prior one, which effectively removes the prior one from the internet. I've saved a copy of the old one here: https://t.co/w6aZoiilvh
The first one, which McHenry seems to have unilaterally issued in May 2019, was met with confusion and disbelief by others in the agency, including the union representing immigration judges. They have since been decertified, so https://t.co/1KcyQcePmO
A FOIA request for any email messages to the ACIJs (who manage the nation's immigration judges) giving guidance about the "Myths vs Fact" document turned up nothing. https://t.co/LxcaazT4rU
Retired Immigration Judges and former BIA members also spoke out in May, 2019 about how wildly inaccurate the document was. https://t.co/Yj9DnfYIdO
Later, a FOIA request for something else turned up these notes from a Senior OCIJ meeting confirming the Office of Chief Immigration Judge wasn't consulted and "did not support" the document. https://t.co/CgwDkYjfo1
I posted a fact-check of the prior version here, also showing the EOIR director McHenry himself had authored the document circulated afterward that tried to explain it. https://t.co/qXWxexFAmq
Lol at this snippet. This ignores that the OIG found quite the opposite re the appointment of, for example, current Deputy Chief Appellate Immigration Judge Garry Malphrus here: https://t.co/1ZYr8sffGG
I mean
This little update to the section on VTC makes it appear that in 2020 EOIR had quite an increase in hearings continued due to video malfunction. Compare 2019 to 2020:

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Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)

It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.

Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
The first ever world map was sketched thousands of years ago by Indian saint
“Ramanujacharya” who simply translated the following verse from Mahabharat and gave the world its real face

In Mahabharat,it is described how 'Maharishi Ved Vyasa' gave away his divine vision to Sanjay


Dhritarashtra's charioteer so that he could describe him the events of the upcoming war.

But, even before questions of war could begin, Dhritarashtra asked him to describe how the world looks like from space.

This is how he described the face of the world:

सुदर्शनं प्रवक्ष्यामि द्वीपं तु कुरुनन्दन। परिमण्डलो महाराज द्वीपोऽसौ चक्रसंस्थितः॥
यथा हि पुरुषः पश्येदादर्शे मुखमात्मनः। एवं सुदर्शनद्वीपो दृश्यते चन्द्रमण्डले॥ द्विरंशे पिप्पलस्तत्र द्विरंशे च शशो महान्।

—वेद व्यास, भीष्म पर्व, महाभारत


Meaning:-

हे कुरुनन्दन ! सुदर्शन नामक यह द्वीप चक्र की भाँति गोलाकार स्थित है, जैसे पुरुष दर्पण में अपना मुख देखता है, उसी प्रकार यह द्वीप चन्द्रमण्डल में दिखायी देता है। इसके दो अंशो मे पीपल और दो अंशो मे विशाल शश (खरगोश) दिखायी देता है।


Meaning: "Just like a man sees his face in the mirror, so does the Earth appears in the Universe. In the first part you see leaves of the Peepal Tree, and in the next part you see a Rabbit."

Based on this shloka, Saint Ramanujacharya sketched out the map, but the world laughed