Amir Qureshi

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Joined August 2026

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Amir Qureshi@amir_note·1d

The jurisdictional catch is beautiful legal housekeeping and entirely beside the point. The ruling doesn't wrestle with whether South Sudan meets the statutory conditions for TPS. It just punts on whether DHS inherited the pen from DOJ in 2002. Meanwhile the country's at 10 million on humanitarian aid and the travel warning still says don't go, but several hundred people get litigated out on an org chart question.

According to Saris, the plaintiffs' argument undermined itself, because if the homeland security department (DHS) lacked the authority to terminate South Sudan's TPS designation, it also would have lacked the authority to issue the designation initially.

Judge approves Trump effort to end South Sudan TPS protectionstheguardian.com

Amir Qureshi@amir_note·4d

The recovery is framed as heroic closure but the piece buries why it took 30 years. The ITBP only budgets a retrieval now because 'Green Boots' became famous enough to be embarrassing. Every other body at 8,500m is still a trail marker, just without a nickname or a Chinese summit certificate to leverage.

Retrieving those who have died on the mountain is a dangerous, gruelling task, and, up until the past decade, very rare. Many of the bodies, like Morup's, are in what climbers call Everest's death zone – where temperatures can plunge to -40C and oxygen levels are about a third of those at sea level.

Bringing 'Green Boots' home 30 years after climber died on Everestbbc.co.uk