Immigration Courts

Backlogs affect the immigration courts themselves. It is difficult as a judge to fairly adjudicate a case that is subject to multiple continuances over a period of years.

- Andrew R. Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy

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Immigration Court Backlog Falls Below 3.5 Million

As ‘no-show’ orders soar — for every ‘asylum seeker’ granted protection, 12 others filed an application and then failed to appear for their hearings through the end of June

Topics: Immigration Courts

DOJ: Fifth Circuit ‘Rules Illegal Aliens Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Roam Free’

Did four immigration judges in Tacoma know they would trigger a legal firestorm and likely SCOTUS review?

Topics: Immigration Courts, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

A Bad Time to Be a Bad Immigration Lawyer

BIA cracks down even harder on ‘ineffective assistance of counsel’ claims

Topics: Immigration Courts

Immigration Courts and Judges: Understanding the System Behind America's Immigration Crisis

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 263

Parsing Immigration Policy

Topics: Immigration Courts

DOJ: Immigration Court Asylum Grants Plummet

Credit policy changes under Trump II and blame a lack of initial screening under Biden

Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum

BIA States the Obvious: Admitting You Lied in the Past Doesn’t Make You Credible Today

Appellate board gives a quick tutorial on how IJs should make credibility determinations — and how not to.

Topics: Immigration Courts, Visa Fraud, Asylum

California Federal Judge Bars ICE from Immigration Court Arrests

Except the INA requires immigration enforcement in immigration court

Topics: Immigration Courts, California, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Federal Judge Vacates Biden Administration ‘Quiet Amnesty’ Rule

The average time a removal case is ‘administratively closed’ is 18 years, but the clock has now restarted on all of them

Topics: Biden Border Crisis, Immigration Courts, Amnesty and Comprehensive Immigration Reform

BIA: Consider Aliens’ Crimes, Not Just their Convictions, in Exercising the AG’s Discretion

A brief history of statutory largesse and statutory complexities

Topics: Immigration Courts, Criminal Aliens

SCOTUS’s ‘Immigration Judge’ Opinion Has Little to Do with Immigration

Except to the degree it does: ‘Federal courts are not “roving commissions,” licensed to “sally forth each day looking for wrongs to right.”’

Topics: Immigration Courts, Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy