Immigration Courts | Center for Immigration Studies

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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Everything that Is Wrong with Immigration Proceedings in One Case

Why are there backlogs? Five-plus years and counting for an alien ineligible for relief

Topics: Immigration Courts

New EOIR Regulations Allow Director to Adjudicate Cases

Also limit general counsel's authority and give power to the Office of Policy

Topics: Immigration Courts

Justice Department Files to Dissolve Immigration Judges' Union

Why were they permitted to unionize in the first place?

Topics: Immigration Courts

Attorney General Sets Standards for 'Family' as a 'Particular Social Group'

And reiterates his authority to interpret immigration laws

Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum

Administration Expands Expedited Removal

Will better allow for use of limited immigration-enforcement and judicial resources

Topics: Immigration Courts

The Ninth Circuit Substitutes the Word "Plausible" for "Reasonable Probability" to Give a Convicted Child Molester a Chance to Avoid Deportation

Topics: Immigration Courts

Expedited Removal Finally to be Applied as Intended

Topics: Immigration Courts

On the Notion of Article I Immigration Courts

Topics: Immigration Courts

Immigration Myths vs. Facts vs. 'The Round Table'

Dueling claims about the work of immigration judges

Topics: Immigration Courts

Closing the Loop on 'Defective NTAs'

Further explaining the importance of Ortiz-Santiago

Topics: Immigration Courts, Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Policy