Is Prosecutorial Experience Now a Disqualifier for Federal Immigration Jobs?
Topics: Immigration Courts
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.
Report Understates No-Show Rates in Immigration Court
Immigration lawyers' group uses skewed method to determine share of in absentia removals
Topics: Immigration Courts
BIA Decision Highlights Difficulty in Identifying Asylum Fraud
The 'wanted' flier from the 'Nageia Police Authority'; Nobody wants to be a sucker.
Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum
Some Misunderstanding About the Qualifications To Be an Immigration Judge
An uncool tweet
Topics: Immigration Courts
BIA Decision Shows Congress Needs to Revise the Grounds for Removal
A modest proposal: two misdemeanors or one felony, and you are removable
Topics: Immigration Courts
BIA Weighs in on Expert Testimony in Immigration Court
The interesting case of the Mexican national who fears harm from Iran — in Mexico
Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum
FLRA Decertifies Immigration Judges' Union
Not the first time this issue has been litigated, and likely not the last
Topics: Immigration Courts
One Last Point on In Absentia and Alien Fugitives
It isn't whether you will come to court, it's whether you will leave at the end — and nearly 600,000 haven't
Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum
Astounding Asylum Numbers in DOS Refugee Report for FY 2021
Almost 1.15 million aliens in the United States are seeking asylum — enough to make them the 43rd largest state
Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum
EOIR Clarifies Standard for Supporting Evidence in Asylum Cases
Also codifies in regulation IJ submissions to the record and cleans up a 'zombie regulation'
Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum