Pace University, July 19, 2024 "Professor Merton began her legal education career at New York University School of Law, and was a founding faculty member of CUNY Law School, and a Mellon and National...
DHS, July 19, 2024 "Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today announced the extension and redesignation of Somalia for Temporary Protected Status for 18 months, from September 18...
USCIS, July 18, 2024 "The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides that U.S. citizens may transmit citizenship to their children born outside of the United States in certain circumstances...
Paye v. Garland "The BIA and IJ (collectively, "the agency") did not address whether Paye's escape from Liberia because of systematic ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Krahn people...
We are still waiting for the official Federal Register notice, but on July 17, 2024 the White House issued a Fact Sheet including this statement: "On June 18th, the President announced a new process...
Cazahuatl Torres v. Garland (unpub.)
"Because the agency “ignor[ed] a significant aspect of [Cazahuatl Torres’s] testimony . . . we are unable adequately to consider whether substantial evidence” in this case supports the BIA’s determination that Cazahuatl Torres failed to demonstrate a well-founded fear of future persecution. ... Accordingly, we remand to the agency to consider this testimony in the first instance. On remand, the BIA may also consider whether Cazahuatl Torres has established membership in a particular social group or established that the government would be unwilling or unable to protect him for purposes of his withholding of removal claim, or whether Cazahuatl Torres has demonstrated government acquiescence as to his CAT claim. For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is GRANTED, the BIA’s decision is VACATED, and the case is REMANDED for further proceedings consistent with this order."
[Hats off to David A. Hoffman, W. Logan Lewis and Juan Cristobal Quevedo!]