NIJC, Sept. 20, 2024 "The U.S. government spends over three billion a year on the largest immigration detention apparatus in the world to detain and deport people who have lived in the U.S. for...
Heritage Foundation v. DHS "In this Freedom of Information Act case, Plaintiffs seek the disclosure by the Department of Homeland Security of certain immigration records relating to the Duke of...
In pending litigation in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, USCIS Asylum Division Chief John L. Lafferty provided this sworn declaration dated July 26, 2024.
IRHTP, PLS, Sept. 2024 "Consistent complaints over the last twenty-five years reveal a disturbing pattern of systemic abuse and mistreatment of ICE detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility...
DHS, Sept. 24, 2024 "Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, in consultation with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, designated Qatar into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP)....
Letter from National Consortium of Immigration Practitioners- No Notice & Docket Reshuffling, Oct. 25, 2022
"We write this letter as a consortium of over 200 immigration practitioners from across thenation. We are private practitioners, professors, and non-profit advocates who togetherrepresent non-citizens in every state of the nation, the District of Columbia and PuertoRico. This consortium includes both American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)members and non-AILA members and has convened for the sole focus of the issuesoutlined in this letter. Signatories include individuals and organizations who are allies ofthis consortium.
For over a year and more recently, practitioners have experienced a lack of any notice andsufficient notice from the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) for individualcalendar hearings. The statute requires written notice. See INA § 240(c)(5)(A). This lackof notice has created hardship that falls heavily on respondents and their counsel, whooverwhelmingly carry the burden of proof in proceedings, and requires gathering andfiling detailed evidence prior to Individual hearings. ..."