EOIR, Aug. 19, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced it has opened a training facility in Los Angeles, which will serve EOIR stakeholders, as well as agency adjudicators and staff. EOIR recognizes the immense value of legal...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 08/20/2024 "This notice announces the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) implementation of the Keeping Families Together process for certain noncitizen spouses and stepchildren...
Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, Aug. 15, 2024 "Chicago’s top migrant official is walking back a prediction from city leaders last month that tens of thousands of migrants would arrive by bus ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention...
Adam Rosen writes: "I am excited to share a decision from DDC Judge AliKhan denying the government’s Motion to Dismiss a complaint challenging a 6C finding secretly made by DHS against my client but that she only learned of when the Mumbai Consulate...
W. John Yahya Vandenberg writes: "We just got this remand decision for a detained case in Houston (IJ McPhail), and thought it might be of interest to your readers. The Board clearly was not happy with the manner in which the judge conducted the hearing, and...
ABA Journal, Aug. 1, 2024 "Immigrants coming to the U.S. face legal uncertainties along with difficult living conditions and the pain of family separations. Yet a hope that opportunities will outweigh the travails is strong with many new arrivals. That's...
Jorge Loweree, Aug. 14, 2024 (free link) "[T]he reality that is all too clear to immigrants navigating our byzantine system, and the lawyers and advocates who try to help them, is that there is no line to get into for a vast majority of people who wish to...
Cornell Law "Cornell Law School is seeking to hire a staff attorney to collaborate with and contribute to Path2Papers , a new deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) project at Cornell Law School. The selected candidate will consult with DACA beneficiaries...
Monique O. Madan, The Markup, Aug. 10, 2024 "The thing that can be unsettling is that there are so many ways that you are probably being watched. You’re aware that you’re being watched, but you can’t see it with your eyes. But you have...
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Caitlin Dickerson has these two pieces (free links) in The Atlantic: Seventy Miles in the Darién Gap - "I went to the Darién Gap in December with the photographer Lynsey Addario because I wanted to see for myself...