CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER, AL OTRO LADO and TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT v. CBP "This is an action seeking to compel U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”), a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 05/13/2024 Application of Certain Mandatory Bars in Fear Screenings "DHS proposes to allow asylum officers (“AOs”) to consider the potential applicability of certain bars...
HRW, May 1, 2024 "The administrations of US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are forcing thousands of people seeking asylum in the US to wait for months in Mexico, exposing them to danger, Human Rights Watch...
Rangel-Fuentes v. Garland "Cristina Rangel-Fuentes petitions for review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), arguing that under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1)(D), the age of a qualifying child for the purposes of the...
Arizona v. Garland "This is a challenge by 19 states to an administrative action of the Executive Branch establishing a new procedure for adjudicating asylum applications under federal immigration law. The new process – set forth in an Interim Final...
Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Apr. 16, 2024 "Spoiler alert: No, he can't. But he'll probably issue an executive order anyway. The Border Chronicle spoke with immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration...
Miami Law Staff, Apr. 2, 2024 "The University of Miami School of Law Immigration Clinic halted the deportation of a Haitian woman by demonstrating to an immigration judge the substantial risk of torture she faces upon return to Haiti. Amelia Anderson and...
Khalil v. Garland "We grant the petition for review in part, vacate the decision of the BIA as to Khalil's asylum claim premised on mixed-motive persecution and as to his CAT claim, and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion."...
Singh v. Garland "Singh experienced multiple physical attacks and death threats over an eight-month period, from November of 2014 to June of 2015. No reasonable factfinder would conclude that Singh did not experience serious harm rising to the level of persecution...
Ferreira v. Garland "Pamlar Ferreira petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") upholding the denial of her application for withholding of removal. Ferreira requests that we remand the case so that the BIA may...
Vasquez-Rivera v. Garland "Here, the BIA attributed analysis to the IJ that the IJ never undertook. Finding that none of Vasquez-Rivera’s proposed social groups were cognizable, the IJ concluded that her asylum claims failed. With respect to Vasquez...
Touro Law, March 2024 "PHOTO CAPTION: Touro Law students Pierre Piazza (left) and Laraib Sarwar (right) pose with their client in the Immigration Rights Advocacy Clinic at Touro Law Center. Touro Law’s Immigration Clinic Secures Hard-Earned Victory...
Berhe v. Garland "Berhe asserted that the Eritrean military detained and beat him because he complained about conditions during his mandatory military service and because of his perceived anti-government political opinion. The agency’s adverse credibility...
Gao v. Garland "The IJ’s conclusion that Gao failed to meet her burden of proof is based on the lack of sufficient corroborating evidence. As mentioned above, where, as here, the petitioner’s testimony is deemed credible, but the IJ finds that...
Elmer Rivas, Confidencial, Feb. 25, 2024 "Journalist Joselin Montes, originally from Chinandega, was released on Friday, February 23 in the United States after an immigration judge rejected the authorities’ request to deport her and send her back to...