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DHS, May 16, 2024 "Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced a new Recent Arrivals (RA) Docket process to more expeditiously resolve immigration cases of certain noncitizen single adults...

Hon. Dana Leigh Marks, Mar. 12, 2024 How Low Will They Go? - An Outraged Retired IJ Speaks (Because She Can) "Earlier this month, bucking over 50 years of precedent, immigration court management advised the officers of National Association of...

Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, Mar. 4, 2024 "A 53-year-old union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak publicly to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged...

TRAC, Jan. 24, 2024 "There is widespread agreement that the Immigration Court has far too few judges and support staff to handle newly arriving cases let alone process their backlog of cases which has been piling up for decades. While 1,490,480...

EOIR, Oct. 17, 2023 "SUMMARY: The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) invites immigration law school clinical communities and pro bono organizations to attend a national stakeholder meeting for an open discussion on how to increase pro...

MPI, July 20, 2023 By Muzaffar Chishti, Doris Meissner, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Kathleen Bush-Joseph and Christopher Levesque "With a backlog of nearly 2 million cases, the U.S. immigration court system is in crisis. Many cases now take years to...

MPI "When: Thursday, July 20, 2023 11:00 a.m. EDT (New York, DC) / 10:00 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9 a.m. MDT (Boise) / 8 a.m. PDT (Seattle) Speakers: Jojo Annobil , Executive Director, Immigrant Justice Corps Muzaffar...

EOIR, Apr. 12, 2023 "SUMMARY: The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) will host six listening sessions to facilitate conversations with law school clinical communities nationwide about creating best practices for practical and clinical...

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 the nation. We are private practitioners, professors...

Jason Dzubow, Sept. 21, 2022 "It is not easy to convey the magnitude of the ongoing disaster at EOIR, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the office that oversees our nation’s Immigration Courts. Simply stated, the agency is rescheduling...

Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law, May 25, 2022 "A report released today reveals gross miscarriages of justice in the expedited immigration court docket established by the Biden administration...

Muzaffar Chishti and Julia Gelatt, MPI, Feb. 23, 2022 "The Biden administration is seeking to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, expanding protections to hundreds of thousands of immigrants and embarking on a plan to restructure the asylum process...

Oct. 15, 2021 - FOIA Sensei Matthew Hoppock blows the lid off this story.  How will EOIR respond?  Will litigation ensue?  Will the MSM dig deeper?  Please read the whole thing, and stay tuned! EOIR Headquarters Using Rubber Signature Stamps to Make...

GAO, Aug. 31, 2021 - COVID-19: Improvements Needed in Guidance and Stakeholder Engagement for Immigration Courts "The Department of Justice's (DOJ) Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) took steps to modify immigration court operations...

Hon. Paul W. Schmidt, Aug. 20, 2021 "TRAC IMMIGRATION just released the first statistical profile of the “Dedicated Asylum Docket” created by AG Garland and his subordinates without any coherent public explanation or plan in mind. Here they are...

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Dec. 8, 2020 "“It seems the Immigration Court could be ordering children removed from the United States for failure to comply with orders that are unjustifiable and, in many cases, inapplicable to the child...

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Dec. 8, 2020 "“It seems the Immigration Court could be ordering children removed from the United States for failure to comply with orders that are unjustifiable and, in many cases, inapplicable to the child...

Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle, Dec. 4, 2020 "Eighteen youths, including an 11-year-old, are facing expedited removal proceedings in which Houston-area immigration judges ordered them to hand over complicated documentation on short notice Friday...

TRAC, Nov. 24, 2020 "Fiscal Year 2021 began with the largest number of Immigration Court cases in its active backlog to date: in October, 1,273,885 immigration cases were pending before the courts. Most of the pending cases—918,673 or 72 percent...

AILA, AIC, Oct. 30, 2020 "Immigration groups  filed a lawsuit today  in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)—which oversees immigration courts—and the General Services...

Read this letter dated Mar. 23, 2020 from the Association of Deportation Defense Attorneys to EOIR administrators in New York City.

NAIJ, AFGE Local 511, AILA, Mar. 15, 2020 "The National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 511 (the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Professionals Union), and the American...

Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar. 2, 2020 "Philadelphia immigration Judge Charles Honeyman had intended to work a few more years after turning 70, but grew disappointed with what he saw as Trump administration pressures on the courts.  Among his concerns...

Gus Bova, Texas Observer, Sept. 24, 2019 "In Laredo and Brownsville, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken the unusual step of building tent court facilities alongside the ports of entry. There, members of the press and public are...

Adolfo Flores, BuzzFeed News, Sept. 11, 2019 "Tent border courts for asylum-seekers forced to return to Mexico under a Trump administration policy have opened for hearings Wednesday in Laredo, Texas — but few got to see inside as the public, including...