Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated : “Our asylum laws exist to provide a safe haven in the United States to immigrants subject to persecution in their own countries for exercising freedoms fundamental to a democracy. As alleged, these defendants, including...
Matter of X-Q-L-, 27 I&N Dec. 704 (BIA 2019) Reopening of proceedings to terminate a grant of asylum is warranted if the Department of Homeland Security has demonstrated that evidence of fraud in the original proceeding was not previously available and is...
"To terminate a grant of asylum pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1208.24 (2013), the Department of Homeland Security must establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that (1) there was fraud in the alien’s asylum application and (2) the fraud was such that the alien...