Rodriguez-Molinero v. Lynch, Dec. 17, 2015 - "If the Mexican government could be expected to protect the petitioner from the Zetas should he be returned to Mexico, the risk that he would be tortured or killed might be too slight to entitle him to... Read More
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress, Sept. 15, 2016 - "In a tense exchange with attorneys defending Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s order to prevent Syrian refugees from resettling in his state, two federal judges sharply criticized the legal rationale... Read More
Gutierrez-Rostran v. Lynch, Jan. 13, 2016 - "The treatment by the immigration court and the Board of the cousin’s murder was too cursory to justify denial of Gutierrez-Rostran’s application for withholding of removal. ... Neither the... Read More
Salgado Gutierrez v. Lynch, Aug. 24, 2016 - "I write separately only to address a proposition in the immigration court’s opinion (and echoed I regret to say in opinions of this court) that seems to me palpably false, though not determinative... Read More
"The removal proceeding was thus cursory, indeed farcical. See Kerciku v. INS, 314 F.3d 913, 917–18 (7th Cir. 2003). Chavarria‐Reyes was given no opportunity to explain his employment history in the United States (he claims to have worked as... Read More
March 6, 2015 Hon. Richard A. Posner Room 2788F Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse 219 S. Dearborn Street Chicago, IL 60604 Re: Bouras v. Holder , No. 14-2179 (Mar. 4, 2015) Dear Judge Posner: You owe over thirteen thousand... Read More
"We complained in Zheng v. Holder, 666 F.3d 1064, 1068 (7th Cir. 2012), about the Board’s insouciant attitude toward evidence of forced sterilization in Fujian, an attitude illustrated by the Board’s opinion in this case. ... The Justice... Read More
"Our ground for setting aside that ruling is not that the administrative law judge erred in finding that Lopez‐Esparza had failed to carry his burden of proof, but that the judge applied the wrong standard—the standard, of his invention, that... Read More
Arej v. Sessions, Mar. 28, 2017 - "The population of the Republic of the Sudan is almost entirely Muslim, whereas most of the population of the Republic of South Sudan practices Christianity or African traditional religion. The religious difference... Read More
"Renato DeBartolo, 48 years old, immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of one, but unlike most of his family never got around to applying for U.S. citizenship. He is married to an American citizen, however, and his seven or ten... Read More
Sanchez v. Sessions, May 24, 2017 - "Given the irreparable harm that Sanchez’s removal could inflict on his minor U.S.‐citizen children, we have decided to stay the order of removal until we rule on his petition for review of the decision of... Read More
Velasquez-Banegas v. Lynch - "Suppose a person if removed to his country of origin would be sure to be persecuted unless, by living in a cave, he avoided all contact with other persons. The next step would be to rule that no one can have a real fear... Read More
Mendoza-Sanchez v. Lynch, Dec. 23 2015 - "We explained in Rodriguez-Molinero that if the Mexican government could be expected to protect the petitioner from the drug cartel that wanted to kill him, if he were returned to Mexico, the risk that he... Read More
"The majority opinion upholds the denial of relief to Ray Fuller, a Jamaican citizen who seeks relief against removal to Jamaica. His ground for relief is that in Jamaica he would face a likelihood of persecution and torture because he is bisexual... Read More
"The Justice Department insists that the only change was in the petitioner’s personal conditions. That is wrong. It ignores the change in country conditions. In arguing that reopening was barred because the only change was in personal conditions... Read More