NIPNLG, Dec. 21, 2022 "This Practice Advisory will explain the different choices available for which circuit court should have venue over VTC removal hearings, and accordingly which circuit’s law applies. It will then discuss significant... Read More
EOIR, Aug. 11, 2022 "... This memorandum discusses internet-based hearings and sets out guidelines to apply to such hearings across the immigration courts going forward. ..." Read More
Limited-Scope Inspection and Review of Video Teleconference Use for Immigration Hearings "Results in Brief: We found that, while EOIR has generally improved and expanded its virtual hearing technology and capabilities, there continue to be important... Read More
Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, Sept. 8, 2020 "... Samuel had traversed 12 countries across three continents to get to his family in Boston. In Tijuana, within spitting distance of the US, he was forced to stop. While he waited, other migrants explained... Read More
Debbie Nathan, The Intercept, June 28, 2019 "A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION program that banishes asylum-seekers to perilous Mexican border cities could expand exponentially — and disastrously — with a new plan to hold mass video proceedings... Read More
Beth Fertig, WNYC, Apr. 18, 2019 "The trip from Federal Plaza to the intersection of Varick and Houston Streets can be done in less than 30 minutes when walking west and taking the uptown 1 train. But for the government’s immigration trial... Read More
Jessica Zhang, Andrew Patterson, Lawfareblog, March 5, 2019 "In the latest salvo in a long debate over the use of video teleconferencing (VTC) technology in immigration courts, several legal aid organizations filed a class-action lawsuit on Feb... Read More
Melissa del Bosque, The Intercept, Oct. 23, 2018 - "The National Border Patrol Council, the union representing Border Patrol agents across the country, is featured in a new video that includes white nationalists and anti-Muslim extremists. The video... Read More
Best Practices in Representing Asylum Seekers - "This video series, written and directed by Professor Michele Pistone, Villanova University, walks you through the preparation for an asylum case before the immigration courts. The video was made possible... Read More
"AILA Southern California Chair Heather Poole joins us to discuss due process violations happening as California accelerates master calendar notifications for unaccompanied children." - AILA, Aug. 5, 2014 . Read More
"To help with potential challenges to L-1 adjudications, AILA president Doug Stump asks that examples be sent to reports@aila.org." - AILA YouTube Quicktake, Oct. 9, 2013 . Read More
A 6-minute intro to the strict categorical analysis that determines whether a state (or other) conviction will have federal immigration consequences under United States immigration law. By Maureen A. Sweeney , University of Maryland Carey School of Law... Read More
EOIR writes: "The Practice Manual Committee has updated Chapter 4.15(o)(ii) (Video Testimony), page 74 , of the [Immigration Court] Practice Manual." Read More
Link to the video of the Sept. 3, 2014 oral argument here . Link to the amended complaint, filed Sept. 3, 2014, here . Read More
The full 30-minute video is now online here . "The Dream is Now is a new 30-minute documentary that's being made in real time, as this debate is unfolding, by Academy Award-winning director, Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for 'Superman', An... Read More