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TRAC, Sept 16, 2020 "TRAC will begin once again releasing asylum data received from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). After repeatedly uncovering issues in the quality of EOIR's data, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...

J.R. v. Barr "[W]e hold that substantial evidence does not support the BIA’s conclusion that the El Salvadoran government was both able and willing to control the Mara-18 gang whose members attacked JR and killed his son. ... Petition for...

Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News, Sept. 8, 2020 "The Trump administration is considering changing a pandemic-related border policy to no longer quickly return unaccompanied immigrant children to four countries that require them to test negative for...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/11/2020 "The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issues this final rule to amend the Foreign Quarantine Regulations administered by the Centers for Disease Control...

USCIS, Aug. 27, 2020 "Effective August 25, 2020, the Asylum Application, Interview, and Employment Authorization for Applicants Final Rule removed the exemption from discretion outlined in 8 CFR 274a.13(a)(1) for asylum applicants seeking employment...

A.B.-B. v. Morgan - Motion for Preliminary Injunction Granted ; CBP enjoined from conducting credible fear interviews.

Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, Aug. 28, 2020 "She was one of the most recognizable activists in Nicaragua, protesting a government that has jailed and killed its opponents. Her photo ran in national newspapers; one called her the “face of...

Aliyev v. Barr "We hold that the BIA abused its discretion by determining that a noncitizen who seeks to reopen an earlier application for relief and attaches that application to the motion has failed to attach the “appropriate application...

USCIS, Aug. 21, 2020 "NOTICE OF PROPOSED SETTLEMENT AND HEARING IN CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT INVOLVING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE FILED, OR WILL BE FILING, AN ASYLUM APPLICATION MORE THAN ONE YEAR AFTER ARRIVING IN THE UNITED STATES. MENDEZ ROJAS, ET...

USCIS, Aug. 21, 2020 Clarifying Procedures for Terminating Asylum Status in Relation to Consideration of an Application for Adjustment of Status "Asylum may be granted to those who meet the definition of a refugee and are physically present in...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Aug. 16, 2020 "In Akosung v. Barr , a young woman from Cameroon had been sentenced against her will to marry the village chieftain, or Fon , in order to settle a family debt. Not wishing to suffer this fate, she first hid locally...

Akosung v. Barr "Yvette Akosung fled her Cameroonian village after she was ordered to marry the village chieftain, known as the Fon. For more than a year, she lived in hiding, moving from place to place to avoid capture. The Fon’s envoys...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Aug. 13, 2020 "On July 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the BIA as to what constitutes past persecution. In Blanco v. Att’y Gen. , the asylum-seeker had been abducted by police in his native Honduras...

David Isaacson, Aug. 8, 2020 "On the heels of the prior proposed rule restricting asylum and withholding of removal that I commented on and blogged about , the Department of Homeland Security and Executive Office for Immigration Review have put...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Aug. 10, 2020 "On August 7, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dealt a blow to the Trump Administration’s attacks on domestic violence-based asylum claims. In Diaz-Reynoso v. Barr , the petitioner applied for...