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NIJC, FWD.us, Aug. 3, 2021 "International asylum law first emerged following the Holocaust and other atrocities during World War II. The world bore witness to the genocide of millions at the hands of brutal dictatorships, while powerful nations...

White House, July 27, 2021 "... The Administration is working to improve the expedited removal process at the border to fairly and efficiently determine which individuals have legitimate claims for asylum and other forms of protection. Asylum and...

New Day Films "Soledad weaves live action and animation to tell the story of a woman from Central America who fled gang violence to seek asylum in the US. Soledad tells the story of a young woman from Central America who was imprisoned in the...

Daniel Braaten, Claire Nolasco Braaten, The Conversation, July 13, 2021 "The news over the past months has been saturated with stories about another “surge” of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border of the U.S. In March 2021...

Singh v. Garland "Daljinder Singh applied for asylum and protection under the Convention Against Torture, claiming that he feared persecution in India based on his membership in the Akali Dal Amritsar (“Mann Party”), a Sikh-dominated...

Corea Escoto v. Garland (unpub.) "Given the BIA’s repeated reliance on A-B-, briefing on the effect of A-B-’s overruling is necessary. We remand to the BIA to reconsider Corea’s asylum claim in the first instance, this time under...

Portillo Flores v. Garland "When he was 15 years old, Hernan Portillo-Flores (“Petitioner”), a resident of El Salvador, sought refuge in the United States. When Petitioner was living in El Salvador, El Pelón, a leader of the...

Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase, June 21, 2021 "On June 16, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally, mercifully vacated three decisions that formed a key part of the Trump administration’s unrelenting attack on the law of asylum.1 Matter of A-B- ...

Kaur v. Garland "This asylum case is about changed country circumstances, including changes in personal circumstances, which are entirely outside the applicant’s control. Ravinder Kaur, an Indian national, appeals the BIA’s decision...

Stef W. Kight, Axios, June 20, 2021 "The White House is considering ending — as early as July 31 — the use of a Trump-era public health order that's let U.S. border officials quickly turn back migrant families to Mexico, Axios has...

Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General, June 16, 2021 "The Civil Division's Office of Immigration Litigation is responsible for defending the decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals when they are challenged in the federal courts of...

Thamotar v. Atty. Gen. "Visavakumar Thamotar, a Sri Lankan citizen of Tamil ethnicity, seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming an Immigration Judge’s discretionary denial of his application...

Attorney General Decisions The Attorney General has issued a decision in Matter of A-B- , 28 I&N Dec. 307 (A.G. 2021). (1) Matter of A-B- , 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018) (“ A-B- I ”), and Matter of A-B- , 28 I&N Dec. 199 (A.G...

Randy Evans, June 16, 2021 "Zalmay Niazy, now in his 30s, is not just another of the countless foreign-born people who dream of living, working and raising families in the United States. He is a native of Afghanistan and served our nation during...

Gutierrez Acosta v. Garland (unpub.) "Gutierrez Acosta contends that the BIA erred in two respects. First, he challenges the BIA’s decision to give dispositive effect to the IJ’s finding that legitimate, non-political reasons could...