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EOIR, May 23, 2022 "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed Romy L. Lerner, William Mabry III, Cynthia M. Nunez, Curtis F. Pierce, and Michael P. Sady to their new positions. Biographical information follows: Romy L. Lerner, Immigration...

Matter of B-Z-R-, 28 I&N Dec. 563 (A.G. 2022) (1) Matter of G-G-S-, 26 I&N Dec. 339 (BIA 2014) , is overruled. (2) Immigration adjudicators may consider a respondent’s mental health in determining whether an individual, “having...

EOIR, Apr. 13, 2022 "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has appointed Beth Liebmann as a Member of EOIR’s Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). ... Judge Liebmann earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 from Brandeis University and a Juris Doctor...

EOIR, Mar. 25, 2022 "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appointed Roberto K. Amaya, Matthew S. Bohrer , Illya-Karina J. Bonet, Monique Carreras-Amadeo, Claudia R. Cubas, Kyle A. Dandelet, Ayodele A. Gansallo, Annette Gaul, Iman Ghasri, Matthew...

EOIR, Oct. 27, 2021 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced 24 new Immigration Judges, including four Assistant Chief Immigration Judges and two Unit Chief Immigration Judges. These 24 adjudicators join the newest member...

Hon. Paul W. Schmidt, Aug. 20, 2021 "TRAC IMMIGRATION just released the first statistical profile of the “Dedicated Asylum Docket” created by AG Garland and his subordinates without any coherent public explanation or plan in mind. Here...

USA v. Texas, July 30, 2021

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, July 29, 2021 "Dear Governor Abbott: I urge you to immediately rescind Executive Order GA 3 7, entitled Relating to the transportation of migrants during the COVID-19 disaster. The Order purports to mandate...

Matter of A-C-A-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 351 (A.G. 2021) (1) Matter of A-C-A-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 84 (A.G. 2020) (“A-C-A-A- I”), is vacated in its entirety. Immigration judges and the Board should no longer follow A-C-A-A- I in pending or future...

EOIR, July 16, 2021 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced 10 new Immigration Judges (IJs), including one Assistant Chief Immigration Judge (ACIJ). ACIJs are responsible for overseeing the operations of their assigned...

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- ...

Letter to DOJ on AB32, June 10, 2021 "As Members of Congress, we write to express our serious concerns regarding the United States Department of Justice’s continued pursuit of its legal challenge in GEO Group Inc. v. Newsom (Case No. 20-56172...

Letter, June 7, 2021 - Department of Justice Should Support the National Association of Immigration Judges and Withdraw the Petition to Decertify its Union "We, the undersigned unions, organizations, immigration law professors and scholars, and...

Round Table of Former Immigration Judges, May 25, 2021 "We, the Round Table of Former Immigration Judges, are a group of former Immigration Judges and appellate-level judges of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Relying on our combined centuries...

Letter dated May 19, 2021 "To Attorney General Garland and Deputy Attorney General Monaco: We, the undersigned immigration, civil rights, human rights, and democracy protection organizations, are deeply concerned that politically motivated personnel...