Lapadat v. Bondi "As appellate judges, we generally defer to the reasoned and expert judgment of our colleagues in the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), whom we trust to carefully...
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NILC, Feb. 6, 2025 "In one of his first anti-immigrant Executive Orders (EOs), President Trump threatened to make undocumented immigrants “register” with the U.S. government or face...
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BIA, June 28, 2024
"The Board of Immigration Appeals welcomes interested members of the public to file amicus curiae briefs discussing the below issue(s): ISSUE(S) PRESENTED: What is the scope of the Immigration Judge’s duty to develop the record for a pro se respondent? See, e.g., Arteaga-Ramirez v. Barr, 954 F.3d 812 (5th Cir. 2020); Matter of J-F-F-, 23 I&N Dec. 912, 922 (A.G. 2006); Matter of S-M-J-, 21 I&N Dec. 722, 723-24, 28-29 (BIA 1997); see also Quintero v. Garland, 998 F.3d 612, 623-26 (4th Cir. 2021) (discussing possible sources of authority for such a duty). Is this duty affected by individual characteristics of the respondent, such as education level or language ability?"