Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, Jan. 24, 2025 "In retaliation for revealing misconduct by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the private prison industry, ICE in recent years often disregards...
USA v. Iowa "Iowa, in Senate File 2340, criminalized the presence within its boundaries of aliens who illegally reentered the United States. Aliens violating the Act are ordered to return to the...
DHS, Jan. 23, 2025 "I further find that an actual or imminent mass influx of aliens is arriving at the southern border of the United States and presents urgent circumstances requiring an immediate...
DHS, Jan. 23, 2025 "(1) For any alien DHS is aware of who is amenable to expedited removal but to whom expedited removal has not been applied: a. Take all steps necessary to review the alien's...
DHS, Jan. 23, 2025 "Today, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman issued a directive essential to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations...
"[T]he Attorney General formulated a new definition of the persecutor bar based on Mr. Haddam’s case. Under the new rule, an individual who is the leader of a political group that has ties with an armed group is denied withholding if there exists “evidence indicating that the leader was instrumental in creating and sustaining . . . ties between the political movement and the armed group and was aware of the atrocities committed by the armed group.” Matter of A-H-, 23 I. & N. Dec. at 785. Appellant now challenges the permissibility of the Attorney General’s interpretation of the INA and formulation of the persecutor bar inquiry. ... We conclude that the Attorney General’s new test is not a permissible construction of the INA under step two of Chevron." - Haddam v. Holder, Dec. 4, 2013, unpublished. [Hats way off to Malea Kiblan, Susan Akram, and many others!]