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...
"Contrary to the Immigration Judge's finding (I.J. at 10-11), the fact that the respondent does not fear being subjected to female genital mutilation upon her return to Senegal is insufficient to rebut the presumption of future persecution. Rather, an asylum applicant who has suffered female genital mutilation on account of a protected characteristic is presumed to risk future persecution on the basis of that protected characteristic, regardless of whether any future harm will likely be identical in form to the harm previously suffered. See Matter of A-T-, 24 I&N Dec. 617 (A.G. 2008) (vacating in part Matter of A-T-, 24 I&N Dec. 296 (BIA 2007)). Consequently, the respondent established her eligibility for asylum." - Matter of X-, Dec. 12, 2013. [Hats off to Matthew L. Benson!]