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...
Hats off to Lisa Seifert, my friend and colleague from my Seattle days (1996-2001) for this remand on the issue of hardship by AIJ Sunita B. Mahtabfar.*
* "Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Sunita B. Mahtabfar as an Appellate Immigration Judge in August 2020. Judge Mahtabfar earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctorate in 1998 from Thurgood Marshall School of Law. From 2013 to 2020, she served as an Immigration Judge in the El Paso Immigration Court. From 2006 to 2013, she served as an attorney in the Office of the Assistant Chief Counsel, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in El Paso, Texas. From 2003 to 2006, she served as an asylum officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS, in Houston. Judge Mahtabfar is a member of the State Bar of Texas."