Human Rights Watch, Sept. 18, 2024 "Dear President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary Blinken, We, the undersigned human rights, humanitarian, civil society , and faith-based organizations...
EOIR, Sept. 16, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) invites interested stakeholders to participate in its live Model Hearing Program (MHP) event on Sept. 30, 2024. The event...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Sept. 16, 2024 "This past week, Trump and J.D. Vance have gone viral for some particularly bizarre rhetoric, alleging that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio...
EOIR "Open & closing dates: 09/13/2024 to 10/04/2024 Salary: $147,649 - $221,900 per year The Justice Access Counsel is responsible for the collections and analysis of stakeholder feedback...
EOIR, Sept. 13, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today launched its Language Access Plan . Pursuant to Executive Order No. 13166, Improving Language Access to Services for...
Jenna Krajeski, The New Yorker, June 12, 2019
"[I]n June, 2018, the Board of Immigration Appeals, which reviews rulings made in immigration court, issued a two-to-one decision denying Ana’s most recent request to stay in the U.S. The judges, considering Ana’s captivity, decided that, because she had worked for the guerrillas, even under duress, she was not their victim but functionally a member of their group. “While the respondent’s assistance may have been relatively minimal, if she had not provided the cooking and cleaning services she was forced to perform, another person would have needed to do so,” they wrote, in an opinion called Matter of A–C–M–. Ana was ineligible for asylum, under a law called the material-support statute, because she had aided terrorists."
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