Miliyon Ethiopis, July 8, 2024 "I feel like I have been born again, after a U.S. immigration court made a remarkable ruling in my “statelessness” case in June . I hope that my case will have significant, broader implications for other stateless...
DHS, May 16, 2024 "Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced a new Recent Arrivals (RA) Docket process to more expeditiously resolve immigration cases of certain noncitizen single adults who attempt...
Rafael Bernal, The Hill, Apr. 22, 2024 "A coalition of more than 100 civil rights and immigrant rights groups are calling on Congress to fund legal representation for foreign nationals in immigrant detention. In a letter to the top appropriators in the House...
Anna-Catherine Brigida, Houston Landing, Apr. 12, 2024 "When Blanca, 49, found out her immigration court case was thrown out, she let out a sigh of relief. When the same happened to Maria Pineda, 31, it was one of the worst days of her life. Both women have...
Hon. Dana Leigh Marks, Mar. 12, 2024 How Low Will They Go? - An Outraged Retired IJ Speaks (Because She Can) "Earlier this month, bucking over 50 years of precedent, immigration court management advised the officers of National Association of Immigration...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Mar. 11, 2024 "On November 29, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy , a case that involves several key questions: whether the statues allowing the Securities and Exchange...
Lynn Tramonte, Lauren Hamlett, Isabel Coyle, March 2024 "The U.S. immigration courts have flown under the radar screen for decades. But decisions made by immigration judges have life-altering outcomes. Both the structure of the courts themselves, and the...
Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, Mar. 4, 2024 "A 53-year-old union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak publicly to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged...
Marielena Hincapié, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, Feb. 23, 2024 "The number of newly arriving immigrants who have come to New York to establish new homes in our communities and flee life-threatening danger in their countries of birth has captured the nation's...
Donald Kerwin, Brendan Kerwin, JMHS, CMS, January 29, 2024 "This paper examines the staffing needs of the US Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), as it seeks to eliminate an immigration court backlog, which approached...
ACLU Nebraska, Feb. 9, 2024 "A new report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nebraska paints a stark picture of people’s experiences in the Omaha immigration court, a court that is already known as one of the nation’s toughest...
TRAC, Feb. 9, 2024 "According to the latest court records the number of incoming cases declined substantially in January 2024, when the Immigration Courts received 154,057 new cases, a drop of over 110,000 in monthly new arrivals at the Court compared to...
Here is the complaint. Here is the settlement. "Wendy Musell, who represents Escoto, told Law360 that she believes the judgment acknowledges the harassment and abuse her client faced. Tonette J. Jaramilla, who also represents Escoto, called the award "historic...
TRAC, Jan. 24, 2024 "There is widespread agreement that the Immigration Court has far too few judges and support staff to handle newly arriving cases let alone process their backlog of cases which has been piling up for decades. While 1,490,480 cases were...
TRAC, Dec. 28, 2023 "A new record was reached in November. The Immigration Court backlog passed 3 million pending cases. Just 12 months ago, during November 2022, the backlog was 2 million. That means the case backlog has grown by a million cases in just...