ACLU, June 23, 2023 "The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of the District of Columbia, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and National Immigrant Justice Center today sued the Biden administration over its sweeping asylum ban on behalf of individual...
Justice Action Center, Feb. 8, 2023 - "Hours before President Biden delivered his second State of the Union, his administration filed a brief in Arizona v. Mayorkas before the Supreme Court reiterating its intentions of implementing an asylum ban. Below...
The White House Fact Sheet is here . The DHS media release is here . Video of President Biden is here , beginning at min. 54:00. Commentary by former BIA Chairman Hon. Paul W. Schmidt is here .
ICE, May 10, 2023 "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) today announced a process for family units apprehended at the Southwest Border who are processed for expedited removal and indicate an intention...
NILA, Apr. 20, 2023 "Enacted in 1997, expedited removal is the name for the summary removal process applied to persons whom immigration border officers determine are inadmissible for allegedly having false or improper documentation. Expedited removal proceedings...
White House, July 27, 2021 "... The Administration is working to improve the expedited removal process at the border to fairly and efficiently determine which individuals have legitimate claims for asylum and other forms of protection. Asylum and other legal...
Dr. Yael Schacher, May 13, 2021 "Though he has already revoked some of the former administration’s highly restrictive policies on asylum, President Biden has thus far left in place an expulsion policy first imposed by the Trump administration under Title...
Shaun Courtney, Bloomberg Government, Oct. 6, 2020 "Undocumented immigrants anywhere in the U.S. can be deported as quickly as a day, once Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials complete mandatory training online, the agency says. “This is huge....
Jeffrey S. Chase, Sept. 14, 2019 "The late Maury Roberts, a legendary immigration lawyer and former BIA Chair, wrote in 1991: “It has always seemed significant to me that, among all the members of the animal kingdom, man is the only one who captures and...
David Isaacson, July 24, 2019 "The Trump Administration published an announcement in the Federal Register on July 22, 2019 stating that beginning the next day on July 23, it would exercise its full statutory authority to place in expedited removal proceedings...
Tom Hals, Reuters, July 22, 2019 "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Monday it will order more speedy deportations of immigrants who crossed illegally and are caught anywhere in the United States, expanding a program typically applied only...
Penn State Law Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, July 22, 2019
David G. Savage, L.A. Times, Mar. 3, 2017 - "The Trump administration’s plan for putting hundreds of thousands of recent migrants in the country illegally onto a fast track for deportation is likely to trigger the next major legal battle over immigration enforcement...
Alan Gomez, USA Today, Feb. 24, 2017 - "Former immigration enforcement chiefs are questioning the legality of President Trump's plan to ramp up a program that allows federal agents to quickly deport suspected undocumented immigrants without appearing before...
"[T]he resumption of diplomatic relations will not have an effect on the availability of CAA relief unless DHS wishes it to. However, natives and citizens of Cuba who are considering arriving at a U.S. airport in order to seek parole and ultimately adjustment...