Fofana v. Mayorkas "Nearly sixteen years after Plaintiff Abrahim Mohamed Fofana applied for adjustment of status, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) denied his petition. But even with that much time to review Fofana’s...
Alex Nowrasteh, Sept. 16, 2023 "Yesterday, I testified at the “Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border” hearing before the House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement . You can watch the entire hearing here , my...
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, May 24, 2023 "“Hundreds of people on our terrorist watch list are crossing our borders.” — Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), in his presidential announcement speech, May 22. In a speech formally announcing that he is running for the...
Josh Kelety, Associated Press, Oct. 27, 2022 "Several Republican elected officials have suggested in recent social media posts that almost 100 people on the terrorist watchlist have entered the U.S. along the southwest border. “FACT: at least 98 terrorism...
Dara Lind, May 14, 2021 "Taylor Levy couldn’t understand why she’d been held for hours by Customs and Border Protection officials when crossing back into El Paso, Texas, after getting dinner with friends in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January 2019. And she...
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...
" An eight-year fight over a Stanford graduate student's mysterious inclusion on various terror watch lists ended Wednesday with the revelation she has been off the no-fly list since 2005. The disclosure comes in the fully unsealed 38-page opinion...
"Predictably, many have used these common sense rules to accuse the administration of aiding terrorists. This is pure demagoguery. The administration has pushed the “war on terror” to new limits with the aggressive use of drones and targeted killings....
After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to Hawaii...
"The federal government violated a former Stanford University doctoral student's legal rights nine years ago when it put her on its secretive "no-fly" lists targeting suspected terrorists, a San Francisco federal judge ruled Tuesday. In a decision...
April 24, 2019 DHS on waiving laws to build border barriers, roads: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-04-24/pdf/2019-08289.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-04-24/pdf/2019-08290.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019...
Uddin v. Atty. Gen., Sept. 6, 2017 - "The Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) found that Joshim Uddin, a citizen and native of Bangladesh, was ineligible for withholding of removal because he was a member of the Bangladesh National Party (“BNP”), a major...
Matter of X-, July 7, 2015, Immigration Judge Dorothy Harbeck, Elizabeth, NJ Immigration Court - "Respondent is seeking asylum on account of his political opinion, as a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ("BNP"). On March 2, 2015, DHS...
"Satheeskumar Annachamy petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying him asylum and withholding of removal because he provided material support to a terrorist organization, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)(iv...