This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 04/23/2024 "On March 28, 2023, the U.S. Department of State (Department of State) published in the Federal Register an interim...
Arizona v. Garland "This is a challenge by 19 states to an administrative action of the Executive Branch establishing a new procedure for adjudicating asylum applications under federal immigration...
Moran v. Mayorkas "At the time of Mr. Valadez Moran's birth, it is more likely than not that his mother, Ms. Moran, was a citizen of the United States by virtue of her birth in Elsa, Texas on...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 04/19/2024 "Notice of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) between the Government of the United States and the Government of Japan...
Courtesy of AILA; AILA Doc. 24022603 "The Department of State’s Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Consular Affairs (L/CA), in coordination with the Visa Office in the Bureau of Consular...
Joshua M. v. Barr
"Petitioner Joshua M., a native of Honduras to whom the United States has granted Special Immigrant Juvenile status, has filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas petition challenging his removal order and pending deportation. His petition implicates the cross-section between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, and raises questions regarding how the judicial branch may proceed when the executive branch has detained and ordered removed a person that has received a special legal status in accordance with statutes that the legislative branch enacted. Ultimately, Joshua’s success in prevailing against this motion to dismiss turns on his singular (and rarely evaluated by courts) immigration status: he is a Special Immigrant Juvenile. To explain this Court’s resolution, this memorandum opinion considers various statutory frameworks set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act together with complex questions of constitutional law. * * * * For the reasons articulated below, the Court finds that it has jurisdiction and will deny the Motion to Dismiss."
[Hats way off to Gregory Copeland, Sarah Gillman and team!]