#eoir

'US Sends Thousands of Children, Babies Back to Mexico', teleSUR

I don’t expect the masses to suddenly take an interest in what is going on within the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security - there are many other satisfying news stories out there that you will follow. Instead, I am just using this as an outlet to mourn the nation I once loved.

TRAC has concluded that the data updated through April 2020 it has just received on asylum and other applications for relief to the Immigration Courts are too unreliable to be meaningful or to warrant publication. We are therefore discontinuing updating our popular Immigration Court Asylum Decisions app, and will take other steps to highlight this problem. We also wish to alert the public that any statistics EOIR has recently published on this topic may be equally suspect, as will be any future reports the agency publishes until these major data deficiencies are explained and rectified. [Read more here.]

On May 4, 2020, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announced that all non-detained court hearings scheduled through May 29, 2020 were cancelled and will be re-scheduled at a later date.

Since September 2017, immigration judges and all other employees at the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review have been required to adhere to an onerous pre-approval process whenever they desire or are invited to speak publicly on any issue, immigration-related or not. I learned of the policy through a Freedom of Information Act request my colleagues made to the department, as part of an investigation I’ve been conducting on the intersection of free speech and US border enforcement. [Read more here.]

Every year, thousands of people are forced to face the complex deportation system without an attorney representing them. Now, the immigration courts are seeking to limit the assistance that these individuals can receive from “friend of the court” attorneys. The Executive Office for Immigration Review

On July 2, the Department of Justice published final regulations impacting how decisions of immigration judges will be reviewed, both on appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals and by certification to the Attorney General. I plan to cover the topic in depth in a later article, but I wanted to post my quick take on the fact that the new rule encourages the BIA to decide cases using two sentences of boilerplate language (plus a citation) that provides no insight into its determination process. [Read more here.]

November 29, 2018 at 09:43AM from Eoir via Eoir