More Deportation Judges
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced another class of judges: 22 permanent and 4 temporary.
The names and biographies of the new judges are available here.
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Read AILA's Response to the DHS Open Letter to Immigration Attorneys
Last month, James Percival, DHS's General Counsel, wrote an open letter to AILA purporting to blame immigration attorneys for the asylum backlog and characterizing asylum applications as "meritless." AILA's Executive Director Benjamin Johnson's thoughtful response is available here. In it, he writes:
There’s been an uptick in ICE arrests in the Bay Area, immigration attorneys warn
As election day nears, ICE operations appear to be on the rise. Several attorneys report that several ICE arrests across the Bay Area "reflect increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement." "Bay Area `rapid response' hotlines monitoring immigration arrests have seen an uptick in reports since this weekend, said
Seattle U Students Support Immigration Detainees Through Legal Aid and Advocacy
Read here about the good work of Seattle University law school students for immigrants
How a migrant’s decision to comply with a federal judge’s order led to a criminal conviction by César García Hernández
Check out this Catch-22! "Do what a federal court orders and break the law. Ignore what a federal court orders and also break the law. That’s the losing deal that a migrant faced when a federal court told him he had to stay in Oklahoma, then federal prosecutors