Category: Immigration Courts
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Voluntary Departures, generally associated with immigration court cases, are about 10 times what they had been (typical = 800/month) during Biden administration. Read here
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This article summarizes the current situation in immigration courts regarding asylum denial and acceptance rates – TRAC analysis using government data – which vary by judge. Also, in this article, a good map of the # of immigration judges by location. And shows 3.7 million backlogged cases in immigration courts.
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Read this article to learn how Massachusetts has allocated $5 million to provide free legal aid to immigrants in removal and a hotline for those immigrants needing representation. Read more about the process and capacity constraints.
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A Nevada judge has ruled, in a class action suit, that “mandatory detention” for all unauthorized, despite their length of time in the US, is not legal nor practical. This after multiple courts, and appeals courts, have looked at the issue with varying decisions. Read “Detained migrants allege due process violations in class action lawsuit“
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This TRAC report shows the mothly % of asylum cases granted and denied – showing that the current denial rate is 80%. TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse which references government data (from Department of Homeland Security) for it’s reports and data summaries.
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This report, from the Migration Policy Institute, discusses a variety of federal immigration policies that are getting varying degrees of push-back from federal courts. Those policies include the following:
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The American Prospect reported that DHS attorney’s erroneously informed ICE agents that they could make arrests at immigration courts. This became apparent during a court case where DHS attorney instructions were revealed.
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While the DoJ tried to change immigration case appeals process through the Board of Immigration Appeals, a federal judge decided that most rules needed to remain the same. An explainer by the National Immigration Project can be found here.
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This explainer (by AfghanEvac.org) describes the newly issued interim final rule about the Board of Immigration Appeals for immigration courts which would fundamentally change the way appeals are handled.
Immigration Insight 