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Refugee Status
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ImmigrationProf Blog
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: Asylum Denial Rate Drops to Twenty-Five Year Low
Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century according to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Articles from SSRN
Here are some new immigration articles from the Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com): "Alien Fears: Politics and Immigration Control" Dialogue, Forthcoming Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 10/73 MARY ELIZABETH…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Ruling in Case Of President’s Aunt Produced in Redacted Form
The Boston Globe reports that "The immigration judge who granted President Obama’s aunt asylum three months ago based his decision on the fact that an anonymous federal official had disclosed…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Cases Can Truly Mean Life or Death
Julia Preston in a New York Times article reminds us that asylum cases, in this instance a young Salvadoran man who fled gang violence in El Salvador but was ordered deported…
ImmigrationProf Blog
(UN)FAIR Asks EOIR to Make Public Aunt Onyango’s Case
Jason Dzubow on The Asylumist reports that the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is calling upon the Justice Department and the Executive Office for Immigration Review to make public the record in the asylum…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Obama’s Aunt Given Asylum
One of the hottest stories on the eve of the Presidential election in November 2008 was that Senator Barack Obama had an aunt seeking asylum and who had lived in public…
ImmigrationProf Blog
BIA Ruling “Riddled With Error”
In a decision written by Judge Pryor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found a Board of Immigration Appeals ruling denying asylum to a native of Venezuela who claimed…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Margaret Strock on Kucana v. Holder
The Federalist Society has a podcast of United States Military Academy at West Point Department of Law Professor Margaret D. Stock analyzing the Supreme Court's recent decision in Kucana v. Holder. In a…
ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. immigration sees rise in Mexican asylum seekers
Over the last couple of years, asylum applications by Mexican citizens seeking refuge in teh United States -- have increased, as have the approvals. For more on thisl story, click…
Family Law Prof Blog
Cianciarulo & David: “Pulling the Trigger: Separation Violence as a Basis for Refugee Protection for Battered Women”
By Family Law
Marisa Silenzi Cianciarulo (Chapman University--School of Law) and Claudia David have posted Pulling theTrigger: Separation Violence as a Basis for Refugee Protection for BatteredWomen, 59 American University Law Review 337…