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ImmigrationProf Blog
Ninth Circuit on Forced Abortion and Asylum Eligibility
Thw U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Willie Fletcher, issued the latest ruling on forced abortion and asylum eligibility:We hold that Tang established…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Precedent Decision on Force Abortion as Persecution
The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedent decision in In re T-Z- (here), I&N Dec. 163, Interim Decision #3564 (BIA May 9, 2007). Here are a couple of the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Judge Posner’s Latest on Salvadoran Asylum Claim
Judge Richard Posner wrote the decision for the Seventh Circuit vacating the denial of asylum to a former Salvadoran Army officer. The officer was involved with the military that was…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Woman Threatened By Gang Granted Asylum
David Cleveland has written an interesting article on Immigration Daily (here) about a recent asylum case on which the claim was predicated on fear of gang violence. He writes that…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Guatemalan asylum seekers sue
On April 3, about 200 families of Guatemalan immigrants facing possible removal from the United States filed a class action lawsuit against the US government alleging that their asylum claims…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Recent Court Decisions: Asylum and China’s One-Child Policy; “Choose Life” License Plates; Emergency Contraception and Pharmacies
(1) In Qin Wang v. Gonzales (5th Cir. March 14, 2007), the court denied a petition challenging a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA, reversing the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Ugandan Lesbian Seeks U.S. Asylum
The Associated Press (here) reports on a novel asylum claim by a Ugandan woman who claims that her family in Uganda was so angry and ashamed to learn she was…
ImmigrationProf Blog
More on Gao Cert Petition
We previously reported that the Solicitor General sought cert in a Second Circuit case involving a Chinese woman seeking asylum based on a forced marraige. Click here. The Christian Science…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Article on Refugees in the EU
"Refugee Status, Subsidiary Protection, and the Right to Be Granted Asylum Under Ec Law" by MARIA-TERESA GIL-BAZO (University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) - Newcastle Law School). Full Text: http://ssrn.com/abstract=951097On…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Public Service Announcement from the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
From the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies website (here):Help Protect Refugee Women! "Li" is a young woman who fled China after her parents paid off their debts…