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ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: When “Material” Loses Meaning: Matter of A-C-M- and the Material Support Bar to Asylum by Tyler Ann Lee
When "Material" Loses Meaning: Matter of A-C-M- and the Material Support Bar to Asylum by Tyler Ann Lee, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 51AbstractThe United States asylum system offers…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Ninth Circuit to Hear Arguments on Whether Asylum Seekers Turned Back at Ports of Entry Should be Subject to Asylum Ban
A three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments at 10 a.m. PST on Thursday in San Francisco on a motion by…
UK Immigration Blog
Is the UK Immigration System Geared to Reject?
On 1st November 2019, the Guardian’s often insightful ‘long read’ made the case that the immigration system in the UK, as it stands, is heavily biased towards hostility and rejection,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Asylum Seekers Must Get Selves from Nogales to Juárez
As the WSJ reports, asylum seekers who present themselves at Nogales (aka Tuscon, AZ) will now need to find their own way to Juárez (aka court in El Paso, TX).…
The Insightful Immigration Blog
Top 10 Most Viewed Posts Published on the Insightful Immigration Blog in 2019
By Cyrus Mehta
Thank you for reading and supporting The Insightful Immigration Blog. Listed below are the top 10 most viewed blogs that were published in 2019. While these are the 10 most…
The Asylumist
The I-730 Process: Bringing Family Members Together
By Jason Dzubow
Winning asylum is becoming harder, but it still happens. One of the great benefits of receiving asylum in the United States is that you can file for certain family members…
ImmigrationProf Blog
An Immigrant’s Christmas Eve
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, a fellow Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and General Counsel to the Brooklyn DA, shares in a NY Times op-ed a memoir of her family's arrival from…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Kidnapped Migrants Denied the Ability to Claim Asylum, Trapped in Mexico
The Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy under which asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are being decided, remain in the news. And not in a good…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The radical immigration changes under Trump that went unnoticed
Annalisa Merelli on Quartz identifies "The radical immigration changes under Trump that went unnoticed." She notes that the Trump "administration has pursued radical anti-immigration policies . . . . The…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Beat Goes On! Joint Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Restrict Certain “Criminal Aliens'” Eligibility for Asylum
Consistent with the efforts to facilitate removal of "criminal aliens," the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security released the announcement below today:"The Department of Justice and the Department…