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Refugee Status
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The Asylumist
Want to Lose Your Asylum Hearing in Immigration Court? Then Don’t Prepare in Advance
By Jason Dzubow
The key to winning an asylum case in Immigration Court is preparation. I’d venture that the majority of asylum cases are won or lost before the applicant arrives in court…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank (2018)This book offers insights on why so many asylum-seekers are…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Regulating the Border by Eunice Lee
Regulating the Border by Eunice Lee, Maryland Law Review, forthcoming AbstractUnder the current Administration, asylum seekers at our southern border have prompted enormous political controversy. Amidst a record-breaking government shutdown, the separation…
PrawfsBlawg
Nomenclature and the real issue on the scope of injunctions
Main Friday, August 16, 2019Nomenclature and the real issue on the scope of injunctionsA Ninth Circuit panel refused to stay a preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of new asylum regulations. But…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Pew polling results show most Americans support undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, parties divide
The Pew Research Center finds a clear majority disapproves of the handling of the immigrant situation and takes a very different view of what to do about it than Trump:Nearly two-thirds…
Religion Clause
11th Circuit: Board of Immigration Appeals Failed to Consider Evidence of Ahmadi Persecution In Pakistan
In Ali v. U.S. Attorney General, (11th Cir., Aug. 5, 2019), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded for further consideration a decision of the Board of Immigration…
Family Law Prof Blog
Administration to Fast-Track Migrant Family Cases
By Family Law
From US News:LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rosita Lopez said armed gang members demanded money from her and her partner at their small grocery store on the Guatemalan coast and threatened…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Court Strikes Down Trump Administration’s Restrictive Asylum Policy
Here is the National Immigrant Justice Center press release:The federal District Court for the District of Columbia today ruled in O.A. v. Trump that the Trump Administration cannot bar refugees…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Deterrence without Protection of Asylum Seekers by Susan Martin
Susan Martin, former ED U.S. Commision on Immigration Reform and Georgetown Law professor emerita, writes about the Remain in Mexico program and challenges for Center for Migration Studies:On July 16,…
The Asylumist
Acting USCIS Director to Asylum Seekers: You Can Live Safely in Your Own Country
By Jason Dzubow
Acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli is encouraging Asylum Officers to deny asylum applications and credible fear interviews by any means necessary. He is particularly concerned about our Southern border, where…