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LIVE: The Asylum Denial Machine Explained
Watch now | In this Substack Live event, I break down the latest data from the immigration courts, specifically the shocking spike in asylum denials…
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Immigration Judges Closed and Denied More Asylum Cases in March Than Any Month on Record
In a record-breaking month, immigration judges fast-tracked asylum denials at a record pace, raising questions about due process, the politicization of…
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New Guidance Encourages Judges to Toss Out Asylum Claims Without a Hearing
EOIR Acting Director Sirce Owen is transforming the immigration courts one memo at a time.
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Trump Declares War on Immigration Attorneys
In one of his most dangerous moves so far, Trump instructed the DHS and the DOJ to use "professional ethics" as a mechanism for silencing lawyers who…
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Thank Goodness It's (Five Immigration Things on a) Friday
Welcome back, friends.
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Watch My Conversation about the Immigration Court Backlog with Pedro Echevarria on C-SPAN
I spoke with Pedro Echevarria on The Washington Journal this morning about the record backlog of pending cases in immigration courts and the asylum…
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Immigration Bill Flops Just Hours After Released
A proposed immigration bill released to the public by a Senate committee on Sunday has already been declared “dead on arrival”.
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3 Million Cases are Now Pending in the Immigration Courts, Is That a Bad Thing?
As of the end of November, 3,075,248 deportation cases were pending in the U.S.
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Growing Numbers of Afghan Migrants Face Deportation in Court
Over 5,000 Afghan nationals faced new deportation cases so far this year, published first on the Immigration Lab's blog at American University.
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Immigration Courts Get Record Number of New Deportation Cases in August
New research from TRAC at Syracuse University finds that 180,000 new deportation cases were added to the immigration courts in August, the largest…
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Four New Reports Examine Key Parts of US Immigration System
Four new reports look at rural immigrant detention centers, systemic dysfunctions of immigration courts, consequences of Biden's new asylum policies…
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Asylum Seeker Killed in Guatemala after Omaha Immigration Judge Ordered Him Deported
Omaha is now the toughest court in the country for asylum seekers, MPI hosts discussion on immigration courts in crisis, an interview with an…
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