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ATTACK ON IMMIGRATION COURTS ENDANGER ASYLUM SEEKERS
The Advocates for Human RightsNovember 2019
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CRISIS IN THE COURTS• Elimination of tools for procedural
fairness• Case completion quotas (including re:
BIA remand) • Attempts to restrict access to fair
appellate agency court• Attempts to restrict case law
available to judges • Referring IJ cases to political
leadership
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MISSION OF THE IMMIGRATION COURT
“adjudicating immigration cases by fairly, expeditiously, and uniformly interpreting and administering the Nation's immigration laws, primarily pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”)”
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Elimination of tools for procedural fairness
• Administrative closure• Termination of proceedings• OPPM limiting Status Docket • Bond to thousands previously eligible• Seeking to eliminate asylum office jurisdiction
over kids • Eliminating IJ contact with stakeholders • Vacatur of BIA case entitling asylum seekers
to evidentiary hearing,and more!
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Case completion quotas (including re: BIA remand)
• 700 cases per year• No more than 15 percent
reversed by BIA • USCIS massive slowdown +
removal cases massively sped up = increase in denials and deportations
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Hiring to Restrict Protections to Immigrants
• History of politicized hiring in Immigration Court
• Politicized Hiring of Immigration Judges
• Recent hiring of 6 new Board of Immigration Appeals judges with 80 percent asylum denial rate, at best
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Case Law severely curtailing protections of asylum seekers
• Domestic Violence Survivors: Matter of A-B-• Survivors of Family Violence: Matter of L-E-
A-• Those Victimized by Persecutors: Cases on
Material Support and Duress • CAT applicants seeking protection from
abusive detention conditions
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Referring IJ cases to political leadership
• Specific Case examples• New proposed regs permitting EOIR
appointee to decide cases if not adjudicated fast enough
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FUNDING • ICE funding• Customs and Border Patrol funding• Immigration Courts’ funding• Result: more than a million cases in the
backlog
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HOPE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS??
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SOLUTIONS?
• Tell your Congressional representatives and candidates for office that you want to see an Independent Immigration Court!
• We need more lawyers and legal support staff to enter the fight here at home
• Eyes and Ears in the Court Room • Attorneys, train for a marathon!
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QUESTIONS??Contact Information:
Alison Griffith
The Advocates for Human Rights
Refugee & Immigrant Program
330 2nd Avenue S., Suite 800
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 746-4673, [email protected]