Sentences with phrase «by immigration judges»

Given the life changing decisions made by immigration judges, arbitrary quotas should be placed on how many cases they need to rush through in any given day or week.

It was a decision made by an immigration judge.»

Not exact matches

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

Judge Michelle T. Friedland, who was appointed by President Barack Obama and was one of three judges from the Ninth Circuit presiding over the immigration - ban case, asked Flentje, the DOJ lawyer, whether the government had any evidence connecting the seven nations targeted by the order to terrorism.

Early on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in a similar case in Maryland brought by refugee resettlement agencies represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Law Center.

We also oppose provisions of the bill that expand the immigration detention system and erode the basic rights afforded to immigrants, including the provisions that allow for the indefinite detention of individuals who can not be deported to their home countries; that expedite removal proceedings or automatically imprison immigrants without providing them access to attorneys or judges; that increase detention capacity by an additional 20,000 beds to house immigrants awaiting their day in court; and that diminish the checks and balances of judicial review over immigration decisions.

Only those who appeal against removal will have their case heard by a judge and even then it will be an immigration judge at a tribunal, not in a criminal court.

Her decision was later overturned by a judge at a first - tier immigration tribunal — who was happy with the documents provided by the couple and satisfied the wedding was «properly executed».

A Manhattan Federal Court judge has ordered the release of prominent immigrant activist Ravi Ragbir, who had been detained by immigration agents...

Judging by the increase in the vote share of UKIP, English voters were also unconvinced by Labour's stances on immigration.

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in California sent a rebuke to President Trump by temporarily blocking his Jan. 25 executive order threatening to withhold some federal funds from cities that refused to cooperate with immigration officials.

A Manhattan federal judge ordered the immediate release of Ravi Ragbir, a prominent immigrant activist detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month.

According to the judge, Justice Edward Ekow Baiden, he granted the plea by the Immigration asking for them to be remanded for further investigations because he did not believe the suspects will make themselves available if granted bail.

The New York City Council overwhelmingly passed legislation today to stop the Department of Correction and the NYPD from honoring immigration detainers issued by the federal government unless they are accompanied by a judge's warrant.

The proposal would bar the NYPD and the city Department of Correction from honoring detention orders — seeking a detainee transfer from city to federal custody over possible immigration violations — unless signed by a federal judge.

In a decision that could affect the immigration plan President Barack Obama announced on 20 November, a federal judge decided on 21 November that the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), an organization based in Bellevue, Washington, and affiliated with the national Communication Workers of America (CWA) union, can bring a lawsuit challenging the federal government's right to extend by executive action the authorization for foreign students to work in the United States under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.

Our mission is to make good quality and clear information available to all affected by immigration control: migrants themselves, their families, their lawyers and their judges.

Federal judge Mariana Pfaelzer issued a permanent injunction against the vast majority of the people of CA by striking down proposition 187, which stated that illegal immigrants were not eligible for CA taxpayer provided «entitlements» because it interfered with the the right of the federal government to regulate immigration -LRB-!)

The U.S. Justice Department is reducing the huge backlog in the immigration courts by using video - streaming to enable U.S. judges in Puerto Rico to oversee cases in mainland courtrooms, despite the huge damage inflicted on the island by recent storms.

Sessions previously announced a plan to speed up immigration cases by evaluating immigration judges based on case completions.

In the absence of any details about the application or the hearing held by the judge, Leonard I. Shapiro, it's all speculation, but, of course, immigration judges don't get the Article III perks like lifetime tenure, and I'd sure hate to be the guy on record as booting the President's wheelchair - bound Auntie back to Africa.

The US plans to impose tight quotas on the judges who hear them are ill thought out — likely by civil servants with little or no understanding of the practical challenges of working in immigration appeal and court work.

With their oral testimony often offered as the only evidence to support their claims, and with few Asylum Officers, only 35 Fraud Detection and National Security officers assigned to asylum offices throughout the country, and a mere 316 Immigration Judges already overwhelmed by a backlog of 542,411 cases, it should be no surprise that the credible fear process is uniquely susceptible to fraud.»

Giving the Howard League lecture this week, Sir James said the change could be introduced incrementally by deploying family judges to sit in the youth court, immigration and asylum chamber, and health, education and social care chamber.

There is no suggestion that the material viewed by District Judge Timothy Bowles, Immigration Judge Warren Grant, and Deputy District Judge and Recorder Peter Bullock included illegal content.

Metcalf interviewed immigration judges across the country in writing «Courting Disaster: Absent attendance and absent enforcement in America's immigration courts ``: «They described a system plunged into turmoil by appointees at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security who ignored statutes, precedent, and regulation and imposed policies that dramatically increased backlogs and nearly halted adjudication.

A three - judge panel led by Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma said they could see issues with the immigration regime without the law firms and banks weighing in.

A refusal by a senior immigration judge to order reconsideration of a case by a panel of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal can therefore only be reviewed under the statutory review procedure by a High Court judge, whose decision on the review is final, and judicial review of the refusal to order reconsideration is notimmigration judge to order reconsideration of a case by a panel of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal can therefore only be reviewed under the statutory review procedure by a High Court judge, whose decision on the review is final, and judicial review of the refusal to order reconsideration is notImmigration Tribunal can therefore only be reviewed under the statutory review procedure by a High Court judge, whose decision on the review is final, and judicial review of the refusal to order reconsideration is not available.

No notice was served under the Immigration Act 1971, s 6 (2) at the time that the recommendation for deportation was made by the sentencing judge.

I'm constantly writing legal opinions for use in criminal court by other lawyers for judges so that they can understand the immigration consequences when they sentence somebody.

Our mission is to make good quality and clear information available to all affected by immigration control: migrants themselves, their families, their lawyers and their judges.

Greater scrutiny of misconduct by immigration lawyers and judges has also begun.

Osuna said that so far this year, 40 cases have been referred to the chief immigration judge for the investigation of possible misconduct by judges.

An immigration judge rejected this argument citing the fact that the appellant had not lived with her adoptive parents on a full - time basis, that they had already demonstrated their willingness and ability to make arrangements for her care and education in India, and there was nothing preventing the adoptive parents from making a formal application to adopt the appellant from within the UK by undertaking the steps necessary to obtain an assessment of their suitability from their local authority in accordance with the Adoption and Children Act 2002.

Speaking at a panel discussion before an audience at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in New York City, 2nd circuit judge Robert Katzmann and 9th circuit judge M. Margaret McKeown described a crisis fueled by increased enforcement and detention, bad or non-existent lawyering for immigrants facing deportation, as well as overwhelmed immigration judges and appeal judges.