Sentences with phrase «hear immigration cases»

On May 2, he said 18 supervisory immigration judges would be used to hear immigration cases near the border, and 35 new assistant U.S. attorneys would be sent to Southwest border states to handle prosecutions of improper entry, illegal re-entry, and alien smuggling.

In addition, 18 current supervisory immigration judges will be used to hear immigration cases near the border.

Justice Antonin Scalia opened the Supreme Court's new term Tuesday by questioning whether a man deported to Mexico after a drug conviction would be «abstaining from tequila» for fear of violating his U.S. parole terms.The remark came as justices heard an immigration case involving a Texas man, Reymundo Toledo - Flores, who was deported in April after being convicted of illegally entering the United States.

Not exact matches

«I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as others, for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, reducing trade and, in some cases around the world, even cutting access to the internet,» Zuckerberg said during a Facebook conference in April.

The court heard from prosecutor Edward Lucas who said: «The weddings that form the subject of this case were neither conducted correctly or legally and their sole purpose was to facilitate an industrial - scale abuse of the system of immigration control within the UK.»

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.

Falconer admits that Cameron's deal won't guarantee a drop in immigration — «You have to accept free movement of labour when you're within the EU» — and calls for increased domestic support for communities affected by high levels of immigration, and he also wants to hear a distinct Labour case for staying in the EU.

An Accra High court will today [Friday] hear a case brought against Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery and the Comptroller General of Immigration, Kwame Sakyi by an Indian national who is contesting his deportation from Ghana.

«The Liberal Democrats will fight to ensure that Wales» interests in the Brexit negotiations are heard, to protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, and make the positive case for a fair immigration system.»

The court has already heard — but not decided — big cases involving immigration, abortion, affirmative action and public employee unions.

The types of cases that immigration judges hear can be complex — both factually complex as well as legally complex.

Of the hundreds of federal subagencies today, just three of those subagencies — the Social Security Administration, Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, and the U.S. Immigration Court — are reported to maintain a backlog of approximately 3 million cases.

Today many thousands of cases are started in the Administrative Court every year, even though there has been a dramatic reduction in the number in the last few years, as the majority of immigration judicial review cases are now heard in the Upper Tribunal.

Our expert immigration solicitors in London will go through your case, investigate your asylum and / or human rights application (s) and help you gather all the necessary supporting evidence while being with you and your family all the way to make sure your voice is heard loud and clear.

After the removal order is issued, you have the right to appeal the removal order to the Immigration Appeal Division which has the power to hear evidence about all the circumstances of your case and why you should not be deported.

Our lawyers collaborate with local and regional legal services organizations on a host of projects, including: representing victims of domestic violence at final hearings on protective orders; staffing and operating walk - in clinics for indigent clients; handling intake of new clients for organizations; and training volunteers to handle cases in areas such as immigration, asylum, elder law, domestic violence and family law.

125 See Yoon, supra note 123, at 661 (reporting that federal judges hearing civil cases ranked intellectual property and commercial litigation attorneys as providing the highest quality representation and family and immigration law attorneys as providing the lowest quality representation, and noting that the rankings are roughly consistent with relative attorney salaries in those practice areas).

As of February 2017, there were 542,411 cases pending before 302 immigration judges, or just less than 1,800 cases per judge.60 Each judge, however, has just about six hours per week to prepare for the week's docket; the rest of the time is spent on the bench hearing cases.

You've heard the term «prosecutorial discretion» mentioned in your immigration case, but have no idea what that actually means and how it would apply to your case.

In Singh v Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration), [1985] 1 SCR 177, a refugee determination case, the Supreme Court agreed that an oral hearing was not always required, but stated that where a serious issue of credibility is involved, «fundamental justice» requires that credibility be determined on the basis of an oral hearing.

Alan Macek, an intellectual property lawyer at Dimock Stratton LLP, points out that the federal courts also hear immigration and citizenship cases where the tariff - based system offers predictable costs for individual litigants and improves access to justice.

It was set up as a specialist structure to cope with a heavy workload of immigration and asylum cases and reduce the number of these cases being heard by the Court of Appeal.

In a case that was heard by the Ontario Court of Appeal recently, a simple visit by a 12 - year old girl to come see her father in Canada came to a dramatic head, and sparked a custody dispute that had repercussions relating to allegations of abuse, determination of immigration status, and protection of the girl's constitutional rights.

We anticipate more than 700 immigration cases could be heard each year in Leeds if the Administrative Court set up here.»