Sentences with phrase «immigration judge»

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

But considerable weight had to be given to the view of the senior immigration judges, specialists who dealt with those matters on a daily basis.

For example, the official said, immigration judges already must tell immigrants their rights at the beginning of a court hearing, so the hour - long information sessions may not be necessary.

Consequently, most of these children, often with limited education and English skills, confront immigration judges and government attorneys alone in court.

And we strongly insist on the right to due process and legal representation — including hearings before impartial immigration judges.

Ian Rogers represented the Council of Immigration Judges in the Supreme Court and in the Court of Justice.

The Court of Justice has given judgment following a reference for a preliminary ruling under Article 267 TFEU from the Supreme Court in O'Brien v Ministry of Justice (Council of Immigration Judges intervening), Case C - 393 / 10, 1 March 2012.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement he had directed officials to beef up the numbers of prosecutors and immigration judges at the border to deal with any increased workload from the caravan.

The US justice department is currently in the process of setting quotas for immigration judges in an attempt to speed up the processing of immigration cases.

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.

Last fall, a federal immigration judge ordered 15 Iraqi Christians deported from California for immigration fraud — not because they were illegally coached on the tenants of Christianity, like in a New York City fraud ring — but because they had already been granted safe haven in Europe.

Applicants complain that secular immigration judges don't understand the risks they face back home in Iran as converts.

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

ATLANTA — Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce that a U.S. Department of Justice Immigration Judge granted asylum to a Haitian man represented by the firm on a pro bono basis.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the caravan «a deliberate attempt to undermine our laws and overwhelm our system,» pledging to send more immigration judges to the border to resolve cases if needed.

The government has again been forced to defend the Human Rights Act after immigration judges ruled the killer of head teacher Phillip Lawrence will not be deported.

Last year, a federal immigration judge ordered 15 Iraqi Chaldean Christians deported for immigration fraud when they sought refuge in the United States after they had already been granted safe haven in Europe.

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.

Samina was appointed as a part - time Immigration Judge in 2006 and has also practiced as a barrister in the areas of family and immigration law since 2000.

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.

Li's immigration judge said Li failed to prove that he was a Christian.

The court's conservative justices said they were inclined to reverse a 9th Circuit Court decision requiring immigration judges to give a bond hearing and consider possible release for noncitizens who have been jailed for more than six months, while the liberal justices sounded unsure as to whether a specific time limit can be upheld.

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

But according to the report «s author, Andrew Arthur, a former Immigration Judge and the Center's Resident Fellow in Law and Policy: «Many have been instructed to claim «credible fear» of returning to their home countries.

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.

It is true that the first immigration judge in his judgment mentioned joint purchase of Maya the cat as one of the many indications that the illegal immigrant had an established relationship with his partner — but it was not the reason for that judge's decision and in the judgment on appeal the cat was not even mentioned.

Here's why: Litigator, law writing prof and recovering broadcast journalist Williams read the 9th Circuit Court's decision to reverse immigration judge Nathan Gordon's decision in a case called de Leon v. Gonzales.

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.

Peter Small of the Toronto Star reports, He was a former Toronto councillor turned immigration judge and she was a Korean refugee claimant.

Conversely, the Supreme Court's reluctance to expand the scope of Khan is problematic because immigration judges are using the justices» keen interest in Banger — and their intransigence to decide the issue conclusively — as an excuse to hold that EFMs do not have a right of appeal against the refusal of a residence card under the 2016 Regulations.

The judgment in AG (Eritrea), handed down on 31 July 2007, is the most recent Court of Appeal decision to give detailed consideration to the approach which immigration judges should take in relation to proportionality under Art 8 of the Convention.

On May 2, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department would increase prosecutors and immigration judges at the U.S. southern border to...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday he is responding to the «crisis at the Southwest border» with additional prosecutors and the use of supervisory immigration judges.

The Council of Immigration Judges, representing several hundred daily fee - paid judges, intervened in the Supreme Court and also made oral submissions in Luxembourg.

«We need more immigration judges, we need more immigration personnel at the border so that we can swiftly resolve these cases before children find their way to detention facilities and to other facilities as far away as New York.»

The US justice department is currently in the process of setting quotas for immigration judges in an attempt to...

The wide discretion exercised by immigration judges can be disheartening to lawyers and disastrous for immigrants facing threats to their lives if they are forced to return home, immigration lawyers said.

A federal immigration judge has ordered 15 Iraqi Chaldean Christians deported for immigration fraud.

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.»

The Omaha City Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice.

After two years of legal wrangling, she faced an immigration judge who decided she was eligible for removal.

Because the immigration - hearing system has been overwhelmed by the number of deportations sought, children often spend years with their families before they ever see an immigration judge.

The Justice Department was sending 35 additional assistant U.S. attorneys and 18 immigration judges to the border, Sessions said, linking the decision to the caravan.

He couldn't answer basic questions about Christianity, explained the immigration judge.

An immigration judge was distressed that «Li claimed that Thanksgiving was a Christian holiday.»

But the immigration judge was distressed that «Li claimed that Thanksgiving was a Christian holiday» and «knew little about the differences between the Old and New Testaments» — though Li noted that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the...