Center for Immigration Studies

The Supreme Court has granted a DOJ petition for writ of certiorari by agreeing to review an April opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha, wherein a three-judge circuit panel affirmed a lower-court order holding that section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) does not deny release on bond to illegal migrants who evaded apprehension at the border and settled in the United States.

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 274 View Podcast Archive Follow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, or use the podcast's RSS Feed. Listen to "‘Worst of the Worst’ or Mass Deportation?" on Spreaker.

On September 23, the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) — the department’s internal watchdog — issued a report captioned “Adjudication Errors in Operation Allies Welcome Asylum Files Risked Missing Derogatory Information”.

The Supreme Court this week granted a Department of Justice (DOJ) application to stay an order issued by Judge Brian Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (D. Mass.) in D.V.D. v. U.S. DHS, which the First Circuit affirmed in large part on September 18. The order blocked “third country” removal policies implemented by ICE under Trump II — and ironically, this was the third time the justices agreed to stay orders in this case.

The latest chapter in the ongoing saga of Mahmoud Khalil On September 25, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) – the appellate DOJ tribunal that reviews agency immigration decisions — issued an order in Matter of M-K-, defending itself and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”, the department component that oversees both the Board and the immigration courts) against claims of bias.

Very quietly, ICE is getting the job done. It turns out President Trump’s promised “mass deportations” won’t require dragnets and cattle cars after all. This summer ICE racked up the largest numbers of arrests of illegal aliens ever recorded, with more on the way. And all without the theatrics that culminated in the shooting of two Americans by DHS officers in Minneapolis.

USCIS’s Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) issued a precedent opinion this week in Matter of Borges Borsoi, concluding that the date of one’s 21st birthday, as opposed the specific hour one was born on that date, determined whether an applicant for special immigrant juvenile status (SIJ) timely filed her petition.

View Podcast Archive Follow Parsing Immigration Policy on Ricochet, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, or use the podcast's RSS Feed. Listen to "How Many Illegal Aliens Are There?" on Spreaker. Summary The number of illegal aliens in the United States dropped by about 15 percent, to 13.5 million, during the first year and half of the Trump administration, according to a study by the Center for Immigration Studies. But why do we trust that number? Could it be 30 million?

The staff of the House Judiciary Committee issued a report this week taking aim at the criminal-alien-friendly policies in one of the National Capital Region’s largest suburbs — and one of two jurisdictions across the Potomac from the District of Columbia itself.

On September 17, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the DOJ appellate tribunal that reviews administrative immigration decisions — issued an opinion in Matter of A-V-O-, concluding that a lawfully admitted nonimmigrant alien who has been convicted of an aggravated felony would be inadmissible and therefore is ineligible for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident (“LPR”, i.e., “green card holder”).