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It’s almost July. The State Department Human rights reports were due February 1. The statue requires them to produce these reports to Congress, so I guess, if Congress isn’t interested in compelling the executive to obey the law, there’s not much the rest of us can do. Still

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

In Denver talking with immigration buddies about denaturalization.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Every mass deportation in American history has in practice been a racial deportation www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Board of Immigration Appeals member Ellen Liebowitz appears to have either left or been fired. No longer listed as a BIA member as of June 4, 2025. Liebowitz had served since 2016, under Obama, Trump, and Biden, and was a senior legal advisor at the BIA before that. www.justice.gov/eoir/board-o...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

How does this person attend their immigration court hearing? And if they don't go in person, where do they go? There's no website listed. There is no IJ or courtroom listed. I guess it's TBD, and we'll surely figure it out before trial. But if this person isn't represented, what do they do?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Just got some FOIA records back for a request I submitted in 2020 about the last denaturalization push. Crazy that we're once again talking about a mega-denaturalization effort. Here are the USCIS Director's emails from last time. cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Some big moves at EOIR. The Acting Chief Immigration Judge is now Anna C. Little (a NY IJ). Jeffrey Miller who was hired as Acting Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge in January appears to be out. Miller was also ACIJ over the Houston courts. More... www.justice.gov/eoir/office-...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Trump's DOJ has re-hired former immigration judge Matthew O'Brien (formerly with FAIR and IRLI). Terminated in 2022 from his IJ position during his probationery period, now he's been hired in a supervisory role. ACIJ over Annandale. www.justice.gov/eoir/office-...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Starting to wonder if the State Department just isn't going to publish its annual Human Rights reports this year. For at least the last decade the annual human rights report has been published by this time. It's only been pushed into April 3 times. Never into May.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Whitehouse. gov now has a red banner at the top that says "Lo-fi MAGA Video to Relax/Study To US." If you click on it, it's just a cartoon of Trump signing a piece of paper over and over and a scrolling text of false statements. You're supposed to "relax" to this? We are in weird times friends.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

So, the immigration courts have started distributing this flyer. It's being placed on the table you have to sit at for immigration court, and it's being mailed to people with their hearing notices and scheduling orders. The pamphlet is exceedingly inaccurate. I'll do my best to summarize why. 1

submitted 60 days ago • 8 comments

Welp, there were hopes that the unopposed request to halt discovery in Abrego Garcia might be a sign that they were working out a resolution. Not so, it appears. The DOJ filed another sealed motion to stay discovery yesterday, a hearing occured this morning, and Judge Xinis just denied the motion.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Another day, another memo from EOIR's acting director purporting to overrule BIA precedent. Under what authority? None that I'm aware of. The memo is about change of venue and the issue isn't particularly pressing (the use of clerical transfers). But still. www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

A lengthy think piece full of anonymous leaks from folks inside DOD about how anonymous leaks coming out of DOD = constitutional crisis. Come on. Is the ultimate conclusion that military leaders are plotting a coup? Or just that Hegseth is a historically bad secretary who isn’t leading DOD at all?

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

New EOIR Director memo on "administrative closure" calls it "de facto" amnesty, rails on how illegal it is (it's not), and then says judges should continue to follow the regulations that allow/require administrative closure "unless they have a legal basis for not doing so." Lawless.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Boasberg holding a hearing at 5:15 PM on the new round of AEA renditions. Plaintiffs are seeking a TRO because they just received notice and now they're being loaded onto buses for immenent removal.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments