Screenshot of first page of Matter of R-A-U-.

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Yesterday, Todd Blanche designated not one but two very fact/record specific BIA decisions overturning IJ credibility determinations as presidential. Huh.

Screenshot of first page of Matter of R-A-U-

Truly can't think of any good reason to designate this very fact/record-specific BIA decision for publication.

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Incredible thread. The level of in person community-building and mutual aid that came out Minneapolis is unprecedented in modern American times.

Screenshot of text from complaint: 25. The Article’s assertions that Director Patel has used his position to “target political or personal adversaries of the president”; that he complained that the FBI merchandise “isn't intimidating enough”; and that days before the U.S. launched its war with Iran, he “fired members of a counterintelligence squad that was devoted, in part, to Iran,” leaving the country vulnerable, are each false. Director Patel has not targeted political or personal adversaries; FBI personnel actions are taken only where employees have acted unethically or undermined the mission. His security detail confirmed that he has made no such complaint about FBI merchandise. And the squad referenced was within Counterterrorism—not a dedicated Iran counterintelligence squad—with only three affected individuals even tangentially working on Iran-related matters. Prior to publication, the FBI expressly informed Defendants that each of these claims was false, including that the merchandise claim was “absolutely, 100% false” and the Iran-squad claim “is not true.”

Ah, I see they went with: "The people I fired were working on *counterterrorism*, not counterintelligence!"

Another irreparable harm: if we don’t intervene now, who’s to know if these industry titans will take us on luxury fishing excursions next summer.

Generating headlines like this is exactly why they accepted and pretend to take seriously the Birthright Citizenship case. And meanwhile…

Mascherano already bailed at the thought of it.

Screenshot of text from decision: Although the respondent takes the position that issues identified by the Immigration Judge in his particular case should be determined immaterial, such determinations are delegated to immigration adjudicators who rely on truthful and complete responses to the questions that have been formulated in applications for relief and provide the basis by which to grant discretionary relief.

Really convincing materiality analysis from the Board, here.

From briefing being completed to decision to designation as precedent in what, four weeks total? All in the ordinary course.

Perhaps the least of the concerns but from what I've seen, detainees' legal cases do not advance *at all* while they are held there. Usually no NTA, no attempt to schedule any type of hearing. Nothing. Only when they get transferred elsewhere does the case begin to move. It seems purely punitive.

Ha the BIA decides that not letting noncitizens give any closing or opening argument in immigration court isn't a due process violation, but... it still reverse the IJ's negative credibility finding. That's what he says he wanted to give a closing argument on. So...

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On remand, the Immigration Judge should ensure that all relevant record evidence is addressed when evaluating the respondent’s credibility and determining whether the respondent met his respective burdens of proof. See INA § 208(b)(1)(B)(iii), 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(B)(iii). The Immigration Judge should reassess the respondent’s claims and explicitly address the documentary evidence the respondent presented in support of his claims. However, whether to allow closing argument is within the discretion of the Immigration Judge absent a showing that the denial of such argument would violate due process.

Direction on remand also seems strange. Whether to allow closing is in the IJ's discretion unless R makes showing that denial of such argument violates due process. How would R make that showing when you can't know exactly what evidence/application to law the IJ has already clocked?

Well this made my week. Thank you @unlawfulentries.bsky.social!

One Billion Stretch-Fives.

I don't have access. I assume they had to prove that they were an MLS Club, which entailed pointing scheduling authorities to the MLS website. This confirmed they were entitled to get a home game against another MLS club every so often. [otherwise I'm confused by the headline].

Mitch Johnson is weak on crime.

Can the Walton-Penner group buy 40% of the pixels on the Dicks Sporting Goods jumbotron?

Hastings is so disgusted with opponents doing the same things our players do. It’s nauseating. Winge is so much better and she and Marlowe are so good at being more enthusiastic at Nuggets successes while acknowledging that players on other teams are just plain good.

Financial issues, rough patches in a relationship, being overwhelmed caring for their autistic kid, bad legal advice, just not being too worried about what they saw as completing a bit of paperwork? Who knows? But anyone involved in greenlighting these arrests/detentions needs to be gone.

Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’ Tania Warner says she has documents showing she is in the US legally, but immigration agents were not swayed

Sounds like she has a valid work permit based on a pending marriage-based adjustment application. Pure cruelty and indifferent wastefulness to detain her and her poor daughter rather than allow USCIS to decide the application.

So many people need to be fired.

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(On two counts—he didn’t raise them and they’re not good people)

At a 2016 debate there was a ridiculous ask of the candidates to say something they admired about their opponent. Hillary fished around and landed on saying he had raised good children. Decent effort but also not true.

Give us more money and we will not deport U.S. citizens, which we were absolutely not doing, but we will stop. To the best of our ability.

Dmitry Medvedev

Text from Matter of Audencio AREVALO-VARGAS: (1) The respondent’s children are no longer qualifying relatives for purposes of the respondent’s application for cancellation of removal because they are now over 21 years old and have therefore aged out. (2) The respondent has not demonstrated that the economic detriment, diminished educational opportunities, and emotional hardship his children may experience in the event of the respondent’s removal from the United States would constitute exceptional and extremely unusual hardshipThe Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) appeals from the Immigration Judge’s August 20, 2019, decision granting the respondent’s application for cancellation of removal for certain nonpermanent residents under section 240A(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1) (2018). The respondent, a native and citizen of Mexico, opposes the appeal. The appeal will be sustained. The Immigration Judge determined that the respondent was statutorily eligible for cancellation of removal. On appeal, DHS argues the Immigration Judge erred in determining that the respondent’s qualifying United States citizen children would suffer exceptional and extremely unusual hardship in the event of his removal and that he has the requisite good moral character. As an initial matter, the respondent’s children are no longer qualifying relatives for purposes of the respondent’s application for cancellation of removal because they are now 26 and 24 years old and have therefore aged out during the pendency of this appeal.

BIA showing off a neat trick.

Take 7 years to decide an appeal of an IJ decision granting a noncitizen a green card and, wouldn't you know it, they no longer have minor children and so don't qualify for that application. Ordered removed to Mexico.
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The amount of work it takes just to not have your client in jail or not shackled with an ankle bracelet or not have their ID documents illegally confiscated by ICE—for situations where this stuff never would’ve been an issue but the past—is just obscene.

Imagine the amount of money the erstwhile Chads and “Ken” must be siphoning out of DHS in the private sector to not be in the administration.

Ha ha ha

Find someone who wants you like the BIA wants to deport people to be tortured in Haitian prisons (I think that's the 3rd or 4th published case on Haitian prison torture since last January).