by Matthew Hoppock | May 26, 2023 | Immigration |
I wanted to write a short post for people wondering about the new human trafficking law in Kansas, HB 2350. HC 2350 makes it a felony to engage in human smuggling. Many people are worried that this law is going to be applied to innoccent, every-day stuff like driving...
by Matthew Hoppock | Nov 11, 2021 | Immigration |
In a memorandum dated November 8, 2021, the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, David Neal, has rescinded the agency’s formal COVID-19 guidance, leaving a number of questions unanswered on how the courts will handle COVID-19 in the coming...
by Matthew Hoppock | Oct 25, 2021 | Immigration |
A lawsuit filed in June by a former Immigration Judge, Quynh Vu Bain, and exhibits the government has since filed raises a series of concerns about the way the government is managing the immigration courts and its FOIA obligations. [Note: although the aim of her suit...
by Matthew Hoppock | Oct 14, 2021 | Immigration |
The “rubber stamp” is a nefarious metaphor, historically used to accuse judges or legislatures of lacking any real power (or of refusing to exercise it). As it goes, the judge hasn’t made a meaningful decision at all; their signature has merely been...
by Matthew Hoppock | Oct 12, 2021 | Immigration |
For the last four years, we’ve been using the Freedom of Information Act to request records describing the policies and procedures that govern the processing of appeals and motions to reopen at the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Courts. One...
by Matthew Hoppock | Sep 13, 2021 | Immigration |
In January 2019 we submitted a FOIA request asking for the contents of the EOIR’s “Guidance and Publications” intranet site. The site is part of the EOIR’s intranet, which is accessible to all EOIR employees, and appeared to contain guidance...
