Today, an article entitled "Hopeless – Often Pointless – Cases Clog Immigration Courts" was published on the "Center for Immigration Studies" website. I won't link to it, because we don't have an interest in fueling traffic to an organization labeled by the...
Judulang
What Judulang Means – Implications For “Particularly Serious Crimes”
The Supreme Court's decision in Judulang v. Holder has broader implications than those listed in the decision. While the decision clearly rejects the agency's interpretation of the "comparable grounds" test for 212(c) waiver eligibility, the real lesson form...
Implications of Judulang and a Hopeful Warning to the BIA
As one author wrote this week after the Judulang decision, "the Board of Immigration Appeals should pay heed to the growing number of cases in recent years in which the Supreme Court has rejected its positions in removal cases." It is...
Astounding Decision From the Supreme Court Regarding 212(c) Waivers – Judulang v. Holder
We will have a lot more to say in the coming days about this, but the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision in Judulang v. Holder is about as clear a message as the court can send. Anyone who read the oral argument in the case should have seen the writing on the wall,...