BREAKING: High Court Won't Let Trump Admin End DACA

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1284349/breaking-high-court-won-t-let-trump-admin-end-daca?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration

Visa Bulletin For July 2020

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2020/visa-bulletin-for-july-2020.html

U.S. and Mexico extend border restrictions through July 21

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-16/us-mexico-agree-extend-border-restrictions-july-21

EOIR Director Responds to TRAC's Accusation of Missing Data

https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/614/include/EOIR.McHenry.Response.--.TRAC.Letter.Response.6.12.20.pdf

Supreme Court turns aside Justice Department, won't hear California sanctuary cities case

 (The state law in question bars police from notifying the feds when immigrants are being released after serving time for local crimes.)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-turns-aside-justice-department-won-t-hear-california-n1231060

EOIR Update

The Honolulu Immigration Court will resume hearings in non-detained cases on Monday, June 15, 2020. The Boston, Buffalo, Dallas, Hartford, Las Vegas, Memphis, and New Orleans Immigration Courts will resume hearings in non-detained cases on Monday, June 29, 2020. Hearings in non-detained cases at all other immigration courts are postponed through, and including, Friday June 26, 2020.

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/eoir-operational-status-during-coronavirus-pandemic

DeVos Formally Cuts DACA Students From $6B Virus Relief

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1282423/devos-formally-cuts-daca-students-from-6b-virus-relief?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration

More Than 41K Migrants Sent Back Under CDC Border Block

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1282578/more-than-41k-migrants-sent-back-under-cdc-border-block?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration

China Army Officer arrested and charged with visa fraud after obtaining a J1 then 'trying to steal medical research' from the University of California

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8417779/Chinese-military-officer-charged-visa-fraud-trying-steal-medical-research.html

This immigrant woman was stripped of her U.S. citizenship, but will she be deported to Afghanistan?

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2020/06/11/this-immigrant-woman-was-stripped-of-her-us-citizenship-but-will-she-be-deported-to-afghanistan/

Procter & Gamble's Anti-DACA Policy Deemed Discriminatory

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1281919/procter-gamble-s-anti-daca-policy-deemed-discriminatory

New Visa restrictions against International Criminal Court officials and their families

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/11/874699475/trump-greenlights-sanctions-against-international-criminal-court-investigators

GAO Says Gov't Spent Migrant Medical Funds On Dirt Bikes

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1282228/gao-says-gov-t-spent-migrant-medical-funds-on-dirt-bikes?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Procedures for Asylum and Withholding of Removal; Credible Fear and Reasonable Fear Review

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2020-12575.pdf

DHS to Begin Sending Furlough Notices to 15,000 Employees Next Week

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/06/dhs-begin-sending-furlough-notices-15000-employees-next-week/166096/

Watchdog Finds Immigration Court Agency Bungled Budget

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1281218/watchdog-finds-immigration-court-agency-bungled-budget?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration

DOJ ‘reassigned’ career members of Board of Immigration Appeals

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/06/09/doj-reassigned-career-members-of-board-of-immigration-appeals/

Calif. Court Greenlights Challenges To Travel Ban Waivers

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1280553/calif-court-greenlights-challenges-to-travel-ban-waivers?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration

DS-160/DS-260 Asking for Voluntary Disclosure of OTHER Social Media

 Therefore, by responding “No” to what appears to be an optional request to share information, visa applicants end up affirmatively asserting that they have not used additional social media platforms. 

BIA SSN Case:

Respondent sustained a federal conviction for "misuse of a social security number" in violation of 42 USC Sec. 408(a)(7)(B)...On de novo review, and absent contrary circuit law, we conclude that 42 USC Sec. 408(a)(7)(B) does not define a CIMT under the categorical approach because the minimum conduct that has a realistic probability of being prosecuted under the statute-i.e., using a fictitious social security number to get a job and support one's family, id at 828- is not "reprehensible" enough to warrant CIMT treatment, as indicated by the court in Arias. Arias v. Lynch, 834 F.3d at 826-827. Matter of Silva-Trevino, 26 I&N Dec. 826, 834 (BIA 2016)...Moreover, to the extent Marin-Rodriguez v. Holder, 710 F3d 734 (7th Cir. 2013), can be read to support a contrary result, we are bound by the law of the case principles to follow the Arias court's determination that Marin-Rodriguez in inapposite. See 834 F.3d 830.

https://www.scribd.com/document/452083387/M-E-A-AXXX-XXX-871-BIA-Feb-10-2020?secret_password=nwIjFxuPfHcSp8QEGWWA&utm_source=Recent%20Postings%20Alert&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RP%20Daily

h/t to @lisa koop

EOIR's Data Release on Asylum So Deficient Public Should Not Rely on Accuracy of Court Records

https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/611/#f1

DOJ Closes Immigration Courts In 15 Cities Over 'Civil Unrest'

https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1278698/doj-closes-immigration-courts-in-15-cities-over-civil-unrest-?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration

Foreigners with criminal convictions who fear they will be tortured if they are deported can challenge denials of their requests to stay in the U.S. in federal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday.

Foreigners with criminal convictions who fear they will be tortured if they are deported can challenge denials of their requests to stay in the U.S. in federal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday.

Read more at: https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1260979/breaking-high-court-allows-circuit-court-review-in-deportation-cases?nl_pk=3d58be1d-130f-45ab-8328-a9ad142de766&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration?copied=1