Immigration Review
by Kevin A. Gregg, Esq. ([email protected])
A weekly podcast of immigration case summaries and practice insights from your host, Kevin A. Gregg, a partner at the law firm Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt P.A.
Each Monday, the Immigration Review podcast reviews the latest published opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals—discussing some in depth, providing holdings for others, and always giving practical insights, rummaging through the week’s decisions so you don’t have to.
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Copyright: © 2024 ® Immigration Review
Episodes
Ep. 213 - Precedential Decisions from 5/21/2024 - 5/27/2024 (serious drug offense; choice of law; changed country condition motion to reopen; Bosnian Muslims; religion and nexus; police informant; deficient NTA; sexual abuse of a minor aggravated felony)
51m · PublishedBrown v. United States, No. 22-6389 (U.S. May 23, 2024)
- sentence enhancement; ACCA; Pennsylvania marijuana; Florida cocaine; categorical approach point of comparison
Matter of M-N-I-, 28 I&N Dec. 803 (BIA 2024)
- choice of law; change of venue; Matter of Garcia; administrative control court; notice of hearing
Tulung v. Garland, No. 23-2430 (1st Cir. May 21, 2024)
- changed country condition motion to reopen; Chinese Christian; Indonesia; cumulative evidence; point of comparison; new evidence
Durakovic v. Garland, No. 23-2430 (8th Cir. May 20, 2024)
- Bosnian Muslims; religion and nexus; police information; one central reason vs. a reason; asylum and withholding nexus standard
Leger v. U.S. Att'y Gen., No. 22-10971 (11th Cir. May 20, 2024)
- sexual abuse of a minor aggravated felony; INA § 101(a)(43)(A); Said and marijuana; prior precedent rule; Fla. Stat. § 800.04(4); age differential; statutory rape; generic definition and statutory construction; deficient NTA; claims processing rule argument misconstrued by BIA as jurisdiction
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Ep. 212 - Precedential Decisions from 5/13/2024 - 5/20/2024 (knock and talk; curtilage; Fourth Amendment; vacating ICE policy and practice; Hague Act Adoption; changed country condition motion to reopen; crimes of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment)
44m · PublishedSorto-Vasquez Kidd, et al. v. Mayorkas, et al., (C.D. Cal. May 15, 2024)
- knock and arrest; knock and talk; curtilage; Fourth Amendment; injunctive relief; vacating ICE policy and practice; Aleman Gonzalez; INA § 242(f)
Matter of Furtado, 28 I&N Dec. 794 (BIA 2024)
- Hague Act Adoption and I-130; exceptions; internal USCIS policy; Central Authority letter; habitual residence
Djokro v. Garland, No. 23-1712 (1st Cir. May 17, 2024)
- changed country condition motion to reopen; Sihotang v. Sessions; Chinese Christian; Indonesia
Marquez Cruz v. Garland, No. 23-1676 (4th Cir. May 14, 2024)
- crimes of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment; attempted second degree child sexual abuse under D.C. Code §§ 22-3009 and 22-3018; attempt crimes and INA § 237(a)(2)(E)(i)
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Ep. 211 - Precedential Decisions from 5/6/2024 - 5/12/2024 (FBA Conference!; deficient NTA; reinstatement; exhaustion; claims processing rule; INA § 241(a)(5) not jurisdictional; reasonable fear; family based particular social group; fear of cartels)
22m · PublishedSuate-Orellana v. Garland, No. 19-72446 (9th Cir. May 7, 2024)
- deficient NTA; reinstatement; exhaustion; claims processing rule; INA § 241(a)(5) not jurisdictional; Santos-Zacaria and clearly irreconcilable precedent
Galvez-Vicencio v. Garland, No. 23-3018 (8th Cir. May 6, 2024)
- reasonable fear review; family based particular social group; fear of cartels; retribution; Mexico
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Ep. 210 - Precedential Decisions from 4/29/2024 - 5/5/2024 (crime of domestic violence & mental harms; expert witness & CAT - Iraq; past persecution & Mexican Navy; immutability & business owners; Sinaloa Cartel & CAT; Hague Act on Child Abduction)
46m · PublishedSanchez-Perez v. Garland, No. 23-3004 (6th Cir. Apr. 30, 2024)
- misdemeanor domestic assault under Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-111; crime of domestic violence; physical force; mental harms; bodily injury; United Staes v. Castleman
Saleh v. Garland, No. 22-3036 (6th Cir. May 2, 2024)
- expert witness; attorney concessions; holistic approach to aggregate CAT analysis; Iraq
Loredo Rangel v. Garland, No. 23-60089 (5th Cir. May 1, 2024)
- past persecution; non-physical harm; extreme harm; Mexican Navy
Donis-Hernandez de Cabrera v. Garland, No. 23-1266 (1st Cir. May 2, 2024)
- Mara 18; extortion; death threats; small business owners; immutability; social distinction; state department reports; Guatemala
Rosas-Martinez v. Garland, No. 22-2474 (8th Cir. May 3, 2024)
- CAT deferral; Sinaloa Cartel; Mexican government acquiescence; BIA overturning IJ; J‑F-F-; relocation; discrepancy with unpublished BIA decisions
Cuenca Figueredo v. Carmen Rojas, No. 23-12566 (11th Cir. May 1, 2024)
- Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; child settled in U.S.; immigration status; Venezuela
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Ep. 209 - Precedential Decisions from 4/22/2024 - 4/28/2024 (FTCA; de minimis harm; colorable question of law; time limit on discretion; qualifying relative; non-LPR cancellation of removal; age out; 4,000 cap; BIA notice of appeal requirements; nexus)
28m · PublishedQueen v. United States, No. 22-30294 (5th Cir. Apr. 24, 2024)
- FTCA; prisoner claims; de minimis harm
Ndlovu v. Garland, No. 23-2208 (7th Cir. Apr. 25, 2024)
- justification; Patel; colorable question of law; time limit on discretion
Rangel-Fuentes v. Garland, No. 23-9511 (10th Cir. Apr. 23, 2024)
- qualifying relative; non-LPR cancellation of removal; age out; 4,000 cap; BIA notice of appeal requirements; nexus
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Ep. 208 - Precedential Decisions from 4/15/2024 - 4/21/2024 (I-130; sham marriage; overcoming INA § 204(c); exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; reasonable likelihood standard for prima facie case; gender-based asylum claims; social distinction)
31m · PublishedBristow v. Mayorkas, No. 22 C 991 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 28, 2024)
- I-130; sham marriage; overcoming INA § 204(c); persuasiveness of affidavits
Olmedo Martinez v. Garland, No. 23-9593 (10th Cir. Apr. 16, 2024)
- non-LPR cancellation of removal motion to reopen; exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; reasonable likelihood standard for prima facie case; Wilkinson; medical issues for children
Bustamante-Leiva v. Garland, No. 22-60479 (5th Cir. Apr. 19, 2024)
- gender-based asylum claims; religion; social distinction; three-member panel; BIA bias; DHS failure to file brief; gangs; Honduras
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Ep. 207 - Precedential Decisions from 4/8/2024 - 4/14/2024 (CAT deferral; aggregate forms of torture; changed country condition motion to reopen; Chaldean Christian; Iraq; injunction; visa bulletin; denaturalization; ineffective assistance of counsel)
33m · PublishedAbdulahad v. Garland, No. 22-3743 (6th Cir. Apr. 11, 2024)
- CAT deferral; aggregate forms of torture; changed country condition motion to reopen; cumulative evidence; point of comparison; individualized risk; American characteristics; Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF); Chaldean Christian; Iraq
Cheejati, et al. v. Blinken, et al., No. 23-40398 (5th Cir. Apr. 9, 2024)
- injunction; visa bulletin; India; TRO; jurisdiction and review; INA § 245(b); jurisdiction; Patel discretion; retrogression
Farhane v. United States, No. 20-1666 (2d Cir. Aug. 11, 2023)
- denaturalization; ineffective assistance of counsel in criminal proceedings; Strickland; collateral consequences; Padilla
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Ep. 206 - Precedential Decisions from 4/1/2024 - 4/7/2024 (criminal encouraging violation of immigration law; expedited removal untimely evidence; unable or unwilling to protect in Mexico; collateral estoppel and jurisdiction)
30m · PublishedUnited States v. Hansen, No. 17-10548 (9th Cir. Apr. 3, 2024)
- common law specific intent mens rea; solicitation definition; 8 U.S.C. §§ 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) and 1324(a)(1)(B)(i); encouraging violation of immigration law
Matter of F-C-S-, 28 I&N Dec. 788 (BIA 2024) (amended)
- 8 C.F.R. § 1240.17; expedited removal; credible fear process; mental incompetency and untimely evidence
Ortega v. Garland, No. 21-3253 (7th Cir. Mar. 29, 2024)
- unable or unwilling to protect; police investigations; cartel threats; Mexico
Shaiban v. Jaddou, et al., No. 21-2010 (4th Cir. Apr. 3, 2024)
- collateral estoppel; Patel; INA § 242(a)(2)(B)(ii); jurisdiction; INA § 209(b) adjustment; discretion; terrorism
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Ep. 205 - Precedential Decisions from 3/25/2024 - 3/31/2024 (mixed motive; one central reason; personal dispute; religion; CIMT; New Jersey second-degree robbery; naturalization; false claim to U.S. citizenship; unlawful voting)
32m · PublishedKhalil v. Garland, No. 23-1443 (1st Cir. Mar. 29, 2024)
- mixed motive; one central reason; personal dispute; intertwined reasons; religion; persecution standard; de novo review of government-actor prong of CAT protection; duty to intervene; Muslim Brotherhood; Egypt
Almanzar v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 21-3092 (3d Cir. Mar. 29, 2024)
- second-degree robbery, N.J. Stat. Ann. § 2C:15-1(a); CIMT; Diaz-Lizarraga; transforming generic theft into CIMT; synergy and Matter of Lopez-Meza
Melara v. Mayorkas, 663 F. Supp. 3d 1158 (C.D. Cal. 2021)
- naturalization; false claim to U.S. citizenship; unlawful voting; fraudulent or willful misrepresentation
National Immigration Litigation Alliance Wilkinson Practice Advisory
- https://immigrationlitigation.org/practice-advisories/
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Immigration Review has 422 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 252:42:39. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 23rd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on June 2nd, 2024 20:11.
