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1 week agoDOJ Says Temporary Immigration Judges No Longer Need Immigration Experience
The new rule, which went into effect on Thursday, permits the director of the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), with the U.S. Attorney General's approval, "to designate or select any attorney to serve" as a temporary immigration judge (TIJ) for a renewable six-month term. The notice states that the DOJ "declines to adopt any limitations on the number of extensions of the six-month periods or otherwise cap the length of a temporary appointment." The EOIR conducts immigration court proceedings, appellate reviews, and administrative hearings.
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1 week agoICE in courts: Wife of Bronx man arrested at Federal Plaza in front of children says it left her family traumatized | amNewYork
ICE agents forcibly removed a Bronx father, Luis, during an immigration hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, separating him from his three children.
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4 weeks agoICE in court: Three months of immigrant raids by masked fed agents continue in Lower Manhattan, with no end in sight | amNewYork
Masked federal agents now routinely patrol the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, creating an atmosphere where immigrants fear not the hearings but their outcomes after dismissal.
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1 month agoWhere is my daddy?': ICE separates more families in Lower Manhattan | amNewYork
Dozens of masked ICE agents were back in immigration court on Tuesday rapidly vanishing immigrants from their legally mandated court hearings and leaving devastated families in their wake.
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