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| U.S. asylum policy in 1939: the MS St. Louis
On June 11 Attorney General Jeff
Sessions overturned a 2016 Board of Immigration Appeals decision supporting
asylum for an abused Salvadoran woman. The decision was expected but is still
shocking in the breadth of its effort to undo two decades of immigration
decisions.—TPOI editor
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Decided by Attorney General
June 11, 2018
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Attorney General
(1)Matter of A-R-C-G-, 26 I&N
Dec. 338 (BIA 2014) is overruled. That decision was
wrongly decided and should not
have been issued as a precedential decision.[…]
Read Sessions’ full ruling:
Retired Immigration Judges and
Former Members of the Board of Immigration Appeals Statement in Response to
Attorney General’s Decision in Matter of A-B
June 11, 2018
“[T]he Attorney General today
erased an important legal development that was universally agreed to be
correct... We hope that appellate courts or Congress through legislation will
reverse this unilateral action and return the rule of law to asylum
adjudications.”
Read the full statement:
First They Came for the Migrants
We still talk about American
fascism as a looming threat, something that could happen if we’re not vigilant.
But for undocumented immigrants, it’s already here.
By Michelle Goldberg, New
York Times
June 11, 2018
The sci-fi writer William Gibson
once said, “The future has arrived — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” In
America in 2018, the same could be said of authoritarianism.[…]
Read the full article:
Statement of Coretta Scott King
on the Nomination of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for the United States
District Court Southern District of Alabama
Senate Judiciary Committee
Thursday, March 13, 1986
In 1986 Coretta Scott King strongly
opposed Jeff Sessions’ appointment to the federal bench. Here is an excerpt
from her testimony:
I do not believe Jefferson
Sessions possesses the requisite judgment, competence, and sensitivity to the
rights guaranteed by the federal civil rights laws to qualify for appointment
to the federal district court. Based on his record, I believe his confirmation
would have a devastating effect on not only the judicial system in Alabama, but
also on the progress we have made everywhere toward fulfilling my husband’s
dream that he envisioned over twenty years ago. I therefore urge the Senate
Judiciary Committee to deny his confirmation.
Read her letter and full statement:
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