Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Sessions’ Attempt to End Asylum for Victims of Domestic and Gang Violence

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
Matter of A-B-, Respondent
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.[…]

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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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