THE GIBSON REPORT — 05-04-20 — Compiled by Elizabeth Gibson, Esquire, NY Legal Assistance Group! — Get The Latest On Regime’s Shenanigans 👺🤮☠️ 👹 & White Nationalist Assaults on The Rule of Law!

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Elizabeth Gibson
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Human Rights at Risk: The Immigration Courts Are in Need of an Overhaul

ABA (by IJ Tsankov): These controversial new policies have become so pervasive and so threatening to judicial independence that they have raised alarms. What began in 2018 as a few dramatic instances involving the abrupt removal and reassignment of cases from an immigration judge’s docket previewed the agency’s more recent alarming actions where the shuffling of scores of cases and entire dockets sometimes multiple times within a single day has become the norm.

 

Desert or sea: Virus traps migrants in mid-route danger zone

AP: Migrants have been dropped by the truckload in the Sahara or bused to Mexico’s border with Guatemala and beyond. Others are drifting in the Mediterranean after European and Libyan authorities declared their ports unsafe. And around 100 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are believed to have died in the Bay of Bengal, as country after country pushed them back out to sea.

 

US prosecutors allege ‘El Tigre’ trafficked cocaine on behalf of Honduran president

Guardian: Prosecutors also allege that Bonilla was entrusted with “special assignments, including murder” by President Hernández – who is identified as a co-conspirator – and his brother, Tony.

 

El Salvador’s President Takes On The Country’s Gangs Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

NPR: El Salvador’s president authorized the country’s police and military to use lethal force against gang members, who over the weekend were allegedly responsible for the murders of dozens of people. Along with the emergency orders, President Nayib Bukele put all incarcerated gang members on a 24-hour shutdown.

 

Fearing an undercount, advocates say census outreach is getting crushed by coronavirus

NBC: [A]s the pandemic puts the census count on hold for months while states wait to come out of lockdown, advocates warn that their outreach efforts are coming up short — increasing the odds that the communities that need federal help the most won’t get their fair share in the coming decade.

 

Trump renews threats to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities amid pandemic

CNN: The threat to withhold aid, while new in the context of coronavirus, has been acted upon by the Trump administration before. As was the case with those efforts in different circumstances, any renewed push to use funds as leverage is likely to be challenged in court. See also Seventh Circuit Rejects Trump’s Effort to Defund Sanctuary Cities, Affirms Nationwide Injunction.

 

Los New Yorkers: Essential and Underprotected in the Pandemic’s Epicenter

ProPublica: More than 400 Mexican migrants are known to have died of COVID-19 in the New York area, but for health reasons, Mexico will only accept their bodies if they are cremated. In place of seeing the body one last time, Lopez’s brother was sent photos by the funeral home, which will hold the cremains while the family figures out how to get them to Mexico.

 

Maya villages in Guatemala spurn U.S. deportees as infections spike

Reuters: Guatemala’s indigenous Maya towns are spurning returned migrants, threatening some with burning their homes or lynching as fear spreads about more than 100 deportees from the United States who tested positive for the new coronavirus.

 

Why Is the Immigration System Picking Up Legal Immigrants?

National Interest: According to a recent USCIS data release in response to a FOIA, E‐​Verify was run 17,909 times against TPS migrants by employers in the 4th quarter of fiscal year 2019. Of those 17,909 E‐​Verify queries run against TPS migrants, E‐​Verify approved 16,299 of them to work and issued 1,610 with a TNC [tentative non‐​confirmation]. In other words, about 9 percent of the E‐​Verify cases run against those on TPS in the 4th quarter of 2019 were mistakenly labeled at TNCs.

 

Trump’s Green Card Ban May Free Up More Employment Visas

Law360: [I]n reality, the order primarily limits categories of family-based immigration and as a result may actually end up making more visas available to would-be immigrants coming to the U.S. for job offers in the future if unused family visas roll over.

 

LITIGATION/CASELAW/RULES/MEMOS

 

Executive Office for Immigration Review Swears in Three New Board Members

Philip Montante: 96.3% asylum denial rate.

Kevin Riley: 88.1% asylum denial rate.

Aaron Petty: Former OIL Counsel.

 

Legal Services NYC Sues NYC Immigration Courts for Refusing to Postpone Filing Deadlines Amid COVID-19, Putting Countless Lives at Risk

LSNYC: Lawsuit accuses DOJ’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) of endangering the lives of immigrants, advocates, and the public by continuing to make them meet filing deadlines, in violation of city and state public health orders and litigants’ due process rights. Over 17,500 people have died from COVID-19 in New York State, and nearly 300,000 are infected.

 

Plaintiffs Will Continue Fight to Halt Dangerous and Unconstitutional Practices by EOIR and ICE

The decision denying the emergency TRO in NIPNLG, et al., v. EOIR, et al., is deeply disappointing; the lawsuit against EOIR and ICE was brought to protect the health of attorneys, immigrants, and the public from the impact of dangerous and unconstitutional policies. AILA Doc. No. 20042800

 

DHS Notice Containing Text of Asylum Cooperative Agreement with Honduras

DHS notice containing the text of the Asylum Cooperative Agreement between the United States and Honduras, which was signed on 9/25/19. (85 FR 25462, 5/1/20) AILA Doc. No. 20050138

 

DHS Final Rule Delaying Date for Card-Based Enforcement of REAL ID Regulations

DHS final rule delaying the date for card-based enforcement of the REAL ID Act regulations from 10/1/20 to 10/1/21. (85 FR 23205, 4/27/20) AILA Doc. No. 20042700

 

EOIR Final Rule Extending Bar for Asylum in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

EOIR final rule amending the regulations to conform to changes made by Public Law 115-218, which extended the bar for asylum in the CNMI by 15 years, providing that the current bar will continue to apply for asylum applications submitted prior to 1/1/30. (85 FR 23902, 4/30/20) AILA Doc. No. 20050130

 

CBP Issues Statement on Border Search of Electronic Devices

CBP issued a statement on border searches of electronic devices, noting that in FY2019, it conducted 40,913 electronic device searches, representing .01 percent of arriving international travelers. CBP also provided a month-to-month comparison of electronic device searches from FY2017 to FY2019. AILA Doc. No. 20042730

 

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Trump’s “war on coronavirus” clearly is bogus. But, his “war on our Constitution, the rule of law, and due process” is all too real. In this war, information is power. And, certainly, thanks to folks like Elizabeth, the NDPA’s information is better and our lawyers are smarter and better prepared than Trump’s. 

Due Process Forever!

PWS

05-04-20

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