Advocacy Groups Use Lawfare Against Acting Attorney General's Right to Decide Immigration Cases
By Dan Cadman on December 5, 2018
Law360 is reporting that Acting Attorney General (AG) Matthew Whitaker has followed in his predecessor's footsteps by certifying to himself a couple of cases decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in which he and his advisors apparently believe that the appellate tribunal may have gone off track. According to Law360 (partially behind a paywall):
The first case, known as Matter of L-E-A-, relates to when an asylum-seeker may establish persecution as a member of a family, and the second, called Matter of Castillo-Perez, relates to what types of criminal convictions disqualify an immigrant from other forms of deportation relief.
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The board's decisions in both of those cases are stayed pending Whitaker's decisions.
https://cis.org/Cadman/Advocacy-Groups-Use-Lawfare-Against-Acting-Attorney-Generals-Right-Decide-Immigration-Cases
