Ep. 22 - Precedential Decisions from 9/21/20 - 9/27/20 (asylum, particular social group, nexus, expert testimony, inadmissibility and applicants for admission, continuances, police reports, ineffective assistance of counsel)

[01:19] Matter of A-C-A-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 84 (A.G. 2020) 

• asylum; humanitarian asylum; particular social group; nexus; Salvadoran women; El Salvador 

[07:21] Matter of J-G-T-, 28 I&N Dec. 97 (BIA 2020) 

• expert testimony; State Department reports; Iran; Mexico 

[12:53] Torres v. Barr, No. 13-70653 (9th Cir. Sept. 24, 2020) 

• inadmissibility; INA § 212(a)(7)(a)(i)(I); INA § 212(a)(6)(A)(i); statutory interpretation; Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) 

[18:31] Loja-Tene v. Barr, No. 19-2192 (1st Cir. Sept. 21, 2020) 

• asylum; nexus; family group; criminal recruitment; Ecuador 

[21:09] Lee v. Barr, No. 19-1516 (1st Cir. Sept. 22, 2020) 

• continuances; withholding of removal; wealthy immigrants; particular social group; Jamaica; voluntary departure 

[26:44] Avitso v. Barr, No. 20-1117 (8th Cir. Sept. 22, 2020) 

• motion to reopen; in absentia; ineffective assistance of counsel; substantial compliance with Matter of Lozada 

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