Immigration Review
A weekly podcast of immigration case summaries and practice insights from your host, Kevin A. Gregg, a partner at the law firm Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt P.A.
Each Monday, the Immigration Review podcast reviews the latest published opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals—discussing some in depth, providing holdings for others, and always giving practical insights, rummaging through the week’s decisions so you don’t have to.
*Read about your host and the KKTP law firm here: https://www.kktplaw.com/attorney/gregg-kevin-a/
Each Monday, the Immigration Review podcast reviews the latest published opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals—discussing some in depth, providing holdings for others, and always giving practical insights, rummaging through the week’s decisions so you don’t have to.
*Read about your host and the KKTP law firm here: https://www.kktplaw.com/attorney/gregg-kevin-a/
Episodes
252 episodes since 2020
Ep. 229 - Precedential Decisions from 9/9/2024 - 9/15/2024 (failure to report as a child; manner of entry, jurisdiction & Patel; petty theft & CIMT; single scheme; pardons; Skidmore deference; fetus persecution)
Castellanos-Ventura v. Garland, No. 21-6293 (2d Cir. Sept. 13, 2024)Honduran women; harm by family as a child; failure to report as a child; unable or unwilling to protect; erroneous reliance on State Department report; fai...
September 16, 2024
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37:37
Ep. 228 - Precedential Decisions from 9/2/2024 - 9/8/2024 (deficient NTA; claims processing rule; termination; IJ amending NTA; crime of violence; recklessness; Borden; Cal. Pen. Code § 245(a)(1) assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm)
Matter of R-T-P-, 28 I&N Dec. 828 (BIA 2024)deficient NTA; claims processing rule; termination; IJ amending NTA United States v. Perez Garcia, No. 23-435 (9th Cir. Sept. 4, 2024)
September 09, 2024
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25:12
Ep. 227 - Precedential Decisions from 8/26/2024 - 9/1/2024 (reopening standard; attempted child abuse; jurisdiction - Patel, I-601 & I-751; nexus & harm in the U.S.; reasonable fear review; derivative U.S. citizenship)
Mouns v. Garland, No. 22-1368 (4th Cir. Aug. 28, 2024)changed country condition motion to reopen; L-O-G-; prima facie standard; Coelho; reasonable likelihood; Yemen Matter ...
September 02, 2024
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56:08
Ep. 226 - Precedential Decisions from 8/19/2024 - 8/25/2024 (asylum; withholding of removal; CAT; imputed political opinion; substantial evidence; past persecution; nexus; corroborating evidence)
Aben v. Garland, No. 20-60937 (5th Cir. Aug. 20, 2024)Asylum; withholding of removal; CAT; imputed political opinion; substantial evidence; past persecution; nexus; corroborating evidence; Anglophone; Cameroon<...
August 26, 2024
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15:37
Ep. 225 - Precedential Decisions from 8/12/2024 - 8/18/2024 (vacated criminal conviction & reopening; murder; voluntary departure; temporary BIA members; nexus; police reports & discretion)
Bent v. Garland, No. 22-1910 (9th Cir. Aug. 15, 2024)Cal. Pen. Code § 1473.7(a)(1); equitably tolling for motion to reopen where criminal conviction vacated; due diligence; extraordinary circumstance ...
August 19, 2024
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50:15
Ep. 224 - Precedential Decisions from 8/5/2024 - 8/11/2024 (denaturalization & estoppel; mental health & asylum; hardship review; attorney unpreparedness & continuances; particularly serious crimes; domestic violence & asylum; credibility)
Intro + Nakka, et al. v. USCIS (CA9) and United States v. Valdivias-Soto (CA9)Indian derivative visas and CSPA; translation errors in removal proceedings and right to counsel United...
August 12, 2024
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1:05:54
Ep. 223 - Precedential Decisions from 7/29/2024 - 8/4/2024 (challenging DHS regulations; material support of terrorism & due process; naturalization delay; particularly serious crime; mental health issues; past persecution & Mann party)
Save Jobs USA v. DHS, No. 23-5089 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 2, 2024)challenging DHS regulations; Washtech; H-4 employment authorization; Major Questions Doctrine; star decisis Jani v. Garland...
August 05, 2024
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44:47
Ep. 222 - Precedential Decisions from 7/22/2024 - 7/28/2024 (administrative notice of foreign law; credibility; derivative citizenship; best interests of the child; asylum & Angola; PFR venue; bonafide Egyptian marriage & pro se respondents)
Shen v. Garland, No. 16-71315 (9th Cir. July 24, 2024)administrative notice of foreign law; forced abortion; 2003 change in law for Chinese premarital checkups; exhaustion of sub-arguments; Alam; credibility; mista...
July 29, 2024
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56:27
Special Episode - Interview with Attorney Ira Kurzban (important cases from the Supreme Court's 2023-2024 Term; state of the judiciary; Immigrants' List & immigration advocacy)
All about Ira Kurzban and Immigrants' List:Attorney Profile: https://www.kktplaw.com/atto...
July 25, 2024
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1:26:19
Ep. 221 - Precedential Decisions from 7/15/2024 - 7/21/2024 (flight from ethnic cleansing & genocide; gang recruitment & PSGs; CIMT & prostitution; I-213 reliability; unfulfilled threat doctrine)
Paye v. Garland, No. 23-1426 (1st Cir. July 17, 2024)flight from ethnic cleansing and genocide as past persecution; INA § 242(a)(2)(C) jurisdiction Ramos-Gutierrez v. Garland, No. 23-18...
July 22, 2024
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35:20
Ep. 220 - Precedential Decisions from 7/8/2024 - 7/14/2024 (naturalization; lawfully admitted for permanent residence; § 237(a)(1)(H) waiver; conditional LPR; pre-trial detention; confined as a result of conviction; persecution; continuance; admin close)
Azumah v. USCIS, No. 22-2175 (4th Cir. July 9, 2024)naturalization; lawfully admitted for permanent residence; 8 C.F.R. § 316.2(b); applicant for admission Bador v. Garland, No. 22-6492...
July 15, 2024
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38:07
Special Episode - Interview with Attorney Eric Lee (lead counsel on the recent doctrine of consular nonreviewability Supreme Court case, Munoz v. Dept. of State)
All about Eric Lee: Law Firm Website (Diamante Law): https://www.diamantelaw.com/meet-ourEmail: elee@diamantelaw.com<...
July 11, 2024
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1:09:21
Ep. 219 - Precedential Decisions from 7/1/2024 - 7/7/2024 (car jacking; crime of violence - physical force & mens rea; climate refugees; 212(c) relief; Wilkinson review; mixed motive, nexus, Christians & gangs; adjustment of status in district court)
Gutierrez v. Garland, Nos., 22-554, 21-130 (9th Cir. July 2, 2024)carjacking in violation of Cal. Pen. Code § 215(a); aggravated felony crime of violence; crime involving moral turpitude; statute silent on mens rea...
July 08, 2024
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45:26
Special Episode - AILA Annual Conference 2024 (interview with AILA National Immediate Past President Farshad Owji, and AILA National President Kelli Stump)
Links!!!!All about AILAAll about FarshadAll about Kelli
July 02, 2024
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46:56
Ep. 218 - Precedential Decisions from 6/24/2024 - 6/30/2024 (Chevron agency deference; discretionary determination review; nexus; Jehovah’s Witnesses; religion; aggravated felony: sexual abuse of a minor & relating to obstruction of justice; mens rea)
Guardian article on HondurasLoper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, No. 22-451 (U.S. June 28, 2024)
July 01, 2024
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44:35
Ep. 217 - Precedential Decisions from 6/17/2024 - 6/23/2024 (fundamental right to live with spouse; lawful sanction; credibility; failure to consider therapist letter; no-notice reopening; reasonable fear review; deficient OSC & due process)
Department of State v. Munoz, No. 23-334 (U.S. June 21, 2024)fundamental right to live with one’s spouse in the United States; due process; doctrine of consular nonreviewability Matter...
June 24, 2024
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52:43
Ep. 216 - Precedential Decisions from 6/10/2024 - 6/16/2024 (in absentia motion to reopen; deficient NTA; textualism; crime of violence; asylum & withholding nexus; CIMT; prolonged detention post-reinstatement)
Campos-Chaves v. Garland, No. 22-674 (U.S. June 14, 2024)in absentia motion to reopen; deficient NTA; statutory interpretation; Notice of Hearing; INA § 239(a)(2); “change”; “new”; “any”
June 17, 2024
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39:29
Ep. 215 - Precedential Decisions from 6/3/2024 - 6/9/2024 (case law housekeeping!; authentication of domestic records; APA - jurisdiction, discretion & I-601A delay; one year asylum deadline; pattern or practice - Mexican transgender women)
Caselaw HousekeepingSouth Carolina domestic violence (4th Cir.); Afghan and Iraqi Allies, et al. v. Blinken, et al (D.C. Cir.); Jajati v. CBP (9th Cir.) Smith v. Garland, No. 2...
June 10, 2024
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40:49
Ep. 214 - Precedential Decisions from 5/28/2024 - 6/2/2024 (sexual abuse of a minor aggravated felony; possession of child pornography; mootness & physical removal; J-F-F- and CAT; controlled substance trafficking aggravated felony; mandatory detention)
Huynh v. Garland, No. 23-1318 (8th Cir. May 28, 2024)sexual abuse of a minor aggravated felony; possession of child pornography; INA § 101(A)(43)(a); Iowa Code § 728.12(3); INA § 101(a)(43)(L); CIMT; realistic provability a...
June 03, 2024
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45:23
Ep. 213 - Precedential Decisions from 5/21/2024 - 5/27/2024 (serious drug offense; choice of law; changed country condition motion to reopen; Bosnian Muslims; religion and nexus; police informant; deficient NTA; sexual abuse of a minor aggravated felony)
Brown v. United States, No. 22-6389 (U.S. May 23, 2024)sentence enhancement; ACCA; Pennsylvania marijuana; Florida cocaine; categorical approach point of comparison Matter of M-N-I-...
May 27, 2024
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51:30
Ep. 212 - Precedential Decisions from 5/13/2024 - 5/20/2024 (knock and talk; curtilage; Fourth Amendment; vacating ICE policy and practice; Hague Act Adoption; changed country condition motion to reopen; crimes of child abuse, neglect, or abandonment)
Sorto-Vasquez Kidd, et al. v. Mayorkas, et al., (C.D. Cal. May 15, 2024)knock and arrest; knock and talk; curtilage; Fourth Amendment; injunctive relief; vacating ICE policy and practice; Aleman Gonzalez; INA § 242...
May 20, 2024
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44:59
Ep. 211 - Precedential Decisions from 5/6/2024 - 5/12/2024 (FBA Conference!; deficient NTA; reinstatement; exhaustion; claims processing rule; INA § 241(a)(5) not jurisdictional; reasonable fear; family based particular social group; fear of cartels)
Suate-Orellana v. Garland, No. 19-72446 (9th Cir. May 7, 2024) deficient NTA; reinstatement; exhaustion; claims processing rule; INA § 241(a)(5) not jurisdictional; Santos-Zacaria and clearly irreconcilable precedent<...
May 13, 2024
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22:44
Ep. 210 - Precedential Decisions from 4/29/2024 - 5/5/2024 (crime of domestic violence & mental harms; expert witness & CAT - Iraq; past persecution & Mexican Navy; immutability & business owners; Sinaloa Cartel & CAT; Hague Act on Child Abduction)
Sanchez-Perez v. Garland, No. 23-3004 (6th Cir. Apr. 30, 2024)misdemeanor domestic assault under Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-111; crime of domestic violence; physical force; mental harms; bodily injury; United Staes v. Cast...
May 06, 2024
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46:45
Ep. 209 - Precedential Decisions from 4/22/2024 - 4/28/2024 (FTCA; de minimis harm; colorable question of law; time limit on discretion; qualifying relative; non-LPR cancellation of removal; age out; 4,000 cap; BIA notice of appeal requirements; nexus)
Queen v. United States, No. 22-30294 (5th Cir. Apr. 24, 2024)FTCA; prisoner claims; de minimis harm Ndlovu v. Garland, No. 23-2208 (7th Cir. Apr. 25, 2024)justification;
April 29, 2024
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28:49
Ep. 208 - Precedential Decisions from 4/15/2024 - 4/21/2024 (I-130; sham marriage; overcoming INA § 204(c); exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; reasonable likelihood standard for prima facie case; gender-based asylum claims; social distinction)
Bristow v. Mayorkas, No. 22 C 991 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 28, 2024)I-130; sham marriage; overcoming INA § 204(c); persuasiveness of affidavits Olmedo Martinez v. Garland, No. 23-9593 (10th Cir....
April 22, 2024
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31:08