DOJ Rule Could Cut Immigration Appeals Board Caseload

Last week, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a new precedent, a matter of EMFS. The board held that death threats alone usually do not count as persecution unless they are objectively credible and made by someone with the immediate ability to carry them out. Bottom line, anonymous death threats, even with bullets, are now usually not enough unless you can prove who sent them and how close they were to acting. Unfortunately, by the time you can prove it, you might have already been assassin

DOJ wants to dismiss all immigration appeals to speed up deportations

White House announces new asylum regulation