Interim Rule from the @DOJ_EOIR rearranging EOIR's org chart to reflect changes made in the Trump era, plus some odd new changes to the BIA and to the Director's role.
@DOJ_EOIR The biggest new change to EOIR's organizational structure is the Office of Policy, created in 2017 and just now being formalized in regulations. This office has been the source of many of the Trump administration's worst changes to immigration courts.
@DOJ_EOIR Board of Immigration Appeals members, known since the creation of the Board as "Board Members," are now going to be officially also called "Appellate Immigration Judges."
The politics of that choice are... interesting.
@DOJ_EOIR The interim rule will also permit, in circumstances where an appeal hasn't been decided within certain time periods, for the EOIR Director to decide appeals!
The regulations previously allowed the A.G. to decide cases in those scenarios, and the A.G. says he's too busy.
@DOJ_EOIR Finally, because allowing the Director to decide appeals conflicts with a current regulation saying the Director cannot do that, the Interim Rule edits the old regulation to make the new delegation of authority permissible.
The rule goes into effect 60 days from Monday.
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ALSO NEW: A federal judge in Tennessee just granted Abrego Garcia release on bond with conditions, finding that the DOJ did NOT meet its burden to prove that Mr. Abrego Garcia was a flight risk or such a danger to the community that release must be denied even with conditions.
Judge Crenshaw in Tennessee finds that the government has failed to meet its burden to prove that Mr. Abrego Garcia is so dangerous that no conditions could justify his release, and therefore upholds the magistrate judge's decision granting release on bond with conditions.
Judge Crenshaw on the allegations of MS-13 membership:
"[F]or the court to find that Abrego is a member of or in affiliation with MS-13, it would have to make so many inferences from the Government's proffered evidence in its favor that such conclusion would border on fanciful."
AWFUL scenario. Border Patrol agents raided a car wash and arrested a DACA recipient working there. He has a REAL ID, but they didn't even let him show his ID, they just grabbed him and threw him in a van.
He was then detained for a MONTH before getting bond.
CRAZY story. An 82-year-old from Chile lost his green card. In June, he went to pick up a new one from @USCIS. While there, he was handcuffed and detained by ICE.
An unknown caller then told family she could help, then later said he’d died. But now he’s turned up in Guatemala!
- Why was this lawful permanent resident detained when picking up a replacement green card? He has no criminal record.
- Why was he not in the ICE detainee locator system?
- How did he end up in Guatemala?
- Who called family?
@DHSgov The mysterious caller undoubtedly does raise some red flags about a hoax, but there are a couple important key difference:
- He was detained by officials at a government office and his wife saw it happen.
- He turned up in another country, so there has to be a record of how.
Maduro has indicated that the men will not be immediately detained.
This story has been a major public relations talking point for his government. They are saying that they “rescued” the men in CECOT, so for now they’ll all have public relations on their side.
As a reminder, Andry was never ordered deported. He was detained at a port of entry in late 2024 by CBP b/c of his tattoos.
He had a pending asylum hearing in his immigration court case. Before that happened, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned him in El Salvador.
🚨NEW. A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador to be imprisoned without trial: mass disappearances.
The data reveals DOZENS of people on the flight whose names were never disclosed before. All may still be locked up there today.
This new story from @404mediaco provides the first public confirmation of the identity of some of the people who were disappeared by the Trump admin on March 15. In some cases, families knew they were there because they saw their loved one in pictures — but had NO confirmation.
@404mediaco In total, this means the number of people imprisoned in CECOT without trial by the Trump admin is *at least* 281 people — 42 more on this list that weren't on the original leaked CBS News list of 238, plus Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
NEW: @MiamiHerald confirms that 1/3 of the people sent to the Everglades Detention Camp have NO CRIMINAL RECORD, making clear that federal and state officials LIED about who would be detained there.
Of those who do have charges, many have low-level traffic offenses.
That is FALSE. What you posted below is the criminal charge for improper entry, the act of entering without inspection.
*Entry* is distinct from presence. After all, visa overstays entered legally, but are present unlawfully. The Supreme Court is clear; presence is not a crime.
1) As noted above, being present in the country illegally is not a crime. 2) “Criminal record” means actually arrested and prosecuted. We’ve ALL done things which *could* have been prosecuted but weren’t. Doesn’t mean we all have criminal records.