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Aaron Hall Profile picture
Aaron Hall
@immlawACHall
Immigration lawyer • Colorado • Joseph & Hall • Spend most of my time occupying various administration buildings • #CUBuffs • Opinions/bad tweets mine alone
Jul 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
EOIR Director McHenry’s responses to questions from Senate Judiciary had to get greenlighted by group including Steven Miller. Stephen Miller first learns of little-used law that ICE would later attempt to use to assess hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against @McKJeremy‘s client, amongst others.
Jan 31, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
A Board of Immigration Appeals housed within the Department of Justice on a real hot streak of ruling for DHS in published cases. Coincidence, I'm sure.

A few thoughts on this one: In immigration court, where the respondent misses court, the IJ can issue a removal order if DHS establishes that the respondent is removable and that they got written notice of the time and place of proceedings and the consequences of failure to appear.
Dec 31, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Withholding of Removal is a persecution-related form of relief from deportation, often for people who believe they will be disappeared, tortured, or killed upon a return to their country of origin. Getting a passport by fraud in a third country to facilitate your departure supports a finding of firm resettlement. I just... Ugh.

Case is Matumona v. Barr.
ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/18/18…
Dec 6, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
New published Board of Immigration Appeals decision today.

It is jaw-dropping.

justice.gov/eoir/page/file… He was struck by officers carrying high-caliber weapons, dislocating his shoulder, cuffed, and told that they were going to cut his fingers off and that they'd gauge out his eye.

BIA says this is not severe enough mistreatment to rise to level of persecution.