Category Archives: Immigration Judge

Chicago Immigration Judge Reports — Asylum grants and denials, fiscal year 2000 through the early months of 2005

Chicago Immigration Judge Reports — Asylum Grants and Denials The data and analyses is from The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University. Comprehensive, independent and nonpartisan information about … Continue reading

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U.S. Supreme Court- Aliens, Immigration and Nationality Law

U.S. SUPREME COURT CASES (click on link) DUI IS NOT A CRIME OF VIOLENCE:Leocal v. Ashcroft 543 U. S. ____ (2004) November 9, 2004. A drunk driving accident is not a “crime of violence” allowing the government to deport a … Continue reading

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Conviction under Immigration law includes Illinois sentence for “1410 probation” (Gill v. Ashcroft, (7th Cir.) )

Gill v. Ashcroft, (7th Cir.) 2003 WL 21525603. July 8, 2003 Ct. of Appeal lacked jurisdiction to consider appeal of instant removal order under 8 USC §1227(a)(2)(B)(i) based on existence of alien’s prior Illinois state court conviction for possession of … Continue reading

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Misdemeanor Domestic Battery not a Crime of Violence, Flores v. Ashcroft, Seventh Circuit, November 2003

In Flores v. Ashcroft the Seventh Circuit held that a respondentconvicted under the Indiana Battery statute was not deportable for acrime involving domestic violence because there was not a substantialrisk that the offense involved the use of force. November 26, … Continue reading

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