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USCIS Can Now Send Asylum Seekers to Immigration Court Without an Interview

Posted on August 22, 2026 by Mike Baker

No Interview, No Hearing, No One Watching By Michael D. Baker Immigration Equality v. Mullin, No. 1:26-cv-02921 (D.D.C. filed Aug. 19, 2026). It challenges Affirmative Asylum Referrals Without Interview, 91 Fed. Reg. 47101 (July 28, 2026). On July 28, the … Continue reading →

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The Board Cuts the Right to Counsel Down to Ten Days

Posted on August 15, 2026 by Mike Baker

In Matter of A-K-R-, the BIA holds that a single ten-day cushion is the only hard time the statute owes you to find a lawyer. Everything after it is a favor. By Michael D. Baker A detained man from India … Continue reading →

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One Judge, One Hundred Respondents, One Morning: Inside DOJ’s “Mega Master” Hearings

Posted on July 9, 2026 by Mike Baker

🏛️ Immigration Court Watch One Judge, One Hundred Respondents, One Morning The Justice Department crams more than a hundred people into a single “mega master” hearing, drags dockets forward by years, and banks on the ones without lawyers to trip. … Continue reading →

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Matter of A-C-M- and Removal to Ecuador on the Papers: Summary Judgment Comes to Immigration Court

Posted on June 17, 2026 by Mike Baker

How a three-decision trilogy and the U.S.–Ecuador Asylum Cooperative Agreement let the government deport a pro se Venezuelan to a country the State Department tells Americans not to enter — by asking the wrong legal question. Maracaibo, Venezuela → Guayaquil, … Continue reading →

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