The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States.

A divided U.S. Supreme Court won't let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Tuesday over its efforts to prevent immigrants from seeking asylum due to domestic and gang violence in their home countries.

12-1698 Zheng v. Holder

12-1111 Shaikh v. Holder

12-1516 Vrljicak v. Holder

11-1989 Cece v. Holder

11-2322 Zheng v. Holder

10-2760 Bueso-Avila v. Holder

10-3751 Escobar v. Holder

Immigration China; asylum; forced abortions

Immigration Asylum; Syria Where an asylum petitioner from Syria suffered no persecution after she left her home and moved to Damascus, she cannot show a likelihood of future persecution if denied asylum. “Abraham notes that the IJ and BIA did not address the testimony given by her cousin that she would be the victim of an honor killing on her ...

Immigration Asylum; Pakistan Being a single Westernized woman is not a sufficient reason to obtain asylum when facing removal to Pakistan. “The reasons cited by the Board and its conclusions are consistent with our repeated reminder that ‘general conditions of hardship that affect entire populations . . . are not persecution.’ Ahmed v. Gonzales, 467 F.3d 669, 673 (7th Cir. ...

Immigration Asylum; motions to reopen Where the evidence an asylum claimant offered in her motion to reopen was available at the original hearing, the motion was properly denied. “Nor can Jiang rely on her claim that because she has had two children in the United States she will face persecution in China for violations of that country’s one-child policy. That ...

Immigration Asylum; Lebanon It was not error to deny asylum to a Christian facing deportation to Lebanon. “Kiorkis’s argument concerning the evidentiary standards applied by the immigration court is not supported by the record. Kiorkis has failed to identify any part of Judge Kessler’s opinion that indicates that she did not weigh the totality of Kiorkis’s circumstances or that she ...

Immigration Asylum; removal; credibility determinations An IJ did not err when she made an adverse credibility determination regarding appellant’s claims in an asylum application that the Chinese government had forced his wife’s abortion and sterilization, where there were inconsistencies in his testimony and the DHS submitted evidence that the certificates of those procedures were falsified. “Turning to the IJ’s adverse ...

Immigration Asylum; past persecution Witnessing acts of violence against others does not constitute persecution to support a claim for asylum. “We have no intention to minimize a child’s witnessing of a stabbing and other acts of violence committed against members of his own minority religious group. Nevertheless, under our precedent, the Board’s conclusion that the harms Mr. Vahora personally suffered ...

Immigration Asylum Where an asylum claimant’s testimony was rife with inconsistencies, the immigration judge properly denied her claim. “Based on Toure’s testimony at the 2007 hearing alone, the IJ had sufficient grounds to find her testimony incredible. Toure’s testimony was replete with material inconsistencies, including the length and conditions of her confinement, her knowledge about the whereabouts of her brother ...