Xia v. Scott, No. 23-3055 (8th Cir. Feb. 27, 2025)

• exceptions to Hague Act adoption; habitual residence; I-130 petition by adoptive parent; reasoned consideration by BIA

United States v. Parham, No. 23-4249 (4th Cir. Feb. 26, 2025)

• crime of violence; threat of sodomy accusation; physical force; sentence enhancement; robbery in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-58

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El Manyary  v. Bondi, No. 22-3102 (8th Cir. Feb. 21, 2025)

• in absentia motion to reopen; Campos-Chavez; stop-time rule; equitable tolling; sua sponte; exceptional circumstances for missing hearing; hearing notice in foreign language 

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Lapadat, et al. v. Bondi, No. 23-1745 (9th Cir. Feb. 12, 2025)

• past persecution; being shot; attempted kidnapping; death & rape threats; IJ mischaracterizing testimony; Roma; “gypsies”; pernicious maltreatment; no requirement for lasting injuries; disfavored group analysis for well founded fear; relevance of EU policy

Perez-Perez, et al. v. Bondi, No. 23-4240 (9th Cir. Feb. 10, 2025)

• FRAP 15(a)(2)(A); listing names of petitioners in case caption

Murillo-Chavez v. Bondi, No. 23-1997 (9th Cir. Feb. 13, 2025)

• firearms offense; INA § 237(a)(2)(C); antique firearms exception; divisibility; O.R.S. § 166.250; admitted in any status for LPR cancellation; stop-time rule; SIJ status; Supreme Court effectively overruling precedent; criminal mistreatment in violation of O.R.S. § 163.205; CIMT definition & analysis post-Loper Bright

Ikome v. Bondi, No. 22-60606 (5th Cir. Feb. 12, 2025)

• continuance; motion to remand; Patel &Wilkinson; jurisdiction to consider adjustment of status continuance; motion to remand where I-130 approved; due diligence  

Porter v. Bondi, No. 24-3125 (6th Cir. Jan. 24, 2025)

• possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-248; no need for renumeration; CSA felony; methamphetamine isomers; drug divisibility

Sanches Alves v. Bondi, No. 24-1258 (1st Cir. Feb. 12, 2025)

• domestic violence-type asylum claim; nexus; personal dispute

Phimmady v. Bondi, No. 24-1330 (1st Cir. Feb. 10, 2025)

• sua sponte motion to reopen due to vacated conviction; BIA settled course of adjudication; using unpublished BIA decisions; diligence

Ferchichi v. Bondi, No. 23-1123 (8th Cir. Feb. 14, 2025)

• inadequate medical care; nexus; spina bifida; mixed motive; future persecution; Algeria

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Funez-Ortiz v. McHenry, No. 23-2290 (4th Cir. Feb. 4, 2025)

• CAT protection; BIA overturning IJ; under color of law; gangs wearing military uniform; acquiescence; presumption of regularity

Matter of De Jesus-Platon, 29 I&N Dec. 7 (BIA 2025)

• Cal. Pen Code § 1473.7 vacated conviction; post-conviction relief; Cal. Pen. Code § 18.5; Matter of Velasquez-Rios; CIMT; Cal. Pen Code § 422; motion to remand; procedural or substantive defect; noncitizen's burden

Becerril-Sanchez v. Bondi, No. 23-3349 (8th Cir. Feb. 6, 2025)

• fear of cartels and police in Mexico; harm in utero as past persecution; insufficient threats and beating for past persecution; motion to reopen and women in Mexico

United States v. Greenberg, No. 23-7168 (2d Cir. Feb. 3, 2025)

• criminal prosecution of immigration attorneys; 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a) ¶ 1; conspiracy to obtain documents through fraud

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Matter of Baeza-Galindo, 29 I&N Dec. 1 (BIA 2025)

• single scheme of criminal conduct; two or more CIMTs; temporal limitation; INA § 237(a)(2)(A)(ii); criminal intent

 Turner v. U.S. Att’y Gen., No. 22-11207 (11th Cir. Jan. 30, 2025)

• former INA 321(a)(3); derivative naturalization; present-perfect tense; legal separation; Loper Bright; Skidmore deference

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Aguilar-Quintanilla v. McHenry, No. 24-60142 (5th Cir. Jan. 24, 2024)

• CAT protection; removal does not moot CAT challenge; ICE facilitating return; suspected gang members in El Salvador; CAT even with adverse credibility; requirement to consider affidavits; requirement to actually consider evidence, rather than simply mention 

Villagomez v. McHenry, No. 23-3558 (9th Cir. Jan. 24, 2025)

• crime of violence; general intent crimes; battery resulting in substantial bodily harm under Nev. Rev. Stat. § 200.481(2)(b); mens rea; violent force; Johnson; Borden

Martinez v. Clark, No. 21-35023 (9th Cir. Dec. 27, 2024) (remand)

• detention; dangerousness; jurisdiction; mixed question of law and fact; INA § 236

Doe v. Becerra, 732 F.Supp.3d 1071 (N.D. Cal. 2024)

• prolonged detention; mandatory detention; conditions of detention; habeas; punitive detention; alternatives to detention; substantive due process

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Ndungu v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 20-2562 (3d Cir. Jan. 13, 2025) (en banc)

• history of CIMT; transactional view of res judicata; fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, in violation of 75 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 3733(a.2)(2); documents to be considered under the categorical approach; divisibility analysis; different punishments; Pennsylvania’s mens rea gap filling statute; hypotheticals 

Matter of Arciniegas-Patino, 28 I&N Dec. 883 (BIA 2025) 

• electronic notice of briefing schedule and deadlines; ECA; duty to check email and SPAM folder; motion to reconsider 

Vargas Panchi v. Garland, No. 24-1172 (1st Cir. Jan. 13, 2025)

• indigenous men in Ecuador; race; nexus; soccer fight; denial of medical care; pattern or practice of persecution

Mateo-Esteban v. Garland, No. 23-3951 (6th Cir. Jan. 13, 2025)

• asserting particular social group for first time on appeal; Matter of W-Y-C- & H-O-B-; children who fear gangs in Guatemala; failure to report harm and CAT protection

Godoy-Aguilar v. Garland, No. 19-70960 (9th Cir. Jan. 13, 2025)

• aggravated felony relating to obstruction of justice; INA § 101(a)(43)(S); Cal. Penal Code § 136.1(c)(1); Pugin; mens rea and related statutes; attempts; preventing arrest

Santos-Zacaria v. Garland, No. 19-60355 (5th Cir. Jan. 13, 2025)

• transgender women in Guatemala; past persecution as a child; rape; BIA fact finding; mixed question of law and fact; failure to conduct pattern or practice analysis 

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Akinsanya v. Garland, No. 24-1412 (1st Cir. Jan. 10, 2025)

• duty to intervene standard for government acquiesce or consent for CAT deferral; UN duty to intervene; two-pronged analysis; Boko Haram; Nigeria

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United States v. Defrance, No. 23-2409 (9th Cir. Dec. 30, 2024)

• crime of violence; “bodily injury”; MT Code Ann. § 45-5-206(1)(a); assault; emotional or verbal injury; realistic probability test

Zarzecki v. Garland, No. 21-3267 (7th Cir. Jan. 3, 2025)

• wholesale exclusion of evidence during adjustment of status discretionary analysis as legal error; de novo review of discretion

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Singh v. Garland, No. 23-2065 (9th Cir. Dec. 24, 2024)

• prior adverse credibility & motion to reopen; disregarding affidavits; corroborating evidence; falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus; Mann party; Sikh; Badal Party

Chmukh v. Garland, No. 21-1096 (9th Cir. Dec. 23, 2024)

• RCW § 69.50.4013; possession of stolen property aggravated felony; INA § 101(a)(43)(G); particularly serious crime; aggravated felony satisfying N-A-M- first step; dangerousness; issue exhaustion; Ukraine

Magana-Magana v. Garland, No. 23-1887 (9th Cir. Dec. 26, 2024)

• VAWA motion to reopen; jurisdiction; mixed question of law and fact; extraordinary circumstances or extreme hardship to children; exhaustion; sua sponte

Rodrigues v. Garland, No. 23-1776 (1st Cir. Dec. 27, 2024)

• well-founded fear; objective reasonableness; drug dealers in Brazil; political opinion opposition to powerful family

Chacon-Ruiz v. Garland, No. 21-3694 (8th Cir. Dec. 24, 2024)

• motion to reopen for exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; motion to reconsider; children in foster care

Mateo-Mateo v. Garland, No. 23-2694 (7th Cir. Dec. 24, 2024)

• family-related violence-type asylum; harm by family member

Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland, No. 24-0274 (6th Cir. Dec. 23, 2024)

• legal definition of exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; agency deference post-Loper Bright; star decisis post-Loper Bright; rare hardship

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