Board Of Immigration Appeals

Mark Farrales, a 31-year-old Harvard graduate and doctoral candidate at UC San Diego, has been granted a one-year reprieve from his deportation to the Philippines and has been released from a Lancaster detention facility. Farrales, who was brought to the United States illegally at age 10 in 1990, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his home in Reseda last month. He was released from custody last week after Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) urged ICE to defer action on the deportation order and allow the Board of Immigration Appeals to revisit the case.

Mark Farrales, a 31-year-old Harvard graduate and doctoral candidate at UC San Diego, has been granted a one-year reprieve from his deportation to the Philippines and has been released from a Lancaster detention facility. Farrales, who was brought to the United States illegally at age 10 in 1990, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his home in Reseda last month. He was released from custody last week after Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) urged ICE to defer action on the deportation order and allow the Board of Immigration Appeals to revisit the case.

A federal appeals board has upheld a deportation order for a Wisconsin man who was a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II. The federal Board of Immigration Appeals upheld a deportation order issued in January 2007 against Josias Kumpf, 83, of Racine, who was at the Trawniki training camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Last year's deportation order, issued by Chicago-based immigration Judge Jennie L. Giambastiani, called for Kumpf's removal to Germany, Austria or Serbia.

A Guatemalan woman who argued in an asylum case that she would be in danger if she were to be returned to her native country because of the high rate of murders of women there can have her case reviewed, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The court sent the case back to the Board of Immigration Appeals to consider whether Guatemalan women make up a "social group" and should be eligible for asylum based on that. In the ruling, the court ordered the board to determine whether Lesly Yajayra Perdomo has demonstrated a fear of persecution based on her membership in that group.

A federal appeals court revived a Bulgarian's claim for political asylum Wednesday because an immigration appeals board overruled a hearing officer and decided the immigrant was lying without giving him a chance to defend himself. The Board of Immigration Appeals offered no other serious explanation of its decision to order Zavtcho Stoyanov deported and must reconsider the case after letting him explain the supposed inconsistencies in his testimony, said the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

A Guatemalan woman who argued in an asylum case that she would be in danger if she were to be returned to her native country because of the high rate of murders of women there can have her case reviewed, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The court sent the case back to the Board of Immigration Appeals to consider whether Guatemalan women make up a "social group" and should be eligible for asylum based on that. In the ruling, the court ordered the board to determine whether Lesly Yajayra Perdomo has demonstrated a fear of persecution based on her membership in that group.

A top government immigration attorney said Friday that Washington has dropped efforts to deny bond to eight Los Angeles-area immigrants facing deportation hearings on subversion charges. The eight--seven Jordanians and a Kenyan--were arrested in January and are accused of belonging to a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The Times' April 15 Sunday Report articles on seeking asylum repeat a familiar but one-sided criticism of immigration judges, whose decisions don't always match the wishes of individuals and groups whose mission it is to win relief for their clients. You did not mention that during the six-year period covered by your analysis, immigration judges granted asylum to nearly 38,000 individuals and their so-called "grant rate" increased from 19.1% in 1995 to 36.5% in 2000. Yes, there are differences among the judges, but we take pride in our diversity and individuality.

A retired La Habra grocery clerk accused of being a Nazi war criminal has been ordered deported to Germany by a federal immigration judge. Bruno Karl Blach, a 66-year-old native of Czechoslovakia, served as a guard and dog handler at two Nazi concentration camps between 1940 and 1945, according to court records and testimony at a deportation hearing last November. "I find the respondent himself participated in the persecution of prisoners," wrote U.S. Immigration Judge James P.

A federal immigration judge in El Paso, Tex., has ruled that 50-year-old feminist poet and writer Margaret Randall should be deported on grounds that her writings advocate the doctrines of world communism. Martin Spiegel, a judge in the Executive Office for Immigration Review, actually reached his decision late last week, but holiday weekend delays in the mails prevented Randall and her lawyers from learning of his verdict until Tuesday.

A federal appeals board has upheld a deportation order for a Wisconsin man who was a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II. The federal Board of Immigration Appeals upheld a deportation order issued in January 2007 against Josias Kumpf, 83, of Racine, who was at the Trawniki training camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. Last year's deportation order, issued by Chicago-based immigration Judge Jennie L. Giambastiani, called for Kumpf's removal to Germany, Austria or Serbia.

Immigrants fighting to stay in the United States are flooding the federal appellate courts with cases, creating huge backlogs and fundamentally changing the character of the second-highest courts in the nation. The deluge reflects growing dissatisfaction with the nation's immigration courts, and attorneys representing asylum-seekers and others say they have little choice but to appeal to the federal judiciary.

The Times' April 15 Sunday Report articles on seeking asylum repeat a familiar but one-sided criticism of immigration judges, whose decisions don't always match the wishes of individuals and groups whose mission it is to win relief for their clients. You did not mention that during the six-year period covered by your analysis, immigration judges granted asylum to nearly 38,000 individuals and their so-called "grant rate" increased from 19.1% in 1995 to 36.5% in 2000. Yes, there are differences among the judges, but we take pride in our diversity and individuality.

A federal appeals court revived a Bulgarian's claim for political asylum Wednesday because an immigration appeals board overruled a hearing officer and decided the immigrant was lying without giving him a chance to defend himself. The Board of Immigration Appeals offered no other serious explanation of its decision to order Zavtcho Stoyanov deported and must reconsider the case after letting him explain the supposed inconsistencies in his testimony, said the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

A top government immigration attorney said Friday that Washington has dropped efforts to deny bond to eight Los Angeles-area immigrants facing deportation hearings on subversion charges. The eight--seven Jordanians and a Kenyan--were arrested in January and are accused of belonging to a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

A retired La Habra grocery clerk accused of being a Nazi war criminal has been ordered deported to Germany by a federal immigration judge. Bruno Karl Blach, a 66-year-old native of Czechoslovakia, served as a guard and dog handler at two Nazi concentration camps between 1940 and 1945, according to court records and testimony at a deportation hearing last November. "I find the respondent himself participated in the persecution of prisoners," wrote U.S. Immigration Judge James P.

Immigrants fighting to stay in the United States are flooding the federal appellate courts with cases, creating huge backlogs and fundamentally changing the character of the second-highest courts in the nation. The deluge reflects growing dissatisfaction with the nation's immigration courts, and attorneys representing asylum-seekers and others say they have little choice but to appeal to the federal judiciary.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service cannot jail Detroit Red Wing player Bob Probert while he fights a deportation order, a federal appeals court ruled in upholding a 1990 ruling. Probert, a Canadian citizen who pleaded guilty in a Detroit federal court in July of 1989 to importing cocaine from Canada for his own use, is challenging an immigration judge's order that he be deported. That challenge is pending before the federal Board of Immigration Appeals. Such appeals can take two years.

A federal immigration judge in El Paso, Tex., has ruled that 50-year-old feminist poet and writer Margaret Randall should be deported on grounds that her writings advocate the doctrines of world communism. Martin Spiegel, a judge in the Executive Office for Immigration Review, actually reached his decision late last week, but holiday weekend delays in the mails prevented Randall and her lawyers from learning of his verdict until Tuesday.