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Kamala’s Amnesty
And Republicans handed it to her.
By Mark Krikorian
National Review, September 18, 2020

Excerpt: Late last year, the Republican Senate approved, and President Trump signed into law, the means for a future Democratic president to grant unilateral amnesty to virtually the entire illegal population — and get away with it.

It’s called “parole in place.” As my colleague Andrew Arthur explained last year, parole in place is a tool concocted by the Obama administration, based on legal contortions by the general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service during the Clinton administration. As such, it had no basis in law.

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BIA Decision Will Streamline Asylum Application Process
By Andrew R. Arthur
On August 31, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissed an appeal filed by an alien ordered removed after he failed to file an asylum application within a deadline set by an immigration judge (IJ). The BIA also found that the proceedings, which were held via video teleconference (VTC) did not deprive the alien of his due-process rights. That decision will streamline the asylum application process by setting a precedent that court-ordered deadlines must be met, but it also delineates a series of safeguards to ensure alien respondents' rights are protected in the process.

A Ninth Circuit Panel Says that Sometimes 'Temporary' May in Fact Mean Temporary
By Dan Cadman
Is a president forever and always obliged to hew to the course (and live by the mistakes) of his predecessors? While the instant matter may involve immigration, that's really what's at stake. This, too, was the heart of the DACA controversy that the highest court so recently flubbed.

Maryland Gang Murder Suspects Were Shielded From ICE by Locals: 'This is the worst-case scenario when detainers are not honored'
By Marguerite Telford
ICE announced that it has issued detainers on three of five MS-13 gang members now in custody in Baltimore County, Md., after their arrest for the murder of a 16-year old Long Island girl, whose body was found in a wooded area in Cockeysville, Md. Two of the gang members flagged by ICE were previously in the custody of authorities after local arrests, but were released, and in one case this was due to a local sanctuary policy.

EB-5 Investor-Visa Violations in Vermont Draw Further Substantial Punishments
By David North
The most recent example of the enforcement rigor is written into the plea agreement that Miami developer Ariel Quiros signed with the U.S. attorney's office last month. Quiros, 64, pleaded guilty to three federal charges in return for a promise from the feds that they would not seek more than 97 months (eight years and one month) in prison for him.

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