As I have written about earlier, the Board of Immigration Appeals is issuing precedent decisions by the boatload all facilitating quicker removals of non-citizens. In the first year of President Trump’s reign, 2025, the BIA issued 65 precedent decisions. So far, in the first five months of 2026, the Board has issued 33 precedent opinions. In 2023 and 2024, the last two Biden years, the Board issued 13 and 14 decisions, respectively. Few of the Trump-era decisions commend themselves for…

Recent Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decisions give the impression DOGE must have fired all the BIA’s clerks and editors. On March 12, 2026, the BIA published a decision in Matter of Z-N-L-. The case is an appeal in a custody determination hearing, which as the name suggests, is an immigration judge determining whether a person should remain detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or can be released, most often with the posting of a bond to guarantee the non-citizen’s…

A recent New York Times story discussed a Tennessee non-citizen reporter who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Commenting on the arrest, according to the New York Times: In a written statement, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Friday that Ms. Rodriguez had overstayed her tourist visa “and currently has no lawful immigration status.” Ms. Rodriguez is being trickery here. The trick goes to the heart of the fact that is the heart of much of…

Trump supports terrorism but will not help the terrorists. President Trump announced today that if Iran “violently kills peaceful protesters,” the United States would intervene, stating, “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”   This is not only support for protesters but also encourages protesters as it shows a Superpower’s support for protest actions, which include regime change. It is reported that protesters have  thrown stones at the city’s administrative buildings, including the provincial governor’s office, the mosque,…