See Figure2. Individuals from The Justice Department has the power to immediately remove as many as 700,000 cases from the courts calendar, most of them for low-level immigration violations people who have entered the country illegally, most from Mexico or Central America, or those who have overstayed a visa. During this period, court records show that Judge Schoppert decided 1197 asylum claims on The problem with these courts isnt new, but it became significantly worse under the Trump administration. in 1978 from Georgetown University, and a Juris Doctorate from William and Mary in 1982. You will find the full list here. If theres any silver lining here, it is to be found in Mr. Trumps overreach. Anyone can read what you share. Judge She was scheduling asylum hearings for fall 2021, saying perhaps they could be moved up if we get additional resources.. The egregiousness of his administrations approach to immigration may have accelerated efforts to solve the deeper structural rot at the core of the nations immigration courts. Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Lorianne M. Campanella as an immigration judge in March 2020. {"@type":"Review","url":"https:\/\/www.ratemyimmigrationjudge.com\/listing\/hon-lorianne-m-campanella-immigration-judge-new-york-federal-plaza-immigration-court\/#comment-267","datePublished":"2022-03-31T03:38:10+00:00","description":"Very good and nice judge","reviewRating":{"@type":"rating","ratingValue":5},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Amandeep manhas"}}Very good and nice judge, {"@type":"Review","url":"https:\/\/www.ratemyimmigrationjudge.com\/listing\/hon-lorianne-m-campanella-immigration-judge-new-york-federal-plaza-immigration-court\/#comment-185","datePublished":"2021-11-15T14:09:58+00:00","description":"Very good judge\uff01Hope to be an angel","reviewRating":{"@type":"rating","ratingValue":5},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"yunnan zhou"}}Very good judgeHope to be an angel, {"@type":"Review","url":"https:\/\/www.ratemyimmigrationjudge.com\/listing\/hon-lorianne-m-campanella-immigration-judge-new-york-federal-plaza-immigration-court\/#comment-184","datePublished":"2021-11-15T13:53:44+00:00","description":"Very good judge","reviewRating":{"@type":"rating","ratingValue":5},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"yunnan zhou"}}Very good judge, {"@type":"Review","url":"https:\/\/www.ratemyimmigrationjudge.com\/listing\/hon-lorianne-m-campanella-immigration-judge-new-york-federal-plaza-immigration-court\/#comment-36","datePublished":"2021-02-03T03:38:19+00:00","description":"Mye be this judge decion me","reviewRating":{"@type":"rating","ratingValue":4.5},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"GURPREET Singh"}}Mye be this judge decion me, Please review only once unless you have a new experience with this judge. New York's go-to source for immigration news, Outside 26 Federal Plaza, the site of one of New York City's three immigration courts. The composition of cases may differ significantly between Immigration Courts in the country. %%EOF
searched Mar-a-Lago, has been complicatedby the discovery that President Bidenand former Vice President Mike Pencealso had classified files in their possession. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. Some people sit in detention centers for months or longer, despite posing no risk to the public. Judge Campanella is a member of the State Bar of California. Finally, Mr. Trump starved the courts of funding and restricted how much control judges had over their own dockets, making the job nearly impossible for those judges who care about providing fair and impartial justice to immigrants. Murphy's $53 billion budget: More property tax relief, spending on schools, mental health, Displaced by Ida, remaining hotel residents face another difficult move. 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Within a Figure 1 provides a comparison of Judge Schoppert's denial rate each fiscal year over this recent where Judge Lurye decided these cases denied asylum 34 percent of the time. of NAIJ, Migrants are Wrestling With the Complex Shelter System in NYC, 39 Brooklyn Families Displaced by Apartment Fire Taking Legal Action, Once a Boon to Chinese Restaurants During Lockdown, App FreshGoGo Has Become a Dilemma for Many, Chinatown Feels Abandoned As Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Persist, Trabajar sin papeles como indocumentado en Estados Unidos, How to Get a Green Card as an Undocumented Immigrant in the United States, Victims of Excluded Workers Fund Fraud Owe Taxes for Money That Was Stolen From Them, Cash Relief for Undocumented New Yorkers Not Likely To Pass. Lawyers reframed cases by arguing that their clients, for example, were witnesses to crimes or were persecuted because of family ties to either the police or organized crime. in this table. See Figure3. But its generally hard to fire career civil servants, like the many judges and other officials tapped to promote Mr. Trumps agenda. On March 25, 2022, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the investiture of 25 new Immigration Judges. They never told us what to do with the case, they said, Do the case. It wasnt outcome-oriented.. Judge Lurye's asylum grant and denial rates are compared with other judges serving on the same court The case, which took a dramatic turn when the F.B.I. New Yorks immigration judges have long taken an independent line. The Trump administration has been hiring more judges to hear a backlog of more than 1 million asylum cases. 19. single Court when cases are randomly assigned to judges sitting on that Court, each Judge should have Asylum grant rates have been dropping for several years, even before the recent surge in migrants at the southern border. Individuals from this Johnson also noted that new judges are on probation for their first two years and have been trained by the current administration. Immigration Judges In NYC Are Even Less Likely To Grant Asylum Now, We rely on your support to make local news available to all, Rent-stabilized Harlem tenants sue after 'Frankenstein' renovations carve up apartments, State investigation of babys death at Mount Sinai NICU underway, 'A lot to be desired': Grand Central Madison train service causes LIRR commuter headaches, NJ Gov. Im waiting for decision. Judges are being monitored on a performance dashboard on their court computers, which indicates if they are keeping up their pace. Elevator wait times may be significantly longer than usual for this reason. In the fiscal year 2019, which ended in October, immigration judges nationwide heard more than 65,000 cases and denied asylum 71 percent of the time. The inquiry into Mr. Trumps role in paying hush money to the porn actress Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign has spanned five years, two Manhattan district attorneys and multiple grand juries. Denial Rate. through 2022. From 1995 to But there are other factors. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. May God bless this amazing judge and give her a long and healthy life. Please see the agencys Public Health Noticefor more information. The Biden administration can reduce their influence by reassigning them, but this is not a long-term fix. Your honest review allows judges to receive an assessment of their work, and to hopefully make adjustments so that at the end of the day, we have a more uniform application of the laws and regulations . The parents of Noah Morton say they received little information about his death on Jan. 11. The judges have long said they are deciding the fates of immigrants in a traffic-court setting. Then Mr. Trump came along and reminded everyone just how much power the head of the executive branch has when it comes to immigration. 16.7% of asylum seekers are not represented. Johnsons data show how new judges, in particular, are more likely to deny asylum than most of the longer-serving New York judges. Even if 600 judges were able to get through 700 cases a year each as Mr. Judge DeCure earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 from California State University, Fullerton, and a Juris Doctor in 1990 from Southwestern Law School. During this period, court records show that Judge Lurye decided 958 asylum claims on their merits. The American Bar Association declared the immigration court on the brink of collapse and the union wants an independent court, no longer controlled by the Department of Justice. Window Filing Hours: 8:30 a.m. -4:00 p.m. Rafael Fernandez - email: Rafael.Fernandez@usdoj.gov, Khalilah Taylor, Assistant Chief Immigration Judge (Acting), 26 Federal Plaza, 12th Floor, Room 1237 She is currently at POLITICO New York as an Editorial Intern. Other nationalities in descending order of frequency appearing before Judge Lurye were: El Salvador The largest group of asylum seekers appearing before Judge Lurye came from China. University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (08) The content of myattorneyusa.comis copyrighted. Judge DeCure earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 from California State University, Fullerton, and a Juris Doctor in 1990 from Southwestern Law School. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS As might be expected, immigration courts located John E. DeCure was appointed as an Immigration Judge to begin hearing cases in October 2022. See Figure3. In EOIR space, staff or signs may direct you to a seat. Yo s qu es pandemia or I know what pandemic means is a bilingual film directed by filmmaker Frisly Soberanis. U.S. Department of Justice. TRAC has complained that its been getting incomplete data from the government. For the nation as a whole, about 16.7% In the nation as a whole during this same period, major nationalities of asylum seekers, in descending Former Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch appointed Maria Lurye to begin hearing cases in April 2017. Here are some tips. No former president has ever confronted the barrage of legal threats that Donald J. Trump now faces, all of which appear to be heading toward key decision pointsby the authorities in coming months. others. This often presented challenges for their attorneys. Attorney General William P. Barr appointed Andrew M. Calvelli as an immigration judge in March 2020. Immigration Court is located in Buffalo, New York and hears mostly non-detained cases, though Buffalo judges also hear detained cases primarily by video feed. In the case of I'm waiting for decision. Overturning the election. Judge Daugherty had an 86.5 percent denial rate of asylum claims, which made him the most lenient of the four judges in Las Vegas, according to the Syracuse research group. The Executive Office for Immigration Review, a Justice Department agency which runs the courts, did not respond to a request for comment. But the judges union has complained that this could result in a denial of due process. Although all executive branch employees with security clearences were required to submit the new information, the judges found it invasive, said Los Angeles Judge Ashley Tabaddor, speaking as the president of the union. Makes something good people can remember you after death. Rate Your Immigration Judge is an important source of information for other immigrants and their attorneys, but also for the immigration judges. But the average denial rate. You cant just end asylum, said Heather Axford, a lawyer for the Brooklyn nonprofit. The system is failing, there is no doubt about it, one immigration judge said in 2018. At the moment, barely 1 percent of all cases in the system fall into one of these categories. After a Philadelphia judge, Steven A. Morley, postponed a case because he thought the immigrant had not received proper notification, the Justice Department in July reassigned all of his 87 similar cases saying it had reason to believe he had committed potential violations of law and policy. If instructed to sit in a particular location, do not switch seats. Just four years ago, the research group TRAC found New York judges denied just 16 percent of asylum seekers. Sessions argued that asylum had been interpreted too broadly and should not include people fleeing private criminals, such as gangs, because theyre not connected to the government. Over one hundred different nationalities had at least one hundred Documented EventOn Wednesday, May 12 at 2 p.m., Documented and Waterwell will release a documentary that examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated New Yorks Latin American immigrant communities. The findings in Johnsons data are consistent with data gathered by the research group TRAC at Syracuse University, which reports 69 percent of all asylum cases were denied in fiscal year 2019, compared to 65 percent in the previous fiscal year. It is separate from the newsroom. 220 0 obj
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While nationally, judges granted asylum to about 47 percent of immigrants from the 2012 fiscal year to 2017, according to statistics from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research group at Syracuse University, the approval rate was nearly 83 percent among New Yorks judges during that same time period. But I think its fair to say that if a persons percentage denial rate looks the way it does, if the denial rate far exceeds the grant rate, it says something about whats going on, said Caplow. 0
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From 2020 to 2022, he served . The Office of Personnel Management publishes a list of the observed dates of every federal holiday by year online at this link: OPM holidays. court in this table. It wants an increased budget and more administrative assistance. A few were assigned to hear immigrants in detention, which could influence these high rates. In The solution is clear: Congress needs to take immigration courts out of the Justice Department and make them independent, similar to other administrative courts that handle bankruptcy, income-tax and veterans cases. Nor are immigration judges real judges. hbbd```b``d2dL` rdLb{l 2$ VD&DfK z^V '> 7f*? None have the right to a lawyer, which few could afford anyway. She's fair and straightforward. The Trump administration made the case for independence that much clearer. (7.5%), India (4.5%), Cuba (2.5%), Venezuela (2.1%), Ecuador (2.1%), Nicaragua (1.9%), Haiti (1.7%), The Mayors Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Mayors Fund to Advance New York City were supposed to create a citywide network of community-based organizations that would distribute the fund as one-time emergency payments to the citys immigrant communities. So please change your think and do something good. Remember that the immigration court may limit entry. Sessions argued that asylum had been interpreted too broadly, tried to expedite a case involving a Honduran family. Earlier this . respondents, current immigration policies, and other factors beyond an individual Judge's control. in different parts of the country tend to have proportionately larger shares from some countries than from Almost all of the 17 new immigration judges come with backgrounds as federal, state, or local prosecutors or have strong ties to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Department of Homeland Security. Note that when an Immigration Judge serves on more than one court during the same period, separate She graduated CUNY Herbert H. Lehman College with Summa Cum Laude Honors and obtained a Bachelors Degree in Journalism with a minor in Film & Television Studies. Beth Fertig is a senior reporter covering immigration, courts, and legal affairs at WNYC. Contact the Webmaster to submit comments. Judges at the New York Immigration Court United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from August to December 1994. to percentage terms, Lurye denied 21.8 percent and granted 78.2 percent of asylum cases (including forms 2.3 miles away from Consulta Immigration. The Justice Department has been asking questions for more than a year about Mr. Trumps efforts to overturn the election and whether he committed any crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. Falls Church, VA 22041 To the union, she said, the changes seem like an attempt to turn judges from neutral arbiters into law enforcement agents enacting Trump administration policies. From 2000 to 2003, he served as an assistant district attorney with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office in Central Islip and Riverhead, New York. Theres been departures of some of the more experienced, seasoned judges, she notes, matching a national trend cited by the judges union. Receive a roundup of all immigration news, and the latest policy news, in New York, nationwide, and from Washington, in your inbox 3x per week. The U.S. Immigration Court system is currently staring up the largest number of pending cases in history: 1,596,193. All RightsReserved. specialized dockets or hearing locations, then case compositions are likely to continue to differ and can From 1996 to 2010, he was in private practice, in Malvern, Pennsylvania and Wayne, Pennsylvania. From 2016 to 2020, he served as an administrative law judge for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, in Harrisburg. She saved my life. Phone: (212) 202-0342 Cases that would have taken two hours, now take five hours, Ms. Axford said. She was the Newsletter Writer for Documenteds Early Arrival Newsletter from October 2020 to December 2021, where she covered what occurred with immigrant communities all throughout the U.S. three times a week to Documenteds subscribers. Sessions had increased the backlog because lawyers are making more specific arguments that cause other cases to be postponed. You will find the full list here. from the University of Arizona College of Law Sessions declared that if judges saw it necessary to postpone a hearing as they had in the past, for instance, to give a lawyer more time to prepare they had to show good cause.. Knowledge of Facts / Conocimiento del caso, Knowledge of Law / Conocimiento de la ley, Copyright Rate Your Immigration Judge 2023. And heres our email: letters@nytimes.com. period. asylum decisions among Judges on the same Immigration Court would appear to reflect, at least in part, the The U.S. Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023. While these judges are subject to political pressures, there can be no true judicial process. roughly a similar composition of cases given a sufficient number of asylum cases. In a statement, a Justice Department spokesman called the changes a series of common-sense reforms that will realign the agency towards completing cases, increasing both productivity and capacity and changing policies that lead to inefficiencies and waste. The union is currently renegotiating its contract with the Justice Department. Immigration judges would then be freed from political influence and be able to run their dockets as they see fit, which could help reduce the backlog and improve the courts standing in the public eye. {"@type":"Review","url":"https:\/\/www.ratemyimmigrationjudge.com\/listing\/hon-lorianne-m-campanella-immigration-judge-new-york-federal-plaza-immigration-court\/#comment-307","datePublished":"2022-05-24T01:07:38+00:00","description":"She reviewed case at the time of the case which wasn't timely enough to assess the case in an equitable manner. Sitting judges are prohibited from speaking directly about issues that could be seen as political. Makes something good people can remember you after death. In the nation as a whole during this same period, major nationalities of asylum seekers, in descending So far, it is hard to say whether the changes have affected immigrants in the New York courts. Judge-by-Judge Asylum Decisions in Immigration Courts. (10.6%), El Salvador (8.8%), Nepal (5.5%), Ecuador (4.0%).
I cried when I heard the decision. Judge Schoppert's asylum grant and denial rates are compared with other judges serving on the same (10.4%), Honduras (9.0%), India (8.5%), Guatemala (5.7%). But Caplow said its hard to form conclusions about the new judges because they dont have long track records. For more information about those DHS offices, please see the following links: News Media/Congressional Inquiries: News media and congressional inquiries regarding the immigration court must be directed to the EOIR Communications and Legislative Affairs Division (CLAD): Communications and Legislative Affairs Division To maintain appropriate social distancing and best facilitate hearings, you may be asked to move or leave a particular area. Many cases involve complex claims of asylum by those who fear for their safety in their home countries. It includes voices of the readers of Documented Semanal, a publication that provides undocumented New Yorkers with valuable information via WhatsApp. John E. DeCure, Immigration Judge, New York - Varick Immigration Court . In Immigration Courts, It Is Judges vs. Justice Department, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/nyregion/nyc-immigration-judges-courts.html. The New York - Federal Plaza Immigration Court falls under the jurisdiction of the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge, which is a component of the Executive Office for Immigration Review under the Department of Justice. Forcing judges to hear cases like these clutters the docket and makes it hard to focus on the small number of more serious cases, like those involving terrorism or national-security threats, or defendants facing aggravated felony charges. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. Judge Schoppert is a member of both the Virginia and Illinois Bars. 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