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Immigration,
Government

Jul. 20, 2018

DOJ memo instructs immigration courts to accept charging documents

A high-level immigration judge wrote a memo to immigration court staff around the country instructing them to accept incomplete charging documents after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled such documents could be grounds for terminating certain deportation cases, according to an email obtained by the Daily Journal.

A high-level immigration judge wrote a memo to immigration court staff around the nation instructing them to accept incomplete charging documents for deportations after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled missing data in such documents could be grounds for halting deportations, according to an email obtained by the Daily Journal.

The July 11 memo would allow immigration judges — not clerks — to determine if the documents, called Notices to...

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