Triche Immigration Law

03/20/2026

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/20/nx-s1-5707535/trump-immigration-detention-appeals-board-deportation

President Trump has slashed the number of people on the Board of Immigration Appeals and stacked it with his appointees, tightening the due process available for immigrants, an NPR analysis shows.

09/05/2025

In a bittersweet report, I bring you a major domestic-violence based asylum victory obtained by in NYC/Broadway Immigration Court. The survivor in this case faced decades of violent physical, sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of her perpetrator, who also beat their children, and threatened to "kill her with a machete and cut her into little pieces and then eat her." This grantee had fled to numerous locations but her abuser had pursued her anyways, utterly undeterred by a restraining order issued against him. The IJ found that "Guatemalan women in domestic relationships who are unable to leave" was a "particular social group" under the refugee definition at 8 USC 1101(a)(42)(A), and that the Guatemalan government was unwilling and unable to protect the Respondent. Since this decision was issued, the Attorney General, in a case called Matter of S-S-F-M, has revised Sessions' previous attempt to prevent BIA grants of domestic-violence based asylum. But, this IJ's decision is based in Second Circuit law, not merely BIA precedent, and it has now become final. Here's a public link to the redacted decision:

08/12/2024

I’ve just learned that a *most wonderful thing happened Friday—the Sixth Circuit doubled down on my 2021 case, Zometa-Orellana v Garland, ruling yet again that international law requires meaningful, fact-based consideration of domestic-violence based refugee claims. In this case, the BIA remands for consideration of “victims of domestic violence” in Guatemala. I am over the moon about this.

06/19/2024

Hi, Dr. Alicia Triche here! Looking at this page, I realized there are no recent photos of me. Here's what I look like these days.

10/17/2022

DACAs with that status as of July 16, 2021 MAY CONTINUE TO RENEW. This is in effect unless or until we hear otherwise. Here is the order from the Southern District of Texas. https://assets.law360news.com/1540000/1540154/order.pdf

11/04/2021

TIA is in the news, today, after winning a major Sixth Circuit case on the issue of domestic violence based refugee protection.

Zometa-Orellana v. Garland "Ana Mercedes Zometa-Orellana, a native and citizen of El Salvador, suffered regular beatings and r**e by her domestic partner...

08/17/2021

AILA members: SAVE THE DATE Free virtual roundtable on Niz-Chavez, 1pm CST/ 2 pm EST, Sep 17. Dr Triche will be speaking. Watch this space for more info.

07/28/2021

Happy Birthday to the United Nations Refugee Convention. (& Thanks to Southern Poverty Law Center for the original)

05/27/2021

Exciting news: Dr. Triche has been invited to serve on the Federal Court Litigation Section committee at American Immigration Lawyers Association! Our office mission is to provide and promote affordable "individual impact litigation" for noncitizens with compelling immigration appeals. This will allow us to contribute to the national, organized team of fellow immigration lawyers engaged in the same and similar efforts.

05/10/2021

The NYTimes editorial board has now endorsed a position the Federal Bar Association Immigration Law Section and the national Federal Bar Association have held for years: immigration courts should be independent of the Attorney General, and instead be "Article I" courts.

As long as these judges are subject to political pressures, there can be no true judicial process.